Despite a mounting stack of rejection letters (mostly telling him to be grittier, he says, “like George R.R.
He took a job as a night clerk at a hotel because he could write while on shift. We’re delving into the motivations behind executing a person they’d signed a treaty with that very night.”īefore becoming the Brandon Sanderson most of the fantasy world knows today, the prolific author wrote 13 manuscripts without selling a single book. Rhythm of War focuses on the two sisters, Eshonai and Venli, who ordered the hit. “There are five characters who are deeply affected by this king’s assassination: his brother, who has to decide whether to take the throne a young man who’s conscripted to go and exact revenge the assassins themselves.
It stamps each book with an identity,” he explains. “Each book is like a trilogy in the way it’s structured, and focuses deeply on one character, with a full flashback sequence of that character’s past running parallel to the main narrative. The series will, when complete, span 10 entries, split into two five-book arcs.
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