Cover art for Brandon Sanderon's WORDS OF RADIANCE

Tor have revealed the cover art for Words of Radiance, the second novel in The Stormlight Archive (following on from 2010's The Way of Kings). Once again, Michael Whelan has created the artwork.

Words of Radiance is tentatively scheduled for release in January 2014. The reason for the lengthy delay between the two books was Sanderson's work on The Wheel of Time. With that firmly concluded, Sanderson hopes to deliver new Stormlight books every 18-24 months alongside shorter novels and novellas, with periodic breaks in the series (which will be ten volumes overall) to write other books, such as the two sequel Mistborn trilogies.

Sanderson has a wide-ranging update on the state of play of his various books and series here. His next book will be Firefight, the sequel to Steelheart, followed by Shadows of Self, the sequel to The Alloy of Law. These should both be fairly short books. He hopes to then write Book 3 of The Stormlight Archive for publication in 2015.

Brandon Sanderson update on WORDS OF RADIANCE

Via his email letter, Brandon Sanderson has provided an update on his progress on Words of Radiance, the second volume in The Stormlight Archive (and the sequel to 2010's Way of Kings).

According to Sanderson, he has 260,000 words completed out of a targeted 300,000 (making Words of Radiance almost 25% shorter than Way of Kings), but has run into some issues keeping the book more cohesive and structured and needs to do some rewriting based on that. He hopes to finish the book in August so he can still hit the planned release date of November 2013, but acknowledges that there is a chance the book could slip to early 2014 instead.

STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE #2 gets a title

Brandon Sanderson has announced that his second Stormlight Archive novel, the sequel to The Way of Kings, will be entitled Words of Radiance. He'd previously suggested The Book of Endless Pages and Highprince as War as possible titles, but settled on this title for the reasons given at the link.

Assuming Sanderson completes the novel on schedule, it should be released this November.