Brandon Sanderson

Elden Ring is one of the buzziest games of the moment. Created by FromSoftware, the studio behind dark fantasy games like Dark Souls and Bloodborne, in collaboration with A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin, the game is getting rave reviews across the board. It takes the difficult, immersive gameplay that FromSoftware is famous for and situates it in a massive, brooding fantasy world, and the result is sensational.

Sometimes creative pursuits become such a resounding success that they shock even their creators. Last month, fantasy author Brandon Sanderson announced that he was doing a Kickstarter to fund the release of four books he had written in secret during the pandemic. At the time the Kickstarter went live, he and his team at Dragonsteel Books hoped it might raise three or four million dollars, based on how successful the campaign was for The Way of Kings leather-bound edition in 2020. To the surprise of Sanderson, his team, and the world at large, the effort became the highest funded Kickstarter campaign of all time. And it didn’t eke out the record; Sanderson’s Secret Project Kickstarter doubled the previous record, which was held by the Pebble Smartwatch at $20.3 million.

Bandai Namco has expressed interest in working with best-selling fantasy author Brandon Sanderson.

Fantasy and science fiction author Brandon Sanderson says he’s been approached by Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco to work on a FromSoftware project. Sanderson opened an Elden Ring package from the publisher on a livestream on March 30 (via EldenRingUpdate on Twitter). As part of the package, Sanderson received...

Author Brandon Sanderson has already written several books. Thanks to a viral Kickstarter campaign, he plans to publish and sell his new books directly to fans. Sanderson spoke to Michelle Miller about the move that could stir up the publishing world and the book market.

This giveaway is sponsored by Starscape. “Everything I’d known about the world was untrue.”. On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry gets a bag of sand in the mail—his only inheritance from his father and mother. He soon learns that this is no ordinary bag of sand. It is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians who are taking over the world by spreading misinformation and suppressing truth. Alcatraz must stop them, using the only weapon he has: an incredible talent for breaking things.