Surprise! Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson

by Dragonsteel Entertainment

Welcome! Thank you for stopping by. I would like to take you on a tour of my imagination. (If you are interested in my full-length video, click here.)

Over the last two years, a group of ideas wormed their way into my brain and I found I couldn't let them go. Despite all of my other obligations, I had to write these stories. So I squeezed them in during moments of free time, crafting four brand new novels. I'm extremely proud of them, as each represents some new aspect of storytelling that has forced me to grow in an interesting way. Each also takes you to someplace new, original, and vibrant. Three of these are Cosmere books taking place on new worlds, and the other one is something completely different.

You might be asking why none of these have titles yet. Well, we thought it would be fun to keep those hidden for now. Some of you might want to receive these books with minimal spoilers and just enjoy them fresh and new, without even knowing the title ahead of time—kind of like going into a movie blind, never having seen the trailer, on the promise that it's by a filmmaker you know you love. We also thought this might make it fun for book clubs or groups of friends and family to co-read a mysterious Sanderson book, knowing almost nothing about it.

However, I also know that many of you enjoy teasers, minor spoilers, and previews. So, while we kept the surprise intact on this page we're also going to be releasing detailed previews of each book. We'll be unveiling a new one each week throughout March on my YouTube channel, where I'll reveal the title and do a reading from the first chapters. As these previews are released, we'll include links to the videos below.

Our goal is to deliver these to you all through 2023, along with—for those who want it—a swag box of cool items relating to one of my already established worlds or concepts. (There's one dedicated solely to Hoid, for example.) So please, join us for a Year of Sanderson and experience for yourself the secret I've been keeping these last few years.


Secret Projects

Check out the links below to find out the book titles and read (or hear) excerpts from the secret projects. Please keep all information found in these away from the Kickstarter comments and public discussions so those who choose to go in completely spoiler-free will still be able to do so!


Rewards

Available rewards include books and swag delivered quarterly or monthly (depending on rewards chosen) throughout 2023.

Mockup. Designs not final. Art by Steve Argyle, Howard Lyon, and Geoff Shupe

All four books are being offered in three formats, depending on the tier you choose to pledge: a digital ebook (available for download the month the book is released), a digital audiobook (available for download the month the book is released), and an unsigned premium hardcover book. Note: While regular hardcover and paperback editions with a traditional publisher are possible sometime in the future, after this campaign is fulfilled the premium version of this book might not be available again.

These premium hardcover books are collectible above your standard hardcover. Each one will be roughly 400 pages long, about the same depth and height as our leatherbound books (about 6-5/16" x 9-1/2"), printed on FSC-certified off-white acid-free paper, and bound in a FSC-certified environmentally friendly colored soft-touch paper material. The cover material is beautiful, giving the look and feel of real leather while, according to the manufacturer, "complying with our strict ecologically sound production methods." The material will then be foiled with the final cover illustrations. Each book will feature 1-4 color interior illustrations throughout along with designed endpapers and chapter headers, all commissioned specifically for this project. Each shipment also includes a themed sticker and a cool, sparkly bookmark.

Beyond these epic books in physical and digital formats, we are also offering a monthly swag box for the eight months you will not be receiving a new book. Themed swag boxes will be shipped to you each month and will contain at least three items: one featured item and two supporting items. Some boxes may include a clothing item such as a t-shirt. In your BackerKit survey (see below for explanation of BackerKit) you will be asked your shirt size. This shirt size cannot be changed once your survey is completed.
 

A detailed breakdown of our reward tiers are as follows:

Shipping

Shipping prices break down to $10 per month for domestic shipments, and $35 per month for international shipments, all paid up front during this campaign.

We welcome international orders! Unfortunately, we cannot ship everywhere. Currently these are the countries we can ship to:

European Union:

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Greenland, Guam, Hong Kong SAR, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States


UPDATE: Kickstarter does not allow us to collect the additional import duties and taxes that may be imposed by your government, but we will be covering this for you! You will pay shipping, but will not be required to pay additional fees and taxes when we ship your boxes to you.


Add-ons

Once you have selected your pledge, you will be able to add on additional items during checkout. Want one audiobook to listen to with the family or one premium hardcover book to share, but everyone wants their own swag box? Add on more swag boxes! Please note: all premium hardcover books and swag boxes will ship individually, and cannot be combined or customized.

The add-ons you may select are:

  • All four ebooks (available to all tiers)
  • All four audiobooks (available to all tiers)
  • All four premium hardcover books (available to physical product tiers)
  • Eight swag boxes (available to physical product tiers)

Why Kickstarter?

We learned a lot from our 2020 Kickstarter campaign. We learned a great deal about what works for us, what doesn’t work for us, and how we can use this platform to go beyond limitations imposed on us by our current store setup.

We are a simple bookstore. We can easily sell a book or a piece of swag that is already in stock or will be in stock soon. But planning out an entire “Year of Sanderson” takes setup and tracking we are not capable of at Dragonsteel Books. We had a great experience working with Kickstarter previously and want to stick with what works.

Using Kickstarter will allow us to know our required quantities beforehand so we can focus on the quality of your rewards instead. Beyond that, we are not a subscription box company. Using Kickstarter for this campaign allows us to pretend for a year that we are and gives you the opportunity to take part in our experiment.

New To Kickstarter?

If you're not familiar with Kickstarter, it’s a platform that allows creators to crowdfund their creative projects. The campaign lasts several weeks, and when it’s over, we will go into full production mode. We will send out Kickstarter surveys via BackerKit, which will allow you to check over your pledge and make any last-minute modifications, as well as provide us with your shipping address if required.

If you’d like to know more about how to make a pledge on Kickstarter, here's a short overview.

About BackerKit

BackerKit is a service that allows us to transfer information we receive from Kickstarter and manage reward fulfillment. Once the Kickstarter has closed, you will receive an email to fill out your BackerKit survey, where you will fill out your shipping information and shirt size.

NOTE: If you use an AppleID with the Private Relay feature to login to Kickstarter, you may not receive your BackerKit survey email. We will not be able to ship your rewards without your survey being completed. Please log in to Kickstarter using an email address that ensures you will receive notifications, or contact us (using the contact information in our FAQ) with a usable email address after we post an update about BackerKit surveys going out.

The Lost Metal

We hope you will join us for the release of The Lost Metal—the final book in Mistborn Era 2—to be published by Tor Books on November 15, 2022. And if you’d like to join us in person, save the date for our convention on November 14-15 in Salt Lake City, Utah. We’d love to see you there!

We hope you will also join us for the leatherbound edition release of the first two books of Mistborn Era 2: The Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self, available from our store for the 2022 holiday season. Ordering information to be released later this year.

Thank you!

All of us here at Dragonsteel were floored and humbled by the response to our 2020 campaign. We worked hard to fulfill those rewards and had a really great experience throughout the process. We couldn’t have done it without our amazing community of fans like you! So let us take a moment to say thank you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for loving these characters and worlds as much as we do. Thank you for your trust. Thank you for your patience as we learned valuable lessons with our first Kickstarter and encountered delays in fulfillment. Thank you for making this sort of thing possible.


Credits:

  •  All text and images © 2022, Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC 
  • Video music by Bensound

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