I am waiting for a few of my favorite authors newests books:

First, I am waiting on pins and needles to read "Treasons Shore" by Sherwood Smith, in August. This is her last book in the Inda series. This is such an interesting adventure tale... and I am so excited to see how she wraps it all up...there are so many storylines and character arches that I wish I had it in my hands right now...

I am also so excited to find out the the fourth book, "Conspiracy of Kings," by Megan Whalen Turner is finally coming out next March. This is the final or next, book in her Attolia series. I can not recommend her books highly enough. I was recommended this series by another favorite author and I was so wowwed! She says so much with so few words.

And my favorite author, Michelle Sagara West, is moving her "House Wars" series along with the publishing of "City of Night," also in March. I am interested to read it, but I really am dying to read the next book after this one which is being written write now....(so what is going on in the kitchen???)

What book(s) are you waiting for?

I'm desperate for the next Inda book. In a less defined time line I've been waiting on P. C. Hodgell to put out the next in her Kencyrath series. But I'm not expecting anything soon. Last I saw any news she'd just finished writing it.

I'll state a couple of the obvious ones...

A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin and The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan (to be completed by Brandon Sanderson)). I'm also waiting for Scott Lynch's The Republic of Thieves after he left that particular cliffhanger at the end of Red Seas Under Red Skies.

I'm waiting impatiently for Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld and Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits by Robin Mckinley and Peter Dickinson, which are suppose to come out in October; The God Engines by John Scalzi, which is supposed to be out in December; A Wizard of Mars by Diane Duane, which is supposed to be out sometime this year; and Pegasus by Robin Mckinley, which is not done being written yet.

I'm also looking forward to the sequels to a bunch of books I've read this year - Skinned (Crashed), The Hunger Games (Catching Fire), The Knife of Never Letting Go (The Ask and the Answer), and Graceling (Fire). All of them are coming out in September, except Fire which is October.

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Melanie Rawn's The Captal's Tower I have longed for this books for years, I picked up the series in 2002 and loved it so much, I just want to know how it concludes now.

1: Ditto that about A Conspiracy of Kings. Turner is a fantastic writer and her characters are unforgettable. I'm planning on rereading the entire series (for the fifth? sixth? time) when I get my hands on the fourth book.

Mostly all the ones I'm waiting for are books in a series. The White Road by Lynn Flewelling, Sacred Scars by Kathleen Duey, Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan, Bad Moon Rising by Sherrilyn Kenyon and whatever the next Dresden book will be called by Jim Butcher.

The third Alcatraz book by Brandon Sanderson--Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia due out in October.

And Absolute Death--fancy edition collecting Neil Gaiman's Death comics and related materials. Also due out in October.

The sequel to Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and the sequel to The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The latter is due out in September.

Ditto the next Inda book 'Treason's Shore' and the new Megan Whalen Turner. Also saw on a thread last week that the third Lorna Freeman Borderlands book is now due to be released next year.

Eagerly awaiting Robin Hobb's new book Dragon Keeper which is due out in the next couple of weeks - YAY! Her Six Duchies books are still my all time faves & I'm so excited that she's revisiting that world :)

There are many, and just reading this thread I would count myself waiting for the Martin, the Jordan/Sanderson, the Rothfuss, the Lynch, the Rawn, Freeman, and even the Inda (Smith) book (though the third book was a let down.)

But really the head of that list is Jordan. Twenty plus years now waiting for this series to reach the end of it's trilogy.... :-)

Ditto Melanie Rawn and George R.R. Martin.

Wise Man's Fear by Rothfuss tops my list. I'm also awaiting Janny Wurts's Initiate's Trial and the paperback edition of C, J. Cherryh's Conspirator. There are a few others as well, but these are the once I'm most looking forward to.

Steven Erikson's Dust of Dreams (2009) and The Crippled God (2010)
Stephen R. Donaldson's Against All Things Ending (2010) and The Last Dark (2013)
Matthew Stover's My Father's Fist
Orson Scott Card's Master Alvin

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I am hopping up and down till An Echo in Bone by Diana Gabaldon is released. Sept 22! YAY!

