PeterAhlstrom

Some Sharders already read Steelheart early in 2011. Now you are jealous, but who are you jealous of?

If you have a book with a binding error, you should be able to exchange it at any bookstore that has a new copy. They return it to the distributor for a full credit. There were three printings done before release day.

Yep, fourth.

Those black ones in the image are from Well of Ascension...

I listened to the first audiobook. I couldn't like the characters.

I thought the ending was great. This is my favorite non-Brandon book in years, and I'd say it beats some Brandon books. There actually is more than one sex scene; the other one is "person walks through camp and sees a couple having sex and is grossed out by it." This is a book where a lot of problems could be solved by people talking to each other—but they have REALLY good reasons not to talk to each other, and indeed talking could cause more problems than it solves.

I'm about halfway through the first book right now and really enjoying it. I didn't read his other trilogy.

Modern Hebrew and modern Greek alphabets are descended from the same original source, but they look totally different. Modern Allomantic and modern Feruchemical alphabets are actually more closely related than that, but still look quite different.

I'm imagining that the E/I and O/U pairs would be alphabetized intermixed in Scadrial dictionaries and phone books. They are still seen as basically the same letter.

The ALLOY OF LAW symbols are not a different alphabet from the one used in MISTBORN 1. It is just a more modern font. (In-world, there would be a variety of fonts, as there are in our world.] The traditional font is still legible to the majority of the population, and is still used when they want an old-fashioned look. Moving the dot to distinguish vowels is a modern innovation, within the last 100 years by ALLOY OF LAW. I suspect that dots may be gone entirely (except for the two changed vowels, and maybe "capital" letters) in many fonts by the time you get to the second trilogy. Numbers might get a moved dot too. The placement of the dots in the original symbology has to do with Allomancy, but they're largely superfluous in writing. The Feruchemical symbols (which are in the RPG) are evolved from the same root (the ancient symbols you can see in MISTBORN 3), but I don't know about their use in modern writing. It could be something like the hiragana/katakana distinction. But that's just speculation right now.

Yes, "universe" here should be just "world." Dragonsteel is in the Cosmere.

Well, here is your name, more or less. Also, I'm not totally sure what to do about the "th" sound. We didn't build it into the alphabet because it's not used in major characters' names. But it does appear in Hathsin. It's possible that it's used like in French and German (like in Thenardier and Neanderthal) and is just pronounced "t."

I made a font for the Alloy of Law versions...

Badali has the license for Aonic jewelry, and they are working on something Soulcaster-related, I understand.

Way of Kings is 386,000. It gets complicated because there is text in the images, and there's the Ars Arcanum, etc. Also, lots of epic fantasies nowadays are under 200,000. Some editors want them at 100,000.

Pemberly watched the chat. (So did I.) This morning, she told me Brandon needs to shut up. (Or something like that.)

Nook classic.

At least 1 each in Way of Kings and Warbreaker.

Work, Mac. Home, Mac/iPad/iPhone. My wife has a Vista machine and an iPhone. Brandon uses Windows 7 on a Zenbook, an Android phone, and a Nook.

Joe, you're using a cached version of the story, unfortunately. I already fixed a ton of typos this morning (after going through it myself). mycoltbug: "he" should not be capitalized there. Also...at this point I am only assuming there are no typos in Firstborn, since typos tend to get reported in Tor.com comment threads and none were ever reported. Responding to the below: "company" is fine there.

Great, thanks! I have fixed those two so far.

Can some of you look through Defending Elysium and report any typos you see? Today? There is a good reason for this. Thanks!

You're asking good questions, and will get some answers in December.

I'll be there.