In September, I passed along word that Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time
At that time, there was an outstanding question of whether the series, started in 1990 and already 11 books and maybe 7000-ish pages long, would be completed. Robert Jordan was working on the series-finishing 12th book when he passed.
SciFi.com has an article that sheds some light on the situation:
Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson has been selected to complete A Memory of Light, the final volume in best-selling author Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time sequence, which was left incomplete at the time of Jordon’s death in September, publisher Tor announced.[...]
Harriet Popham Rigney, Jordan’s widow and editor, chose Sanderson to finish the book, which will be written based on notes and scenes left by Jordan. “He left copious notes and hours of audio recordings,” Rigney said in a statement.