Patrick Rothfuss Announces The Name of the Wind Tenth Anniversary Edition and Shares Updates on The Kingkiller Chronicle Book 3 PR: It’s at best a star and a half because I dismantled a big piece of it Two years ago, when he jokingly rated it 3.5 stars out of 5 on How does he feel the writing is going on book 3 today (as opposed to Is there a publication date for book 3? No: The author, unhappy with the final edited product has apparently taken the book back to the drawing board for extensive rewriting. It's not clear whether he means that he's still writing it or just in consultation with his editors, but the former seems likely.Īs of February 2017, the book remains stuck in development hell. You may also wish to note that at this point he's written eight entire books (that aren't The Doors of Stone) since this question was first asked.Īs of September 2021, Rothfuss reports on his regular video-blog that he still needs to send a completed copy to his publisher and that it's costing him a great deal of time to get the book sorted. It remains to be seen whether that's because he's not written even the first chapter or whether this is because re-writes have been required in the interim.

Despite that happening in February 2022, no additional readings have been made and refunds have since been made to pledges. Per - 'Rumor: The Doors of Stone is in editing and has a release date?'*, Rothfuss held a kickstarter at the end of 2021 that stated that he would read the entire first chapter of the book if the financial goal was met. As of December 2022, there have been no additional updates.

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