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Nah.. forget that DomA Send a noteboard - 05/11/2012 08:29:53 PM
...and advance copies are already out for some people (cf. Jason's vomitous paean on Dragonmount). The theory sounds grounded, so I'll just say this:

1. If you got hints from someone else, you're almost certainly right
2. If you are right (hints or no), it's got to be a Pyrrhic victory with so little time left
3. If you are right, what a waste of Demandred...

We'll all know in a couple of months (or less, if they do advance the release date).


Tor isn't sending ARCs for WOT books, Harriet forbade it and Doherty enforces this (the publicists have tried to convince him to relent, it didn't work). They didn't do it for TGS and TOM, they don't do it for AMOL either. Most reviewers who get any review copy all got final copies of the book, are for the most part pros from the big media, and still got their copy only a few days before release. Most copies to bloggers etc. were actually sent on the eve of release (Larry, I think, is one of the few who got a copy a few days in advance. Linda and me - I was still involved with the 13th Depository site a the time - got our copies 24 hours before release as our site was only a few months old at the time... Mine anyway, Linda is from Australia and got her copy quite later as the Tor agent was forbidden to use air mail).

Jason and co. (a very select club of WOT webmasters from the old days Harriet has met personally and trust... Theoryland's, EWOT's, DM's and TV.net's) have not received ARCs, they've acted as beta-readers for Team Jordan, for all three books. For TOM (perhaps for TGS too, I don't know) Harriet was so paranoid she asked Brandon to print and photocopy these "beta copies" in person as she feared she was too well-known in Charleston to do this herself. No ebook/eletronic copies were made, and the hard copy ones were retrieved after the beta-reading.

There's very little chance of any leak, not from the beta-reader or non existing ARCs anyway. That leaves blunders at Tor or the printers, but we were told security was pretty tight... even at Tor staff including the publicists involved with it were not allowed to read the book until fairly late in the game. Tor even decided the final line edits would take place out of the place (unlike in RJ's days) - they've hired RJ's assistant Maria to do that job from Charleston. Harriet's slightly (!) paranoid about spoilers and didn't take any chance.




