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Very cool!

This reminds me of the cover (Perrin?) of Towers of Midnight that's on Brandon's site right now:
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/the-wheel-of-time-series/#TOWERSOFMIDNIGHT

If you get a point for the book + a point for the POV, I got 12. Eric's excerpts were more of a challenge for me!

Agree with @Spren of Kindness : I prefer print versions. I don't do audiobooks at all, so I hope the Skyward 3 e-books will be released in multiple formats, like the Dawnshard novella was - that way, I can just read them on my laptop. If they're only produced/published for e-reader devices, I'll have to wait for the print versions. Time will tell. But at least we now have all 3 titles! I'm hoping Evershore will be Jorgen's POV - I want to know what happened in that last scene with his group in Starsight!

Is anyone else having issues getting into the release event? It says Brandon's whole site is down...

Last time for Oathbringer, I paid to attend the "backstage VIP party" and it was totally worth it.

Sad that it won't happen again this time, but it will save me some $$$. I did order all the swag and a book from Weller, so I'll just be attending my own party here at home this time. Hopefully things will be back to normal for SA#5 in a few years.

Thanks for posting this! Swag pack ordered! EDIT: And the book too (from Weller)!

I don't know where to post this, as it relates to Brandon's website not the Shard, but hopefully someone will see it & let the Dragonsteel folks know. (I could not find a "webmaster comments" function on the site.)

The word "rhythm" is misspelled in the text at the left on this rotating banner image on the home page:

Could someone (@Chaos maybe?) please pass the info to someone who can fix that image?

That's all - thx.

I am hoping right along with the rest of you!

But ...

My initial impression was that "Dawnshard" will just be the name of Rysn's ship (instead of Wandersail) - - like, the Thaylens named a ship after some legendary thing that they didn't really understand but that seemed cool.

However, even if that's true, it doesn't mean that the ship's name won't prove to be irony or foreshadowing! and that she really will encounter a Dawnshard on Aimia.

So glad I backed the Kickstarter! CanNOT wait!!

Any chance this was inspired by @Goatbringer's descriptions of his wife reacting to TWoK? Those are hilarious!

Whenever these books come out, I will buy them (but not the leatherbound editions - I'll leave those for folks with richer pockets, LOL). Some things are worth waiting for, and that's the case with Brandon's books, IMO.

That said, I may stop buying/reading SA after book 5, especially if the first 5-book arc ends with a nice sense of closure. Reason is that I'm probably a bit older than Brandon's parents, and I may not live to see book 10. So a book-5-closure would leave me at a somewhat happy point in the story (I'm thinking, who needs any extra sadness or tension when one is in one's declining years?). Then if time goes on & I am around for book 10, I can always start up again with book 6 and go forward from there. I have told myself "No more getting invested in book series by young authors!" ... and have broken that directive numerous times already, LOL!

I'm very much looking forward to the preview chapters of RoW, whenever Tor starts posting them!

Under the heading Reading Order, is there supposed to be a hyperlink in the phrase, " For an interactive reading guide, see this page."? Maybe something got missed? (Just trying to be helpful.)

He's still working on the Mistborn screenplay - does anyone know if he's spoken with Joe Straczynski (JMS) about writing these types of scripts? Since he's working with JMS on The Dark One, we know they have a professional relationship; and JMS has lots of experience writing screenplays (Sense8 and Babylon 5, among others). Maybe that's where Brandon has gotten the encouragement to DIY this? - because that's how Straczynski ended up writing almost all of B5: no one else could do it up to the standards he wanted. As much as I long for SA4 to be dome and SA5 started, I'm glad Brandon has so may irons in the fire!

HUZZAH!!!!!!!!!!

To do:

• Schedule vacation time for Nov. 15-20, 2020
• Research flight & hotel options, then arrange travel & accommodations
• Register for the release party!
• Create cosplay that will fit in suitcase (like last time!)
• Pore obsessively over preview chapters when available
• BE THERE!!!
• Finish book ASAP (since no way could I focus on anything else before I'm done)

Someone PLEASE thank Brandon & Tor & everyone involved for giving us this much advance notice!! Excellent re: needing to plan vaca/travel!

I don't think that the Delvers and the Eyes are the same thing - I think they are 2 separate groups of beings. We'll have to wait a couple/few years to see if I'm right though.

