Brandon Sanderson

It has been quite a busy time these last six or seven months. Too busy, maybe? A lot of great experiences, but it has cut into my time to be at home writing. Let me give you a little update of what I’m doing writing-wise. First off, of course, is Words of Radiance. If you weren’t watching, I finished the rough draft of this book (the second book of the Stormlight Archive, and sequel to The Way of Kings) late June. I sent it off to my agent and editor for commentary and advice. I got back my editor’s notes last week, my agent’s notes today, and Peter just finished assembling everything together and doing a tight, continuity-focused copyedit of the entire manuscript. At 360k words, it’s roughly the length of A Memory of Light. Obviously, there’s a lot left to do here. Tor keeps talking about January as a publication month, and I’d like to meet that, if at all possible. That’s going to require me to do several drafts of the novel over the next two months. More updates as we progress, but I’m pleased with the book. It has only a few large flaws, and I think they can be fixed fairly quickly. During July, I took time off from major projects to have a breather. If you aren’t aware, I prefer to do smaller projects between big epics as a means of helping me stay fresh. This month’s “breather” stories include a novelette (9k words) piece set in the Steelheart world, which should be published as an e-original around Christmastime. I also did some work in the Infinity Blade world. (More on that later. If you aren’t aware, this is a video game that friends of mine make. I’ve enjoyed being involved to practice my video-game writing chops, with an eye toward doing Mistborn video game writing.) My next major writing project will be the sequel to Steelheart, which is called Firefight. (And if you haven’t seen the trailer, Prologue, or teaser chapters for Steelheart, please go give them a look! We’re hoping for big things from this novel.) As you might be aware, I will often be preparing for/writing one piece while I do revisions on another. I generally can only do new prose on one piece at a time, but I like to be revising and writing on two different things at once. So, for the foreseeable future, I’ll be writing Firefight and revising Words of Radiance. What does this mean for future projects? Well, let me go down the list of sequels in order of current urgency. 1) Rithmatist Sequel. I will hop on writing the next one very soon. 2) Shadows of Self. (The next Wax and Wayne Mistborn novel.) I’ve finished some sample chapters of this and have a fairly solid outline. Expect to see me writing on this sometime early next year. 3) Book Three of Stormlight. I don’t want to let this series languish with three year gaps between books, as I was forced to do between books one and two. Because of this, I’ll try to be doing them at 18 month or 24 month intervals at the most. Do note that the books, at around a thousand pages each, are HUGE undertakings. The way I write, I have to space out projects like this. They’ll be regular, I promise, but part of the reason I’m so productive is because I allow myself freedom to work on different projects, instead of being beholden to one series. 4) Calamity (Book Three of Steelheart.) This will be the final of that trilogy. 5) Elantris Sequel. (This is getting close. Should be doing this in the relatively near future.) 6) Legion Sequel. I have sample chapters of this done, but as it’s a side project, it can’t command prime writing time. I will probably slip it in between some of the books above somewhere, but I can’t promise when. 7) Final Rithmatist book. (I’m not 100% sure this will be a trilogy. It might just be two books.) 8) Nightblood. (Warbreaker sequel.) This one is still fairly far off. 9) Alcatraz 5. Still planning to write this. We have to find a home for the series, however, as I bought the rights back to it from Scholastic earlier this year. Within the next couple of months, my US readers will be able to buy my British publisher's omnibus edition of the first four books. As for non-sequel, original projects, here’s what might be coming in the future, as they stand now. 1) "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell." Cosmere novella set on a new world. Find it in GRRM and Gardner Dozois’s anthology called Dangerous Women, which I believe is coming out Christmastime. Read an excerpt on Tor.com. 2) "Sixth of the Dusk." Cosmere novella set on a new world. Written following a Writing Excuses brainstorm. Still needs a revision, but should be released later this year. 3) The Silence Divine. Standalone Cosmere Novel. Modestly far off, but maybe not too far. I don’t want to be stuck writing only sequels. Though, since I did release two new books this year (Rithmatist and Steelheart) in new worlds, starting new series, I will probably wait on this one until those series are done. 4) The Liar of Partinel. Cosmere Novel, set on the original planet of Yolen and dealing with Hoid’s origin story. Very far off right now. 5) Skyward. (Working title.) Young Adult cosmere novel. In the early stages of development. Probably a few years of. 6) Dark One. Non-cosmere YA novel. Still haven’t been able to get this one off the ground. I had a chance, but The Rithmatist worked better, and I wrote that instead. Don’t hold your breath on this one, though someday I might post the sample chapters that I wrote a few years back. 7) Death By Pizza. (Urban Fantasy.) This book was fun, but not remotely good enough to publish. We’ll see if I ever get the bug to go back and fix it. 8) White Sand. Cosmere trilogy. Some fun things are happening here, but I can’t really talk about them right now. And finally, media properties. 1) Mistborn: Birthright. (Video Game for consoles and maybe PC, cross platform.) We’re looking at 2015 for this right now. (Sorry.) The new console generation made us push it back. I’m still planning to write it, and development is still moving. It’s far from dead. 2) Mistborn film. Option runs out in January. I’ve had a very good experience with the producers, but so far, we do not have funding for the film. We’ll have to see where we are in another six months. 3) Legion television show. Lionsgate still has this under option! 4) Steelheart Film. I had lunch with the producer at Comic-Con. It's still early in the process, but they're very engaged and very excited. That's it for updates. For now, I should get back to work on the Firefight outline. As always, thank you all for reading! <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/07/state-of-sanderson.html">Source</a>

So, I'm at Comic-Con in San Diego right now. You can see my schedule here. Among the other things I'm doing at the con is an interview with MTV Geek. That's not a public event at the convention, but they will be streaming it live on their site on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Pacific time. And as part of the interview livestream, MTV Geek will be premiering the book trailer that Delacorte made for STEELHEART. It will be exciting, so set your alarms for 1:00 p.m. Pacific in two days. (Right now their countdown clock says the trailer reveal will be at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, but we're pretty sure that's a mistake.) And right now, MTV Geek has put up a new preview of STEELHEART on their site. If you haven't read the prologue you should read that first, and then come back and read chapters 10 and 11 on MTV Geek's site. MTV Geek has also revealed the Comic-Con exclusive Steelheart poster by DC Comics artist John Van Fleet. Go there to check it out. I'll be signing prints of the poster with Mr. Van Fleet at the DC Comics booth #1915 today at 11:00 a.m.

So, I'm at Comic-Con in San Diego right now. You can see my schedule here. Among the other things I'm doing at the con is an interview with MTV Geek. That's not a public event at the convention, but they will be streaming it live on their site on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Pacific time. And as part of the interview livestream, MTV Geek will be premiering the book trailer that Delacorte made for STEELHEART. It will be exciting, so set your alarms for 1:00 p.m. Pacific in two days. (Right now their countdown clock says the trailer reveal will be at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, but we're pretty sure that's a mistake.) And right now, MTV Geek has put up a new preview of STEELHEART on their site. If you haven't read the prologue you should read that first, and then come back and read chapters 10 and 11 on MTV Geek's site. MTV Geek has also revealed the Comic-Con exclusive Steelheart poster by DC Comics artist John Van Fleet. Go there to check it out. I'll be signing prints of the poster with Mr. Van Fleet at the DC Comics booth #1915 today at 11:00 a.m. <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/07/read-preview-2-of-steelheart-steelheart.html">Source</a>

I'm leaving today for Comic-Con, and I'll be there Friday through Sunday. See you there! There will also be a Steelheart trailer reveal online on Sunday with MTV Geek; I'll add the link later. Date: July 19–21, 2013 Place: San Diego Convention Center Address: 111 West Harbor Drive San Diego, CA 92101 Schedule: Friday, July 19th 11:00–11:30 a.m., booth 1915 DC Entertainment Signing with John Van Fleet Signing exclusive Steelheart poster prints by John Van Fleet 2:30–3:30 p.m., Room 24ABC Epic Fantasy Panel Dragons, elves, and magic—epic fantasy transports us to another world. Colleen Lindsay and some of the genre's biggest authors discuss the worlds of their own creation and what fantasy has to say about our own world: Robin Hobb (Blood of Dragons), Raymond Feist (Magician's End), Django Wexler (The Thousand Names), Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn and The Wheel of Time series), Melissa de la Cruz (Frozen), Christopher Paolini (the Inheritance cycle), and Daniel Abraham (The Tyrant's Law). 4:00–5:00 p.m., Table AA09, Autograph Area Signing by authors from the Epic Fantasy Panel 5:00–6:00 p.m., booth 2707 Tor Booth Signing Brandon will sign copies of The Way of Kings (and probably any other books you bring) Saturday, July 20th 1:00–2:00 p.m., booth 1515 Random House Booth Signing Signing ARCs of Steelheart This is a ticketed signing. Tickets can be picked up at the Random House booth 1515 on Saturday when the booth opens. The line will start forming 15 minutes before the signing. Sunday, July 21st 2:30–3:30 p.m., Room 23ABC Safety Not Guaranteed, Post-Apocalyptic Panel Dystopian societies, postapocalyptic scenarios, enhanced (and deadly) abilities, and mysterious government branches make the future a not-so-safe place to be. Moderator Anna Jarzab (Tandem) joins authors Marie Lu (the Legend series), Gen Albin (Crewel), Brandon Sanderson (Steelheart), Margaret Stohl (Icons), Amy Tintera (Reboot), and Michael Johnston (Frozen) as they discuss what it takes to survive in the future worlds they've created. 4:00–5:00 p.m., Table AA09, Autograph Area Signing with the previous panel's authors. Brandon will sign ARCs of Steelheart (and probably any other books you bring). Notes: The "Firstborn"/"Defending Elysium" con exclusive hardcover will be on sale at Mysterious Galaxy's booth, #1119. Badali Jewelry will be at booth #532/534 with their beautiful assortment of jewelry based on Elantris, the Mistborn series, and more.

