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SpacePig posted:Bad-dick Rough-gently caress. That's probably the most embarrassing part of him being a new media big time fantasy author. Where as 20, even 10 years ago you'd just expect to go years without seeing a new book from your favorite author and its just something you live with now you can track his life in real time from his social media and project involvements and genuinely think he's not writing anything for book 3.
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If he drags it out long enough maybe Brandon Sanderson can finish the trilogy for him.
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Jul 20, 2017 17:56
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I have a feeling he is actually done with the majority of the book, but its so rough and bad that the publisher is sitting on it until all the other wells dry up before releasing it. Which is probably gonna happen pretty quickly once Game of Thrones ends and HBO moves back to Sci-Fi or something.
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Jul 20, 2017 18:15
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It'll be another 5 years minimum before that happens. His publisher should invest in a ghostwriter.
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Jul 20, 2017 18:18
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pentyne posted:That's probably the most embarrassing part of him being a new media big time fantasy author. Where as 20, even 10 years ago you'd just expect to go years without seeing a new book from your favorite author and its just something you live with now you can track his life in real time from his social media and project involvements and genuinely think he's not writing anything for book 3. I think that's sort of it. Everything he does gives off the illusion that he's not working on Book 3, even if he is working on it. And like Solice Kirsk says, it's probably already done. But the fact that he won't even give a year, after the had already said IIRC 2015 after Wise Man's Fear, is just weird. Solice Kirsk posted:I have a feeling he is actually done with the majority of the book, but its so rough and bad that the publisher is sitting on it until all the other wells dry up before releasing it. Which is probably gonna happen pretty quickly once Game of Thrones ends and HBO moves back to Sci-Fi or something. There's also a bit of a chance that he's working on the TV adaptation of his own show, but I don't even know how serious that initial rights purchase was, or whether anything had been done with it.
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Jul 20, 2017 18:48
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I think a world without Doors of Stone would be a better place than one with it so I hope he never finishes.
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Jul 20, 2017 19:08
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Rothfuss made me some cash-money today so he is once again on my good list (until the money is spent).
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Jul 20, 2017 19:29
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Rothfuss is out 750k apparently according to Geek Chic's bankruptcy filing. https://www.polygon.com/2017/7/19/15999728/geek-chic-bankruptcy-filing-documents-patrick-rothfuss
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Jul 20, 2017 19:46
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The sad part is I totally loving believe he would spend over half a million on loving geek themed furniture.
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HIJK posted:The sad part is I totally loving believe he would spend over half a million on loving geek themed furniture. "Invest" not spend.
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HIJK posted:The sad part is I totally loving believe he would spend over half a million on loving geek themed furniture. He probably bought a bunch of geek-themed furniture for himself, but as far as I can tell, that $750k was invested. That means he thought there would be a significant enough market for personalized hand-crafted game-centric dining room tables priced around the same as used cars. I'm not necessarily happy that a company is closing, or that investors in that company are losing money. It's just funny that one of them is him.
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Jul 20, 2017 20:30
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Jesus Christ that's straight out of the Nerd Crew.
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SpacePig posted:He probably bought a bunch of geek-themed furniture for himself, but as far as I can tell, that $750k was invested. That means he thought there would be a significant enough market for personalized hand-crafted game-centric dining room tables priced around the same as used cars. I'm not necessarily happy that a company is closing, or that investors in that company are losing money. It's just funny that one of them is him. Whats odd is the site says the furniture was "famously back-ordered" and that the queue often took like 6 months to get stuff... so sounds like maybe they just were pricing stuff poorly or something.
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A buddy of mine is out several grand from the Geek Chic thing, so I sent him that article to offer some perspective on his loss.quote:Whats odd is the site says the furniture was "famously back-ordered" and that the queue often took like 6 months to get stuff... so sounds like maybe they just were pricing stuff poorly or something. Word on the street is that a recent merger/acquisition is what sunk them and that the core business was profitable.
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Jul 20, 2017 20:49
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SpacePig posted:the fact that he won't even give a year, after the had already said IIRC 2015 after Wise Man's Fear, is just weird. He said 2010 back in 2007. quote:April 18, 2007
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SpacePig posted:He probably bought a bunch of geek-themed furniture for himself, but as far as I can tell, that $750k was invested. That means he thought there would be a significant enough market for personalized hand-crafted game-centric dining room tables priced around the same as used cars. I'm not necessarily happy that a company is closing, or that investors in that company are losing money. It's just funny that one of them is him. TBH, Geek Chic was probably low balling a bit. Good furniture is expensive. Good furniture with built in gaming surfaces, extra drawers, etc is SUPER expensive.
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jivjov posted:TBH, Geek Chic was probably low balling a bit. Good furniture is expensive. Good furniture with built in gaming surfaces, extra drawers, etc is SUPER expensive. It's baffling that anyone thought there were enough tabletop gamers -- a niche of a niche hobby -- with deep enough pockets to support the company. Hell, not even; I've got six people in my tabletop group, and even if all of us could actually afford this furniture, the only person to buy it would be the one person who usually hosts game night. It's not like an entire gaming group all is gonna go out and buy multiple custom tables for their individual homes. (Getting gamers to buy multiple copies of a freaking rulebook is like pulling teeth, forget $6000 furniture.)
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Jul 20, 2017 22:34
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I'm glad the village idiot returns every once in a while with a vacuous comment.
