from what he said at a book signing, it's not going to jump around near as much throughout the book. I think he mentioned there being 3 sections in the book and having a chapter in each of those dedicated to a character who is seemingly unrelated to the others, but who will show up in later books. So I'm assuming we got that one random character chapter, and since it was one of three chapters it might appear that it's going to be jumping around constantly, but it actually won't.