I'm leaving today for Comic-Con, and I'll be there Friday through Sunday. See you there! There will also be a Steelheart trailer reveal online on Sunday with MTV Geek; I'll add the link later. Date: July 19–21, 2013 Place: San Diego Convention Center Address: 111 West Harbor Drive San Diego, CA 92101 Schedule: Friday, July 19th 11:00–11:30 a.m., booth 1915 DC Entertainment Signing with John Van Fleet Signing exclusive Steelheart poster prints by John Van Fleet 2:30–3:30 p.m., Room 24ABC Epic Fantasy Panel Dragons, elves, and magic—epic fantasy transports us to another world. Colleen Lindsay and some of the genre's biggest authors discuss the worlds of their own creation and what fantasy has to say about our own world: Robin Hobb (Blood of Dragons), Raymond Feist (Magician's End), Django Wexler (The Thousand Names), Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn and The Wheel of Time series), Melissa de la Cruz (Frozen), Christopher Paolini (the Inheritance cycle), and Daniel Abraham (The Tyrant's Law). 4:00–5:00 p.m., Table AA09, Autograph Area Signing by authors from the Epic Fantasy Panel 5:00–6:00 p.m., booth 2707Tor Booth Signing Brandon will sign copies of The Way of Kings (and probably any other books you bring) Saturday, July 20th 1:00–2:00 p.m., booth 1515 Random House Booth Signing Signing ARCs of Steelheart This is a ticketed signing. Tickets can be picked up at the Random House booth 1515 on Saturday when the booth opens. The line will start forming 15 minutes before the signing. Sunday, July 21st 2:30–3:30 p.m., Room 23ABC Safety Not Guaranteed, Post-Apocalyptic Panel Dystopian societies, postapocalyptic scenarios, enhanced (and deadly) abilities, and mysterious government branches make the future a not-so-safe place to be. Moderator Anna Jarzab (Tandem) joins authors Marie Lu (the Legend series), Gen Albin (Crewel), Brandon Sanderson (Steelheart), Margaret Stohl (Icons), Amy Tintera (Reboot), and Michael Johnston (Frozen) as they discuss what it takes to survive in the future worlds they've created. 4:00–5:00 p.m., Table AA09, Autograph Area Signing with the previous panel's authors. Brandon will sign ARCs of Steelheart (and probably any other books you bring). Notes: The "Firstborn"/"Defending Elysium" con exclusive hardcover will be on sale at Mysterious Galaxy's booth, #1119. Badali Jewelry will be at booth #532/534 with their beautiful assortment of jewelry based on Elantris, the Mistborn series, and more. <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-san-diego-comic-con-international.html">Source</a>

Recently I got back from The Rithmatist tour, so it's time for me to post some pictures of some of the cool things I saw and some of the neat things you all gave me. I appreciate the time and thought put into the gifts. Take a look at this Steel Inquisitor sculpture Meghan Etzel-Hardman gave me. Wow! You can take a look at more of her work at her site. These awesome Mistborn costumes came from the hard work of Sarah Levinson, who came with her pals to Phoenix Comicon. From left to right: Karen as Tindwyl, Varouj as Sazed (I think I saw him dressed as Aang from Avatar one of the others days), me dressed as myself, Brian as Elend, and Sarah as Vin. The attention to detail on these costumes is amazing! Here's a beautiful bookmark I got from the Tattered Cover when I signed there, beads from New Orleans, A Game of Thrones card game, and a silver spoon and expertly knitted animals for Baby Melvin (not his real name). At one of my tour stops back east, I met fellow Tor author David Walton. He was kind enough to give me a copy of his latest book Quintessence, which I enjoyed reading during my flights. One reader, lmlnewburg, created some fan art for a story idea the Writing Excuses cast helped me brainstorm about psychic birds in the jungle, "Sixth of the Dusk." And as usual, the various assortment of Magic cards: Emily Grange knitted this koloss based on Ben McSweeney's illustrations. The detail on this guy is amazing! The event put on June 3rd by the King's English Bookshop and hosted by the Provo Library was a great success. With nearly 500 people in attendance, this was probably the second-largest non-release-party event that I've had for one of my books so far. At the signing, I received this beautiful glass ornament from the folks at Gomm Studios (check out their gallery of stained glass). There were some nice T-shirts for those working the event. They gave me one too. Take a look at that enormous gear decoration! Incidentally, the picture below was chosen by Publishers Weekly as their photo of the day on June 6th. In addition to the book store signings, Phoenix Comicon and BookExpo America were all part of the tour. It made for a crazy time, but as always, I want to thank you all for coming out to the signings and other events. Because of you, The Rithmatist debuted at #6 on the New York Times Bestseller list.

Recently I got back from The Rithmatist tour, so it's time for me to post some pictures of some of the cool things I saw and some of the neat things you all gave me. I appreciate the time and thought put into the gifts. Take a look at this Steel Inquisitor sculpture Meghan Etzel-Hardman gave me. Wow! You can take a look at more of her work at her site. These awesome Mistborn costumes came from the hard work of Sarah Levinson, who came with her pals to Phoenix Comicon. From left to right: Karen as Tindwyl, Varouj as Sazed (I think I saw him dressed as Aang from Avatar one of the others days), me dressed as myself, Brian as Elend, and Sarah as Vin. The attention to detail on these costumes is amazing! Here's a beautiful bookmark I got from the Tattered Cover when I signed there, beads from New Orleans, A Game of Thrones card game, and a silver spoon and expertly knitted animals for Baby Melvin (not his real name). At one of my tour stops back east, I met fellow Tor author David Walton. He was kind enough to give me a copy of his latest book Quintessence, which I enjoyed reading during my flights. One reader, lmlnewburg, created some fan art for a story idea the Writing Excuses cast helped me brainstorm about psychic birds in the jungle, "Sixth of the Dusk." And as usual, the various assortment of Magic cards: Emily Grange knitted this koloss based on Ben McSweeney's illustrations. The detail on this guy is amazing! The event put on June 3rd by the King's English Bookshop and hosted by the Provo Library was a great success. With nearly 500 people in attendance, this was probably the second-largest non-release-party event that I've had for one of my books so far. At the signing, I received this beautiful glass ornament from the folks at Gomm Studios (check out their gallery of stained glass). There were some nice T-shirts for those working the event. They gave me one too. Take a look at that enormous gear decoration! Incidentally, the picture below was chosen by Publishers Weekly as their photo of the day on June 6th. In addition to the book store signings, Phoenix Comicon and BookExpo America were all part of the tour. It made for a crazy time, but as always, I want to thank you all for coming out to the signings and other events. Because of you, The Rithmatist debuted at #6 on the New York Times Bestseller list. <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-rithmatist-tour-swag.html">Source</a>

The anthology THIS IS HOW YOU DIE, sequel to THE MACHINE OF DEATH, was released today. I don't have a story in it (I was considering submitting something, but I'm way too busy), but my friend and alpha reader Karen Stay Ahlstrom (who happens to be married to my assistant Peter Ahlstrom) does have a story in the volume. I was surprised when she submitted her story to our writing group, since she usually participates as a reader rather than a writer, but it was a great story and I think the anthology's editors (Ryan North, David Malki!, and Matthew Bennardo) made a good choice when they plucked it from the field of over 2000 submissions for the volume. What is THIS IS HOW YOU DIE, and what is the Machine of Death phenomenon? Longtime readers of my blog know I follow a lot of different webcomics. This particular phenomenon started with the following strip from DINOSAUR COMICS: Buy the trade paperback here: Amazon Barnes & Noble IndieBound Books-A-Million Powell's The Book Depository Buy the ebook here: Kindle (US)(CA)(UK) Nook Kobo iBookstore (US)(CA)(UK)(AU)(NZ)(IE) Google Play As I understand it, discussion got underway in the webcomics community about how cool the idea was: a machine that predicted your manner of death, but didn't give you enough details for that knowledge to be very useful to you. DINOSAUR COMICS' creator Ryan North and WONDERMARK creator David Malki! then got together with writer Matthew Bennardo and they edited the anthology THE MACHINE OF DEATH to explore the concept further. That book was indie-published and hit #1 on Amazon. THIS IS HOW YOU DIE is the sequel, and it was picked up by mainstream publisher Grand Central, an imprint of Hachette. I think the concept is a great one, and the first book is quite entertaining. If you've read the first volume and are wondering if you should read the second, you may have noticed that one issue with the first is that a number of the stories tread the same ground, making a few of them a bit repetitive. The second book breaks that mold—the editors specifically put out a call for stories that took the concept in new and interesting directions. I've read the second volume, and it certainly does that! A few of the stories do start out seeming like they're going to be retreads and then you realize that something is wildly different. That's the case with Karen's story, titled "Machine of Death." Each story in both anthologies has a title that is the cause of death read from the card the machine produces, such as "Natural Causes" and "Execution by Beheading," but as in the comic above, these are often misleading. And that's also the case with Karen's story. What if you haven't read the first volume? Don't worry. These are both concept anthologies, not a coherent narrative. Each story stands on its own. All you need to know is the initial concept of a machine that predicts how you die, and you're good to go. The stories can be read in any order or no order. If you haven't read the first volume, don't hesitate to read the second one now and decide later whether you want to read the first one. These are the cream of the crop (though the first volume also has some very good stories—and it's currently in the Humble Ebook Bundle II, which is a great deal). There's also this trailer for the book (or basically just the concept). It's a bit gory, if you want to avoid that kind of thing. This is How You Die: Stories of the Machine of Death - watch more funny videos THIS IS HOW YOU DIE – 90 page preview by David Malki

