Robin Hobb's Blog, page 37

This is where it tentatively stands. And all is still not settled.  I am very grateful to my patient and  long suffering editors right now.

The final manuscript was over 1000 pages.  So, I regret to say, the book will have to be broken into two volumes.  I feel very bad about this, as I told readers it would be a single-volume, stand alone book.  The story simply got out of hand.

At this point, the two volumes would be published less than a year apart.

I don't have a lot of specifics that I can sha