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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค David from Austin:

Q: Will the BWB be updated ever?

A: As for when or if it will come into play, read and find out. As for another edition of the guide, I would like to do a concordance or encyclopedia when the cycle is finished, but I have no plans before that.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค John Miller from Virginia:

Q: Do Gholams deflect channeling like Mat's medallion?

A: Read and find out. The principle is the same, but it doesn't work in the same way as Mat's medallion.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Meg Young from Florida:

Q: {How did you find planning the series in advance?

A: Well, the tedious bits were quite easy, and it wasn't so much a matter of research I hadn't done as things that needed to be worked out -- which I thought could wait until later because they were not going to come into the books until later. But I realized once I began writing that I had to realize how those things worked and fit together NOW, because that would affect how things happened in that first book.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Bela the Horse from Tel'aran'rhiod:

Q: Why do Asha'man kiss as part of their bonds?

A: The kiss is necessary, because that's how they learned to do it, because that's how the fellow that developed it did it. The extra bit is something in the bonding, and you'll find out what in Winter's Heart. You should have gotten a clue, I think, in the scene where the bonding took place.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Clayton from Hutchinson:

Q: From where did you develop the sword forms?

A: The sword forms described in the book are my own creation, but they are based in part on the Japanese art of the sword, and also on fencing as it developed, when it was well on its way to becoming a martial art as we define them today (when it was developing in the Renaissance).

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค J. KING from HAZARD KY:

Q: What is the name of the prequel?

A: It's called New Spring, and it's in a collection called LEGENDS put together by Robert Silverburg.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Jennifer from Barnes & Noble.com:

Q: What are your favorite books?

A: I can't give favorite books, but I can give my favorite authors: John D. McDonal, Jane Austen, Robert Heinlein, Louis L'Amour, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Eric from Cleveland:

Q: Do you do a lot of re-writing?

A: Sometimes I have to look back at the books themselves, but primarily that is to make sure that I remember for example, exactly what someone said to someone else, I don't need to remind myself of the story or what has happened. I sometimes do have to check on small details.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Natalie Fylith from Dragonmount:

Q: Did you get inspiration for Be'lal's name from Paradise Lost? (ie, the fallen angel Belial)

A: Among other places, yes.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Eric from Nashville:

Q: Was the storyline for "New Spring" one that was created at the same time as the rest of the WoT plot, or did you come up with it specifically for the Legends anthology?

A: The basis was notes that I had made for myself on backstory, things that I had never intended to put into the books themselves, but that I needed to know to write the books: such as where did Moiraine and Lan meet, and where did they come from.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Doug Carlson from Urbana, IL:

Q: Is there any way to escape a mindtrap other than death?

A: To be released, you can be released from it.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Holly from Clearwater:

Q: Do you already know the fates of all the primary characters or are they still changeable?

A: I know the fates of all of the primary characters.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Rob Hill from Cardiff, Wales, U.K.:

Q: Who would win in a sword fight between Lan and Galad? My money's on Lan.

A: (laughs) Unless you can find someone else to bet with, use your money to buy yourself some beer.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค David Burke from Northeastern University:

Q: What WOT group would you join?

A: I don't know that I would particularly like to be a part of any of the societies or organizations or groups that I have described. I suppose if I had to choose, it would be a tossup between being an Ossuman [Asha'man] and being a Warder.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Baroc from Dragonmount:

Q: Is it true you agreed to go to DragonCon next year?

A: No, to the best of my knowledge, I have not agreed to be at DragonCon next year! I have to point out that in the last few years, there seems to be a rash of people convincing world fantasy convention, world science fiction convention, that they are ME, and they have arranged panels that I knew nothing about until I received a schedule from the convention saying that these were the panels I was on.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Emily from San Jose:

Q: If you could choose any one element from your series to bring into the 'real world' what would it be? Use of the One Power? Tel'aran'rhiod? Something else?

A: I don't think that I would bring anything from my world into the real world. They're all very wonderful things, I believe, but taken all in all, they make the world much too interesting for comfort. And the world we live in is awfully darned interesting, and sometimes awfully uncomfortable, as it is.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Missy from Oregon:

Q: Do the portrayals of the people on the covers, match what you think they look like?

A: Yes and no. It's very hard to get an artist to portray someone just as you see them. If I were an artist, perhaps the covers would show the people EXACTLY as I see them. But since I'm not, we have to make do with me giving descriptions to the artist.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Jiri Kristek from The Czech Rep.:

Q: How many hours per day do you approximately spend writing, and do you listen to music meanwhile or do you prefer the silence?

A: I usually write to classical music of various kinds, and occasionally Chinese or Japanese music. I like to listen to rock and to jazz, but I can't write to them. As for the number of hours, I try to do at least 8 hours a day, six or seven days a week. When the schedule gets very hectic, that can grow to twelve hours a day 7 days a week, and no time off.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Toronto, Canada:

Q: What was the Age of Legends like?

A: As far as what you'll find out about them, read and find out. I myself see the Age of Legends as a time that was very technological, with a technology based on the One Power. And thus, a place where things happened every day that would be considered miraculous to the people of the present time of the books. If you took someone from 500 years ago into the average house in the United States, they would think that what they were seeing had to be the product of magic, and they would believe that our world was an incredible time of wonder. They probably wouldn't see any of the warts that we see. And in the books this has happened in reverse, because the grand time is in the past.

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๐Ÿ“… 2000-11-06 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Mangneth from North Texas:

Q: Will Sharina play a more prominent role in WH? How big of a role will she play in books to come? Will we learn more about her, like her past, thoughts, feelings, etc?

A: We'll certainly see her again -- for the rest, Read And Find Out. If I tell you everything that's coming, and everything that isn't coming, you're going to lose interest, aren't you?