The anthology THIS IS HOW YOU DIE, sequel to THE MACHINE OF DEATH, was released today. I don't have a story in it (I was considering submitting something, but I'm way too busy), but my friend and alpha reader Karen Stay Ahlstrom (who happens to be married to my assistant Peter Ahlstrom) does have a story in the volume. I was surprised when she submitted her story to our writing group, since she usually participates as a reader rather than a writer, but it was a great story and I think the anthology's editors (Ryan North, David Malki!, and Matthew Bennardo) made a good choice when they plucked it from the field of over 2000 submissions for the volume. What is THIS IS HOW YOU DIE, and what is the Machine of Death phenomenon? Longtime readers of my blog know I follow a lot of different webcomics. This particular phenomenon started with the following strip from DINOSAUR COMICS: Buy the trade paperback here: Amazon Barnes & Noble IndieBound Books-A-Million Powell's The Book Depository Buy the ebook here: Kindle (US)(CA)(UK) Nook Kobo iBookstore (US)(CA)(UK)(AU)(NZ)(IE) Google Play As I understand it, discussion got underway in the webcomics community about how cool the idea was: a machine that predicted your manner of death, but didn't give you enough details for that knowledge to be very useful to you. DINOSAUR COMICS' creator Ryan North and WONDERMARK creator David Malki! then got together with writer Matthew Bennardo and they edited the anthology THE MACHINE OF DEATH to explore the concept further. That book was indie-published and hit #1 on Amazon. THIS IS HOW YOU DIE is the sequel, and it was picked up by mainstream publisher Grand Central, an imprint of Hachette. I think the concept is a great one, and the first book is quite entertaining. If you've read the first volume and are wondering if you should read the second, you may have noticed that one issue with the first is that a number of the stories tread the same ground, making a few of them a bit repetitive. The second book breaks that mold—the editors specifically put out a call for stories that took the concept in new and interesting directions. I've read the second volume, and it certainly does that! A few of the stories do start out seeming like they're going to be retreads and then you realize that something is wildly different. That's the case with Karen's story, titled "Machine of Death." Each story in both anthologies has a title that is the cause of death read from the card the machine produces, such as "Natural Causes" and "Execution by Beheading," but as in the comic above, these are often misleading. And that's also the case with Karen's story. What if you haven't read the first volume? Don't worry. These are both concept anthologies, not a coherent narrative. Each story stands on its own. All you need to know is the initial concept of a machine that predicts how you die, and you're good to go. The stories can be read in any order or no order. If you haven't read the first volume, don't hesitate to read the second one now and decide later whether you want to read the first one. These are the cream of the crop (though the first volume also has some very good stories—and it's currently in the Humble Ebook Bundle II, which is a great deal). There's also this trailer for the book (or basically just the concept). It's a bit gory, if you want to avoid that kind of thing. This is How You Die: Stories of the Machine of Death - watch more funny videos THIS IS HOW YOU DIE – 90 page preview by David Malki <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/07/this-is-how-you-die-stories-of.html">Source</a>

This week's Writing Excuses podcast episode is entitled "Your First Contract" and it's about exactly that! We're not lawyers so don't consider this to be legal advice, but as a writer you're a a small business owner who should be thinking about this sort of thing. The STEELHEART fan art contest ends tonight at midnight (probably Mountain Time). There are over 30 entries so far. Fantastic work, folks! I'm looking forward to seeing what else gets submitted before the deadline. Note: This contest is only for people in the US and Canada, but Fantasy Book Critic has a book giveaway that is open worldwide. They don't have the Mega Vault though. Tor.com's Way of Kings reread has reached chapters 19 and 20, which includes Dalinar's first highstorm vision of the book. Ta'veren Tees has a new shirt up for preorder, called the Golden Crane. It's available for men and women. The library comic UNSHELVED does a "book club" comic every week. The most recent one is on THE WELL OF ASCENSION. They also featured ALCATRAZ VERSUS THE EVIL LIBRARIANS a few years ago. Something very cool today is that Tor.com is celebrating their five-year anniversary by giving away an ebook of every piece of short fiction Tor.com has ever published, including my novelette "Firstborn." This ebook is available to anyone registered at Tor.com. All of the stories are still online for free, but the download is in convenient ebook format epub, mobi, and pdf. These stories are available from the ebook vendors for 99¢ each, so the following huge list for free (in alphabetical order by author) is a great deal: When We Were Heroes, by Daniel Abraham Olga, by C.T. Adams Foundation, by Ann Aguirre The Department of Alterations, by Gennifer Albin The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model, by Charlie Jane Anders Six Months, Three Days, by Charlie Jane Anders Intestate, by Charlie Jane Anders Legacy Lost, by Anna Banks The Witch of Duva, by Leigh Bardugo The Too-Clever Fox, by Leigh Bardugo The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder, by Elizabeth Bear The Horrid Glory of Its Wings, by Elizabeth Bear Faster Gun, by Elizabeth Bear The Final Now, by Gregory Benford Grace Immaculate, by Gregory Benford Backscatter, by Gregory Benford River of Souls, by Beth Bernobich A Window or a Small Box, by Jedediah Berry Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, by Michael Bishop Catch ‘Em in the Act, by Terry Bisson TVA Baby, by Terry Bisson The Cockroach Hat, by Terry Bisson Shall We Gather, by Alex Bledsoe Prophet, by Jennifer Bosworth The Ruined Queen of Harvest World, by Damien Broderick Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order, by Damien Broderick The Memory Coder, by Jessica Brody The Desecrator, by Steven Brust Brother. Prince. Snake., by Cecil Castellucci We Have Always Lived on Mars, by Cecil Castellucci Our Human, by Adam Troy Castro The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere, by John Chu Fare Thee Well, by Cathy Clamp The Commonplace Book, by Jacob Clifton What Makes a River, by Deborah Coates The Ghosts of Christmas, by Paul Cornell The Elephant in the Room, by Paul Cornell Day One, by Matthew Costello Am I Free To Go?, by Kathryn Cramer Tourists, by Sean Craven Eve of Sin City, by S.J. Day The Cage, by A.M. Dellamonica Among the Silvering Herd, by A.M. Dellamonica Wild Things, by A.M. Dellamonica Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away, by Cory Doctorow On 20468 Petercook, by Andy Duncan The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday, by G.D. Falksen Men Who Wish to Drown, by Elizabeth Fama The Iron Shirts, by Michael Flynn A Clean Sweep With All the Trimmings, by James Alan Gardner Lightbringers and Rainmakers, by Felix Gilman Shade, by Steven Gould Bugs in the Arroyo, by Steven Gould Steampunk Quartet, by Eileen Gunn Mother, Crone, Maiden, by Cat Hellisen The Ink Readers of Doi Saket, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Too Fond, by Leanna Renee Hieber At the Foot of the Lighthouse, by Erin Hoffman Ghost Hedgehog, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman A Spell of Vengeance, by D.B. Jackson The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles, by Kij Johnson Ponies, by Kij Johnson Crazy Me, by James Patrick Kelly First Flight, by Mary Robinette Kowal How to Make a Triffid, by Kelly Lagor A Water Matter, by Jay Lake The Speed of Time, by Jay Lake The Starship Mechanic, by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes Dress Your Marines in White, by Emmy Laybourne A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel, by Yoon Ha Lee Uncle Flower's Homecoming Waltz, by Marissa Lingen Earth Hour, by Ken MacLeod Farewell Performance, by Nick Mamatas Though Smoke Shall Hide the Sun, by Brit Mandelo The Finite Canvas, by Brit Mandelo The Hanging Game, by Helen Marshall The Courtship of the Queen, by Bruce McAllister Heads Will Roll, by Lish McBride Swift, Brutal Retaliation, by Meghan McCarron Preparations, by Mark Mills About Fairies, by Pat Murphy Fire Above, Fire Below, by Garth Nix Ruled, by Caragh M. O'Brien Hello, Moto, by Nnedi Okorafor Sacrifice of the First Sheason, by Peter Orullian The Great Defense of Layosah, by Peter Orullian The Battle of the Round, by Peter Orullian Sweetheart, by Abbi Mei Otis Ragnarok, by Paul Park Four Horsemen, at Their Leisure, by Richard Parks The Rotten Beast, by Mary E. Pearson Angel Season, by J.T. Petty Silver Linings, by Tim Pratt The Button Man and the Murder Tree, by Cherie Priest Clockwork Fairies, by Cat Rambo The Next Invasion, by Robert Reed Our Candidate, by Robert Reed Swingers, by Robert Reed The Cairn in Slater Woods, by Gina Rosati Jack of Coins, by Christopher Rowe Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory, by Rudy Rucker Good Night, Moon, by Rudy Rucker Loco, by Rudy Rucker Jacks and Queens at the Green Mill, by Marie Rutkoski The Film-Makers of Mars, by Geoff Ryman Firstborn, by Brandon Sanderson After the Coup, by John Scalzi The President's Brain is Missing, by John Scalzi Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue, by John Scalzi A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon, by Ken Scholes Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair, by Ken Scholes Two Stories, by Ken Scholes If Dragon's Mass Eve Be Cold and Clear, by Ken Scholes Rag and Bone, by Priya Sharma Do Not Touch, by Prudence Shen The Night Children: An Escape From Furnace Story, by Alexander Gordon Smith King of Marbury, by Andrew Smith Beauty Belongs to the Flowers, by Matthew Sanborn Smith Overtime, by Charles Stross Down on the Farm, by Charles Stross A Tall Tail, by Charles Stross Zeppelin City, by Michael Swanwick The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree, by Michael Swanwick The Dala Horse, by Michael Swanwick The Mongolian Wizard, by Michael Swanwick The Fire Gown, by Michael Swanwick Day of the Kraken, by Michael Swanwick Eros, Philia, Agape, by Rachel Swirsky A Memory of Wind, by Rachel Swirsky The Monster's Million Faces, by Rachel Swirsky Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia, by Rachel Swirsky Sing, by Karin Tidbeck What Doctor Gottlieb Saw, by Ian Tregillis Vilcabamba, by Harry Turtledove The Star and the Rockets, by Harry Turtledove The House That George Built, by Harry Turtledove We Haven't Got There Yet, by Harry Turtledove Shtetl Days, by Harry Turtledove Lee at the Alamo, by Harry Turtledove Running of the Bulls, by Harry Turtledove The City Quiet as Death, by Steven Utley The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While, by Catherynne M. Valente Terrain, by Genevieve Valentine Last Son of Tomorrow, by Greg van Eekhout Errata, by Jeff VanderMeer A Stroke of Dumb Luck, by Shiloh Walker Last Train to Jubilee Bay, by Kali Wallace Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction, by Jo Walton The Nostalgist, by Daniel H. Wilson Super Bass, by Kai Ashante Wilson The Palencar Project, by Gregory Benford, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., James Morrow, Michael Swanwick, and Gene Wolfe, Edited by David G. Hartwell

