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Aug 4th, 2011
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West Jordan, UT
Barnes and Noble
Josh and Mi'chelle
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REPORT: Signing with Brandon and Peter Orullian
Josh and Mi'chelle (Rubix and firstRainbowRose on the site) this month went to a joint signing with Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian, and gasp, now we have audio! We have about fifty minutes of questions and answers, including some interesting cosmere clues at the end. Isaac Stewart (interior artist for Mistborn and The Way of Kings) chimes in about some stuff he's done, with some info on the Feruchemical Table of Metals. There's a plethora of content. Mistborn video game info, film info, and exciting news for Alcatraz fans (at least, if you hate the covers that are there).
Audio is split up into three parts. Part One is the general Q&A from the signing, and has Brandon, Peter Orullian, and Isaac all fielding questions. If you like Peter's book, The Unremembered, there are some cool responses from him about that. There are, of course, Wheel of Time questions as well, but there seem to be an even number of questions for Wheel of Time as well as Brandon's own novels, too.
Part Two seems to be questions Brandon is fielding during the line, or after the line. I'm not totally sure, but there you have it.
Part Three involves Josh and Mi'chelle throwing some specific, in-depth cosmere questions compiled from the Ultimate List of Questions for Brandon as well as a few new ones. If you listen closely, you can tell that they are asking Brandon these in the parking lot of the bookstore, as Brandon and company decide where to eat dinner. Seriously. (Hey, it's not stalking if he says it's okay, right?) Ahem. It goes without saying that these questions have metric tons of spoilers for all of the cosmere! And if you don't know what that is, surf the wiki or General Theories. :P
Part one (35:46): http://bit.ly/okXDPz
Part two (12:04): http://bit.ly/rnfABl
Part three (4:57): http://bit.ly/p9Oq91
Warning: our server sucks. I remember when we did The Way of Kings interview with Brandon, people (including me) couldn't download the large file in its entirety. Hopefully splitting it up in three files will minimize this issue, but if not, hey! We have transcripts! We attributed questions as well as we could. Major kudos to Chachel for transcribing this behemoth. Most of the editor's notes are mine.
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This was the second novel I ever wrote; I wrote a horror novel, because, as I am not ashamed to say, I am a huge Stephen King fan. I think that folks who bash King don't understand the level of craft that Stephen King has.
I wrote this book, and I had an agent who said "Let's put this on the shelf; fantasy's not selling," and asked me to write some thriller novels because he was trying to build some diversity in his client list. So, I wrote two other novels after the fantasy. I realized that was not the right agent and got a new agent who turned me down on the two thrillers (the two splatter books I wrote were thrillers) and then he saw the fantasy, and within a couple of days he had given it directly to Tom Doherty who gave me an immediate offer.
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Ah, yes. The Mistborn movie and game. The movie rights were optioned to a production studio called Paloopa Pictures. We'll see what happens with that. I mean, they have a screenplay—if you don't know, getting a film made, there are a lot of ways that it happens; most of them seem kind of chaotic. One of the primary ways is a production company will option rights on something or option a screenplay. In my case, they optioned the rights, they write a screenplay, they do a big pitch, then they go to the studios. And the studios have to fund the thing. The production company would then become the producers on it, with the studios funding and make the film.
That's why what'll happen, often you'll see a film that'll [have] these five production studios at the start. Those are the people who did that sort of thing. So that's where we are there.
Sometimes you'll get lucky and a film will just get optioned by a studio directly. That doesn't happen as often. For instance, the Wheel of Time books got optioned to Red Eagle Entertainment, which is a production company. They did all of this, then went to Universal and got Universal to buy the rights and fund the movie... We have that. We also have some people with a video game that I can't announce yet, because I'm sure they want to announce it, but we had a nice offer on a video game that would be slated for around 2013. It will be cross-platform, so it would be on PC, Xbox, and PS3. I will probably be writing the story and the dialogue for it.
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There's already some in the book. Front cover. Look at the corners.
Maybe eventually. The thing is, the Heralds are... they're mythological figures of lore. So what you'll see are things like that. Those are actually large representations of them in the archways.
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They've got big theories because all my books are connected, so yes. They have lots of theories talking about that.
Last question.
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Part Three - Cosmerepalooza
Eric's note: I compiled and wrote these questions, then emailed them to Josh and Mi'ch. There's an instance where I completely flubbed writing the question. Oops. There's also a question related to Alloy of Law, but it references a sample chapter.
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Is Skai Unity?
(Brandon seems confused by the pronunciation. It is apparently more like "Skae".)
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Is the body the focus for Surgebinding, I think is what he meant.
[Eric's note: Well, I meant what I said, but whatever. :P]
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Is Preservation is a force of stability?
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