PeterAhlstrom

I tried to convince Brandon it should be Wayne and Steris, but instead Wayne will return for book 7. Also, Steris

Words of Radiance was a bit over 400,000 words. Stormlight 3 should be at least 300,000 but most likely shorter than Words of Radiance and also could be shorter than Way of Kings. But it all depends on what Brandon feels best covers the story he wants to tell in this book.

Community is much funnier. Anything Big Bang I've seen is so forced and fake.

It's frustrating because Apple doesn't have a way to associate a podcast with an account and look at a status page to see why it's not showing up. So, I'm emailing my Apple contact again...

Having just caught up on the Attack on Titan manga, I have to say this is a very interesting idea.

So, Brandon confirmed in the preface to this version that Hoid is definitely not there. However, I wouldn't rule out the person I thought was Hoid actually being someone else important.

Yep. As for the stylistic revisions, it will still feel like earlier Brandon, just slightly updated. Maybe the net effect will feel closer to the style of the Mistborn trilogy.

Oh right. I was going to do this. I might actually have time this week, since Elantris is turned in and the Shadows for Silence ebook is out.

The hardcover should be available on the website before Christmas. Con exclusives are only exclusive until convention season ends.

That list leaves out one change in Szeth's conversation with Nale.

The artist is Miranda Meeks, and we are very happy with this. If you want to buy a hardcover, come to a convention this summer—the official release is at Minicon on April 1st.

Too busy to pay attention to this right now...

This week's episode of Log Horizon was super confusing for me. I don't understand at all what Plant Hwyaden is doing, or their relationship with their employers. But I usually really enjoy this show. Your Lie in April's episode indeed reversed the depressing course. Yay! How in the world did Aldnoah Zero get such a high budget? It has crazy high production values. We're on episode 8 or so. And we're at a similar place with Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, which is just very funny. The episode about drawing backgrounds was eye-opening. World Trigger is fun to watch and the annoying lips thing has showed up with less frequency. We're caught up on that. Also caught up on Shirobako, which I really like, even if it can be stressful to watch sometimes. And we're in day 2 of the Inter-High on Yowapeda. Great stuff.

You just hope it's a joke.

Fairy Tail is a fun show to watch when I don't want to take something too seriously. I also watch the dubbed version for the same reason. But we're not too far in (finished the arc where they fight that other guild). Don't feel like watching it very often. Recently we finished watching Tonari no Seki-kun. Very funny show. If you've got a few minutes to kill, throw one of these in. Each episode is only a few minutes long. It's not a good one for binging because it can be repetitive. I'm 3 episodes from the end of Glass Mask and still love it. Your Lie in April is getting a bit too depressing for my tastes. I hope it turns around. Still enjoying Yowapeda. Also, since I have a Crunchyroll membership and they started letting all premium members (instead of just all-access members as previously) read their manga, I'm reading a lot of Crunchyroll manga. I stopped the Attack on Titan anime after one episode but I've read about 9 volumes of the manga and love it. Incredibly brutal but amazing storytelling. I really enjoy reading Orange, about a girl who gets a letter from herself 10 years in the future, and she tries to change the past so one of her friends doesn't commit suicide. Also I am reading Fuuka, which has a huge shocker after a few dozen chapters. Honestly, I'm still astonished by that.

I may have time to work on this next week...

Started some shows I hadn't tried before. Yona of the Dawn. 3 or 4 episodes in, enjoying it. Yona has very good reason to be pretty much catatonic at this point, but she will probably get out of that soon, since they've shown us a flash-forward. The most recent episode I saw had a strange audio mix issue where the music was too loud and the dialogue too soft when music was playing. I can't remember if this happened in the other episodes. Aldonoah Zero. 5 or 6 episodes in. Seems to have a very high budget and the result of that is excellent. The plotting and characters on this are very good. People are making very clever decisions. However, the worldbuilding and infodumping is a bit lazy and stretchy. I don't understand the timeline of things that happened between 1970 and now. Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun. 5 or 6 episodes in. This series is a scream. Pretty much just comedy. Aside from Tonari no Seki-kun (which is easy to swallow in small portions), we haven't really watched a pure comedy series before (unless you count FLCL and I don't think you can). All the other comedy series we've tried have simply been too random and we weren't able to last a whole episode (Gintama) or only a couple (some show with a robot maid girl and guns?) But Nozaki-kun is more focused. Each episode (or sometimes each half of the episode) has a focus that lampoons something about shoujo or relationship manga. Very, very funny.