This week's Writing Excuses podcast episode is entitled "Your First Contract" and it's about exactly that! We're not lawyers so don't consider this to be legal advice, but as a writer you're a a small business owner who should be thinking about this sort of thing. The STEELHEART fan art contest ends tonight at midnight (probably Mountain Time). There are over 30 entries so far. Fantastic work, folks! I'm looking forward to seeing what else gets submitted before the deadline. Note: This contest is only for people in the US and Canada, but Fantasy Book Critic has a book giveaway that is open worldwide. They don't have the Mega Vault though. Tor.com's Way of Kings reread has reached chapters 19 and 20, which includes Dalinar's first highstorm vision of the book. Ta'veren Tees has a new shirt up for preorder, called the Golden Crane. It's available for men and women. The library comic UNSHELVED does a "book club" comic every week. The most recent one is on THE WELL OF ASCENSION. They also featured ALCATRAZ VERSUS THE EVIL LIBRARIANS a few years ago. Something very cool today is that Tor.com is celebrating their five-year anniversary by giving away an ebook of every piece of short fiction Tor.com has ever published, including my novelette "Firstborn." This ebook is available to anyone registered at Tor.com. All of the stories are still online for free, but the download is in convenient ebook format epub, mobi, and pdf. These stories are available from the ebook vendors for 99¢ each, so the following huge list for free (in alphabetical order by author) is a great deal: When We Were Heroes, by Daniel Abraham Olga, by C.T. Adams Foundation, by Ann Aguirre The Department of Alterations, by Gennifer Albin The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model, by Charlie Jane Anders Six Months, Three Days, by Charlie Jane Anders Intestate, by Charlie Jane Anders Legacy Lost, by Anna Banks The Witch of Duva, by Leigh Bardugo The Too-Clever Fox, by Leigh Bardugo The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder, by Elizabeth Bear The Horrid Glory of Its Wings, by Elizabeth Bear Faster Gun, by Elizabeth Bear The Final Now, by Gregory Benford Grace Immaculate, by Gregory Benford Backscatter, by Gregory Benford River of Souls, by Beth Bernobich A Window or a Small Box, by Jedediah Berry Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, by Michael Bishop Catch ‘Em in the Act, by Terry Bisson TVA Baby, by Terry Bisson The Cockroach Hat, by Terry Bisson Shall We Gather, by Alex Bledsoe Prophet, by Jennifer Bosworth The Ruined Queen of Harvest World, by Damien Broderick Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order, by Damien Broderick The Memory Coder, by Jessica Brody The Desecrator, by Steven Brust Brother. Prince. Snake., by Cecil Castellucci We Have Always Lived on Mars, by Cecil Castellucci Our Human, by Adam Troy Castro The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere, by John Chu Fare Thee Well, by Cathy Clamp The Commonplace Book, by Jacob Clifton What Makes a River, by Deborah Coates The Ghosts of Christmas, by Paul Cornell The Elephant in the Room, by Paul Cornell Day One, by Matthew Costello Am I Free To Go?, by Kathryn Cramer Tourists, by Sean Craven Eve of Sin City, by S.J. Day The Cage, by A.M. Dellamonica Among the Silvering Herd, by A.M. Dellamonica Wild Things, by A.M. Dellamonica Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away, by Cory Doctorow On 20468 Petercook, by Andy Duncan The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday, by G.D. Falksen Men Who Wish to Drown, by Elizabeth Fama The Iron Shirts, by Michael Flynn A Clean Sweep With All the Trimmings, by James Alan Gardner Lightbringers and Rainmakers, by Felix Gilman Shade, by Steven Gould Bugs in the Arroyo, by Steven Gould Steampunk Quartet, by Eileen Gunn Mother, Crone, Maiden, by Cat Hellisen The Ink Readers of Doi Saket, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Too Fond, by Leanna Renee Hieber At the Foot of the Lighthouse, by Erin Hoffman Ghost Hedgehog, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman A Spell of Vengeance, by D.B. Jackson The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles, by Kij Johnson Ponies, by Kij Johnson Crazy Me, by James Patrick Kelly First Flight, by Mary Robinette Kowal How to Make a Triffid, by Kelly Lagor A Water Matter, by Jay Lake The Speed of Time, by Jay Lake The Starship Mechanic, by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes Dress Your Marines in White, by Emmy Laybourne A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel, by Yoon Ha Lee Uncle Flower's Homecoming Waltz, by Marissa Lingen Earth Hour, by Ken MacLeod Farewell Performance, by Nick Mamatas Though Smoke Shall Hide the Sun, by Brit Mandelo The Finite Canvas, by Brit Mandelo The Hanging Game, by Helen Marshall The Courtship of the Queen, by Bruce McAllister Heads Will Roll, by Lish McBride Swift, Brutal Retaliation, by Meghan McCarron Preparations, by Mark Mills About Fairies, by Pat Murphy Fire Above, Fire Below, by Garth Nix Ruled, by Caragh M. O'Brien Hello, Moto, by Nnedi Okorafor Sacrifice of the First Sheason, by Peter Orullian The Great Defense of Layosah, by Peter Orullian The Battle of the Round, by Peter Orullian Sweetheart, by Abbi Mei Otis Ragnarok, by Paul Park Four Horsemen, at Their Leisure, by Richard Parks The Rotten Beast, by Mary E. Pearson Angel Season, by J.T. Petty Silver Linings, by Tim Pratt The Button Man and the Murder Tree, by Cherie Priest Clockwork Fairies, by Cat Rambo The Next Invasion, by Robert Reed Our Candidate, by Robert Reed Swingers, by Robert Reed The Cairn in Slater Woods, by Gina Rosati Jack of Coins, by Christopher Rowe Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory, by Rudy Rucker Good Night, Moon, by Rudy Rucker Loco, by Rudy Rucker Jacks and Queens at the Green Mill, by Marie Rutkoski The Film-Makers of Mars, by Geoff Ryman Firstborn, by Brandon Sanderson After the Coup, by John Scalzi The President's Brain is Missing, by John Scalzi Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue, by John Scalzi A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon, by Ken Scholes Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair, by Ken Scholes Two Stories, by Ken Scholes If Dragon's Mass Eve Be Cold and Clear, by Ken Scholes Rag and Bone, by Priya Sharma Do Not Touch, by Prudence Shen The Night Children: An Escape From Furnace Story, by Alexander Gordon Smith King of Marbury, by Andrew Smith Beauty Belongs to the Flowers, by Matthew Sanborn Smith Overtime, by Charles Stross Down on the Farm, by Charles Stross A Tall Tail, by Charles Stross Zeppelin City, by Michael Swanwick The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree, by Michael Swanwick The Dala Horse, by Michael Swanwick The Mongolian Wizard, by Michael Swanwick The Fire Gown, by Michael Swanwick Day of the Kraken, by Michael Swanwick Eros, Philia, Agape, by Rachel Swirsky A Memory of Wind, by Rachel Swirsky The Monster's Million Faces, by Rachel Swirsky Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia, by Rachel Swirsky Sing, by Karin Tidbeck What Doctor Gottlieb Saw, by Ian Tregillis Vilcabamba, by Harry Turtledove The Star and the Rockets, by Harry Turtledove The House That George Built, by Harry Turtledove We Haven't Got There Yet, by Harry Turtledove Shtetl Days, by Harry Turtledove Lee at the Alamo, by Harry Turtledove Running of the Bulls, by Harry Turtledove The City Quiet as Death, by Steven Utley The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While, by Catherynne M. Valente Terrain, by Genevieve Valentine Last Son of Tomorrow, by Greg van Eekhout Errata, by Jeff VanderMeer A Stroke of Dumb Luck, by Shiloh Walker Last Train to Jubilee Bay, by Kali Wallace Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction, by Jo Walton The Nostalgist, by Daniel H. Wilson Super Bass, by Kai Ashante Wilson The Palencar Project, by Gregory Benford, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., James Morrow, Michael Swanwick, and Gene Wolfe, Edited by David G. Hartwell <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/07/steelheart-fan-art-contest-ends-tonight.html">Source</a>

I'm in Connecticut this weekend for ConnectiCon. Below is my schedule! But also, the STEELHEART fanart contest (you can win books!) is still ongoing, with a deadline of this Friday. Details here, and the first entries from readers are up here. ConnectiCon, Hartford Place: ConnectiCon Address: Connecticut Convention Center 100 Columbus Boulevard Hartford, CT 06103 Phone: 860-249-6000 Type: Convention Schedule: July 12th–14th, 2013 Friday 1:00–2:00 p.m. Brandon Sanderson Autograph Session Signing with Brandon will be Bryce Moore, author of Vodnik Location: Online Media Guest Hall Friday 4:30–5:30 p.m. Brandon Sanderson Q&A Location: Panel 2 Friday 6:00–7:00 p.m. Last Dance with Mary Sue: How to Write Great Characters Location: Panel 7 Friday 9:00 p.m. Magic Draft with Brandon Location: Special Events 2, the capital room in the Marriott Please sign up ahead of time with the convention! Slots are limited. If there are any slots left on Friday, you can sign up at the 1:00 p.m. autograph session. Saturday 2:30–3:30 p.m. Worldbuilding in Fantasy & Scifi 201 Location: Panel 4 Saturday 5:00–6:00 p.m. Starting Out With a Bang Location: Panel 1 Sunday 1:00–2:00 p.m. Brandon Sanderson Autograph Session Location: Online Media Guest Hall Sunday 3:00–4:00 p.m. The Changing Face of Publishing Location: Panel 8 Notes: Brandon is a Guest of Honor ConnectiCon will have copies for sale of the con exclusive double "Firstborn"/"Defending Elysium" at the Literary Guest Table in the Online Media Guest Hall.

