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I was really worried about Armadius for awhile, I thought that this was going to turn ugly! I detest religious debate on forum boards that are not about religion.

Armadius, I agree with Brandon, your responses are NOT those of a sixteen year old. Very well written.

On the fantasybookspot.com forums, Brandon made this comment:


"I refuse to give any money to Goodkind in any way, through any of his novels, because I don't like the way he treats his fans. "

I want more info (the gritty dirt). What does he do to his fans?

My impression of him is that he is haughty and pompous (I have not read any of his books though). Am I wrong?

I loved keynote for a long time; too bad it is not supported anymore 

I made the move to a piece of software that does about everything you could want for a tree outliner - it is called TexNotes. You can add annotations to the page you are working on, links to other notes, bookmarks, anchors, and more. It has all the text formating options of Word, gives you word-count and other document information, and so many other things. When you export your project, it creates clean (without annotaions, highlights, embedded-notes) .rtf documents. I am able to write entire books in this software from beginning to end.

I have been playing with Mindjet recently for mindmapping my ideas. I like it so far.

Brandon wanted our opinions, well the short answer is that I detest this Mistborn paperback cover! I'm sorry, but covers DO sell books to the naif consumer. Every so often I like to randomly purchase a book from an author that I know nothing about. The criteria I use is:

1) Book cover (I know don't judge a book by it's cover).
2) I read the first page.
3) I open it to the middle of the book and read another page.

If the cover impresses me AND I like the prose and stye of the writer, then a purchase is made.

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I find the Mistborn Hardcover resplendent. My wife loves it, my baby girl stares at it everyday - wide-eyed and fascinated. The Mistborn 2 HB is wonderful as well.

But...

Things I hate about the paperback cover:

1) Vin is flat-out ugly. Very peculiar angles and dimensions.
2) Crows? Cliche. "Oh nooo, it the crows!!!"
3) Reaper = cliche x 2. What chapter was the grim reaper in again?
4) The lines (in my opinion) should be long waves, not jagged lines like lightning.

I don't know if Tor know this, but Mistborn is NOTHING like Harry Potter in style. Lets not disguise it with a poor knock-off HP cover. It will only misrepresent and depreciate Brandon's hard work.

Well, that's my 2 & 1/2 cents worth.

Shuez

I just told him tonight at his Seattle reading that I posted in this thread...he did not seem mortified 

Hello Brandon,

Just finished Elantris and was profoundly delighted by your book. As a writer myself, I strongly agree with the sentiments about using a 'guttural' or 'masculine' name for Wryn's capital.

Here is my 2 cents worth:

Valagoth

Vallanok

Valenkell or Valtenkell

Valnordak

Rostgatha, Rugatha, Vrogatha

That is all for now. I hope to see you at the Seattle signing tomorrow.

Sincerely,

R.S.D