This is HUUUUUGE!!! B5 was one of the best shows ever; for its day, it was cutting edge. But the best thing -- what JMS is known for -- is complex & interesting characters who go through development arcs (G'Kar & Londo are a couple examples). And Brandon has that same strength if not more so. A creative match made in entertainment heaven, IMHO. This time Brandon's work might actually get produced!! 

I love everything that Brandon puts out, but ... (sigh) I hope I live long enough to see SA book 10.

4 hours ago, Realsteel609 said:

What is the Sixth of the Dust about? Is it good and is it apart of the Cosmere?

It is a Cosmere novella and is included in the Arcanum Unbounded anthology.

The novella is set on a planet called First of the Sun, and it's the only thing Brandon has published that's set on that world - meaning, we don't know much.

It's a mysterious story that follows the main character, Sixth of the Dusk, and his Aviars (birds with magic abilities) on a very dangerous island named Patji. The Coppermind summary isn't too spoiler-y (as of now): https://coppermind.net/wiki/Sixth_of_the_Dusk#Summary

I personally liked it very much, but other posters here didn't. It's short, so not much time & effort wasted if you don't like it. HTH

As of June 26, the release date on Amazon is September 10 (still 2019).

On 11/7/2018 at 8:14 AM, Celebrimbor said:

I've only read in the Cosmere and still have quite a few Mistborns to get through, but this sounds tempting. The foundations of my book-buying ban are weakening.

Mine too, and I have time available this weekend ... not looking good for the budget.

Also, compliments on your choice of a great elvish name, but gotta ask: Why the Bombadil avatar image if you're Celebrimbor?  (Warms my heart to see when someone else loves Middle Earth as much as I do!)

The only reason I have mixed feelings about this is, I'm already worried that I won't live to see Book 10 of the Stormlight Archives. I would NEVER want to inhibit Brandon's creativity! ... but sometimes I'd like to ask him, "Don't you want your parents to live to read the final book in your life's greatest work?" Ah well. I haven't had TV in over 15 years, but if the TV series does ever get produced, that means I'll have to get cable because no way am I missing a Sander-show.

OK, read the excerpt. Still a bit disappointed the story will be about a teenager, not the younger girl, but that demographic will buy more books so it's probably a wise choice. I just hope the spaceship is as great as Mark Van Name's Lobo (of the Jon & Lobo series); I know it's Brandon, but that's a tall order IMHO. I'm looking forward to this one in November; till then, I'll have McClellan's Mad Ben Styke to sate my need for books.

The cover is beautiful! But the girl's face looks several years older/more mature than I imagined from what he read us at the Oathbringer release party. But that wasn't even a first draft of the text, IIRC, so maybe Spensa is supposed to be 14-15, not 8-10 years old? I was liking the younger heroine a lot; it's Brandon, so whatever it is I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy it.

5 hours ago, Melovespie said:

I thought it was a good episode. I do think everyone is very quickly jumping onto the "Shallan has Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder" boat. If she truly had DID/MPD she wouldn't be aware of her other personalities. There are other diagnoses that more accurately fit her. I should probably write a post on this...

I have been thinking exactly the same thing! What Shallan has sounds more like an extreme coping mechanism - like a stage actor "getting lost" in a role to deal with things they can't deal with in real life. Everyone does this to some extent, and it's not unhealthy - remember the song "Whenever I Feel Afraid" from The King and I, or the business saying, "Fake it till you make it." Sometimes we act confident, then confidence springs up within us because we've made a space for it. Shallan's behavior is much more extreme, but IMO it's along these lines, not MPD. (I really hope Brandon didn't think he was writing about MPD; he's usually better informed than that about things that are way more obscure ... re: the map of Roshar, cymatics, etc.)

Oh YES!!!!! Rick Martin and his Lego-Roshar are wonderful!!

Quick, everyone, look at that shiny thing over there (and don't post a comment to enter)!

Any chance the dustcover without the signatures will be made available later on Brandon's store? Just sayin' ...

I would love it to be a story set on First of the Sun, because of [something in Chapter 22 in the Oathbringer preview, which I am not going to spoil here]. That planet and its magic are so fascinating to me.

I'd also love it to be Alcatraz 6 - those books are a hoot!

Or maybe White Sand 2 (graphic novel)?

Oooooh, maybe he's writing the storyline for another video game! That would be sweet.

Let's face it: anything and everything from Brandon will be eagerly anticipated.

I guess it's too much to hope that he'll have something from the "mystery project" ready to read to us at the OBR release event? One can only hope...