Andrzej Sapkowski became a special invited guest at the Comic-Con festival in Vienna. He told Wiadomo, kiedy premiera nowej książki Sapkowskiego. Autor ogłosił nowinę / Kultura about how he writes his books, and did not forget to mention the new part of the witcher saga, which told in the summer.
Sapkowski said that the book will be released in Polish at the end of 2024, and in other languages it will appear in a few months — in early 2025. It is still unknown whether there will be an official translation into Russian.
Nothing is known about the plot yet, but earlier the writer claimed that he was not going to continue the story after the finale of The Lady of the Lake. Most likely, the new book will be a prequel or a spin-off of the existing book series.
There is a possibility that one of the many announced CD Projekt RED games of The Witcher series will take as a basis the plot of the new book — or at least use new information in quests or lore. But there has been no confirmation of this yet: we can only wait.