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Tad Williams, cette semaine dans sa dernière newsletter a écrit :Anyway, here’s the latest scoop on books and schedules. Things are delayed, but so far those delays are nothing to do with COVID-19. Many of you know I lost most of a year to a shoulder problem in 2018, and after the operation and the rehab, started writing THE NAVIGATOR’S CHILDREN in April of last year. I worked a lot (seven days a week) and pretty fast, and the manuscript is now all but finished—1300 pages at last count, so in second place behind TGAT for all-time longest Tad book—but we ran out of time for the 10/20 publication date that had originally been planned. Just before the whole virus thing hit, we had to push it back to 10/21, because that was the only appropriate date available on the publication schedule.

Because of this sudden extra year added to the delivery schedule, I decided that I would put CHILDREN aside and finish the second short novel that was meant to go with the trilogy (THE HEART OF WHAT WAS LOST was the first short novel).

So that’s what I’m working on at the moment, with the idea that now it—the short novel—would be published before CHILDREN, which actually works out better for the overall story. So, expect the new short, still tentatively titled THE SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME to be published in 6/21, some months before the last volume of the trilogy finally hits the shelves and the virtual retail world.

(Vu que GRR Martin aime beaucoup L'Arcane des Épées et y fait même quelques allusions dans Le Trône de Fer, c'était pourtant l'occasion de remettre son œuvre en avant avec des bandeaux bien racoleurs du style "par l'auteur qui a inspiré Game of Thrones" )

Guigz a écrit :J’ai le droit de dire que je trouvais déjà ça long dès le tout premier tome de l’Arcane des Épées ? Impossible d’aller plus loin qu’après la fuite de Simon du château. Du coup je me demande encore parfois si je devrais lui redonner une chance

The first volume - now Book III of The Last King of Osten Ard - will be called Into the Narrowdark. The second - now Book IV of the untrilogy - will retain the original title of The Navigator's Children.