RL: Well, at least with your teaching you are helping others tell their stories as well. It’s like I have to squeeze it between the cracks sometimes, the thing that actually is my job. I became a storyteller because I love doing the storytelling part. But what it means is that I just can’t work as much as I used to. These things are all important, and I enjoy them. Now that I’m full-time as a writer, I travel and tour and do interviews. I had a good six hours of writing time every day despite being a full-time student and having a full-time job. I had more time to write when I had a full-time job than I do now, because then I was working a graveyard shift at a hotel, and I could write overnight. I think the biggest surprise is how little time I would have to actually write, after I became a writer. I’m surprised to see it happening for my books, though I’m not at all surprised that they can do it. So it was more of a mark of honor to me that they actually doing this for me. But I knew that was going to happen, because I was a Wheel of Time fan and I knew what the fans did for the Wheel of Time.
Bigger experts than I thought they would become, and faster. What’s been the most surprising or interesting thing you’ve learned along the way? I’m going to exclude anything pertaining to the Wheel of Time.īS: One of the most interesting things was how fast the fans became experts in the world. You’ve had quite a journey since then you’ve published 15 novels and half a dozen novellas. RL: Anyway, your first published book Elantris came out 10 years ago next month. So there you go, Brandon swore from the pulpit in Mormon church when he was a kid. So I got up in front of all the little primary kids and I said, “We don’t say ‘oh shit’ because it’s a bad word.” And then I proceeded to talk about all the bad words I knew–to the other kids.
But I decided I would talk about these words, with nobody knowing, even my parents. Your talk is like 30 seconds when you’re a 5-year-old, and you’re just supposed to get up and say, “I like Jesus,” and that’s the end. I’m a Mormon, and in the LDS church children are assigned to talk in their own meeting. So my parents had to sit me down and say, “Ok we don’t say these words because they are bad words.” So I said, “All right, I got it.” And I walked around saying them all the time. I was 4 or 5 and I had learned to say, from my father, certain expletives. My parents, like any normal people, will occasionally let certain words slip through their lips around their children that they probably don’t want their children repeating.
The one my dad told at my wedding is a fun one. But are there any stories about yourself that readers wouldn’t know?īrandon Sanderson: Oh, I’m sure there are tons of stories about myself. Rebecca Lovatt: I’m going to skip asking you to tell us about yourself, I think you’re already fairly well known. We discussed his future works, White Sand, worldbuilding, which of the three ta’veren is better with women, and more.
It could also be after Stormlight 7.By Rebecca Lovatt on Septemin Interviews, RLovatt 5Įarlier this year at Minicon, I sat down with Brandon Sanderson (author of the Mistborn and the Stormlight Archive series, amongst others). Stormlight Archive, book five (about 15 years before Stormlight 6 but the gap may as well be 10 or 20 years #1 #2 #3 #4)Īlloy of Law (341 years after Hero Of Ages)( it’s after Stormlight 5 but we don’t know if it’s before Stormlight 6. Stormlight Archive, book four (Rhythm of War) Way of Kings ( happens 300ish years after Hero Of Ages) Nightblood (we don’t know whether it’s after Shadows for Silence., but it’s before Stormlight Archive) Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell (in the latter part of timeline but before Way Of Kings: #1 #2, and FAQ – if it’s correct – says it’s after Warbreaker) Warbreaker (closer than farther to Way of Kings) (between HoA and WoK #1 #2 #3) Hero of Ages (341 years before Alloy of Law) (Entries not bolded have not been released yet)Įlantris & Hope of Elantris ( long before Mistborn First Era, but not thousands of years)Įmperor’s Soul ( technology didn’t change since Elantris so probably not much more than decades #2) I haven't found all of those I was using at the time (see the end of this post) but I've also found some I haven't seen before, so. I've decided to translate it to English and post it with sources, so I went and searched for the WoBs to put them in the timeline. Some time ago I've put together a timeline of books.