1) https://sapkowskipl.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/cos-sie-konczy-cos-sie-zaczyna/

The idea for "Something ends, something begins" was provided to me, as is clear from the motto for the story, by the news about the wedding of a well-known and popular couple in the fandom - ha, today I no longer have to make a secret of the fact that it was Paulina Braiter and Paweł Ziemkiewicz.

The initiator of the creation of the story was, a hello to him should be made here, Krzysztof Papierkowski, president of the Gdańsk Fantasy Club.

GKF published its own fanzine, "The Red Dwarf", and Krzysztof Papierkowski often made efforts to obtain for this fanzine previously unwritten texts of prominent Polish fantasists. Once he proposed something like this to me, and I, having agreed, decided not only to refer to the aforementioned fan wedding, but in general to give the story the character of a joke, a joke close to the atmosphere of Polish fantastic conventions. That's how I treat this story to this day - less like a story, more like a convention joke. Contrary to appearances, situations and characters,

the story "Something ends..." should under no circumstances be combined with the so-called "witcher saga" or the witcher cycle in general. It is not an alternative ending to the five books, nor is it, contrary to rumors, an ending that I gave up in the creative process, choosing a less joyful epilogue. Not everyone understands and understood this.

2) https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/community-interview-with-andrzej-sapkowski.19373/page-2

PK: So how should we treat your story Something ends, something begins (pl. ‘Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna’)? It’s not in the saga and it tells of a completely different, more optimistic ending, where Geralt and Yennefer get married.

AS: I haven’t incorporated that story in the saga because of one simple reason –

it has nothing to do with the saga. It was a joke, something I wrote for pleasure, and for pleasure published in a fanzine, outside official market.

3) https://sapkowskipl.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/kul-1998/

Interviewer: What is Something ends, something begins... to the "Saga"?‎

‎AS:

Nothing. It was definitely a joke‎ for the fans and a lot of people took it as an insult, I just had problems because of it. This is not how the story ends…

Interviewer: So the Witcher will not marry?

AS: Next question, danke schon.

4) The only thing I write by hand are autographs – Andrzej Sapkowski Zone by John MacKanacky (wordpress.com)

DB: No one else, but it was the fans who just unleashed the scandal concerning the never-made volume six of the Witcher saga...

AS:

Yes, it was such a fan joke that went unexpectedly, which cost me a bit of trouble, I had to strongly deny the famous "sixth volume" – a lot of people believed in it and murdered me with questions.