True. I noticed on the day it appeared on Amazon Project X shot into the 3000 range of Amazon bestsellers (by comparison it's currently in the 64,000 range). Pretty amazing debut ranking for a book that's still a year away.If it's to be a series, as was confirmed by Deaver, then IFP cannot wait for sales figures*. They'd have to establish the thing fairly quick, perhaps even push X-2 a little faster than they plan on the subsequent books. I suspect IFP already know who's to pen X-2 and X-3, perhaps even up to X-5 or so.
*A lot of the sales figures come actually up before the book hits shelves as the big chains order in advance as does Amazon. A lot of the make or brake of a book is decided upon before the first 'regular' reader turns the first page.
My guess is they have, or are very close to having, author 2 locked up. He will probably get Deaver's outline, so he knows the world, and start his work from that. Of course, we don't know the timeline of the series yet, but it certainly won't be more than a year between books. Be sweet if it were less.