Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy and science fiction writer
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| 2025 | Brandon Sanderson is nominated for the Hugo Award in the Best Series category for The Stormlight Archive |
| 2025 | Brandon Sanderson planned to publish 'Isles of the Emberdark' as his fifth Secret Project through Dragonsteel Entertainment |
| 2025 | Planned release of Tailored Realities, a short story collection featuring Cosmere Universe and Cytoverse stories |
| 2024 | Appeared at FanX in Salt Lake City, Utah, announcing the purchase of land next to The Realm Town for a potential Dragonsteel Plaza bookstore. |
| 2024 | Sanderson partnered with Maryville University's League of Legends team to financially support their participation in the North American Challengers League (NACL), a professional gaming tournament pathway. |
| 2024 | Publication of Dragonsteel Prime, a novel originally written as Sanderson's honors thesis at BYU |
| 2024 | Publishes The Most Boring Book Ever picture book with Roaring Brook Press and releases 'Dragonsteel Prime', his original BYU honors thesis novel |
| December 2024 | Unveiled 'Wind and Truth', the fifth and final book in the first arc of The Stormlight Archive, which he describes as the 'biggest release the fantasy genre has seen in years'. |
| August 2024 | Launched Kickstarter campaign with Brotherwise Games for a Cosmere tabletop RPG, raising over $14.6 million and breaking the previous record for tabletop RPG pledges. |
| 2023 | Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Utah Valley University |
| 2023 | Short story 'Hyperthief' is published, co-written with Janci Patterson |
| 2023 | Brandon Sanderson published three 'Secret Projects': 'Tress of the Emerald Sea', 'Yumi and the Nightmare Painter', and 'The Sunlit Man', all released through his own publishing company Dragonsteel Entertainment |
| 2023 | Fourth novel 'Defiant' is released in the Skyward series |
| 2023 | Publication of The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England as Secret Project 2 |
| 2023 | Releases Dark One: Forgotten audio-exclusive with Dan Wells and publishes 'Long Chills and Case Dough' short story on his website |
| 2022 | 'Skyward Flight: The Collection' is published, compiling the previously released novellas |
| 2022 | Brandon Sanderson published 'Bastille Versus the Evil Librarians', a collaborative novel written with Janci Patterson and released through Starscape. |
| 2022 | Sanderson co-authored 'Stephen Leeds: Death and Faxes' audiobook with Max Epstein, David Pace, and Michael Harkins, published by Recorded Books. |
| 2022 | White Sand Omnibus is released by Dynamite Entertainment, collecting the three graphic novels with a new prologue and glossary |
| 2022 | Brandon Sanderson concluded the contemporary Mistborn series with 'The Lost Metal', published by Tor Books. |
| September 2022 | Collaborated with Unknown Worlds Entertainment to create lore and setting for the video game Moonbreaker, which was released via early access. |
| March 2022 | Sanderson launches a Kickstarter campaign that becomes the most successful in history, with 185,341 backers pledging $41,754,153. |
| February 15 2022 | Printed edition of 'Dawnshard' was released. |
| 2021 | Rebranded Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC to Dragonsteel Books. |
| 2021 | Novel 'Cytonic' is released as part of the Skyward series |
| 2021 | Brandon Sanderson collaborated with Steven Michael Bohls to create the audiobook 'Lux', narrated by MacLeod Andrews and published by Audible Studios. |
| 2021 | Release of Dark One graphic novel, co-written with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly |
| 2021 | Three novellas in the Skyward series are published: 'Sunreach', 'ReDawn', and 'Evershore', co-written with Janci Patterson |
| June 2021 | Started a podcast called 'Intentionally Blank' with science fiction author Dan Wells. |
| March 2021 | Started a weekly update on YouTube to provide updates on his current projects. |
| 2020 | Launched first Kickstarter campaign, raising $6.7 million from nearly 30,000 backers for a 10th anniversary leather-bound edition of The Way of Kings. |
| 2020 | The Stormlight Archive novella 'Dawnshard' was published as an ebook by Dragonsteel Entertainment. |
| 2020 | Sanderson published The Original audiobook, co-written with Mary Robinette Kowal |
| November 17 2020 | Published 'Rhythm of War', the fourth Stormlight novel. His agency updated his total book sales to over 18 million worldwide. |
| 2019 | Sanderson wrote the short story 'A Fire Within the Ways', published in 'Unfettered III' anthology, edited by Shawn Speakman and published by Grim Oak Press |
| 2019 | Sequel 'Starsight' is published, continuing the Skyward series |
| 2019 | White Sand III graphic novel is published, concluding the initial graphic novel trilogy, written with Rik Hoskin and illustrated by Fritz Casas |
| 2018 | White Sand II graphic novel is released, continuing the Taldain series, written with Rik Hoskin and illustrated by Julius Gopez |
| 2018 | Sanderson published 'Lies of the Beholder' novella in the Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds collection by Tor Books. |
| 2018 | Writes Magic: Children of the Nameless novella for Magic: The Gathering |
| November 6 2018 | Published 'Skyward', the first book in the Defiant series. |
| 2017 | Publishes Snapshot novella with Dragonsteel Entertainment |
| November 14 2017 | Published 'Oathbringer', the third book in The Stormlight Archive. |
| 2016 | DMG Entertainment licensed the movie rights to Sanderson's entire Cosmere universe, though these rights have since reverted back to Sanderson. |
| 2016 | Brandon Sanderson released 'Alcatraz Versus the Dark Talent', a novel in the Alcatraz series, published by Starscape. |
| 2016 | Several significant publications occurred, including the novella 'Secret History', the collection 'Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection', and the Stormlight Archive novella 'Edgedancer'. |
| June 2016 | Released his first graphic novel 'White Sand', written with Rik Hoskin, which is planned as a trilogy. |
| February 16 2016 | Published 'Calamity', the third and final book of the Reckoners trilogy. |
| January 26 2016 | Published 'Mistborn: The Bands of Mourning', a sequel to 'Shadows of Self'. |
| 2015 | Brandon Sanderson and his wife Emily founded The Lightweaver Foundation, a charitable organization aimed at supporting community education, literacy, and hope through various initiatives. |
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