I'm in Connecticut this weekend for ConnectiCon. Below is my schedule! But also, the STEELHEART fanart contest (you can win books!) is still ongoing, with a deadline of this Friday. Details here, and the first entries from readers are up here. ConnectiCon, Hartford Place: ConnectiCon Address: Connecticut Convention Center 100 Columbus Boulevard Hartford, CT 06103 Phone: 860-249-6000 Type: Convention Schedule: July 12th–14th, 2013 Friday 1:00–2:00 p.m. Brandon Sanderson Autograph Session Signing with Brandon will be Bryce Moore, author of Vodnik Location: Online Media Guest Hall Friday 4:30–5:30 p.m. Brandon Sanderson Q&A Location: Panel 2 Friday 6:00–7:00 p.m. Last Dance with Mary Sue: How to Write Great Characters Location: Panel 7 Friday 9:00 p.m. Magic Draft with Brandon Location: Special Events 2, the capital room in the Marriott Please sign up ahead of time with the convention! Slots are limited. If there are any slots left on Friday, you can sign up at the 1:00 p.m. autograph session. Saturday 2:30–3:30 p.m. Worldbuilding in Fantasy & Scifi 201 Location: Panel 4 Saturday 5:00–6:00 p.m. Starting Out With a Bang Location: Panel 1 Sunday 1:00–2:00 p.m. Brandon Sanderson Autograph Session Location: Online Media Guest Hall Sunday 3:00–4:00 p.m. The Changing Face of Publishing Location: Panel 8 Notes: Brandon is a Guest of Honor ConnectiCon will have copies for sale of the con exclusive double "Firstborn"/"Defending Elysium" at the Literary Guest Table in the Online Media Guest Hall. <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-connecticon-schedule.html">Source</a>

Below I have info on a contest that's Steelheart-related (sorry, for the US and Canada only). But first some updates. This week's Writing Excuses podcast episode covers chapter breakdowns—what determines our chapter breaks? How do we handle POV shifts, scene/sequel balance, and other considerations when we're carving our stories into chapters? My assistant Peter has uploaded another Twitter posts archive, this one covering the past month. And Tor.com has put up another Ecology of Roshar post, about purple and orange blood. I'm pleased to announce that my novel The Alloy of Law (or L'Alliage de Justice in French) has won France's Imaginales Festival prize for best translated novel. I'm deeply honored. I feel overwhelmed by the respect I've been paid by the French science fiction and fantasy community. Having spent my teenage years studying and learning French, it's particularly gratifying to me to find such a welcome home among the community there. When I got back from the The Rithmatist tour, I found this waiting for me from Delacorte, the publisher of my upcoming YA novel Steelheart. This is the Random House Mega Vault. Random House has graciously donated three of them to be given away. And yes, that case is real metal. Not sure what type, but I suspect an Allomancer could make use of it. Opening the Mega Vault: Inside are copies of the first books in three new series releasing this fall. The Eye of Minds by James Dashner releases October 8th. Teardrop by Lauren Kate releases October 22nd. And of course, Steelheart, my post-apocalyptic young adult novel about normal people assassinating the powerful evil Epics who rule mankind. Steelheart releases September 24th. I'm sure the other two books are also appetizing reads. Though Dashner's book could use some salt. Want to get your hands on one of our three Mega Vaults? Here's what you do. Step 1: Read the prologue to Steelheart at this link. Step 2: Create some awesome fan art based on the prologue. Let's keep it to the visual arts. So, original illustrations, sketches, comic book panels, Photoshopped images, etc. Even videos, if you want to get that ambitious. Please keep the images tasteful and "safe for work." Step 3: Log in to the Brandon Sanderson fan forums at The 17th Shard. I know making an account somewhere can be a hassle, but other methods we considered for organizing this were just too complicated logistically. Step 4: Post your image in their Steelheart Mega Vault Contest gallery. To post, click the black "upload" button in the upper right-hand corner. Click "choose file" and upload as usual. Click "review and publish." Add a title and description if you want, then finish and publish it. The webmasters on the forums will approve all images before they are posted. Step 5: You'll have a week to submit—the deadline is July 15th. After the deadline, the webmasters and my assistants Peter and Isaac will narrow down the submissions to ten unannounced semifinalists. From those ten, I'll pick my three favorites, whose creators will each receive one of the Mega Vaults from Random House. Note that they can only ship to the United States and Canada, so please accept my apologies if you live outside these areas. I'm looking forward to seeing what you all come up with! Good luck!

Below I have info on a contest that's Steelheart-related (sorry, for the US and Canada only). But first some updates. This week's Writing Excuses podcast episode covers chapter breakdowns—what determines our chapter breaks? How do we handle POV shifts, scene/sequel balance, and other considerations when we're carving our stories into chapters? My assistant Peter has uploaded another Twitter posts archive, this one covering the past month. And Tor.com has put up another Ecology of Roshar post, about purple and orange blood. I'm pleased to announce that my novel The Alloy of Law (or L'Alliage de Justice in French) has won France's Imaginales Festival prize for best translated novel. I'm glad that my French readers enjoyed it! When I got back from the The Rithmatist tour, I found this waiting for me from Delacorte, the publisher of my upcoming YA novel Steelheart. This is the Random House Mega Vault. Random House has graciously donated three of them to be given away. And yes, that case is real metal. Not sure what type, but I suspect an Allomancer could make use of it. Opening the Mega Vault: Inside are copies of the first books in three new series releasing this fall. The Eye of Minds by James Dashner releases October 8th. Teardrop by Lauren Kate releases October 22nd. And of course, Steelheart, my post-apocalyptic young adult novel about normal people assassinating the powerful evil Epics who rule mankind. Steelheart releases September 24th. I'm sure the other two books are also appetizing reads. Though Dashner's book could use some salt. Want to get your hands on one of our three Mega Vaults? Here's what you do. Step 1: Read the prologue to Steelheart at this link. Step 2: Create some awesome fan art based on the prologue. Let's keep it to the visual arts. So, original illustrations, sketches, comic book panels, Photoshopped images, etc. Even videos, if you want to get that ambitious. Please keep the images tasteful and "safe for work." Step 3: Log in to the Brandon Sanderson fan forums at The 17th Shard. I know making an account somewhere can be a hassle, but other methods we considered for organizing this were just too complicated logistically. Step 4: Post your image in their Steelheart Mega Vault Contest gallery. To post, click the black "upload" button in the upper right-hand corner. Click "choose file" and upload as usual. Click "review and publish." Add a title and description if you want, then finish and publish it. The webmasters on the forums will approve all images before they are posted. Step 5: You'll have a week to submit—the deadline is July 15th. After the deadline, the webmasters and my assistants Peter and Isaac will narrow down the submissions to ten unannounced semifinalists. From those ten, I'll pick my three favorites, whose creators will each receive one of the Mega Vaults from Random House. Note that they can only ship to the United States and Canada, so please accept my apologies if you live outside these areas. I'm looking forward to seeing what you all come up with! Good luck! <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/07/random-house-mega-vault-contest-updates.html">Source</a>

In this week's Writing Excuses episode, Mary, Dan, Howard, and I talk about Space Opera. Give it a listen. My assistant Peter has uploaded another Twitter posts archive. There will be another one next week; we're a bit behind. As always, you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook (both have basically the same content) for up-to-the-minute updates. I'm a bit more likely to respond on Twitter since I find it more convenient, but there's a great community on Facebook discussing the posts and I sometimes respond there too. Tor.com's reread of THE WAY OF KINGS hit chapter 18, where Dalinar and Adolin race the highstorm, among other things. The post also includes this quote from Carl Engle-Laird at Tor: "After last week's reread some of you percipient readers noticed that Amazon.com has changed the release date for book 2 in the Stormlight Archive to January 21st. I've asked around the Tor offices, and can say that the book is currently scheduled for that date. Feel free to update your calendars, with the understanding that the release date could still change in the future." As to whether we'll hit that date (which despite the above, is not an officially announced final date), there's a good chance we will, but the date could still slip around a bit or even change drastically. I'm very close to done writing the first draft of WORDS OF RADIANCE; I've written the climax and the epilogue, but there are still a few scenes in the middle of the book that aren't finished yet. And then of course come revisions, which will take a couple of months.

In this week's Writing Excuses episode, Mary, Dan, Howard, and I talk about Space Opera. Give it a listen. My assistant Peter has uploaded another Twitter posts archive. There will be another one next week; we're a bit behind. As always, you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook (both have basically the same content) for up-to-the-minute updates. I'm a bit more likely to respond on Twitter since I find it more convenient, but there's a great community on Facebook discussing the posts and I sometimes respond there too. Tor.com's reread of THE WAY OF KINGS hit chapter 18, where Dalinar and Adolin race the highstorm, among other things. The post also includes this quote from Carl Engle-Laird at Tor: "After last week's reread some of you percipient readers noticed that Amazon.com has changed the release date for book 2 in the Stormlight Archive to January 21st. I've asked around the Tor offices, and can say that the book is currently scheduled for that date. Feel free to update your calendars, with the understanding that the release date could still change in the future." As to whether we'll hit that date (which despite the above, is not an officially announced final date), there's a good chance we will, but the date could still slip around a bit or even change drastically. I'm very close to done writing the first draft of WORDS OF RADIANCE; I've written the climax and the epilogue, but there are still a few scenes in the middle of the book that aren't finished yet. And then of course come revisions, which will take a couple of months. <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/07/updates-for-this-week.html">Source</a>

