Science & Tech Quote by Raymond E. Feist

Fifteen years is a long time to keep a story alive, and Feist lets that fact do the heavy lifting. The phrase "working title" is a quiet confession: the book exists, but only in a provisional state, like a file named Final_FINAL_reallythisone.doc. "Jigsaw Lady" itself teases a pulpy, high-concept hook, but the real drama is in the timeline. This is ambition measured against the slow grind of a career that keeps producing other, more urgent deliverables.

Feist’s intent feels less like a grand announcement than a candid status update from someone who knows how novels actually get made: not in lightning bolts, but in stolen hours. The parenthetical "(in all my spare time)" carries the wry sting of experience. It’s both a joke and a shield, pre-empting the inevitable reader demand for a release date while signaling that even a successful author doesn’t control time the way fans imagine. The "I think" and "next year" are careful hedges; he’s promising desire, not certainty.

The subtext is an argument about creative backlog. Stories don’t just compete with other stories; they compete with tours, deadlines, series obligations, and plain fatigue. "I'd like to get it finished some day" lands with a deliberately modest ache. Not "when", not "soon", but "some day" - the phrase of someone who has learned that finishing is its own genre of heroism. In a culture that fetishizes constant output, Feist frames persistence as the real flex: a book can live in your head for 15 years and still be worth making.