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- Behind the scenesSix years of drafting
Rothfuss started writing in 1994 and only finished a first draft in 2000. He called it a hot mess. The book came out in 2007, as his debut.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesAlmost another title
The working title was The Song of Flame and Thunder. Rothfuss disliked it and also wanted to avoid confusion with George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesDebut awards
The book won the 2007 Quill Award for science fiction and fantasy and the 2008 Alex Award from YALSA.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA fan on Broadway
Lin-Manuel Miranda credits the book as the inspiration for The Story of Tonight from Hamilton. Years later he was attached to an adaptation of the series that never got made.
source ↗ - SetupDay One
The book is also titled The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One. Kvothe agrees to tell his story over three days, and each book in the trilogy is one of those days.
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- Behind the scenesYou might not want to buy this
The book opens with a note from the author that begins: you might not want to buy this book. It's an unusual story, told entirely through Auri's eyes.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesMeant for another anthology
Rothfuss planned an Auri story for George R. R. Martin's Rogues anthology. It grew too long and went off-theme, so he wrote a Bast story instead, and Auri got her own book.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesBased on someone real
Auri was partly inspired by Tunnel Bob, a man who lived in the tunnels of Madison, Wisconsin.
source ↗ - SetupThe hidden title
The working title was The Weight of Her Desire. The phrase shows up in the first and last chapters. Watch for it at the end.
source ↗ - ReferenceAn exact fit
The book's seven days fall between chapters 7 and 11 of The Wise Man's Fear. Nate Taylor did the art, and at Rothfuss's request he never drew Auri outright.
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- Behind the scenesAlmost a thousand pages
The US hardcover runs 994 pages. It still debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times fantasy list and later topped the hardcover fiction list.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesOne year became four
Rothfuss promised a book a year, but revisions delayed the sequel. The first draft reached his editor in May 2009, and the book didn't come out until March 2011.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesGeorge R. R. Martin approved
Martin named it the best fantasy book he read in 2011. He said he gulped it down in a day, staying up almost to dawn.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA prize-winning excerpt
An excerpt that became part of this book, The Road to Levinshir, won the Writers of the Future contest in 2002. That win helped Rothfuss sell the series.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe game left the page
Tak, the board game played in the story, became a real game in 2016, designed by Rothfuss and James Ernest.
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- Behind the scenesTwice as long
It's a reworked version of The Lightning Tree, first published in 2014 in the Rogues anthology, at about twice the length and with art by Nate Taylor.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesWritten in two weeks
The original story was Rothfuss's fourth attempt for the anthology. After fellow writer Sam Sykes told him to have fun, he finished it in under two weeks.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesWhile book three waits
Editor Betsy Wollheim published this novella in 2023. The third novel, The Doors of Stone, still has no date.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe book Bast won't read
Kote has been pushing Bast to read Celum Tinture for almost a month. That places the story shortly before day one of Kvothe's tale.
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