(A friend of mine wrote this, and I and a few other people in the community are posting her narrative to raise awareness. —Brandon) How to Report Sexual Harassment by Elise Mattheson We're geeks. We learn things and share, right? Well, this year at WisCon I learned firsthand how to report sexual harassment. In case you ever need or want to know, here's what I learned and how it went. Two editors I knew were throwing a book release party on Friday night at the convention. I was there, standing around with a drink talking about Babylon 5, the work of China Mieville, and Marxist theories of labor (like you do) when an editor from a different house joined the conversation briefly and decided to do the thing that I reported. A minute or two after he left, one of the hosts came over to check on me. I was lucky: my host was alert and aware. On hearing what had happened, he gave me the name of a mandated reporter at the company the harasser was representing at the convention. The mandated reporter was respectful and professional. Even though I knew them, reporting this stuff is scary, especially about someone who's been with a company for a long time, so I was really glad to be listened to. Since the incident happened during Memorial Day weekend, I was told Human Resources would follow up with me on Tuesday. There was most of a convention between then and Tuesday, and I didn't like the thought of more of this nonsense (there's a polite word for it!) happening, so I went and found a convention Safety staffer. He asked me right away whether I was okay and whether I wanted someone with me while we talked or would rather speak privately. A friend was nearby, a previous Guest of Honor at the convention, and I asked her to stay for the conversation. The Safety person asked whether I'd like to make a formal report. I told him, "I'd just like to tell you what happened informally, I guess, while I figure out what I want to do." It may seem odd to hesitate to make a formal report to a convention when one has just called somebody's employer and begun the process of formally reporting there, but that's how it was. I think I was a little bit in shock. (I kept shaking my head and thinking, "Dude, seriously??") So the Safety person closed his notebook and listened attentively. Partway through my account, I said, "Okay, open your notebook, because yeah, this should be official." Thus began the formal report to the convention. We listed what had happened, when and where, the names of other people who were there when it happened, and so forth. The Safety person told me he would be taking the report up to the next level, checked again to see whether I was okay, and then went. I had been nervous about doing it, even though the Safety person and the friend sitting with us were people I have known for years. Sitting there, I tried to imagine how nervous I would have been if I were twenty-some years old and at my first convention. What if I were just starting out and had been hoping to show a manuscript to that editor? Would I have thought this kind of behavior was business as usual? What if I were afraid that person would blacklist me if I didn't make nice and go along with it? If I had been less experienced, less surrounded by people I could call on for strength and encouragement, would I have been able to report it at all? Well, I actually know the answer to that one: I wouldn't have. I know this because I did not report it when it happened to me in my twenties. I didn't report it when it happened to me in my forties either. There are lots of reasons people might not report things, and I'm not going to tell someone they're wrong for choosing not to report. What I intend to do by writing this is to give some kind of road map to someone who is considering reporting. We're geeks, right? Learning something and sharing is what we do. So I reported it to the convention. Somewhere in there they asked, "Shall we use your name?" I thought for a millisecond and said, "Oh, hell yes." This is an important thing. A formal report has a name attached. More about this later. The Safety team kept checking in with me. The coordinators of the convention were promptly involved. Someone told me that since it was the first report, the editor would not be asked to leave the convention. I was surprised it was the first report, but hey, if it was and if that's the process, follow the process. They told me they had instructed him to keep away from me for the rest of the convention. I thanked them. Starting on Tuesday, the HR department of his company got in touch with me. They too were respectful and took the incident very seriously. Again I described what, where and when, and who had been present for the incident and aftermath. They asked me if I was making a formal report and wanted my name used. Again I said, "Hell, yes." Both HR and Legal were in touch with me over the following weeks. HR called and emailed enough times that my husband started calling them "your good friends at HR." They also followed through on checking with the other people, and did so with a promptness that was good to see. Although their behavior was professional and respectful, I was stunned when I found out that mine was the first formal report filed there as well. From various discussions in person and online, I knew for certain that I was not the only one to have reported inappropriate behavior by this person to his employer. It turned out that the previous reports had been made confidentially and not through HR and Legal. Therefore my report was the first one, because it was the first one that had ever been formally recorded. Corporations (and conventions with formal procedures) live and die by the written word. "Records, or it didn't happen" is how it works, at least as far as doing anything official about it. So here I was, and here we all were, with a situation where this had definitely happened before, but which we had to treat as if it were the first time—because for formal purposes, it was. I asked whether people who had originally made confidential reports could go ahead and file formal ones now. There was a bit of confusion around an erroneous answer by someone in another department, but then the person at Legal clearly said that "the past is past" is not an accurate summation of company policy, and that she (and all the other people listed in the company's publically-available code of conduct) would definitely accept formal reports regardless of whether the behavior took place last week or last year. If you choose to report, I hope this writing is useful to you. If you're new to the genre, please be assured that sexual harassment is NOT acceptable business-as-usual. I have had numerous editors tell me that reporting harassment will NOT get you blacklisted, that they WANT the bad apples reported and dealt with, and that this is very important to them, because this kind of thing is bad for everyone and is not okay. The thing is, though, that I'm fifty-two years old, familiar with the field and the world of conventions, moderately well known to many professionals in the field, and relatively well-liked. I've got a lot of social credit. And yet even I was nervous and a little in shock when faced with deciding whether or not to report what happened. Even I was thinking, "Oh, God, do I have to? What if this gets really ugly?" But every time I got that scared feeling in my guts and the sensation of having a target between my shoulder blades, I thought, "How much worse would this be if I were inexperienced, if I were new to the field, if I were a lot younger?" A thousand times worse. So I took a deep breath and squared my shoulders and said, "Hell, yes, use my name." And while it's scary to write this now, and while various people are worried that parts of the Internet may fall on my head, I'm going to share the knowledge—because I'm a geek, and that's what we do. So if you need to report this stuff, the following things may make it easier to do so. Not easy, because I don't think it's gotten anywhere near easy, but they'll probably help. NOTES: As soon as you can, make notes on the following: what happened when it happened and where who else was present (if anyone) any other possibly useful information And take notes as you go through the process of reporting: write down who you talk with in the organization to which you are reporting, and when. ALLIES: Line up your support team. When you report an incident of sexual harassment to a convention, it is fine to take a friend with you. A friend can keep you company while you make a report to a company by phone or in email. Some allies can help by hanging out with you at convention programming or parties or events, ready to be a buffer in case of unfortunate events—or by just reminding you to eat, if you're too stressed to remember. If you're in shock, please try to tell your allies this, and ask for help if you can. NAVIGATION: If there are procedures in place, what are they? Where do you start to make a report and how? (Finding out might be a job to outsource to allies.) Some companies have current codes of conduct posted on line with contact information for people to report harassment to. Jim Hines posted a list of contacts at various companies a while ago. Conventions should have a safety team listed in the program book. Know the difference between formal reports and informal reports. Ask what happens next with your report, and whether there will be a formal record of it, or whether it will result in a supervisor telling the person "Don't do that," but will be confidential and will not be counted formally. REPORTING FORMALLY: This is a particularly important point. Serial harassers can get any number of little talking-to's and still have a clear record, which means HR and Legal can't make any disciplinary action stick when formal reports do finally get made. This is the sort of thing that can get companies really bad reputations, and the ongoing behavior hurts everybody in the field. It is particularly poisonous if the inappropriate behavior is consistently directed toward people over whom the harasser has some kind of real or perceived power: an aspiring writer may hesitate to report an editor, for instance, due to fear of economic harm or reprisal. STAY SAFE: You get to choose what to do, because you're the only one who knows your situation and what risks you will and won't take. If not reporting is what you need to do, that's what you get to do, and if anybody gives you trouble about making that choice to stay safe, you can sic me on them. Me, I've had a bunch of conversations with my husband, and I've had a bunch of conversations with other people, and I hate the fact that I'm scared that there might be legal wrangling (from the person I'd name, not the convention or his employer) if I name names. But after all those conversations, I'm not going to. Instead, I'm writing the most important part, about how to report this, and make it work, which is so much bigger than one person's distasteful experience. During the incident, the person I reported said, "Gosh, you're lovely when you're angry." You know what? I've been getting prettier and prettier.

