Joe Abercrombie’s upcoming novel, Best Served Cold has been delayed.
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Now that your dismay has had some time to run its course, you’ll be happy to know that it’s by only about two months or so, which ( still having about a year to wait) doesn’t make a huge difference, all things told. What is interesting, however, is Abercrombie’s post on the delay and his ideas on book delays in general. Abercrombie’s known for being candid, with a no bullshit style of telling it like it is, so his take on it is worth reading:
“I’d got used to the pace I was working at with Last Argument of Kings, and foolishly extrapolated my likely writing pace from there. That was pretty damn fast, took about 14 months including all the editing. But that was writing the third in a trilogy, the characters, plots, endings long established in my mind and ready to be vomited out onto the page. This new project has proved more difficult. In a sense, since the trilogy was one long story, this book has felt much more like my “difficult second album” than the second book did, which was only really a continuation of the first. I am beginning to understand why people end up writing endless series…