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Jul 20, 2017 22:46
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SpacePig posted:There's also a bit of a chance that he's working on the TV adaptation of his own show, but I don't even know how serious that initial rights purchase was, or whether anything had been done with it. He seems the type to spend time writing on a TV adaptation even if he hadn't gotten a TV series deal.
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StonecutterJoe posted:It's baffling that anyone thought there were enough tabletop gamers -- a niche of a niche hobby -- with deep enough pockets to support the company. Hell, not even; I've got six people in my tabletop group, and even if all of us could actually afford this furniture, the only person to buy it would be the one person who usually hosts game night. It's not like an entire gaming group all is gonna go out and buy multiple custom tables for their individual homes. (Getting gamers to buy multiple copies of a freaking rulebook is like pulling teeth, forget $6000 furniture.) Must be hard to compete with two $20 folding tables pushed together...
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They were meant for rich tech nerds that had more money than they knew what to do with. The friend I mentioned lost like nine grand and to him it's an inconvenience instead of a financial catastrophe.
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Paragon8 posted:Rothfuss is out 750k apparently according to Geek Chic's bankruptcy filing. I'd say that maybe he'll get working on the book to make up the money he's lost, but since Lionsgate(?) bought the movie/tv rights to Kingkiller that's going probably make him more money than farting out Doors of Stone.
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Evil Fluffy posted:I'd say that maybe he'll get working on the book to make up the money he's lost, but since Lionsgate(?) bought the movie/tv rights to Kingkiller that's going probably make him more money than farting out Doors of Stone. Rothfuss posted:
Starts at 11:33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW8efme5eSU&t=693s
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Jul 25, 2017 23:34
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Maybe he just needs Adderall
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I like the related video title: "What women screwed you over so much that made you want to write Denna?"
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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Patrick Rothfuss: "What a bitchin' Camero!"
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Reading the next book when it comes out (lawl) is going to be so weird. It's going to be like watching the last season of Dexter or something.
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He's hosed himself. There's obviously way too much plot and material outstanding to conclude the series in any satisfying manner. It'll get weak reviews, "great prose, a pity the ending doesn't address any of those great ideas from The Name Of The Wind." That means a follow-up trilogy, and who's going to bankroll that? He can promise that the first two books are virtually written already, but there's a large credibility problem. The longer he leaves the release, the more publishers will be unwilling to provide the advance for the next series. I suspect he'll publish a weak third book, then announce that all the answers to the outstanding questions will come through his TV work or other work. There's no further novels after Doors of Stone.
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Trammel posted:He's hosed himself. There's obviously way too much plot and material outstanding to conclude the series in any satisfying manner. This is some nice fan fiction, but is pretty far removed from what will really happen. It literally does not matter how lovely the third book is, assuming it ever comes out, it'll sell like gangbusters. Hell, there are people in this very thread that hate Rothfuss but will still buy a copy just to hateread it. And at the end of the day, that's all the publishers care about. If Rothfuss wants to write a followup series, he'll get a big fat advance from someone (likely his current publisher, since I'm sure there's a clause in his current contract that gives them the right to first refusal). The catch, of course, is that Rothfuss has to want to write another series and be willing to sign a contract for it. I suspect his hubris will force him to do it.
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If Rothfuss gets a TV series out it literally doesn't matter if it takes him 18 years to write the next book, it'll get published along with anything else he ever comes up with.
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Nakar posted:If Rothfuss gets a TV series out it literally doesn't matter if it takes him 18 years to write the next book, it'll get published along with anything else he ever comes up with. I don't know. I think once Game of Thrones ends people are gonna lose interest in fantasy TV shows again.
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His name is money. He won't get advanced as much for a new book series, sure, but there is no reason for a publisher not to make a deal with him. The upside for them is huge and the downside for them is still a big full page announcement that they just signed LEGENDARY AUTHOR PATRICK ROTHFUSS to a deal.
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Ccs posted:I like the related video title: "What women screwed you over so much that made you want to write Denna?" That video is amazing because Rothfuss ignores the very insightful question (that illustrates that he has totally bullshit notions of women) then tries to go on and claim that these books aren't heavily influenced by the fact that he did poo poo all at college and thinks it wasn't his fault and the system hosed him. Also, are people really speculating about when the next book being finished? Weren't you listening in 2007 when he told us that it was already all written and all he needed to do was some revisions? I feel like this should really come up every time that someone talks about him writing anything. Like, it's such an astoundingly bullshit claim that my mind still can't be wrapped around it. Literally a decade ago he was claiming that all three books were finished, and he somehow hasn't been able to revise them between now and then?
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Benson Cunningham posted:His name is money. He won't get advanced as much for a new book series, sure, but there is no reason for a publisher not to make a deal with him. The upside for them is huge and the downside for them is still a big full page announcement that they just signed LEGENDARY AUTHOR PATRICK ROTHFUSS to a deal. not to mention that every author wants a Rothfuss blurb and the community will probably carry the 3rd book enough to be a commercial success.
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Confound those Fuss boys! Oh, how I hate them! I hate Pat, I hate Rick, and I hate Roth! They drive me to drink!
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https://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2017/08/babies-meet-bast-auri-elodin-and-kvothe/ Auri is kinda an okay name but what loving monster names their child Kvothe.
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ChickenWing posted:actually that's a dumb question given the number of people who named their daughters "Khaleesi" Did people not realize that "Khaleesi" is a title, not a name?
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jivjov posted:Did people not realize that "Khaleesi" is a title, not a name? 
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jivjov posted:Did people not realize that "Khaleesi" is a title, not a name? Yeah, that's the part that will set off the schoolyard bullies.
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