Editing Robert Jordan (section)

==Selected works==
{{main|List of works by Robert Jordan}}

===The Wheel of Time===
{{main|The Wheel of Time}}
Jordan published 11 books of 14 in the main sequence of the Wheel of Time series. Reviewers and fans of the earlier books noted a slowing of the pace of events in the last few installments written solely by Jordan owing to the expansion of the scale of the series as a whole.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Cannon |first=Peter |title=Crossroads of Twilight (Book) |magazine=Publishers Weekly |date=December 23, 2002 |volume=249 |issue=51 |page=50}}</ref> Because of his health problems, Jordan did not work at full force on the final installment ''[[A Memory of Light]]'' (later split into three volumes beginning with ''[[The Gathering Storm (novel)|The Gathering Storm]]''), but blog entries confirmed that he continued work on it until his death, and he shared all of the significant plot details with his family not long before he died.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robert Jordan's Official Blog |url=http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=66 |access-date=November 28, 2011 |publisher=Dragonmount.com}}</ref> He maintained that in doing so the book would get published even if "the worst actually happens".<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 30, 2006 |title=Forbes article on Jordan's illness |url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/11/30/robert-jordan-illness-tech-media_cx_hc_books06_1201jordan.html |access-date=November 28, 2011 |website=Forbes}}</ref> On December 7, 2007, Tor Books announced that [[Brandon Sanderson]] had been chosen to finish the Wheel of Time series. [[Harriet McDougal]], Jordan's widow, chose him after reading ''[[Mistborn: The Final Empire]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TOR Press Release |url=http://www.tor-forge.com/NewsArticle.aspx?articleId=647 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212090331/http://www.tor-forge.com/NewsArticle.aspx?articleId=647 |archive-date=December 12, 2007}}</ref>
{{Book table |book_number= |title= |publish_date= |aux1=Length |aux2=Audio |aux3=Notes |books=
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 0
 | title         = [[New Spring]]
 | publish_date  = January 6, 2004
 | aux1          = 334pp (PB) / 334pp (HB)<br />122,150 words
 | aux2          = 12h 31m
 | aux3          = Prequel set 20 years before the events of the first novel.
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 1
 | title         = [[The Eye of the World]]
 | publish_date  = January 15, 1990
 | aux1          = 782pp (PB) / 702pp (HB)<br />305,902 words
 | aux2          = 29h 32m
 | aux3          = &nbsp;
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 2
 | title         = [[The Great Hunt]]
 | publish_date  = November 15, 1990
 | aux1          = 681pp (PB) / 599pp (HB)<br />267,078 words
 | aux2          = 26h 08m
 | aux3          = &nbsp;
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 3
 | title         = [[The Dragon Reborn]]
 | publish_date  = October 15, 1991
 | aux1          = 675pp (PB) / 545pp (HB)<br />251,392 words
 | aux2          = 24h 31m
 | aux3          = &nbsp;
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 4
 | title         = [[The Shadow Rising]]
 | publish_date  = September 15, 1992
 | aux1          = 981pp (PB) / 891pp (HB)<br />393,823 words
 | aux2          = 40h 31m
 | aux3          = &nbsp;
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 5
 | title         = [[The Fires of Heaven]]
 | publish_date  = October 15, 1993
 | aux1          = 963pp (PB) / 684pp (HB)<br />354,109 words
 | aux2          = 36h 34m
 | aux3          = &nbsp;
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 6
 | title         = [[Lord of Chaos]]
 | publish_date  = October 15, 1994
 | aux1          = 987pp (PB) / 699pp (HB)<br />389,823 words
 | aux2          = 41h 37m
 | aux3          = [[Locus Award]] nominee, 1995.<ref name="WWE-1995">{{Cite web |title=1995 Award Winners & Nominees |url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1995 |access-date=October 7, 2009 |website=Worlds Without End}}</ref>
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 7
 | title         = [[A Crown of Swords]]
 | publish_date  = May 15, 1996
 | aux1          = 856pp (PB) / 635pp (HB)<br />295,028 words
 | aux2          = 30h 31m
 | aux3          = &nbsp;
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 8
 | title         = [[The Path of Daggers]]
 | publish_date  = October 20, 1998
 | aux1          = 672pp (PB) / 591pp (HB)<br />226,687 words
 | aux2          = 23h 31m
 | aux3          = &nbsp;
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 9
 | title         = [[Winter's Heart]]
 | publish_date  = November 7, 2000
 | aux1          = 766pp (PB) / 533pp (HB)<br />238,789 words
 | aux2          = 24h 18m
 | aux3          = Prologue released as a promotional eBook in September 2000.
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 10
 | title         = [[Crossroads of Twilight]]
 | publish_date  = January 7, 2003
 | aux1          = 822pp (PB) / 681pp (HB)<br />271,632 words
 | aux2          = 26h 03m
 | aux3          = Prologue released as a promotional eBook on July 17, 2002.
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 11
 | title         = [[Knife of Dreams]]
 | publish_date  = October 11, 2005
 | aux1          = 837pp (PB) / 761pp (HB)<br />315,163 words
 | aux2          = 32h 24m
 | aux3          = Prologue released as a promotional eBook on July 22, 2005.
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 12
 | title         = [[The Gathering Storm (novel)|The Gathering Storm]]
 | publish_date  = October 27, 2009
 | aux1          = 766pp (PB) / 766pp (HB)<br />297,502 words
 | aux2          = 33h 02m
 | aux3          = Completed by [[Brandon Sanderson]].
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 13
 | title         = [[Towers of Midnight]]
 | publish_date  = November 2, 2010
 | aux1          = 864pp (PB) / 843pp (HB)<br />327,052 words
 | aux2          = 38h 17m
 | aux3          = Completed by Brandon Sanderson.<ref name="Brandon Sanderson's Facebook page">{{Cite web |title=Brandon Sanderson's Facebook page |url=http://www.facebook.com/BrandonSandrson?v=wall&story_fbid=137045153003317 |via=Facebook}} {{registration required}}</ref>
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = 14
 | title         = [[A Memory of Light]]
 | publish_date  = January 8, 2013
 | aux1          = 912pp (PB) / 909pp (HB)<br />353,906 words
 | aux2          = 41h 55m
 | aux3          = Completed by Brandon Sanderson,<ref name="Brandon Sanderson's Google+ Post">{{Cite web |last=Sanderson |first=Brandon |author-link=Brandon Sanderson |date=August 1, 2012 |title=Brandon Sanderson – Google+ – Today I got up, and I did not have a Wheel of Time book to work on. |url=https://plus.google.com/u/0/112625949782182655505/posts/Y5jVWa24AfB |access-date=August 4, 2012}}</ref> epilogue by Robert Jordan.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 8, 2013 |title=Brandon Sanderson Blog: It's finally out |url=http://www.brandonsanderson.com/its-finally-out |access-date=March 25, 2013 |publisher=BrandonSanderson.com}}</ref>
}}
{{Book list
 | book_number   = –
 | title         = 'Totals'
 | publish_date  = '''22 years, 11 months, 24 days'''
 | aux1          = '''11,898pp (PB) / 10,173pp (HB)<br />4,410,036 words'''
 | aux2          = '''19d 5h 25m'''
 | aux3          = &nbsp;
}}
}}

