Reviewers and fans of the earlier books noted a slowing of the pace of events in the last few installments owing to the expansion of scale of the series as a whole.
[1] Because of his health problems, Jordan did not work at full force on the final installment A Memory of Light (later split into three volumes beginning with The Gathering Storm), but blog entries confirmed that he continued work on it until his death, and he shared all of the significant plot details with his family not long before he died.
"[3] On December 7, 2007, Tor Books announced that Brandon Sanderson had been chosen to finish the Wheel of Time series.
[4] The Wheel of Time series consists of: In addition to the main sequence, Robert Jordan also wrote some accessory works: In 2010, with full permission of the Jordan estate, writer Chuck Dixon began adapting The Eye of the World into a comic books series published by Dynamite Entertainment.
The bulk of the text was written by Teresa Patterson based on notes and information provided by Jordan, who also serving as overall editor on the project.
It was fun writing something completely over the top, full of purple prose, and in a weak moment I agreed to do five more and the novelization of the second Conan movie.
[11] When Harriet McDougal was Editorial Director for Ace Books, Tom Doherty hired Jim Baen to work under her.
When McDougal returned to Charleston to start her own imprint, Popham Press, she met Jordan and published his first novel, The Fallon Blood.
"Jordan mentioned several times that he planned another fantasy series, titled Infinity of Heaven, set in a different kind of world.
Jordan had particularly stressed that this series would be significantly shorter than The Wheel of Time saga (about six books long and essentially two trilogies).