Robert Jordan's eighth book of his Wheel of Time epic fantasy series, The Path of Daggers, lands on PW's and the New York Times charts in the #1 slot after just one week on sale -- a new milestone for the author. First printing for the Tor/Doherty book was 360,000 and three more trips to press brings the in-print total to 455,000. Even more impressive is that the first seven books (Book One, The Eye of the World, was published in 1990) have sold more than seven million copies in North America and the series has been translated into 16 languages. Jordan is in the midst of a 25-city publicity and booksigning tour. The folks at Tor note that they receive thousands of Jordan-related phone calls each year and that he may be the most discussed author on line. He is also one of the only two genre authors (the other is Tolkien, to whom he is often compared) who is the subject of an official Usenet newsgroup.