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[Mik's Warp] - Demandred is.....*click to find out* - 05/11/2012 01:06:42 PM 3253 Views
There are only 2 months left before AMOL comes out (or less)... - 05/11/2012 02:10:07 PM 1719 Views
Nah.. forget that - 05/11/2012 08:29:53 PM 1578 Views
Re: Nah.. forget that - 05/11/2012 10:07:46 PM 1440 Views
Re: There are only 2 months left before AMOL comes out (or less)... - 06/11/2012 12:40:54 PM 1611 Views
I'm not saying it's not a well-reasoned theory; it is. - 06/11/2012 06:02:36 PM 1648 Views
I say Roederan is a better choice simply because of where he is located - 06/11/2012 11:01:28 PM 1553 Views
Re: I say Roederan is a better choice simply because of where he is located - 07/11/2012 09:42:00 AM 1801 Views
I applaud your effort, but to be honest I just can't see it - 07/11/2012 04:48:17 PM 1457 Views
Re: I applaud your effort, but to be honest I just can't see it - 07/11/2012 08:36:34 PM 1709 Views
There has been a lot of waste in WOT..... - 06/11/2012 06:26:56 PM 1378 Views
LIKE! *NM* - 09/12/2012 02:37:49 PM 1324 Views
Whoops *NM* - 06/11/2012 07:27:06 PM 830 Views
Plausible, albeit antilclimactic *NM* - 05/11/2012 06:32:38 PM 905 Views
Unless Mat is Demandred, at this point it will be anticlimactic. *NM* - 06/11/2012 04:02:38 AM 836 Views
That would be EPIC *NM* - 06/11/2012 07:53:30 PM 854 Views
That would be EPIC *NM* - 06/11/2012 07:53:31 PM 844 Views
You've tried too hard... - 05/11/2012 07:53:41 PM 3338 Views
Will be so disappointed if the Shadow's greatest (non-crazy) leader is defeated by Mr Happy Go Lucky - 05/11/2012 08:57:59 PM 1556 Views
I doubt Mat will kill him personally but - 05/11/2012 09:24:48 PM 1347 Views
I don't know - 06/11/2012 02:01:41 AM 1374 Views
My prediction of how it plays out... - 06/11/2012 07:12:15 AM 1432 Views
I don't think that's likely - 06/11/2012 06:04:55 PM 1441 Views
LOL ... it will be a saying in the next Age - 06/11/2012 10:36:04 PM 1336 Views
Re: I don't think that's likely - 06/11/2012 11:21:21 PM 1407 Views
Re: I don't think that's likely - 07/11/2012 08:14:28 PM 1485 Views
Re: I don't think that's likely - 07/11/2012 09:05:07 PM 1619 Views
Re: I don't think that's likely - 08/11/2012 05:52:16 PM 1407 Views
It sounds like we're at the same stage of vision of the AOL - 08/11/2012 07:48:17 PM 1388 Views
Statistics refute some of that... - 09/11/2012 07:35:59 AM 1368 Views
We're not talking about the same things... - 09/11/2012 11:31:12 PM 1341 Views
It doesn't mean no one in this Age can be at Talented or Intelligent. - 09/11/2012 11:43:26 PM 1515 Views
Re: It doesn't mean no one in this Age can be at Talented or Intelligent. - 10/11/2012 07:34:34 AM 1434 Views
You seriously believe that? - 10/11/2012 04:17:09 PM 1414 Views
Mat has grown quiet a bit since those days - 06/11/2012 01:55:48 AM 1524 Views
You're putting the Evil on a pedestal. - 06/11/2012 03:12:38 AM 1265 Views
No, just desperately trying to raise the stakes a bit... - 06/11/2012 07:00:59 AM 1442 Views
That's essentially what I was saying - 06/11/2012 03:35:45 PM 1538 Views
hmmm - 06/11/2012 10:27:00 AM 1756 Views
... is defeated by Mr Happy Go Lucky - 06/11/2012 08:45:02 PM 1535 Views
Mat is essentially the man (men) who wrote the books Demandred studied - 06/11/2012 10:42:40 PM 1332 Views
Exactly... - 06/11/2012 11:45:36 PM 1530 Views
... is defeated by Mr Happy Go Lucky - 06/11/2012 08:45:29 PM 1560 Views
I didn't try hard at all; Demandred found me... - 06/11/2012 03:31:41 PM 1599 Views
My biggest contention with Demandred being with the Sea Folk - 06/11/2012 10:54:50 PM 1469 Views
Re: My biggest contention with Demandred being with the Sea Folk - 07/11/2012 12:07:02 AM 1551 Views
Well, it instantly gives the Shadow access to attacking every coastal city... - 07/11/2012 10:32:23 AM 1439 Views
Exactly! - 07/11/2012 10:54:14 AM 2081 Views
If he married Nynaeve and Moiraine he'd have his wives at Rand's side in the Pit too.... - 07/11/2012 03:28:38 PM 1498 Views
I find that approach unnecessarily convoluted. Just hit them with 1 billion Trollocs and crush them. - 08/11/2012 07:00:36 AM 1424 Views
Not likely he has that many... - 08/11/2012 03:00:32 PM 1368 Views
May I ask some practical questions? - 08/11/2012 05:28:41 PM 1341 Views
Re: May I ask some practical questions? - 08/11/2012 10:35:38 PM 1425 Views
Re: May I ask some practical questions? - 10/11/2012 12:09:15 AM 1372 Views
Re: May I ask some practical questions? - 10/11/2012 03:11:59 AM 1368 Views
LOL ... Seems more than a little far fetched *NM* - 10/11/2012 06:17:34 AM 789 Views
Well you asked for an explanation - 13/11/2012 10:23:41 PM 1270 Views
fair enough *NM* - 14/11/2012 01:31:52 AM 750 Views
Re: May I ask some practical questions? - 10/11/2012 07:15:58 PM 1390 Views
Exactly! - 11/11/2012 07:38:46 AM 1393 Views
Good practical questions... - 09/11/2012 07:24:14 AM 1418 Views
He doesn't need the SF for that - 09/11/2012 03:00:34 PM 1205 Views
Well, they hadn't planned on them being Traveling grounds as they didn't know about - 09/11/2012 02:57:16 PM 1240 Views
Re: Well, they hadn't planned on them being Traveling grounds as they didn't know about - 09/11/2012 09:03:14 PM 1374 Views
I know. I'm saying they were not doing this with Traveling in mind. - 09/11/2012 11:57:34 PM 1313 Views
Re: I know. I'm saying they were not doing this with Traveling in mind. - 10/11/2012 10:08:04 PM 2907 Views
I see what you are getting at ... And I see how Zaida used it to her advantage - 11/11/2012 07:45:19 AM 1407 Views
Re: I see what you are getting at ... And I see how Zaida used it to her advantage - 12/11/2012 02:57:08 PM 1429 Views
Nesta sent 2 ambassadors to the Coramoor. Both looking for the same thing - 12/11/2012 04:11:50 PM 1443 Views
Re: Nesta sent 2 ambassadors to the Coramoor. Both looking for the same thing - 12/11/2012 06:01:33 PM 1555 Views
Well there is also the fact that Harine pretty much tells us she MUST make a Bargain - 12/11/2012 06:51:24 PM 1617 Views
Re: Well there is also the fact that Harine pretty much tells us she MUST make a Bargain - 12/11/2012 09:30:57 PM 1389 Views
Not to belabor the point - 12/11/2012 10:56:39 PM 1284 Views
Re: Not to belabor the point - 13/11/2012 12:46:21 AM 1311 Views
I think you are way off base on the economics - 13/11/2012 01:24:35 AM 1247 Views
Re: I think you are way off base on the economics - 13/11/2012 03:48:40 PM 1363 Views
no reason to *NM* - 14/11/2012 01:35:55 AM 769 Views
I don't see the problem... - 07/11/2012 10:52:49 AM 2217 Views
This is preposterous - 07/11/2012 04:15:11 PM 1845 Views
Who? - 06/11/2012 07:29:46 PM 1341 Views
Paah, he's clearly on the Isle of Madmen to the south. - 10/11/2012 03:28:26 AM 1750 Views

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