Japanese Elantris Another pun for which I should be shot, a poem by Brandon Sanderson — The other day I was talking to a friend. We were discussing deserts. He wanted to say that Utah was more like a desert California. Obvious, yet true. He tried calling it more deserty. Desertish. Desert-like. He, of course,…
Signing + Two Bad Puns (For the Price of One.) So, the other day I was in the elevator. And, I wondered. On the Death Star, would it be called the Elle Vader? And then I realized that would only be appropriate for a lift that was restricted to female sith. I’ll be here all…
Annotation Mistborn Maps Maps I haven’t actually seen the map yet. I’m curious to see how it turns out. . . . The person doing it is Isaac Stewart, a guy in one of my writing groups. He’s a man of many talents, and works as an animator. He was very excited about MISTBORN, and…
Annotation Mistborn Dedication and Acknowledgement The following is an author’s annotation that relates to a specific chapter of the book MISTBORN: THE FINAL EMPIRE. Note that the following is NOT the text of the actual chapter, but a companion to the chapter, revealing “behind the scenes” information. If you have not read the book up…
Annotation Mistborn Second Title Page Title Page Two Okay, so here we see the words FINAL EMPIRE for the first time. Continuing the discussion I had in the last annotation, one of the books that I wrote after MISTBORN PRIME was called THE FINAL EMPIRE. (I now call it FINAL EMPIRE PRIME.) It was the…
