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Local Authors => Brandon Sanderson => Topic started by: cvgurau on November 11, 2006, 08:56:53 AM
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So . . . when's book 2 coming out? :-/
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Try to get information from other threads (http://www.timewastersguide.com/boards/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=brandon;action=display;num=1160878484)instead of starting new ones with short/small subjects. It clutters up the forum.
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In his defense, that thread doesn't state in the title that it's book two. I guess you could probably guess that, but there's no absolutely obvious indication there.
Book two is out in July. Sample chapters will be up on my website sometime in the spring. Until then, check our Warbreaker.
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Try to get information from other threads (http://www.timewastersguide.com/boards/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=brandon;action=display;num=1160878484)instead of starting new ones with short/small subjects. It clutters up the forum.
My most humble apologies. :-[
In his defense, that thread doesn't state in the title that it's book two. I guess you could probably guess that, but there's no absolutely obvious indication there.
Book two is out in July. Sample chapters will be up on my website sometime in the spring. Until then, check our Warbreaker.
I've been defended by the Overlord.
How cool is that?
*fanboy glee*
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*ahem.
Anyway, I wait with bated breath for Book 2. I can't wait to meet Vin and her friends again. :)
The cover art looks fantastic. 8)
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Having read the linked thread, I wonder: how does one become an AR? Is there an application process? Forms I have to fill out? Will you do an extensive criminal check, because that might cause some problems. ;)
Or am I hopelessly out of luck? :-/
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Uhm, Brandon? I know you have the July release date... but what day exactly?
Jk Rowling is slated for 07.07.07 to end the Potter series. :/ That could be really bad for your book's sales if they come out very close together. Just a head's up! The next HP movie is also due out 07.13.07. It's a busy month for Rowling...
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I don't think Tor has a firm date yet and I doubt even more that EUOL has much say as to when his books come out, if that were the case MB2 would be out in like April.
The thing I'm wondering is if HP would hurt the sales of MB2? The people that tend to by books like MB right when they come out are the type that buy several books a month so if they come out around a week apart you may not notice much of a loss for MB2. Be interesting to know if any of the people in the know, well...know about this?
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That's an interesting thought. Casual fantasy readers won't be buying many more books than HP that week or the next couple. But then they'll be back. So, i'm guessing that *if* they were released that close, it might lose sales for the first week or so, but then come back.
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But, also, a lot of bookstores have things where they have big parties and then release the book at Midnight. I, myself, normally buy 2 or 3 books while I wait. Standing in a bookstore with nothing to read would be a drag. :'( So, if MB2 comes out before then, that's probably when I'd get it.
I know several other people who do the same thing, but then most of my friends still have their parents paying for everything. Hmm.... Anyway, just giving an outsider's perspective.
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If it's closely related (such as a dragon book during the big hype for the movie for Eragon), then the other books can kinda ride on the PR bandwagon. People are thinking about dragons, their kids are wanting more dragon books, so here you go, another dragon book!
I don't think Mistborn is related enough to Harry Potter to be affected one way or the other, except in the ways you guys have already talked about. It could be that people already in the bookstore to get HP could say, hmm, how about this book too? Or it could be that they only have $30 to spend on a book and choose HP over MBII. I suppose it could go either way. (I really don't know enough about the sales end of things to really say definitively.)
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Hmkay, well it was a thought. I'm hoping for MB2 to have a few weeks cushion around HP7.
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So, no joy on the AR thing, huh?
I'm SOL, aren't I? :-/
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How do you become an AR for EUOL? There's no forms or stuff, long time contributers to the forum and Brandon's books might be offered to become an AR. Most of the people on that list are long time friends of his.
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Yeah, I thought as much. :-/
Honestly, I don't really think I would have anything worthwhile to contribute (except perhaps to point out a misplaced comma), I only wanted an advanced copy of MB2. ;D