Adam here. Many of you reading this probably already saw my post from a few weeks ago giving you your first peak at the new Dragonsteel special leather bound edition of Warbreaker. Well today, I am please to (finally) announce that we have recieved confirmation from the bindery that the orders will be shipped out very soon. So, if you ordered from one of our fine independent partners I mentioned in my previous post, they should be getting those in hand very soon. If you preordered them from Brandon’s website store, we should have those in hand soon as well and will be shipping them out as soon as we can in the order the they were received. Each book is pre-signed, pre-shrinkwrapped, and pre-packed in individual boxes which means you’ll be getting pristine books. (Please note that the way the leather stretches over the books’ hubs and spine typical of how leather reacts to the board underneath.)

Since my last post went up—and sorry about the bad news here—we’ve sold through almost all of our first printing. As of today (Dec. 13), we have approximately 200 numbered copies available, and 500 unnumbered copies remaining. That will be the end of our current supply. We will be ordering a second printing soon, but we don’t know when we will be getting new copies in.

In this volume, we’ve changed slightly the way we include art. The gallery at the beginning is much shorter—4 pages—and highlights the US cover and three international covers. The rest of the art is scattered throughought the rest of the book, including Ben McSweeney’s spot art of Nightblood, Jian Guo’s beautiful dropcaps, and six full-color illustrations that were commissioned for this edition.

All full-color art is printed on pearlescent paper that makes the colors sparkle a little bit. (Please note, due to the hoops the binder had to jump through to make this work, we cannot guarantee the use of pearlescent paper for printings beyond the first. We can guarantee, however, that the book will still be beautiful.)

As we’ve said before, this is the highest-quality (and in my opinion, the most beautiful) book we’ve produced. And it wouldn’t be possible without the gorgeous art from Howard Lyon, Bryan Mark Taylor, Miranda Meeks, Jian Guo, Ben McSweeney, as well as the never-before-seen pieces below from Dan dos Santos, Micah Epstein, and Magali Villeneuve.

If you were able to come to the Starsight release part a few weeks ago, you may have seen a sneak peak at the new socks we’re putting on Brandon’s store. We’ve teamed up with Woven Pear to create and offer these exclusive socks. We’ve started with a few initial designs for Doomslug and worldhoppers. Check out the store listing for more details.

The Hero of Ages Leather Bound

Adam here. We have some exciting news for all of you who have been “patiently” waiting the arrival of the Mistborn: The Hero of Ages leather bound. Well… we still don’t have them and we just found out that the national paper shortage is going push back our receipt by an additional week. But, we did just receive our proof copy and are ecstatic with the final results.

Now, the copy we received has everything the final print will have excepting this is neither bound nor covered. But we think it looks great enough to give you a glimpse of this magnificent book.

One of our favorite parts of making these leather bound editions is gathering our favorite covers, fan art, and—the occasionally—commissioned pieces to help bring Brandon’s books to life. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. One of this editions standout pieces is by the incredibly talented Miranda Meeks—whom you may know from the covers of Shadows of Silence in the Forest of Hell and Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds—who created this wonderful piece for us to include.

Pre-ordering Numbered Copies
Though we don’t have physical copies in yet, we know that many want to get their copy ordered as soon as possible. So we’ve decided to work with the BYU Bookstore, Subterranean Press, and Mysterious Galaxy to make it so you can get your copy pre-ordered beginning Cyber Monday (11/26). We will open up orders on Brandon’s site the following Saturday (12/1) at 12:01 a.m. with numbers being shared with each of the stores (rotating every 4th number). That being said, with this paper shortage wreaking havoc on our anticipated reception (they were supposed to arrive in October), we still won’t be able to guarantee anything for Christmas.

These pre-order links will not be active until 12:01 a.m. on Monday Morning

• BYU Bookstore
• Subterranean Press – Closed for preorders.
• Mysterious Galaxy
• Murder by the Book

Cyber Monday Sale

We are having a little Cyber Monday Sale on Brandon’s website store where you can earn some sweet bonus swag. If you spend $30, we will send you this awesome DDF patch with your order.

If you spend $60, you will get this Cobalt Guard patch AND the DDF patch.

If you spend $100, we will send you the DDF patch, the Cobalt Guard patch, AND this Bridge Four pin that you can’t buy.

Not to mention the awesome swag we already have on sale for the holidays!

Warbreaker Audiobook Sale

If you’re an U.S. Aubible Member, Warbreaker—narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan—is on sale for just $6.95 so if you’ve been looking for the right moment to give Warbreaker a listen, now’s a good time!