We're geeks. We learn things and share, right? Well, this year at WisCon I learned firsthand how to report sexual harassment. In case you ever need or want to know, here's what I learned and how it went. Two editors I knew were throwing a book release party on Friday night at the convention. I was there, standing around with a drink talking about Babylon 5, the work of China Mieville, and Marxist theories of labor (like you do) when an editor from a different house joined the conversation briefly and decided to do the thing that I reported. A minute or two after he left, one of the hosts came over to check on me. I was lucky: my host was alert and aware. On hearing what had happened, he gave me the name of a mandated reporter at the company the harasser was representing at the convention. The mandated reporter was respectful and professional. Even though I knew them, reporting this stuff is scary, especially about someone who's been with a company for a long time, so I was really glad to be listened to. Since the incident happened during Memorial Day weekend, I was told Human Resources would follow up with me on Tuesday. There was most of a convention between then and Tuesday, and I didn't like the thought of more of this nonsense (there's a polite word for it!) happening, so I went and found a convention Safety staffer. He asked me right away whether I was okay and whether I wanted someone with me while we talked or would rather speak privately. A friend was nearby, a previous Guest of Honor at the convention, and I asked her to stay for the conversation. The Safety person asked whether I'd like to make a formal report. I told him, "I'd just like to tell you what happened informally, I guess, while I figure out what I want to do." It may seem odd to hesitate to make a formal report to a convention when one has just called somebody's employer and begun the process of formally reporting there, but that's how it was. I think I was a little bit in shock. (I kept shaking my head and thinking, "Dude, seriously??") So the Safety person closed his notebook and listened attentively. Partway through my account, I said, "Okay, open your notebook, because yeah, this should be official." Thus began the formal report to the convention. We listed what had happened, when and where, the names of other people who were there when it happened, and so forth. The Safety person told me he would be taking the report up to the next level, checked again to see whether I was okay, and then went. I had been nervous about doing it, even though the Safety person and the friend sitting with us were people I have known for years. Sitting there, I tried to imagine how nervous I would have been if I were twenty-some years old and at my first convention. What if I were just starting out and had been hoping to show a manuscript to that editor? Would I have thought this kind of behavior was business as usual? What if I were afraid that person would blacklist me if I didn't make nice and go along with it? If I had been less experienced, less surrounded by people I could call on for strength and encouragement, would I have been able to report it at all? Well, I actually know the answer to that one: I wouldn't have. I know this because I did not report it when it happened to me in my twenties. I didn't report it when it happened to me in my forties either. There are lots of reasons people might not report things, and I'm not going to tell someone they're wrong for choosing not to report. What I intend to do by writing this is to give some kind of road map to someone who is considering reporting. We're geeks, right? Learning something and sharing is what we do. So I reported it to the convention. Somewhere in there they asked, "Shall we use your name?" I thought for a millisecond and said, "Oh, hell yes." This is an important thing. A formal report has a name attached. More about this later. The Safety team kept checking in with me. The coordinators of the convention were promptly involved. Someone told me that since it was the first report, the editor would not be asked to leave the convention. I was surprised it was the first report, but hey, if it was and if that's the process, follow the process. They told me they had instructed him to keep away from me for the rest of the convention. I thanked them. Starting on Tuesday, the HR department of his company got in touch with me. They too were respectful and took the incident very seriously. Again I described what, where and when, and who had been present for the incident and aftermath. They asked me if I was making a formal report and wanted my name used. Again I said, "Hell, yes." Both HR and Legal were in touch with me over the following weeks. HR called and emailed enough times that my husband started calling them "your good friends at HR." They also followed through on checking with the other people, and did so with a promptness that was good to see. Although their behavior was professional and respectful, I was stunned when I found out that mine was the first formal report filed there as well. From various discussions in person and online, I knew for certain that I was not the only one to have reported inappropriate behavior by this person to his employer. It turned out that the previous reports had been made confidentially and not through HR and Legal. Therefore my report was the first one, because it was the first one that had ever been formally recorded. Corporations (and conventions with formal procedures) live and die by the written word. "Records, or it didn't happen" is how it works, at least as far as doing anything official about it. So here I was, and here we all were, with a situation where this had definitely happened before, but which we had to treat as if it were the first time—because for formal purposes, it was. I asked whether people who had originally made confidential reports could go ahead and file formal ones now. There was a bit of confusion around an erroneous answer by someone in another department, but then the person at Legal clearly said that "the past is past" is not an accurate summation of company policy, and that she (and all the other people listed in the company's publically-available code of conduct) would definitely accept formal reports regardless of whether the behavior took place last week or last year. If you choose to report, I hope this writing is useful to you. If you're new to the genre, please be assured that sexual harassment is NOT acceptable business-as-usual. I have had numerous editors tell me that reporting harassment will NOT get you blacklisted, that they WANT the bad apples reported and dealt with, and that this is very important to them, because this kind of thing is bad for everyone and is not okay. The thing is, though, that I'm fifty-two years old, familiar with the field and the world of conventions, moderately well known to many professionals in the field, and relatively well-liked. I've got a lot of social credit. And yet even I was nervous and a little in shock when faced with deciding whether or not to report what happened. Even I was thinking, "Oh, God, do I have to? What if this gets really ugly?" But every time I got that scared feeling in my guts and the sensation of having a target between my shoulder blades, I thought, "How much worse would this be if I were inexperienced, if I were new to the field, if I were a lot younger?" A thousand times worse. So I took a deep breath and squared my shoulders and said, "Hell, yes, use my name." And while it's scary to write this now, and while various people are worried that parts of the Internet may fall on my head, I'm going to share the knowledge—because I'm a geek, and that's what we do. So if you need to report this stuff, the following things may make it easier to do so. Not easy, because I don't think it's gotten anywhere near easy, but they'll probably help. NOTES: As soon as you can, make notes on the following: what happened when it happened and where who else was present (if anyone) any other possibly useful information And take notes as you go through the process of reporting: write down who you talk with in the organization to which you are reporting, and when. ALLIES: Line up your support team. When you report an incident of sexual harassment to a convention, it is fine to take a friend with you. A friend can keep you company while you make a report to a company by phone or in email. Some allies can help by hanging out with you at convention programming or parties or events, ready to be a buffer in case of unfortunate events—or by just reminding you to eat, if you're too stressed to remember. If you're in shock, please try to tell your allies this, and ask for help if you can. NAVIGATION: If there are procedures in place, what are they? Where do you start to make a report and how? (Finding out might be a job to outsource to allies.) Some companies have current codes of conduct posted on line with contact information for people to report harassment to. Jim Hines posted a list of contacts at various companies a while ago. Conventions should have a safety team listed in the program book. Know the difference between formal reports and informal reports. Ask what happens next with your report, and whether there will be a formal record of it, or whether it will result in a supervisor telling the person "Don't do that," but will be confidential and will not be counted formally. REPORTING FORMALLY: This is a particularly important point. Serial harassers can get any number of little talking-to's and still have a clear record, which means HR and Legal can't make any disciplinary action stick when formal reports do finally get made. This is the sort of thing that can get companies really bad reputations, and the ongoing behavior hurts everybody in the field. It is particularly poisonous if the inappropriate behavior is consistently directed toward people over whom the harasser has some kind of real or perceived power: an aspiring writer may hesitate to report an editor, for instance, due to fear of economic harm or reprisal. STAY SAFE: You get to choose what to do, because you're the only one who knows your situation and what risks you will and won't take. If not reporting is what you need to do, that's what you get to do, and if anybody gives you trouble about making that choice to stay safe, you can sic me on them. Me, I've had a bunch of conversations with my husband, and I've had a bunch of conversations with other people, and I hate the fact that I'm scared that there might be legal wrangling (from the person I'd name, not the convention or his employer) if I name names. But after all those conversations, I'm not going to. Instead, I'm writing the most important part, about how to report this, and make it work, which is so much bigger than one person's distasteful experience. During the incident, the person I reported said, "Gosh, you're lovely when you're angry." You know what? I've been getting prettier and prettier. <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/06/guest-post-by-elise-matthesen-how-to.html">Source</a>

The ebook for UNFETTERED, which contains the A MEMORY OF LIGHT deleted sequence "River of Souls," has now been released. Details below. Tor.com's reread of THE WAY OF KINGS reached chapters 16 and 17, the first flashback with Laral and Tien, and Kaladin leading Bridge Four from the front. Also, Writing Excuses' latest podcast episode features us talking about middle grade fiction with E.J. Patten, author of RETURN TO EXILE and THE LEGEND THIEF. Buy the ebook here: Kindle (US)(CA)(UK) Nook Kobo Dragonmount (DRM-free here only) (Note: The iBookstore links below do not yet work, but should work sometime later this week.) iBookstore (US)(CA)(UK)(AU)(NZ)(IE) Grim Oak Press hardcover If you haven't heard about UNFETTERED before, here's a bit of an introduction. When I was on tour probably for THE ALLOY OF LAW, Shawn Speakman (webmaster for Terry Brooks and Naomi Novik, and who also runs the booksigning service The Signed Page), approached me about an anthology he was putting together (at the suggestion of Terry Brooks) to help defray Shawn's medical bills stemming from his 2011 diagnosis with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Shawn has been a friend and supporter to the careers of a lot of writers, so I was interested in helping out. The question was what to contribute to the anthology. The title Shawn gave it was UNFETTERED, because he didn't want to put any restrictions on whatever the authors wanted to contribute. When I was writing A MEMORY OF LIGHT, there was a sequence of viewpoints I was working on that were somewhat more daring than some other viewpoints I had done. The character I'm talking about is known as Bao in the book, and if you've read it you'll know who that is. I wanted to try to give some deeper backstory to Bao, but after I showed the scenes to Harriet, though we all liked them, we decided they they didn't fit in the book. Harriet felt that these scenes were distracting and derailing the narrative too close to what was to be the climax of the entire series, because of the new elements I was adding and fleshing out. So after some discussion, we decided that they should be cut. Though I saw the need for this, the fact that this was necessary left me feeling kind of sad. I felt the scenes were strong and added a lot to the character, giving a lot of extra motivation and poignancy to some of the things going on in A MEMORY OF LIGHT. So when the opportunity for Shawn's anthology came along, I began to think this would be the place for them. I approached Harriet, and she said that was a good idea. The result is "River of Souls," labeled as a Wheel of Time tale by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Since it's actually a sequence of deleted scenes, it's meant to be read as a companion to your read of A MEMORY OF LIGHT. It's not going to make a whole lot of sense if you haven't read at least the rest of the Wheel of Time, but it's a complete arc and I find it very exciting. I think you'll really like it, and I think this anthology is a good place for these scenes because they won't be distracting from the rest of the story. UNFETTERED also has stories from lots of other wonderful writers in it. I'm honored to have a story in there, to be alongside the names that appear in this anthology. It's great to see so many people pulling together to support someone in the community, and I wish Shawn the best. The anthology is available now in ebook form, and as a hardcover direct from Shawn's Grim Oak Press website. He'll be shipping books out over the next three weeks (he has a very small operation and it will take him time to get through so many orders). Also note that the long-sold-out special edition signed by every single author will take even more time to deliver. The signing pages are currently being shipped around the country from author to author for all of us to sign, and that will take a while. Once all of those are back with Shawn, the pages will be bound into the books, which will then be delivered. Here is the complete list of stories appearing in UNFETTERED: Imaginary Friends by Terry Brooks (a precursor to the Word/Void trilogy) How Old Holly Came To Be by Patrick Rothfuss (a Four Corners tale) River of Souls by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (a Wheel of Time tale) The Old Scale Game by Tad Williams Game of Chance by Carrie Vaughn Martyr of the Roses by Jacqueline Carey (a precursor to the Kushiel series) Dogs by Daniel Abraham Mudboy by Peter V. Brett (a Demon Cycle tale) The Sound of Broken Absolutes by Peter Orullian (a Vault of Heaven tale) The Coach With Big Teeth by R.A. Salvatore Keeper of Memory by Todd Lockwood (a Summer Dragon tale) Heaven in a Wild Flower by Blake Charlton The Chapel Perilous by Kevin Hearne (an Iron Druid tale) Select Mode by Mark Lawrence (a Broken Empire tale) All the Girls Love Michael Stein by David Anthony Durham Strange Rain by Jennifer Bosworth (a Struck epilogue tale) Nocturne by Robert V. S. Redick Unbowed by Eldon Thompson (a Legend of Asahiel tale) In Favour With Their Stars by Naomi Novik (a Temeraire tale) The Jester by Michael J. Sullivan (a Riyria Chronicles tale) The Duel by Lev Grossman (a Magicians tale) Walker and the Shade of Allanon by Terry Brooks (a Shannara tale) The Unfettered Knight by Shawn Speakman (an Annwn Cycle tale) If you missed it, here's the video where I explain my part in this anthology.

