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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 2734 Views
There are only 2 months left before AMOL comes out (or less)... - 05/11/2012 02:10:07 PM 1289 Views
Nah.. forget that - 05/11/2012 08:29:53 PM 1137 Views
Re: Nah.. forget that - 05/11/2012 10:07:46 PM 992 Views
Re: There are only 2 months left before AMOL comes out (or less)... - 06/11/2012 12:40:54 PM 1181 Views
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I applaud your effort, but to be honest I just can't see it - 07/11/2012 04:48:17 PM 964 Views
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There has been a lot of waste in WOT..... - 06/11/2012 06:26:56 PM 909 Views
LIKE! *NM* - 09/12/2012 02:37:49 PM 1028 Views
Whoops *NM* - 06/11/2012 07:27:06 PM 552 Views
Plausible, albeit antilclimactic *NM* - 05/11/2012 06:32:38 PM 605 Views
Unless Mat is Demandred, at this point it will be anticlimactic. *NM* - 06/11/2012 04:02:38 AM 565 Views
That would be EPIC *NM* - 06/11/2012 07:53:30 PM 571 Views
That would be EPIC *NM* - 06/11/2012 07:53:31 PM 565 Views
You've tried too hard... - 05/11/2012 07:53:41 PM 2802 Views
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My prediction of how it plays out... - 06/11/2012 07:12:15 AM 994 Views
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Re: I don't think that's likely - 07/11/2012 09:05:07 PM 1116 Views
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Statistics refute some of that... - 09/11/2012 07:35:59 AM 902 Views
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Re: It doesn't mean no one in this Age can be at Talented or Intelligent. - 10/11/2012 07:34:34 AM 999 Views
You seriously believe that? - 10/11/2012 04:17:09 PM 926 Views
Mat has grown quiet a bit since those days - 06/11/2012 01:55:48 AM 1049 Views
You're putting the Evil on a pedestal. - 06/11/2012 03:12:38 AM 816 Views
No, just desperately trying to raise the stakes a bit... - 06/11/2012 07:00:59 AM 961 Views
That's essentially what I was saying - 06/11/2012 03:35:45 PM 1080 Views
hmmm - 06/11/2012 10:27:00 AM 1216 Views
... is defeated by Mr Happy Go Lucky - 06/11/2012 08:45:02 PM 1044 Views
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Exactly... - 06/11/2012 11:45:36 PM 1040 Views
... is defeated by Mr Happy Go Lucky - 06/11/2012 08:45:29 PM 1084 Views
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My biggest contention with Demandred being with the Sea Folk - 06/11/2012 10:54:50 PM 1023 Views
Re: My biggest contention with Demandred being with the Sea Folk - 07/11/2012 12:07:02 AM 1073 Views
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Exactly! - 07/11/2012 10:54:14 AM 1494 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 914 Views
I find that approach unnecessarily convoluted. Just hit them with 1 billion Trollocs and crush them. - 08/11/2012 07:00:36 AM 901 Views
Not likely he has that many... - 08/11/2012 03:00:32 PM 836 Views
May I ask some practical questions? - 08/11/2012 05:28:41 PM 841 Views
Re: May I ask some practical questions? - 08/11/2012 10:35:38 PM 973 Views
Re: May I ask some practical questions? - 10/11/2012 12:09:15 AM 909 Views
Re: May I ask some practical questions? - 10/11/2012 03:11:59 AM 914 Views
LOL ... Seems more than a little far fetched *NM* - 10/11/2012 06:17:34 AM 511 Views
Well you asked for an explanation - 13/11/2012 10:23:41 PM 829 Views
fair enough *NM* - 14/11/2012 01:31:52 AM 482 Views
Re: May I ask some practical questions? - 10/11/2012 07:15:58 PM 956 Views
Exactly! - 11/11/2012 07:38:46 AM 957 Views
Good practical questions... - 09/11/2012 07:24:14 AM 948 Views
He doesn't need the SF for that - 09/11/2012 03:00:34 PM 724 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 907 Views
I know. I'm saying they were not doing this with Traveling in mind. - 09/11/2012 11:57:34 PM 881 Views
Re: I know. I'm saying they were not doing this with Traveling in mind. - 10/11/2012 10:08:04 PM 2419 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 942 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 954 Views
Nesta sent 2 ambassadors to the Coramoor. Both looking for the same thing - 12/11/2012 04:11:50 PM 990 Views
Re: Nesta sent 2 ambassadors to the Coramoor. Both looking for the same thing - 12/11/2012 06:01:33 PM 1074 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 1105 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 908 Views
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Re: Not to belabor the point - 13/11/2012 12:46:21 AM 818 Views
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Re: I think you are way off base on the economics - 13/11/2012 03:48:40 PM 900 Views
no reason to *NM* - 14/11/2012 01:35:55 AM 500 Views
I don't see the problem... - 07/11/2012 10:52:49 AM 1630 Views
This is preposterous - 07/11/2012 04:15:11 PM 1329 Views
Who? - 06/11/2012 07:29:46 PM 857 Views
Paah, he's clearly on the Isle of Madmen to the south. - 10/11/2012 03:28:26 AM 1284 Views

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