But in Sanderson’s case, there’s no gatekeeper to blame. Mistborn is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American author Brandon Sanderson and published by Tor Books.
There’s nothing like the announcement of a fat book advance to set other writers grumbling in protest, whether the jackpot winners are Michelle and Barack Obama, who landed a staggering $65 million deal for two books in 2017 or such unsavory figures as right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, whose relatively modest $250,000 contract with Simon & Schuster caused enough uproar that the book was eventually canceled earlier the same year.īut the announcement today that fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter campaign to fund the publication of four books had surpassed $20.8 million to become the platform’s most richly funded project to date presents an unusual challenge for critics of how publishing values books.* Conservatives could complain that an overwhelmingly liberal industry had drastically overestimated the popularity of the Obamas and progressives could complain that a company like Simon and Schuster showed terrible judgment in promoting and lining the pockets of a troll like Yiannopoulos. Sanderson has been extremely popular among fantasy readers for more than a decade, but last year, he made international headlines for raising 41 million on Kickstarter (doubling the previous. A Cosmere symbol display for all of your (future) pins that came with the most recent Brandon Sanderson Kickstarter.
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