{"id":2585,"date":"2009-04-07T00:12:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T04:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2009-04-07T00:12:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T04:12:20","slug":"how-big-is-too-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2585","title":{"rendered":"How Big is Too Big?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author Brandon Sanderson is finishing up the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/series\/WheelofTime\">Wheel of Time series<\/a>, created and kept on life-support by the late Robert Jordan, and he has submitted 300,000 words to his publisher for the final book.  The publisher said that&#8217;s too big for a fantasy book and booksellers will complain, so let&#8217;s split the book into three books released over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Esposito states, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversationalreading.com\/2009\/04\/brandon-sanderson-wheel-of-time-three-parts.html\">So somebody explain to me how this isn&#8217;t about the money.<\/a>&#8221;  Brandon Sanderson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonsanderson.com\/article\/56\/Splitting-AMOL\">talks about it at length here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Brandon Sanderson is finishing up the popular Wheel of Time series, created and kept on life-support by the late Robert Jordan, and he has submitted 300,000 words to his publisher for the final book. The publisher said that&#8217;s too big for a fantasy book and booksellers will complain, so let&#8217;s split the book into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Big is Too Big?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}