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After [[Robert Jordan]]'s death, Brandon Sanderson was selected by Harriet McDougal (Robert Jordan's widow), to complete the final book in Jordan's epic fantasy series ''[[The Wheel of Time]]''. Harriet asked him to complete the series after being deeply impressed by ''[[Mistborn: The Final Empire]]''. Tor Books made the announcement December 7, 2007. On March 30, 2009 it was announced that ''[[A Memory of Light]]'', originally slated to be the final book in the ''Wheel of Time'' series, would be split into three volumes. The first, ''[[The Gathering Storm]]'', was released on October 27, 2009, with the remaining novels, named ''[[Towers of Midnight]]'' and ''[[A Memory of Light]]'', tentatively following in November 2010 and NovemberJanuary 20112013.