Brandon's announcement video tomorrow

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood Knight Radiant]

Just now, Frustration said:

It's already 8.9 mil. 

[Orlion Blight Voidbringer]

Making my way through the videos now, and right now I am pretty happy about this

[Robin Sedai Mistborn]

So I think I've got the general gist of it, but just to confirm, the video was the announcement for Brandon's new books and the Kickstarter?

[Orlion Blight Voidbringer]

Just now, Robin Sedai said:

So I think I've got the general gist of it, but just to confirm, the video was the announcement for Brandon's new books and the Kickstarter?

4 books (3 Cosmere) that will be published through Dragonsteel and funded through Kickstarter. 

Also, a subscription box for one year

[Nesh Cobalt Guard]

Brandon announces a kickstarter.

 

The fans: 

Edited March 2, 2022 by Nesh
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[Inkspren_K Hazekiller]

Apparently this video is#1 trending on YouTube too! I would not expect a video of an author talking about his books to be #1 trending, which says a lot about his popularity. 

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood Knight Radiant]

1 minute ago, Inkspren_K said:

Apparently this video is#1 trending on YouTube too! I would not expect a video of an author talking about his books to be #1 trending, which says a lot about his popularity. 

RUSTS! that is awesome

[GreyPilgrim Spinner]

Just came here to post that it's #1 as well! Go Brandon!

[Robin Sedai Mistborn]

More than 10,000,000 

[Nesh Cobalt Guard]

Apparently, it's already the #10 Kickstarter of all time by funding.

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood Knight Radiant]

2 minutes ago, Nesh said:

Apparently, it's already the #10 Kickstarter of all time by funding.

whoa! they broke the WoK kickstarter record!!

[Hoiditthroughthegrapevine Voidbringer]

One more look at the titlepage for the book with what appears to be a Square Soft type black wizard with a blaster on the cover:

Spoiler

And based on the cover:

This is probably the non cosmere one, and the text looks most like:

The Feral Wizard's Handbook (guessing here) "for surviving" Scenic England.

My guess is this is the YA title, and will be similar to the Alcatraz books.

 

 

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood Knight Radiant]

2 minutes ago, Hoiditthroughthegrapevine said:

One more look at the titlepage for the book with what appears to be a Square Soft type black wizard with a blaster on the cover:

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And based on the cover:

This is probably the non cosmere one, and the text looks most like:

The Feral Wizard's Handbook (guessing here) "for surviving" Scenic England.

My guess is this is the YA title, and will be similar to the Alcatraz books.

 

 

Spoiler

I agree!

 

[Karger Unmade]

Looks at odd video announcement.  Two minutes later.  What did I purchase?  I just saw Brandon was having a kickstarter so I clicked.

[Frustration Sliver]

11 milion!!!!

[Nesh Cobalt Guard]

Does anyone else find watching the number go up oddly calming?  I know, I'm probably just strange.

[Robin Sedai Mistborn]

How much will there be when it ends? Taking all bets.

[Spren of Kindness Savant]

Just now, Robin Sedai said:

How much will there be when it ends? Taking all bets.

I'd guess at least 16 mil.

Gosh, I want to get these so bad, but I cannot justify roughly 50 dollars per hardcover with my current teenage income...  Maybe I'll wait and see what the books are about, and then decide.

[Nesh Cobalt Guard]

4 minutes ago, Spren of Kindness said:

I'd guess at least 16 mil.

At this rate it might hit that before the day's out.

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[Robin Sedai Mistborn]

14 minutes ago, Nesh said:

Does anyone else find watching the number go up oddly calming?  I know, I'm probably just strange.

You're not the only one.

[Adonalsium16 Spren]

At the current rate of growth, (which undoubtedly will probably drop, but this is a fun speculation) the Kickstarter will reach approximately 873,866,000 dollars, which is mindblowing. So I'd cache in my bets at about 30-50 million. 

[Robin Sedai Mistborn]

I'm betting 25 million or so. (how quickly we become inured to absolutely huge numbers...)

[TheOneKEA Misting]

I am utterly shocked.

This feels like a major watershed moment for the publishing industry. Does Dragonsteel have ambitions to become an independent publishing house? Are we going to start seeing Dragonsteel sign other authors writing in the fantasy and sci-if genres and start publishing their works? Even after all of their expenses are subtracted and taxes are paid, this is a STAGGERING amount of money for an author to get for four books that aren’t even done yet!

Brandon, the mad lad….!

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood Knight Radiant]

I'm betting 22 million.

[StarrFall Crew Leader]

Glorious day. I see the Fry meme has been tended to already so I'll just mosey on over to yon Kickstartery and get to it.