Now that I've read Dragon Keeper, I'm desperately waiting for the next two books which probably haven't been written yet. And I'm waiting for the last Wheel of Time book, completed by Robert Jordan's family from his notes.

#16
September??? Eeep! I LOVE the Outlander series!

#17
The last Wheel of Time book will be written by Brandon Sanderson, actually. You should definitely check his work out. It's AMAZING.

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I'm looking forward to A Wise Man's Fear, along with many. Also Treason's Shore, to see if Sherwood Smith brings back the wider stage of conflict fore-promised in her Inda series' book two, but that didn't deliver as yet with the narrowed storyline of the third.

I don't know what's up next for Carol Berg but whatever it will be, I'll snap it up.

I'm dismayed to see my upcoming list so short, which means, I haven't looked up the "forthcoming" releases, recently, or it's time to experiment with some new writers' stuff.

I've missed Katharine Eliska Kimbriel - Fires of Nuala - been years since she has released anything.

and I'll jump on the band wagon for the Inda book:)

Also David Weber's Torch of Freedom and By Heresies Distressed.

I'm waiting on Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev. It's due to be out in a few days, though.

I'm also waiting on The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker which is another July release.

Number one on the list for me is Paula Volsky's "The Traitor's House", if it really exists. I saw a mention of it being submitted to the publisher back in early 2008, but haven't seen anything since. (Anyone know how worthwhile it would be to contact the publisher to check the status on something like this? Volsky doesn't have a web presence that I know of, but I'd love to get confirmation whether the book is actually in the works or not...)

I'll also be first in line to pick up Connie Willis's "All Clear", if it ever actually gets published. Been waiting for a new full-length novel from her forever.

Eye's Like Leaves by Charles de Lint. Said to be epic and very hefty fantasy (over 100k words).

So, nobody is waiting for Dragons of the Hourglass Mage, the last book in the new Dragonlance Trilogy? I can't wait to read more about Raistlin and his search for power.

Read somewhere that Barbara Hambly has been contracted for 2 more Benjamin January books & a sequel to Those who hunt the night and Travelling with the dead. Wonderful news, even if there's a bit of a wait involved!

I wish Hambly would write more about the characters from Bride of the Rat God which is one of my favourite books. Fun story and the pekingese dogs are wonderful. Nobody else has ever made me want to own one.

I'm waiting for quite a list as well:
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs. It's the second in the Alpha And Omega series.
Order In Chaos by Jack Whyte (maybe I'll finally get around to reading book two of the Templar trilogy).
Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K. Hamilton
Torch of Freedom by David Weber
Bad Moon Rising by Sherrilyn Kenyon (I think there are a few of us here waiting for this one).
The next Valdemar anthology as well. There doesn't seem to be the sequel to Foundation listed anywhere that I can see yet, or that would be on my list as well.

Republic of Thieves - I just recently read the first two. So this was good timing (I hope) lol

I've been waiting for what seems an eternity for A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E . Howard but Hippocampus Press *still* hasn't published it yet...why did I pre-order again?

I was also eagerly awaiting Rage of the Behemoth, but I actually got my hands on it last week.

I'm waiting for three books to be published, although I'll probably have to wait for their paperback versions because the hardcover will be too expensive. Also constantly waiting for Neil Gaiman's next book and Terry Pratchett's next one as well (although I have so much catching up to do).
Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Fire - Kristin Cashore

Glad to know I'm not the only one!

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Lois McMaster Bujold has a new Vorkosigan series novel in the works - she's been fishing for titles among those of us on her mailing list - but that won't be published for a while as she IS only just at the final titling stage. Sounds like a good one, though, so far!

Diane Duane -- definitely waiting on The Door into Starlight, and there is no way I won't KEEP waiting for a few years. *g* The third out of four books in that series was published in 1993. Sooner, though, her next in the Young Wizards series, A Wizard of Mars, is due out next April (the publication date has kept being pushed back due to problems at the publishers'), and I've pre-ordered that. Can't wait! :D And of course The Big Meow, but that's being posted as an eBook, so it's of lesser priority than the last-mentioned, and I'm trying not to be twitchy about that (I'm a bigger fan of the cat-wizard books than of the human kind *g*).

