![]() ![]() But publishers kept telling him that his epic fantasies were too long, that he should try being darker or “more like George RR Martin” (it was the late 90s, and A Song of Ice and Fire was topping bestseller charts). The books were written over a decade while Sanderson was working as a night clerk at a hotel – a job chosen specifically because as long as he stayed awake, his bosses didn’t mind if he wrote between midnight and 5am. ![]() Most writers have novels that never see the light of day. ![]() All this for a book that was just one of 13 Sanderson wrote before he’d even landed a publishing deal. With 15 days still to go, he’s raised more than $5.6m. In less than 10 minutes, it became the most-funded publishing project of all time when it topped $1m. The fantasy author initially set out to raise $250,000 (£198,500) to release a 10th anniversary, leather-bound edition of his doorstopper novel, The Way of Kings. W atching the numbers tick up on Brandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter is a remarkable way to pass the time. ![]()
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