

Īccording to attendees of a reading in Portland at the end of October 2014, Rothfuss has said that the third book needs "about a year and some change" to be ready. From the revealed e-mail conversation between the editor and blogger Patrick, it can be inferred that the color orange is present and a lute is depicted in the sketches of the cover art. The editor then intended to ask Rothfuss for input on the sketches, but accidentally sent the request to blogger Patrick from Pat's Fantasy Hotlist. In May 2013, an illustrator of the publishing house had finished rough sketches of the cover art for the novel after working on it for three months. Īlpha manuscript of The Doors of Stone, in 2013.Īt the end of February 2013, Rothfuss participated in the #ifihadglass contest by sharing a photo of the manuscript of The Doors of Stone and saying if he had a Google Glass he would use it to do research while revising the novel. Rothfuss has said that The Doors of Stone will most likely be no longer than The Wise Man's Fear and guesses that it may even be a bit shorter. Rothfuss referring to the book as such in interviews), become the de facto title Rothfuss added that the editor was now "comfortable" with the title.

In an FAQ in January 2017, Rothfuss confirmed that, despite his editor not originally being a fan of the title, book three would be named The Doors of Stone simply because it had, by "popular consensus" (i.e. As he had already written the entire trilogy as a single story, he is now actively revising the content to ensure that it is satisfying as a standalone story for the third book. Shortly before the publication of the first novel The Name of the Wind, Rothfuss expressed in an interview that he had The Doors of Stone in mind as a tentative title for the third book. However, Rothfuss intends to create more works set in Temerant.


It will cover the third and final day of the story as related to Chronicler, concluding "Kvothe's story" and the "arc" begun in The Name of the Wind. The Doors of Stone will pick-up the story of Kvothe's life from where The Wise Man's Fear left off.
