Robert Jordan

[tmcg]

A few minutes ago, I heard from another author on the phone that Robert Jordan had died.

I started copyediting his books with The Shadow Rising, in 1992. When you work on a long-running series for so many years, you develop a strangely personal relationship with the author even if you never meet face-to-face or speak over the phone, and I feel...bereaved, in a way that's hard to articulate. And frustrated, with a shake-your-fist-at-the-universe kind of anger. The Wheel of Time was the grand work of a lifetime, and he should have had the lifetime to complete it.


Making Light, with many more links in the comments

Dragonmount (server appears to be overwhelmed)

Associated Press release, via Google

The longer AP obituary via the New York Times

A mirror of his cousin Wilson's statement

The Robert Jordan Memorial Forum at TarValon.net

Comments

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

I knew it was bad, but I kept hoping he'd rally and feel well enough to write a couple of more books and maybe, if he could, finish it up. I wish he could have had that personal gratification, just for himself. I was thinking about him this weekend, in fact, and a lot of last week, for various reasons. Coincidence, I'm fairly sure, but there could very possibly have been a little psychic something at work too.

Thanks, Deirdre.