A: I have a fair notion of where I intend to pick up. And I generally have a good idea of a number of things that are going ot be in the book for hte simple reason taht every time that I sit down and list the things that I intend to put into any given book, it always turns out to be more than I CAN put into that book. So, there are always things left over that I wanted to do in the preceding book. And they go into the current book.

A: Read And Find Out.

A: I really don't know. I occasionally have gotten approaches to the past, but the books are all so long and involved that I think they would take a 16 hour movie to do any one of the books. We'll see what happens.

A: I'm a genius? I just do it. I really couldn't say how. I keep it in my head, with the exception of notes on countries, cultures, that sort of thing, but the story is all in my head. It doesn't seem to be particularly difficult to hold it all.

A: Oh, Mat is a lot of guys. Mat is Coyote and Trickster and a lot of other characters out of myth and legend. He's the reluctant hero, he's a lot of things. He's the bad boy on the Harley. He's a lot of legends.

A: THE PATH OF DAGGERS will be in stores on October 20th -- mere hours from now! Even as we speak, the book is being stacked, I have no doubt, on the shelves of stores all over the country! So, if you go to your bookstore tomorrow, I am certain you won't be disappointed.

A: Remember that Rand believes that the more interest he shows in his family, and in any of the people of the Two Rivers, the more he makes them a target. If his enemies believe that they hurt Rand by hurting Tam or hurting the Two Rivers, then they will, so Rand has set himself on a course of pretending to have forgotten his past. Pretending to have grown beyond his rude country beginnings. He thinks he has to make his enemies believe that the Two Rivers no longer means anything to him. And the same for Tam.

A: No. I have to do a little writing before the title becomes clear to me. I don't start off with a title. That always comes to me at some point during the writing. Something that seems to fit the specific book.

A: That is one of the gifts. She can draw as much strength as she needs -- as a matter of fact, she could take it all. In other words, she could kill him.

A: Well, you don't have to wait a few days all you have to wait is a few hours! And, no, I'm not going to give you any special insights. You may have come across an acronym -- Read And Find Out. Need I say more?

A: I think it's much more accurate than most of the previous covers.

A: It's quite possible, but we'll see what happens. It's still a few years in the future, after all.

A: I had the basis of it before I began writing, and a good part of how it fit together. Other parts were added in when I realized that there was a question to be answered: something that I had to decide here and now, how this worked. But I have now quite a large file describing the One Power and how it works, and the the things that can be done with it and the things that can't be done, and the exceptions to the rules and all that. It would probably be 300 pages, if I printed it out, maybe a little more, but I never have. It's just a computer file at the moment.

A: It's possible. And I'm not going to give anybody any clues or hints -- you guys ought to know me better than that by now!

A: If I take responsibility, can I get photographs?

A: I hope the next book will not take as long. "New Spring" took several months to write, and I also spent several months working on the illustrated guide. So those, between the two of them, took a lot more time than I thought it was going to. That delayed this book considerably.

A: My advise to someone trying to write fantasy is, go see a psychiatrist. As far as how I developed it, I certainly didn't have a deadline set. Many years ago, more than fifteen not as many as 20, certain ideas started poking around in my head, rubbing against one another, and this slowly became what is The Wheel of Time. I really dont know that I could explain it any better for that. At least not if I don't go on for hours. For that matter, if I go on for hours, I'm not sure I can explain it any better than that.

A: I did not know the series would be this long in the beginning. When I first went to my publisher, I told them, I know the beginning, and I know the ending, and I know what I want to happen in between, but I'm not sure I know how long it will take me to get from the beginning to the end. Now, don't laugh, but I said to him, "It's going to be at least three or four books, and it might be as many as five or six."

A: I'm not really clear. When I finished a crown of swords, I said it would take me at least three books more to finish. Now that I have completed THE PATH OF DAGGERS it looks like it will take me at least three more book s to finish. believe me, guys, I'm trying as hard as I can to get there as fast as I can.

A: Read and find out.