#Dan wells

[valerieofavonlea]

Dan Wells is working on three cosmere projects: one that is bizarrely weird that no one will guess, one with Isaac Stewart that will cover a gap of time we all want to know about, and one that happens concurrently with Words of Radiance (same time in the cosmere, unclear if it's a stormlight project)

Commence speculating

[abrilmayo20105]

[onlycosmere]

Brandon Sanderson: It is, frankly, a bit of a miracle that this [Secret Project Five] manifests in the middle of Stormlight Five. And it only did because I had a little bit of momentum on it from a number of years ago.

And you'll find out once that is once we do more of the reveals. But it's something I've been writing on for maybe seven, eight years.

I wrote a bunch of this in Hawaii last year. I took some time and relaxed; I actually had two trips to Hawaii last year, one with the whole family, and then one with just myself and Emily. And that's where the bulk of this was written, was during those two trips.

Dan Wells: Secret Project Five is much shorter and more compact. It's got, I think, really only two POVs.

Brandon Sanderson: Something else I wanted to talk about with this. You mentioned High Cosmere Connectivity; I worked forever trying to figure out how to write that phrase. Because it had to fit in, like, two or three words on the screen. And it had to explain... and I'm not sure if people will understand, even still, what we're getting across.

Because what I really wanted to say is: this book isn't intended for first-time Cosmere readers (though if you are a first-time Cosmere reader and you understand that, you'll probably have a good time). The rest of you probably should read a few Cosmere books before you pick this one up, then you will really enjoy it better.

That's what I wanted to write; that's not three words.

If they know they're jumping into future era where there's a lot more Cosmere connectivity... but, the story reads just fine on its own. There are plenty of people who could read this book, not know anything, and enjoy it quite a bit. It doesn't require you to have read other books to understand. But...

And some people don't like a lot of Cosmere connections. And this one does have them. It's got characters from multiple different planets; some you've seen, some you haven't. And it's taking place, kind of dealing with future era sort of stuff. I think most readers will enjoy it, but I do want you to be aware of that, right? There are some people who are just like, "I just want to read Stormlight Archive, and I don't want to worry about the larger mess."

And this is probably not something they would like.

Dan Wells: One of the things, as I was reading it (because I was keeping this idea in mind of how accessible is it to new readers), in a lot of ways I think... Imagine Lord of the Rings, except it starts after they've already left the Shire.

So you don't actually get to see the homeland of anyone in the Fellowship. But you hear about their homeland, and they brag about their homeland to each other. That still works, right?

It's very Guardians of the Galaxy; other than Earth, you don't really see anyone's homeworld. But you can accept, "Okay, these are all the adventurers that have come together to do the thing."

[jenwaynecleaver]

I am not a serial killer

[soyouthinkyoulike]

john wayne cleaver, i am not a serial killer

[clockworkbee]

—Foreword by Dan Wells | Elantris (2005) by Brandon Sanderson

[hacked-by-nymos]

𝙄 𝘼𝙢 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 - 𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 (2016) 𝙙𝙞𝙧. 𝘽𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙊'𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣

[libralita]

I don't often listen to Intentional Blank but when I do...

Brandon: This group of bear burglars (bearglars) could be called The Constitution Dan, laughing: Why would they be called the Constitution? Brandon: The right to bear arms :D Dan: oh my gosh...

[nick-personalfancasts]

[fraseslibros]

"Me pregunté, entonces, si estaba haciendo todo esto porque quería salvar a los buenos o solo quería matar al malo. Y me pregunté si había alguna diferencia.

Dan Wells, No soy un serial killer

[wyndlerunner]

A podcast notification has never given me so much joy before

[pepitobondioli]

Guys, if you are trying to be a teenager, do NOT take John as a role model 🙅

[onlycosmere]

AmyAnne2: Maryville esports—can someone please explain what they are and what they are sponsoring?

Brandon Sanderson: So, here's how we talked about it in house. Basically, we have a lot of LoL [League of Legends] fans in the company, and we look to do good things with our money. A chance came up to sponsor a college team, so we decided to take it.

Not really for publicity reasons, but because we get to live our dream job--and without sponsors, these teams just cannot continue to function. So it seemed a nice place to put a little money to help some people shoot for their dream job.

This is mostly Dan's passion project, but I think it's a worthy cause. I'm not surprised if anyone is scratching their heads, though. It is a little out of left field.

[jenwaynecleaver]

JOHN WAYNE CLEAVER🔪

[sarascamander]

I love John Cleaver as a character so much, but I will never forgive him for what he did to Brooke. She's my baby girl and deserves better 😭

[theimpalatales]

Really interesting discussion of publicity in the publishing industry