...Why on earth are none of my damned tags working except the first one? >_

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Tad Williams' Shadowrise, to close out his Shadowmarch trilogy - still being written, last I heard. Ditto on the Martin, I buy them as soon as they come out. I'm hoarding Erickson and Donaldson's new Covenant books, waiting for the full series before starting. Sanderson's "Way of Kings" is sounding like a series opener to anticipate. Also looking forward to returning to Landover with Terry Brooks in "A Princess of Landover" (August).

The Spendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities by Samuel R. Delany, the sequel to Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. I doubt it will ever be published.

I would love to see the sequel to The Merro Tree published--I think it's called Roots of Forgiveness. Unlikely to happen, unfortunately.

Oh! and Jim C. Hines' The Mermaid's Madness is being released in October.

Glad to see there will be an ending to the Wheel of Time Series!
I'm also looking forward to Echo in the Bone.
Also waiting for Lord Sunday by Garth Nix.He says its a t the publisher and shold be out spring 2010 !

I'm waiting (very impatiently!) for The White Road by Lynn Flewelling to be released. Also looking forward to Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs.

I'm looking forward to Heart's Blood by my favorite author Juliet Marillier, which comes out on my birthday!!

I want The White Road too.

I should add to my list that I'm also waiting for the next few Elizabeth Moon novels, one of which is Oath of Fealty and is due out next March.

#33, PhoenixTerran, I'd like to see The Merro Tree's sequel, too - that was the finest of undiscovered wonders. I will hope fortunes change for the author, if she has a sequel, it would be awesome.

George RR Martin's latest. It's been a long wait and neither the author nor I are getting any younger...

^^Every time a fan complains about the long wait between books, George R.R. Martin kills a Stark. *sigh*

I didn't know Juliet Marillier had a new book coming out!Now I have another one to look forward to!

yes susiesharp it comes out October 2nd!

Funny about Martin killing characters. I think thats why its taking him so long to write. The longer the story goes on, the closer he gets to the characters, and following his format, the more he has to kill/maim. Irresistible force meet immovable object, grid lock ensues, end result, no book.

What is a Stark? I think that so many minor stories became major plot lines in GRRM that he is lost in the weeds. The War seems more complex now then WWII and we got through that in 6 years from 39 to 45...

A Stark is a whole family. The good guys in ASOIF.

The thing that came to my mind was a snark. The hunting of the Snark...

Oooh - the next (and last in the series) Katherine Kerr - it's out in October. Yey.

Plus the last wheel of time is out in November I think and I absolutely cannot wait.

For those that haven't heard the news on the Wheel of Time series yet, the last book is now going to be the last 3 books.

Here's the reasoning behind the decision.

I'll second:

A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
Wise Man's Fear by Rothfuss

and add:

The Dark Commands by Richard Morgan

I too am waiting to finish the Robert Jordan books! I was terrified when he passed away without finishing the story!

I am waiting for Brent weeks to do more work, not sure where he is going with his next series, if it's in the same world with the same characters or a prequel???

oh yeah and I hope I am not disappointed with the Jordan/Sanderson final book. Taking a month off from working and going to try and read the 36 books collecting dust bunnies on my night stand! so many books so little time.

I need to get a job where I am hired to read continuously, I love it when I find words misspelled in a book. It's like, aha! found one! I know, I know, get a life.

Just received a notice from Powell's in Portland that the devine Ms. Atwood has a new book coming out in September. Thank goodness we don't have to wait long!

I was cruising Amazon for a few of the books that we are discussing here and found that A Dance With Dragons has been reviewed 38 times. Pretty good for a book that has yet to be published.

I'm waiting for the next novel in George RR Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice fantasy series. I don't normally do fantasy any more, but Martin's books are excellent.

Besides that, there are several writers I would love to see release new books, though unfortunately I'm not sure if it will ever happen.

I would love to see China Mieville publish another Bas Lag book (after Perdido Street Station, The Iron Council and The Scar).

Another Culture novel from Iain M Banks would be very welcome (and I haven't even read Matter yet!).

