Robert Jordan is dead.

[A Black Falcon]

At any rate, I never read those books, but I know a lot of people here liked them. Was the last book he was writing supposed to be the last one, or was he just going to keep on going as long as he was able? Continuing on this, were there a bunch of unresolved plot holes or something? I heard the stories are pretty convoluted so that's highly possible I suppose. If the guy left no wishes I suppose anyone could just take over from here so long as they do well.

The next (12th) book was supposed to conclude the main series (surely with many, many loose ends not tied up), but he'd said that he had other story ideas; perhaps more prequel books like New Spring, or maybe something else, who knows. But now... who knows... :(

As for unresolved plot points... well, let's just say that in every book he seemed to add more new storylines than he did conclude old ones...