31
Brandon Sanderson / Re: Brandon Book List
« on: July 13, 2010, 06:29:04 PM »
seriously though, where would I be able to find those two books? Aether and White Sand? My curiosity is overwhelming
"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
Column by Chaos2651
Discuss it in our forums.
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
I'm just thanking the Forgotten Gods that Stephanie Meyer isn't included with her glampires. If that signing were being held in my backyard, even with Brandon there, I would not attend.
Good luck with that, guys. However, I do have hope that over the long run Brandon will sell more books. He's not an overnight success—but he keeps getting more and more popular, as well as writing more and more.
I hate to be the one to say this guys, because I'm a HUGE Sanderson fan. The guys done tons to help me out with trying to get into writing and he's just awesome. He's my favorite writer currently alive and writing.
But I just don't think you guys understand how many books Paolini sells.
He'd sold 2.5 million copies of Eragon... BEFORE the movie came out. I have no idea how many he's sold now. Double? Triple? Ten times as many?
To put it into perspective The Gathering Storm started with a print run of 1 million. I don't know if its gone to a 2nd printing yet. I can't imagine that any of Brandon's other books have had that many copies printed. I doubt Way of Kings will have that many printed. I think Brandon once told us that the Wheel of time sold like over 1000% more than any other Tor series (Which I'm assuming included his).
I hope I'm not doing his a disservice by saying that, but I would think that all of his sales together do not equal even the sales of Eragon, to say nothing of Eldest and the other books in the series.