![]() When I was first trying to break in, I wrote so many first novels,” he says. “It’s one of the big touchstone moments from when I built the outline all those years ago. Writing the climactic sequence of Rhythm of War was the culmination of decades of planning and hoping. Yet, for Sanderson, the joy is still in the work-an innate gratitude formed in equal parts from his Mormon faith and his slow start in the publishing world. His books have been published in 35 languages and counting. He has since hit the New York Times bestseller list 15 times, and DMG Entertainment has optioned the rights to the entire Cosmere universe featured in his fantasy novels. Over the next few years, Tor published the highly lauded Mistborn trilogy and The Way of Kings, which would launch Sanderson’s ship in earnest. He was rewarded in 2003, when Moshe Feder, an editor at Tor, acquired his novel Elantris 18 months after it was first submitted. Despite a mounting stack of rejection letters (mostly telling him to be grittier, he says, “like George R.R. He took a job as a night clerk at a hotel because he could write while on shift. We’re delving into the motivations behind executing a person they’d signed a treaty with that very night.”īefore becoming the Brandon Sanderson most of the fantasy world knows today, the prolific author wrote 13 manuscripts without selling a single book. Rhythm of War focuses on the two sisters, Eshonai and Venli, who ordered the hit. “There are five characters who are deeply affected by this king’s assassination: his brother, who has to decide whether to take the throne a young man who’s conscripted to go and exact revenge the assassins themselves. It stamps each book with an identity,” he explains. “Each book is like a trilogy in the way it’s structured, and focuses deeply on one character, with a full flashback sequence of that character’s past running parallel to the main narrative. The series will, when complete, span 10 entries, split into two five-book arcs.
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