Alas, we will be forever waiting for Jack Aubrey's final 21st voyage to be completed, as Patrick O'Brien died before finishing it (though the partial manuscript was actually published posthumously). I just can't imagine reading it in its unfinished state. RIP Patrick.

First review of Brandon Sanderson's Wheel of Time book is now up on Dragonmount! It looks like something to get very excited about.

I too am desperate for Katharine Kerr's last book in the Deverry series -currently doing a re-read from the beginning and remembering why these instantly found a place on my 'definitely keep' bookshelf.

I am looking forward to Brandon Sanderson's first novel in his new series The Stormlight Archive called The Way of Kings. According to his blog post he has finished a rewrite but I couldn't find any real reference to a pub date.

By the way, the entry on Amazon is bogus as are the reviews.

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I like the Elvis cover for The Way of Kings but Sanderson has a full page of twitter reviews for the book at his website. So either this is an elaborate joke or really in poor taste.

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Read those - I think he just has a twisted sense of humor which is not necessarily a bad thing.

And whilst I'm in Wishful Thinking World, I'd love to see 'An ambush of tigers' (the sequel to A business of ferrets and A parliament of owls by Beth Hilgartner) published. At one stage it was 'forthcoming', but it never forthcame...

> 60 puddlesharl

>At one stage it was 'forthcoming', but it never forthcame...

Heh... How delightfully put. :)

Don't you hate that (lack of forthcoming). I have several series that I am reading that they next/final book just never got published.

I'ts been a long wait, but I know it will be worth it,I'll be at the book store waiting for it to open.

Oops I didn't mention the book i'ts An echo in the Bone.#7 in the series by Diana Gabaldon.

#17 Robin Hobb's The Dragon Keeper is not part of a trilogy, but actually part one of a novel split in two. The second part, Dragon Haven will be out in March 2010 (so yes, it has been written already).

I'm waiting for Forest Born by Shannon Hale and Fire by Kristin Cashore.
Forest Born comes out on September 15 and Fire in October.
I'm also waiting for new books by Tamora Pierce coming out in a year or two or three.

April, 2010 Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files. I. Cannot. Wait!!!!

>67 - absolutely.

Impatiently awaiting Dragon Haven and hoping to hear news of another book in the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.........Tongues of Serpents?

I can't wait for Fire and Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore I loved loved loved Graceling
Also Queen of Song and Souls by C L Wilson

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Another to add to my growing list: Princeps Fury by Jim Butcher, due for release in December.

I'm going to add my voice into the crowd of those waiting for Republic of Thieves to be published. It seems like every time I check out the release day, it's a few months later that the previous time I looked :( Amazon now has it at July 6, 2010. The first time I looked, it was September 2009. Then it was January 2010. Now July. Boo.

I'm going to have to add Patrick Rothfuss to my 'to buy' list (along with a few others :P ). I've never heard of him, but after checking out a few reviews, both here and on some other sights, he seems like an all around hit with people!

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Rebecca Ann, the first Rothfuss is very good, see if you can get it from the library.
But there are 2 big problems...
1) It is told as a fllashback, so the big horrible bad thing that is out to get the good things (our hero for instance) obviously hasn't or doesn't since hero is telling us all about it.
2) we are waiting a long time for book 2 of the trilogy. A long time. Not as long as waiting for anything by George RR Martin yet, but a lot longer then we should be waiting...

Waiting for Sword of Avalon, Diana Paxson, due out December 1. Just finished not too long ago Ravens of Avalon.

I'm waiting for The City in the Crags(?), the 5th book in the Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein.

Having just finished Red Seas Under Red Skies I am totally stoked for Republic of Thieves.

I also just found about next year's Swords and Dark Magic anthology, which includes, among others, a new (non-Malazan) Steven Erikson story, and a new Black Company story!

Ah! There's a new Diana Paxton book about Avalon!! I didn't know that, that's why I love this thread.

#73 - waiting long indeed ... and considering the whole tale was supposedly already written while Rothfus was in grad school, it's surprising/troubling for volume 2 to be taking so long.

Big Joel... I agree, there is no excuse. If you had sold the entire thing, and it seems successfully, with all three books written, if book 2 needs some rewriting, that can not take more than a few (less than 6) months to get book 2 out. How long has it been now?