Currently Boston is still the plan, and it will stay that way unless it doesn't. EDIT: And now it hasn't. The flight got canceled and this time it looks like for good reason. They tried to reschedule, maybe even driving in from Hartford, but with the roads in their condition it's just not a good idea. So, maybe Brandon will visit Boston in the summer.

My recommendation is to hold the vote for the first extra die and then announce the results. Then hold the vote for the second. Repeat until all extras are accounted for.

Shirobako is so darn good. The very end of the most recent episode I saw coming a mile away, funny story. Sucks for them. I started watching Yowapeda and really like it. Main character is a kid who for years has ridden his bike 60 miles round trip to Akihabara every week to buy anime stuff. I used to ride my bike 25 miles round trip every week to go to my favorite bookstore. So, I identify with him. I also like watching the Tour de France, so a cycling anime is perfect for me. And this one is well done. We're now caught up on World Trigger. It's not quite as compelling as something like early Bleach, but I do like it. Not that I want to scare anyone away with the "Magical Boy" comment I made above. But when their neighboring-dimension-technology uniforms appear on them, it reminds me so much of Sailor Moon. Chika is also refreshing as a character type—quiet unassuming short girl, totally flat-chested, and killer with a sniper rifle. I do get annoyed by the lips drawing style sometimes. We finished Captain Earth at last. The first episode of that was really very good, but it was a largely mediocre show. There was one loose end that was finally subtly explained in the absolutely last 5 seconds of the last episode, which was a very nice surprise for me. But I can't recommend it unless you just love mecha transformation sequences. I don't really feel like I wasted my time, but it wasn't something I'd watch again. Celestial Method had a very lame ending. Episode 11 was really, really good, episode 12 was terrible, and episode 13 was meh. (Or was it 10, 11, and 12?) It really felt like they got to the end of the season and didn't know how to finish it up. When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace had quite a good ending. I wonder if they'll make more sometime. But you have to be in the right mind for this show. Some of the episodes are simply about relationship stuff, and it turns into one of those harem shows where by the end all the girls realize they're in love with the one guy, and he is still completely clueless but nice to all of them. I really liked his Chuunibyou origin story when it was finally revealed. And how they solved the final confrontation was excellent. Your Lie in April has finally dropped the bombshell about the girl's health problems, though I could see that coming since she collapsed at that one concert. And it also gave many more shades of grey to the kid's mom, which I appreciated. Though it still sends a kind of bad message to kids whose parents abuse them. But it's very Japanese. The main kid is also having a lot of character growth, which is good, though I hope he doesn't backslide now.

I wasn't talking about Rushu, though my opinion is that she's a good candidate. However, just because a background character has an interesting personality doesn't mean they're going to become a Radiant.

There's one minor named character who I know for sure will become a non-major-viewpoint KR, who I haven't seen KR speculation on and who I figured out myself. Note, this does not mean Random House is confirmed as picking this up. No discussions have taken place. But this is the series that Brandon plans to position for them after the Reckoners.

Sorry! I have some deadline stuff...

I think it will just be named Hotlanta.

I'm not aware of any open casting call requirement. I do not have any information beyond what was in the press release. This is just an option like other options that have come and gone, but this is better than the previous option for Steelheart because it's with a larger studio and for a production company of a director with a proven track record. Also, Fox announced it immediately instead of sitting on the news for a while, so that's something else that seems like a good sign. (But they probably wanted to announce in the week that Firefight was hitting #1 on the New York Times list, which is understandable.) Anyway, I'm cautiously optimistic, more optimistic about this getting made relatively quickly than any other option that has been previously announced. However, it could still not go anywhere. We won't start actually thinking it's happening until they start casting actors and get a screenplay, etc. I hope that the news it's for this specific director's production company means that that director is actually attached, but I'm not sure that's what it means.