The ebook for UNFETTERED, which contains the A MEMORY OF LIGHT deleted sequence "River of Souls," has now been released. Details below. Tor.com's reread of THE WAY OF KINGS reached chapters 16 and 17, the first flashback with Laral and Tien, and Kaladin leading Bridge Four from the front. Also, Writing Excuses' latest podcast episode features us talking about middle grade fiction with E.J. Patten, author of RETURN TO EXILE and THE LEGEND THIEF. Buy the ebook here: Kindle (US)(CA)(UK) Nook Kobo Dragonmount (DRM-free here only) (Note: The iBookstore links below do not yet work, but should work sometime later this week.) iBookstore (US)(CA)(UK)(AU)(NZ)(IE) Grim Oak Press hardcover If you haven't heard about UNFETTERED before, here's a bit of an introduction. When I was on tour probably for THE ALLOY OF LAW, Shawn Speakman (webmaster for Terry Brooks and Naomi Novik, and who also runs the booksigning service The Signed Page), approached me about an anthology he was putting together (at the suggestion of Terry Brooks) to help defray Shawn's medical bills stemming from his 2011 diagnosis with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Shawn has been a friend and supporter to the careers of a lot of writers, so I was interested in helping out. The question was what to contribute to the anthology. The title Shawn gave it was UNFETTERED, because he didn't want to put any restrictions on whatever the authors wanted to contribute. When I was writing A MEMORY OF LIGHT, there was a sequence of viewpoints I was working on that were somewhat more daring than some other viewpoints I had done. The character I'm talking about is known as Bao in the book, and if you've read it you'll know who that is. I wanted to try to give some deeper backstory to Bao, but after I showed the scenes to Harriet, though we all liked them, we decided they they didn't fit in the book. Harriet felt that these scenes were distracting and derailing the narrative too close to what was to be the climax of the entire series, because of the new elements I was adding and fleshing out. So after some discussion, we decided that they should be cut. Though I saw the need for this, the fact that this was necessary left me feeling kind of sad. I felt the scenes were strong and added a lot to the character, giving a lot of extra motivation and poignancy to some of the things going on in A MEMORY OF LIGHT. So when the opportunity for Shawn's anthology came along, I began to think this would be the place for them. I approached Harriet, and she said that was a good idea. The result is "River of Souls," labeled as a Wheel of Time tale by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Since it's actually a sequence of deleted scenes, it's meant to be read as a companion to your read of A MEMORY OF LIGHT. It's not going to make a whole lot of sense if you haven't read at least the rest of the Wheel of Time, but it's a complete arc and I find it very exciting. I think you'll really like it, and I think this anthology is a good place for these scenes because they won't be distracting from the rest of the story. UNFETTERED also has stories from lots of other wonderful writers in it. I'm honored to have a story in there, to be alongside the names that appear in this anthology. It's great to see so many people pulling together to support someone in the community, and I wish Shawn the best. The anthology is available now in ebook form, and as a hardcover direct from Shawn's Grim Oak Press website. He'll be shipping books out over the next three weeks (he has a very small operation and it will take him time to get through so many orders). Also note that the long-sold-out special edition signed by every single author will take even more time to deliver. The signing pages are currently being shipped around the country from author to author for all of us to sign, and that will take a while. Once all of those are back with Shawn, the pages will be bound into the books, which will then be delivered. Here is the complete list of stories appearing in UNFETTERED: Imaginary Friends by Terry Brooks (a precursor to the Word/Void trilogy) How Old Holly Came To Be by Patrick Rothfuss (a Four Corners tale) River of Souls by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (a Wheel of Time tale) The Old Scale Game by Tad Williams Game of Chance by Carrie Vaughn Martyr of the Roses by Jacqueline Carey (a precursor to the Kushiel series) Dogs by Daniel Abraham Mudboy by Peter V. Brett (a Demon Cycle tale) The Sound of Broken Absolutes by Peter Orullian (a Vault of Heaven tale) The Coach With Big Teeth by R.A. Salvatore Keeper of Memory by Todd Lockwood (a Summer Dragon tale) Heaven in a Wild Flower by Blake Charlton The Chapel Perilous by Kevin Hearne (an Iron Druid tale) Select Mode by Mark Lawrence (a Broken Empire tale) All the Girls Love Michael Stein by David Anthony Durham Strange Rain by Jennifer Bosworth (a Struck epilogue tale) Nocturne by Robert V. S. Redick Unbowed by Eldon Thompson (a Legend of Asahiel tale) In Favour With Their Stars by Naomi Novik (a Temeraire tale) The Jester by Michael J. Sullivan (a Riyria Chronicles tale) The Duel by Lev Grossman (a Magicians tale) Walker and the Shade of Allanon by Terry Brooks (a Shannara tale) The Unfettered Knight by Shawn Speakman (an Annwn Cycle tale) If you missed it, where I explain my part in this anthology. <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/06/unfettered-with-memory-of-light-deleted.html">Source</a>

Hey there, everyone who was planning to come to my signing tomorrow—I just found out that it's going to start an hour earlier than previously announced. So if you can swing it, please try to come at 11:00 a.m. instead of noon. I've never done a Costco signing before so I'm not really sure what the logistics will be, but if the space is amenable enough for me to do a reading and Q&A, that will happen at the beginning. If you come later you can still get your books signed, so don't worry about that. As always, check out my other events on my events page. Signing Details: Date: Saturday, June 22nd, 2013 Time: 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Place: Costco Address: 273 E 1000 N Spanish Fork, UT Phone: (801) 504-9530 Note: Costco members ONLY!

Hey there, everyone who was planning to come to my signing tomorrow—I just found out that it's going to start an hour earlier than previously announced. So if you can swing it, please try to come at 11:00 a.m. instead of noon. I've never done a Costco signing before so I'm not really sure what the logistics will be, but if the space is amenable enough for me to do a reading and Q&A, that will happen at the beginning. If you come later you can still get your books signed, so don't worry about that. As always, check out my other events on my events page. Signing Details: Date: Saturday, June 22nd, 2013 Time: 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Place: Costco Address: 273 E 1000 N Spanish Fork, UT Phone: (801) 504-9530 Note: Costco members ONLY! <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/06/saturday-spanish-fork-costco-signing.html">Source</a>

This week the Writing Excuses podcast has a "project in depth" episode on Mary Robinette Kowal's novella "Kiss Me Twice," which was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula last year. Give it a listen, though you'll probably want to read the novella first. Tor.com had a couple of The Way of Kings articles last week. First was one on the ecology of Roshar, and then their reread reached chapter fifteeen. Every June, publishers like to highlight audiobooks. This year they're doing it with the hashtag #ListenLit on Twitter. All of my books are now out in audio editions. There are two different kinds of audiobooks of mine that have come out: standard unabridged readings (from Macmillan Audio, Recorded Books, and Audible) and full-cast dramatizations (from GraphicAudio). Which type each book has depends on how contracts were negotiated. Recorded Books has unabridged readings of Elantris, Warbreaker, The Emperor's Soul, and all four Alcatraz books. GraphicAudio has full-cast dramatizations of Elantris and Warbreaker. They've also recently acquired rights to give the same treatment to Mistborn trilogy but I don't know when those will be coming out. Macmillan Audio has unabridged readings of Mistborn 1, 2, 3 and The Alloy of Law; The Way of Kings; and The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight, and A Memory of Light. They will also put out Words of Radiance, the sequel to The Way of Kings, with Michael Kramer and Kate Reading narrating, the same time the hardcover and ebook are released. But of course I have to finish writing the book first. (The first draft is nearing completion; I'm writing the epilogue now. Then it will go into revisions for a few months.) Amazon has most of the above for sale. Audible has everything except for the GraphicAudio editions, and they are also the publisher of the audiobook for Legion. iTunes also has many of the books. Tor.com has a free unabridged reading of the novelette "Firstborn" (see the "Listen" link in the left column).

This week the Writing Excuses podcast has a "project in depth" episode on Mary Robinette Kowal's novella "Kiss Me Twice," which was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula last year. Give it a listen, though you'll probably want to read the novella first. Tor.com had a couple of The Way of Kings articles last week. First was one on the ecology of Roshar, and then their reread reached chapter fifteeen. Every June, publishers like to highlight audiobooks. This year they're doing it with the hashtag #ListenLit on Twitter. All of my books are now out in audio editions. There are two different kinds of audiobooks of mine that have come out: standard unabridged readings (from Macmillan Audio, Recorded Books, and Audible) and full-cast dramatizations (from GraphicAudio). Which type each book has depends on how contracts were negotiated. Recorded Books has unabridged readings of Elantris, Warbreaker, The Emperor's Soul, and all four Alcatraz books. GraphicAudio has full-cast dramatizations of Elantris and Warbreaker. They've also recently acquired rights to give the same treatment to Mistborn trilogy but I don't know when those will be coming out. Macmillan Audio has unabridged readings of Mistborn 1, 2, 3 and The Alloy of Law; The Way of Kings; and The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight, and A Memory of Light. They will also put out Words of Radiance, the sequel to The Way of Kings, with Michael Kramer and Kate Reading narrating, the same time the hardcover and ebook are released. But of course I have to finish writing the book first. (The first draft is nearing completion; I'm writing the epilogue now. Then it will go into revisions for a few months.) Amazon has most of the above for sale. Audible has everything except for the GraphicAudio editions, and they are also the publisher of the audiobook for Legion. iTunes also has many of the books. Tor.com has a free unabridged reading of the novelette "Firstborn" (see the "Listen" link in the left column). <a href="http://mistborn.blogspot.com/2013/06/june-is-audiobook-month-updates.html">Source</a>