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I had somehow gone without realizing that the last two existed until recently. Thick as Thieves is currently somewhere in the USPS system with everyone's delayed Christmas gifts, and I have Return of the Thief sitting on my end table patiently waiting to be read @ginger_reckoning he only has a couple short projects available for public listening at the moment. https://m.soundcloud.com/mayhemopus He is currently working on a longer original project involving pirates and piratey magic, but it's still in the early writing stages.

Doomslug for the win

@Valerie I just saw your post over on the intro page and was going to say hi there, but it looks like your posting here saved me a few minutes

Hello, everyone! I'm Christen. I went to school for mechanical engineering, and while I almost squeezed in enough extra classes for an English minor, it put a bit of a hold on my writing until a couple years ago. I started working on some writing projects on and off then, and buckled down a little more seriously on an epic fantasy project last year. My husband is working on writing and producing some audio drama projects as well, and at some point, I'm hoping to officially team up with him to do some short audio drama pieces of side stories from my world. I've always preferred longer writing projects to short stories, but there are some ideas in my head that I think world work well as short audio dramas. Both fortunately and unfortunately, some of the stupidity of 2020 means that I now have a whole lot more time for writing, so I ended up making it a goal to finish the first draft of book 1 of that project as part of NaNoWriMo. It certainly has a lot of work to go (the wordcount is way too high. There are a number of magic system and worldbuilding details that need to be introduced earlier on. For starters), but it's pretty cool to have it at the point where recruiting other people to look at it is going to be more useful than having me sit here and stare blindly at it for the foreseeable future. Some of my favorite authors are Megan Whalen Turner, Lois McMaster Bujold's World of Five Gods books, Sherwood Smith, Terry Pratchett, Sanderson (of course), and for something completely different, I recently read Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow and really enjoyed it, even though I almost always usually stick within the fantasy genre (it even took me a long time to branch over to sci-fi for Skyward, though I'm glad I did, because it's probably one of my favorite Sanderson books) Looking forward to getting some input from readers here, and to reading some things that other people are working on!

I love Stormlight a lot, but there are certain aspects of each of the books that make it hard to put one at the top of my favorites for the Cosmere list. I will say that what I've read of RoW so far has it headed toward being my favorite of the series (probably because of the Navani focus in Part 1) , but there is far too much of it left to say that with any certainty. There's also a good likelihood that it having been so long since I've read Warbreaker means that my brain has glossed over the things that it didn't like as much, and that a re-read will just complicate my Cosmere favorites ranking. But we shall see

I'm definitely due for a re-read on it, but I think I'd have to say Warbreaker. I'd read it a few years ago before venturing into Stormlight Archives, and after picking up on a few of the connections there (though I know I missed a bunch), I'm looking forward to going back to it with those in mind. Just need to finish RoW first.

Thanks for the welcomes and well-wishes At this point, all of my significant projects have been high fantasy. The ones I've finished have leaned more toward a YA audience, but none of those are likely to see the light of day without starting them over from scratch. My current big project is an epic fantasy that's roughly outlined as a trilogy, with the first draft of book one finished, a very rough outline of book two sketched out, and a relatively thorough book three outline written. It probably still walks the YA line, but I think the scale I have in mind for it is larger than is standard for YA, so I'm hoping that my current alpha readers will have some feedback on how it currently comes across and whether it would benefit from being shoved more firmly in one direction or the other.

Hi, everyone! I've spent a little time wandering around the forum in the past, but never got around to getting involved with the discussion until now. I've read almost all of the Cosmere books, with the exception of the novellas and RoW (I read the preview chapters, but it coming out in the middle of NaNoWriMo means that I didn't get to start it on release day like I would have liked ). I love the Cosmere for the sheer size and complexity of it, but I'd have to say that the Skyward books are my favorites of what Sanderson has written. I will probably be spending most of my time here down in the Reading Excuses / Writing Excuses sections (at least until I get through RoW and inevitably need to look up some Cosmere reference that I've forgotten). I'm looking forward to getting involved with some of the conversations there. I'll also be looking at recruiting some readers, now that I've gotten a draft of one of my projects to where I need some input from people outside my immediate social circle. This seemed like a great place to do that, since I can't think of any other places where I might find a larger gathering of people with similar reading tastes than here. It's great to officially be here! And if anyone should happen to be interested in doing some alpha reading over their holiday break, get in touch -CVal