Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 06:42:40 GMT From: Laura M. Parkinson Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: Winter's Heart Delayed tnh@panix.com (T Nielsen Hayden) rhapsodized in blue: >On 12 Sep 2000 20:46:38 GMT, > P Bowles wrote: >>In article , Maggie >> writes: >> >>>Um, no. >>> >>>Teresa Nielsen Hayden confirmed that the book was not finished yet. >> >>Then why has Amazon listed the number of pages the book has for the past few >>months? That's not the sort of thing anyone could know for certain until it's >>reached the publishing stage, since it's the publishing which produces the >>final number of pages. > >We can fiddle the page length, within a limited range. And if the final page >length is too much at odds with the number quoted on Amazon, we tell them to >change the number. > >We really, truly don't sit on finished Jordan manuscripts. I can imagine. For starters, I could imagine that all the dangling plot hooks could be very painful on the derriere. -- -'-,-'-<<0 Trickster 0>>-'-,-'- lparkinson@mindspring.com http://lparkinson.home.mindspring.com "Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed." -Richard Adams, Watership Down