By the time the campaign ended, he had collected over $6.7 million from almost 30,000 backers. He was trying to raise $250,000 to pull this off. He ran a Kickstarter campaign in 2020 to publish an illustrated, two-volume leather-bound set of his most popular book The Way of Kings. Also, this isn’t Sanderson’s first crowdfunded rodeo. Sanderson “is incredibly well known with a passionate fan base,” writes novelist J.C.M. In some of those videos, he is joined by his pet macaw, Magellan.
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He has done all the traditional authorial promotional things, plus built up a YouTube channel with almost 350,000 subscribers.
He hasn’t just written novels and had his publishers, Tor and Delacorte, distribute them to the masses.
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He was even entrusted to finish Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series after Jordan’s death. Sanderson found his voice and located an audience too. His attempts to write grittier books were terrible, he says, so he became ‘kind of depressed.’”Įventually, persistence paid off. Publishers kept telling this prolific night clerk that his “epic fantasies were too long, that he should try being darker or ‘more like George RR Martin’. “The books were written over a decade while Sanderson was working as a night clerk at a hotel - a job chosen specifically because as long as he stayed awake, his bosses didn’t mind if he wrote between midnight and 5am,” reported the Guardian in 2020. He wrote 13 novels, mostly during the 1990s, before he managed to have one published. Sanderson is a fantasy novelist who worked at it a long time before getting a lick of success. The price for getting all four hardcover books delivered to your door next year clocked in at $200, including shipping. With 16 days still left to go on the campaign, over 122,000 backers had pledged more than $28 million for his new novels, in amounts that ran the gamut from $40 for quarterly ebooks to all four books delivered in hardcover, “UNSIGNED,” along with the ebooks, audiobooks, and “swag boxes” for $500. His campaign shattered the previous Kickstarter fundraising record of $20.3 million (for a smartwatch) in little over a day. Sanderson launched a Kickstarter at the beginning of March for four “secret novels,” which he has already written, to be delivered over 2023. The recent advance from his readers has eclipsed that by at least a factor of 15. The high water mark for Brandon Sanderson’s publishing advances likely came in 2009, when it was announced that Tor Books would front him $2.5 million for four volumes, or $625,000 per book.
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