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One of the most common questions we see prior to every Stormlight Archive release is a request for good recaps of the previous books. Well, you've found the right place! This series of four articles will serve as a brief but thorough overview of the previous Stormlight Archive books, so you can pick right up where you left off when Wind and Truth brings an end to the First Arc of Stormlight Archive when it releases this year!

This is the third article in the series. If you haven't read the first, make sure to start there.

This week on SpanReads, we are onto The Way of Kings, the first book of The Stormlight Archive! What did we think of it on a reread? Is it just as much a classic as we all remember?

One of the most common questions we see prior to every Stormlight Archive release is a request for good recaps of the previous books. Well, you've found the right place! This series of four articles will serve as a brief but thorough overview of the previous Stormlight Archive books, so you can pick right up where you left off when Wind and Truth brings an end to the First Arc of Stormlight Archive when it releases this year!

This is the second article in the series. If you haven't read the first, make sure to start there.

One of the most common questions we see prior to every Stormlight Archive release is a request for good recaps of the previous books. Well, you've found the right place! This series of four articles will serve as a brief but thorough overview of the previous Stormlight Archive books, so you can pick right up where you left off when Wind and Truth brings an end to the First Arc of Stormlight Archive when it releases this year!

It's our full cosmere spoiler episode for Warbreaker! Turns out it's a pretty important book.

THE TIME IS UPON US! Well, close enough anyway. Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com) will be releasing one to three chapters of Wind and Truth every Monday at 11 A.M. Eastern Time, beginning on July 29th and continuing until the book comes out on December 6th! They'll go up under the dedicated column on Reactor's website weekly. More details and overview of past updates below the cut.

This week on SpanReads, we are discussing the colorful magic of Warbreaker!

Next up on SpanReads, we talk about the many characters of Warbreaker, like Lightsong, Siri, Vivenna, and Vasher!

With Lost Metal closing out Mistborn Era 2, and us now knowing Era 3 is called Ghostbloods, let's talk about what we know about Mistborn: Ghostbloods. Brandon's talked about it a lot over the years. We talk about that and our hopes for the series, along with many, many cold wars. And Discord, of course.

SpanReads, our reread series, returns! We are starting with Warbreaker, and then moving through Stormlight until Wind and Truth comes out! So what did we think of Warbreaker on a reread? Stay tuned to find out! 

In April, Brandon read the first two Shallan chapters from Wind and Truth at C2E2, and hoooo boy they are exciting! We discuss those and the C2E2 Words of Brandon, meaning we are finally caught up on WoBs--for now! 

Excited for Wind and Truth and planning on a Stormlight reread? We are too, with our weekly SpanReads reread show returning Thursdays until the release, starting June 27th with Warbreaker! Then we continue with Way of Kings on July 25th. 

TL;DR: Our monthly art commissions will no longer show up under the website's news, you'll need to look for them on our socials, Discord, or Patreon.

The pre-launch page for the upcoming Stormlight RPG Kickstarter is now live! You visit it to get notified as soon as the campaign itself goes live on August 6, but Brotherwise Games - the company behind this project - revealed a few extra tidbits on Reddit and X, which we have collected for you here.

A couple of days ago, on June 3, 2024, Brandon announced that he was officially done with Wind and Truth! The book still needs to go through proof- and copyedit, but at 491k words, Brandon's work is essentially done. And, coincidentally, preorders for the book in the US and Canada opened up a mere day later. Let's get into some details, shall we?

It's time to talk about our thoughts for Stormlight 5, titled Wind and Truth, coming this December! Who's going to die??

We're finally wrapping up 2023 Words of Brandon, with WoBs hot off the presses like things our Brandon interview last July and other odds and ends. But there's still some interesting stuff, like silver, Reliquaries, and more!

The Words of Brandon never end, and we are wrapping up the December spoiler stream. This episode we... kind of learn something about the final Shard. We also go on a massive history lesson about it, which is possibly entertaining. There's also tons of Yumi WoBs!

Brandon held a spoiler livestream for Koloss Head Munching Day 2023 (his birthday). While a lot of questions are apparently going to be answered in book 5 of The Stormlight Archive, Wind and Truth, there still was plenty to talk about dragons, specific Mistborn Era 2 details, and Plato's allegory of the cave!

We have the announcement for Secret Project 5, and it's called Isles of the Emberdark, and oh boy... it sure is high cosmere connectivity! There's so much to discuss, so let's dig in. We also discuss the announcement itself, so feel free to skip to 30:52 for discussion of the chapters!

It's been two years since Brandon's huge Year of Sanderson announcement, so we thought we'd talk about how we feel about it. How tired are we? What was our favorite Secret Project? How were the Year of Sanderson boxes?

Two years ago, when Brandon first announced the secret projects, people were surprised to hear the audiobooks wouldn't be available on Audible. Brandon had spoken out before about how he was worried about their business practices and what that would mean for authors with a lot less success than him, and for the secret projects––where the rights would initially be in his hands rather than going through Tor first, as Dragonsteel would be publishing the books themselves––he took a big risk, knowing most of his readership was through audio, and decided to promote other alternatives for audiobooks besides the Amazon-owned company. Now, after many conversations with the company, he's reached a historic deal, not aimed at himself, but to benefit indie authors in particular, who are the most affected by Audible's policies regarding royalties and exclusivity. 

Yep, he's done it again! Today Brandon Sanderson announced he's written another book in secret and is releasing it with the Words of Radiance leatherbound BackerKit. For those keeping count, this makes eight secret books recently. 

We're back with more WoBs, and this time it's the last of the Dragonsteel 2023 Words of Brandon. Today we have a grab bag of a bunch of random stuff, like kandra babies, stabbing Hoid with atium, Harmony lying, and the IDENTITY FIELD returns.

Yes, you read that right. No, this is not clickbait. He can't keep getting away with this...!