I was reading that one women author came to this only a decade ago, in her late forties and is publishing about three books a year. Asimov did 400+ books, it is a day job, especially if you are making the big bucks, which I have heard Rothfuss is making his living off of the money, so Asimov worked 9 to 5 at this. When I sit down and write a good day, with my other obligations I can do 3000 words that are good. When no other obligations 5000-6000, and if I am really inspired 10K.

I don't think Rothfuss has suffered the disease and hole that GRRM has dug for himself... (Sword of Fire and Ice will never end because the author will never write it all... Or maybe anymore of it...) but Rothfuss as I pointed out, gave too much away when he decided to use the three day telling of the tale format, three cantos, thus letting us know that he survives to the end so he can tell the legend... Takes out a lot of the drama.

So better do a rewrite to make the second book exciting... Oops, can lose ones way...

#75 There's a new Rosemary Kirstein? Wonderful! Any publication date yet?

#80 No publication date yet. And I've just learned that City in the Crags will be book #6:

"She reads from the book she’s currently working on. It will be the next volume in the Steerswoman series, but will NOT be called “The City in the Crags”. That book still exists, but has been bumped back one volume because she realized she needed some more development of other story elements before the events of that book. ..."

More info at therem.net.

At present I'm halfway through "The Dragon Keeper" which is living up to all my expectations (I can't put it down) and I've had an email from Amazon to say they have despatched "The Gathering Storm" which I pre-ordered so many months ago. I'll not get much work done this week!

I'm looking forward to seeing Guy Kay's new novel, Under Heaven, in the spring. Apparently it's set in China, not sure how long ago. I've been a bit disappointed in his last two, so I'm hoping for a return to form.

Malazan Tales of The Fallen 10, the sequel of the Painted Man, the sequel of The Name Of The Wind and the next ~10 Dresden Files books.

I am dying to read Philip Pullman's "Book of Dust", especially after reading "Lyra's Oxford", the companion book to the His Dark Materials trilogy. I'm also anxious to read the other companion book he has in mind for Will, a little green book.

A Dance with Dragons!!!

The wait is killing me, I want more Daenrys and Arya. Those two are among my favorite characters of all time.

*pouts*

-Kat

Muse and Reverie by Charles DeLint...I looooove his short stories!

My own - next year is sooo far away.

But with a real answer... I'm waiting for the next book from the following authors: Lyn Flewelling, Patrick Rothafuss, Nalini Singh, Carol Berg, Juliet Marillier, Jennifer Fallon - oh, darn, this list is getting too long.

And actually reading The Silver Mage by Katharine Kerr

86: Kat_In_Wonderland

You may not have that much longer to wait. George RR Martin recently told his publisher that he was ready to hand over the manuscript "soon".

EDIT: The source for this is here.

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Well, I waited for quite a long time before buying the Janny Wurts "Alliance of Light" series specifically because I like to read straight through if I can. So, I was a bit puzzled and disappointed to find that the last book left what seemed like a lot of unresolved issues - not unacceptably so but quite definitely so. Now, I have learnt on this site that Janny has 3 more books coming to finish the series. Aggghhh. I think I will put the whole series on an upper shelf where I can't see them and come back in 5 years time to buy the next 3. I think I really wouldn't like reading them one at a time with long gaps in between.

Since I just finished reading The Sorceress, I'm going to have to say I'm waiting on The Necromancer. Also! Of course, Wise Man's Fear. I had no idea there was a sequal to The Lies of Locke Lamora! So I'll be picking the sequel up from the library tomorrow and then I'll be waiting on the third one. Now I'm all excited!

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I have been waiting some time for
Diane Duane The Door into Starlight
volume 3 of the series was published in 1992!

>85 You've got me intrigued now about Pullman's Book of Dust I haven't read His Dark Materials in a while but I think I'll schedule them in next year for a re-read if there's to be a new book coming out!
I haven't got round to making a proper list of all the books I'm waiting for over the next few years but I know Mastiff by Tamora Pierce is going to be a priority and pre-ordered at the first opportunity along with a few other books.