All paperback (PB) page totals given are for the most widely available mass-market paperback editions. The page count for the hardback (HB) editions does not include glossary or appendix page counts.

''[[The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time]]'' is an encyclopedia for the series about the unnamed world where the plot takes place, which is often referred to by fans of the series as [[the World of the Wheel]] or less formally as Randland in reference to the main character. It is published in the United States by [[Tor Books]] and in the United Kingdom by [[Orbit Books]]. The bulk of the text was written by Teresa Patterson based on notes and information provided by Jordan, who also served as the overall editor on the project. While the information in the guide is broadly canonical, the book is deliberately written as an in-universe work with vague, biased, or even downright false (or guessed) information in places, as Patterson felt this would reflect a key theme of the series (the mutability of knowledge across time and distance).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Teresa Patterson at DragonCon 2005 |url=http://www.dragonmount.com/News/?p=213}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | date=2005 |title=DragonCon Report - Jennifer Liang |url=https://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=205#9 |website=Theoryland |page=205}}</ref> This ~300-page encyclopedia was published in 1997, when only half of the main series had been published. The book is commonly referenced as the "Big White Book (of Bad Art)" in reference to the printed version's substantially larger height and width compared to the books of the main series. This name is also in reference to the various artworks printed in the book's fourth section which is titled ''Some Narrative Paintings of Questionable Authenticity''.

''[[The Wheel of Time Companion]]'' (often referred to simply as "The Companion") is a more comprehensive encyclopedia published in 2015, more than two years after the completion of the main series. It was compiled by [[Harriet McDougal]] and Jordan's assistants Alan Romanczuk and Maria Simons using Jordan's notes. This ~800-page encyclopedia is more comprehensive than ''The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time'' and consists almost entirely of entries describing particular characters, locations, items, and concepts from the series. The Companion is not written as an in-universe work and is generally written from a more objective, authoritative perspective than the earlier encyclopedia. As a result, information from the Companion is generally considered more reliable than information from the Big White Book.

===Conan the Barbarian===
{{main|Conan the Barbarian}}
Jordan was one of several writers who have written [[Conan the Barbarian]] stories. When [[Tom Doherty]] obtained the rights, he needed a novel very quickly, so Jordan's wife Harriet McDougal recommended him because she knew he had written his first novel, ''Warriors of the Altaii'', in thirteen days.
<blockquote>So he thought I could write something fast, and he was right, and I liked it. It was fun writing something completely over the top, full of [[purple prose]], and in a weak moment I agreed to do five more and the novelization of the second Conan movie. I've decided that those things were very good discipline for me. I had to work with a character and a [[Hyboria|world]] that had already been created and yet find a way to say something new about the character and the world. That was a very good exercise.<ref name="theoryland2003">{{Cite web |last=Lilley |first=Ernest |date=2003-01-21 |title=Interview with Robert Jordan |url=http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=168#11 |access-date=2012-04-13 |website=Theoryland}}</ref></blockquote>
# ''[[Conan the Invincible]]'' (1982)
# ''[[Conan the Defender]]'' (1982)
# ''[[Conan the Unconquered]]'' (1983)
# ''[[Conan the Triumphant]]'' (1983)
# ''[[Conan the Magnificent]]'' (1984)
# ''[[Conan the Destroyer (novel)|Conan the Destroyer]]'' (1984) (adaptation of the ''[[Conan the Destroyer|movie of the same title]]'')
# ''[[Conan the Victorious]]'' (1984)

They were packed into two separate volumes par ''Conan the Destroyer'':
* ''[[The Conan Chronicles (Robert Jordan)|The Conan Chronicles]]''
* ''[[The Further Chronicles of Conan]]'' (''[[The Conan Chronicles II]]'' in the UK, different contents)

Jordan also compiled a well-known [[Conan Chronology]].