Newsweek has reached out to Wollheim and DAW Books via email, with questions about conversations she has had with Rothfuss and the publisher's preferred timeline for Book 3, but did not hear back in time for publication. 'I don't think he's written anything for six years.'

'I think you are right,' Wollheim responded. It was in response to a commenter who speculated that Rothfuss is 'not working on the book at all' that Wollheim raised the specific possibility that Rothfuss hasn't made any writing progress on The Doors of Stone for years. The first two books in The Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy, 'The Name of the Wind' and 'The Wise Man's Fear.' DAW / Penguin Group While her Saturday evening post to Facebook already directed strong words at one of her authors-a rare public airing of what would typically be a private dialogue between author and editor-she expanded significantly on her criticism in responses to comments beneath her initial post. 'When authors don't produce, it basically f**ks their publishers,' Wollheim wrote, arguing that publishers rely on 'their strongest sellers' to keep financially afloat.

While Wollheim partially agreed with the central argument of the article-that readers shouldn't feel entitled to dictate how Rothfuss spends his time-she also asked, 'but what about the publishers who paid them?' 'I've never seen a word of book three,' Wollheim wrote in the initial post, which was first highlighted by the science-fiction and fantasy blog The Wertzone on Sunday. While that article didn't mention Wollheim by name, the editor objected to several points raised in it, including a portion that speculated Kingkiller Chronicle delays may be due to a lengthy editorial process. Wollheim was initially responding to an article on the publishing news and book recommendation site Book Riot, which pushed back against the widespread discontent from fans at the long wait for The Doors of Stone after the 2011 publication of the second book in the trilogy, The Wise Man's Fear.

The editor of The Kingkiller Chronicle says she thinks author Patrick Rothfuss hasn't 'written anything for six years.'īetsy Wollheim, Rothfuss' editor and president of publisher DAW Books, posted multiple messages on Facebook indicating her dissatisfaction with the fantasy author's progress on the highly anticipated Book 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy-currently titled The Doors of Stone-saying, in one reply to a Facebook friend, 'I've had enough.'

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