FlatLine Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Brandon Sanderson just got back to me with copies of 'White Sand' and 'The Aether of Night'. I quickly got these converted to epub files so that I can enjoy them on my kindle. I decided to make up some book covers for fun, because they don't have any. The one problem is I don't really know what the books are about so I couldn't really tailor the covers to the books, but I gave my best effort. Tell me how they look to you! Also these are just used for fun, not resale or anything. For White Sand (also renamed to Dragon Steel once changed to an epub file) I wanted a stark contrast of sand, day and night. I think it works well. For The Aether of Night, which I don't know much about, i wanted a dark sky. I added a symbol for aether and then put stars that were drawn by Galileo with it. So tell me how I did??? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubix Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 I think they look pretty good, particularly White Sand. Just a quick point of clarification, though: White Sand isn't Dragonsteel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Arum Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 I think they look pretty good, particularly White Sand. Just a quick point of clarification, though: White Sand isn't Dragonsteel. While this is very true, the same thing happened to me last month when I put White Sand on my Kindle: the Kindle read the title as "Dragon Steel". I was thoroughly confused, and was secretly hoping that maybe my Kindle had been invested with some unknown Cosmere power that actually changes uploaded "personal" documents to books that I WISH I could read. Instead my Kindle did a half-arsed approach to Lightweaving, and couldn't finish the illusion beyond the title. Nonetheless, I was pleasantly pleased with White Sand as an unpolished novel and as a contribution to the literature of the Cosmere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlatLine Posted November 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Yeah 'The Aether of Night', didn't turn out as well I as pictured in my head. So for some reason the title is just changed to Dragon Steel, but it isn't it? That's interesting. Dragon Steel hasn't been written right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Dragonsteel, or at least a version of it, was Brandon's master's thesis. The only publicly available copy of it is in the BYU library, and the wait list for it is... long. I believe the plan is for Dragonsteel, the series, to be Brandon's big project after he finishes Stormlight. Of course it'll have to be re-written since the whole Dalinar/Shattered Plains/bridge-runs thing was appropriated for Stormlight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Dragonsteel, or at least a version of it, was Brandon's master's thesis. The only publicly available copy of it is in the BYU library, and the wait list for it is... long. I believe the plan is for Dragonsteel, the series, to be Brandon's big project after he finishes Stormlight. Of course it'll have to be re-written since the whole Dalinar/Shattered Plains/bridge-runs thing was appropriated for Stormlight. Didn't somebody lost / steal it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Didn't somebody lost / steal it? Not that I know of, or at least if it was it was found. As of October 8 Purelake Earthquake has/had it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Hmm, nevermind then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlatLine Posted November 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 That does sound tricky to get a hold of... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 Wow! I like those. I think I'll print my copies of Aether of Night and White Sand and put these on them! Hehe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaseGiants Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 Please excuse my raging newbity here but...how is it that y'all have ARC's of these books?? Also, is White Sand still planned to be in comic/graphic novel form [only]? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 Please excuse my raging newbity here but...how is it that y'all have ARC's of these books?? Also, is White Sand still planned to be in comic/graphic novel form [only]? These novels are currently unreleased, and in a relatively unpolished state. However, Brandon has been giving out digital copies (my copy of White Sand came in a Word doc) out to people who contact him via his website. From what I understand, the graphic novel of White Sand is the same story from the novel, but likely cleaned up/edited a bit (in addition to the obvious conversion to the new format). To the best of my knowledge, there is no current plan to publish a novel version of White Sand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurkistan Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 From what I understand, the graphic novel of White Sand is the same story from the novel, but likely cleaned up/edited a bit (in addition to the obvious conversion to the new format). To the best of my knowledge, there is no current plan to publish a novel version of White Sand. Your knowledge is correct, to the best of my knowledge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaseGiants Posted November 7, 2014 Report Share Posted November 7, 2014 These novels are currently unreleased, and in a relatively unpolished state. However, Brandon has been giving out digital copies (my copy of White Sand came in a Word doc) out to people who contact him via his website. From what I understand, the graphic novel of White Sand is the same story from the novel, but likely cleaned up/edited a bit (in addition to the obvious conversion to the new format). To the best of my knowledge, there is no current plan to publish a novel version of White Sand. Wow that is pretty cool. I figured you were acquaintances of his or from an extended reading group of his or something. Is aether of night a future publication or one of his trunk novels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted November 7, 2014 Report Share Posted November 7, 2014 Wow that is pretty cool. I figured you were acquaintances of his or from an extended reading group of his or something. Is aether of night a future publication or one of his trunk novels? Aether is trunked. Aspects from it have been cannibalized from it, such as "Decay" being reworked to become "Ruin" from Mistborn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mail-mi Posted November 7, 2014 Report Share Posted November 7, 2014 I'm sorry. The covers are really really awesome , but something is bugging me. I know this is really really nitpicky, but you're showing sand. And it's dark. It's never dark on Dayside, that has the sand! Okay. Rant over. Proceed. They're awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlatLine Posted November 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 I'm sorry. The covers are really really awesome , but something is bugging me. I know this is really really nitpicky, but you're showing sand. And it's dark. It's never dark on Dayside, that has the sand! Okay. Rant over. Proceed. They're awesome! I haven't read White Sand yet, so I wouldn't know haha. I just finished The Aether of Night and it was really good. I definitely could see where some of his other books got some of the stuff. I might go back and make some more covers now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel Posted November 9, 2014 Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 I'm sorry. The covers are really really awesome , but something is bugging me. I know this is really really nitpicky, but you're showing sand. And it's dark. It's never dark on Dayside, that has the sand! Okay. Rant over. Proceed. They're awesome! Yeah but if a Sand Master Mastered the sand it would turn black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wit422 Posted November 15, 2014 Report Share Posted November 15, 2014 (edited) Hey... Could anybody get me aether of night and white sands!? Would love to read them. ... Please, I would love it! Already asked brandon about a year ago Edited November 15, 2014 by Rubix please don't double post, use the edit feature. Email Redacted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted November 15, 2014 Report Share Posted November 15, 2014 Hey... Could anybody get me aether of night and white sands!? Would love to read them. ... Please, I would love it! Already asked brandon about a year ago My best advice is to send another email, he's gotten a lot better at replying this year. And he does explicitly ask those he sends it out to that they not share it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Arum Posted November 15, 2014 Report Share Posted November 15, 2014 I agree with WeiryWriter. Ask again. I emailed Brandon a month ago asking for them and received them the very next day! I've talked to people who asked a while back and never got them, but that's probably because he was busy writing WoR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Joe in the Bush Posted November 15, 2014 Report Share Posted November 15, 2014 I asked for it, and received in a bout a month Later. I think he just sends them out all at once. They just take a day to go through all the fan mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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