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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 2735 Views
There are only 2 months left before AMOL comes out (or less)... - 05/11/2012 02:10:07 PM 1293 Views
Nah.. forget that - 05/11/2012 08:29:53 PM 1138 Views
Re: Nah.. forget that - 05/11/2012 10:07:46 PM 994 Views
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LIKE! *NM* - 09/12/2012 02:37:49 PM 1030 Views
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Plausible, albeit antilclimactic *NM* - 05/11/2012 06:32:38 PM 607 Views
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That would be EPIC *NM* - 06/11/2012 07:53:30 PM 572 Views
That would be EPIC *NM* - 06/11/2012 07:53:31 PM 566 Views
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May I ask some practical questions? - 08/11/2012 05:28:41 PM 842 Views
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Re: May I ask some practical questions? - 10/11/2012 12:09:15 AM 910 Views
Re: May I ask some practical questions? - 10/11/2012 03:11:59 AM 915 Views
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Well you asked for an explanation - 13/11/2012 10:23:41 PM 830 Views
fair enough *NM* - 14/11/2012 01:31:52 AM 484 Views
Re: May I ask some practical questions? - 10/11/2012 07:15:58 PM 957 Views
Exactly! - 11/11/2012 07:38:46 AM 958 Views
Good practical questions... - 09/11/2012 07:24:14 AM 952 Views
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Re: Well, they hadn't planned on them being Traveling grounds as they didn't know about - 09/11/2012 09:03:14 PM 908 Views
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Nesta sent 2 ambassadors to the Coramoor. Both looking for the same thing - 12/11/2012 04:11:50 PM 991 Views
Re: Nesta sent 2 ambassadors to the Coramoor. Both looking for the same thing - 12/11/2012 06:01:33 PM 1076 Views
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no reason to *NM* - 14/11/2012 01:35:55 AM 501 Views
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Who? - 06/11/2012 07:29:46 PM 861 Views
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