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Welcome to the official thread for all sample chapters, unpublished books, and short stories that Brandon has put out on the internet. He has been gracious enough to allow people the opportunity to get to know his different works by providing these samples and short stories for free. Please note that unpublished works are not necessarily canonical. If you know of anything we might be missing, please let us know; we will try to keep this as up to date as possible. Thank you for your assistance in helping us create a comprehensive list! See Arcanum's Readings page for a similar list, plus early readings of excerpts from published books. Sample content of published works can be found here. Full Published Works: Books: Warbreaker Short Fiction: The Hope of Elantris Firstborn Defending Elysium Unpublished Works: Deleted Scenes: Please follow the 17th Shard's spoiler policies when discussing this content. Enjoy your reading!

Hello everyone, In Episode 9.1 Brandon mentions that the most common path for writers to break into the market is by first publishing shorter works and garnering attention before publishing their first novel. I was wondering whether there was any episode where they talked in more detail about publishing short fiction. (Maybe in one of the Microcastings?) I have listened to the publishing episodes, but they focused on full novels and I imagine that you wouldn't try to contact publishers with just a couple of short stories. Added difficulty: I don't live in the US and I'm not familiar with any regular fiction publications. Thanks in advance for any help / pointers. Cheers, Helge