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Hello, everyone.  I'm a 35 year old single man from the midwest, although I have spent most of the last decade in the Boston area.  I am trying to finish a social science PhD this year, and writing fiction in my spare time helps keep me sane.

I write mostly sword and sorcery (as opposed to high or epic fantasy), but I've also done space opera, horror, comedy, and plain old contemporary fiction.   Mostly I stick to short stories and novelas (and short plays), but I've started a couple of novels, including one I have been trying to finish off and on for the past few years. 

As an undergrad, I published one of my short stories in a literary magazine, and lately I've been thinking about trying to get back into that game.  I'm hoping that this group can help me both polish my work and figure out the nuts and bolts of getting published.

Thanks, this is just what I was looking for this morning!

Eric, could you update your bibliography-- it's in the introduction and stops at 2006.

They don't update more than once or twice a week, but I love Hark, A Vagrant!  and Nedroid Picture Diary.

Thanks, guys.  I feel like this is the sort of thing that he ought to keep updated on his website.  I mean, he has those progress bars and that space for Current and Upcoming Releases, but it seems like they don't get updated very often.  I shouldn't complain, because he is so much better about this than other authors, but it seems like this would not be a lot of extra work to update, say, quarterly.

Wait, there's a Mistborn RPG being released?

Hey, I was at Brandon's website this morning and under "Upcoming and Current Releases" he has a list of his four most recently published books, but nothing on future books.   He does show a progress bar for two unpublished books:  The Alloy of Law, and A Memory of Light.  But I know there's more in the pipeline.   

He talked about this several months ago in a blog post, here: http://www.brandonsanderson.com/blog/925/Another-Long-and-Rambling-Post-on-Future-Books.  And there's some speculation about forthcoming books on a fan wiki, here: http://www.17thshard.com/wiki/Unpublished_works#Forthcoming_Novels. 
But there's lots more unreleased books.  For example, see this big list, here: http://www.timewastersguide.com/forum/index.php?topic=7701.0.  Anyone know what's actually coming out in the next few years?

Since I couldn't find a publication schedule, I thought I would try to make one myself.  So here is my best attempt:

 2011
  Mistborn:  The Alloy of Law

 2012
  Wheel of Time: A Memory of Light
  The Rithmatist (aka Scribbler)

 2013
  Stormlight 2

LATER?
  Alcatraz 5
  Elantris 2
  Warbreaker: Nightblood
  Stormlight 3+
  a sequel trilogy to Mistborn
  Dark One (YA dark fantasy)
  Steelheart (Superhero apocalypse)
  The King's Necromancer
  The Silence Divine (Shardworld novel, standalone)
  White Sand (Shardworld trilogy)
  The Liar of Partinel (Shardworld novel, one of two)
  Dragonsteel  (Major Shardworld epic)

As you can see, this is pretty sketchy.  If you have better information, please drop some knowledge on me.  HELP A BROTHER OUT.  Thanks!

Prologue, page 15 (which, oddly, is the first page): "...he could see the three guards open his large duffel and riffle [sic] through his possessions." 

Should be "rifle."