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And so there's one book that every time I go through it, I cry.

And it's The Way of Kings, which is a Brandon Sanderson book.

There's just these moments where this guy's up against death.

John, have you ever read Sanderson? I'm sure Slava's recommend.

Well, there never was about it being bad.

The reason, and Brandon Sanderson has a tremendous speech that he gives about this, which is that you need to take every one of those, of those reasons why you don't like, like it's bad for the environment.

What if it was great for the environment? Would you, you know, let's say, take a piece of artwork.

generated by a human being and a piece of artwork is generated by an AI.

Yeah.

Have I sent you that? real on Instagram that's like it's like the publisher and then he he's like asking all the authors for like what they've been working on and when they're expecting a release date he does like Pierce Brown he does George RR Martin Patrick Rothfuss Brandon Sanderson and Sarah J Maas

No, you should send me that.

That's amazing.

So it's been 15 years since that one too.

What the hell are these men doing? I don't know.

But then they show Brandon Sanderson in this video, and he's like, I've put out eight books.

And they're like, fuck off, Sanderson.

You know, it's like, oh, like those characters were just on that boat that they passed by on the river or like they just rented horses from that town that they just drove by on on the boat.

you know all that kind of like these weird little like you know near misses yeah essentially and like everyone winds up in the same geographic location and then things the you know it's kind of like the uh what do they call what brandon sanderson does this yeah so i think robert jordan did it first uh is is what i would take away from that but so so i'm in the last like 15, 20% of the book of dragon reborn.

And so like everybody's showing up in, uh, the last city.

I won't, I won't say, I guess, whatever, but, uh, spoilers, not spoilers.

That feels bad to me.

Brandon Sanderson is an author that I think a lot of people in the fantasy world know very well.

He's one of the most prolific authors.

He's written 70 books or something in the last 20 years.

Yeah.

The reason I ask is just because, like, if you are a Brandon Sanderson fan, you would have plenty of material to... play this game for forever once he starts coming out with the other books and there are modules for this game that continue on with the storyline if this one starts at end of two

yeah so the the first book is pretty much just like ex like talking about roshar and like the continent and then it follows kaladin who is on bridge four and is like starting to bond with his friend and it takes pretty much the entire book.

And then the other two stories that are going on, you've got Shallan, who is a scholar type who's trying to steal a fabrial from some high-up noblewoman called Jasnah.

Couldn't be a good thing.

I actually fell into learning a Magneto-style Ian McKellen voice backwards because I was trying to mimic another voice actor on social media who was doing dramatic readings from, I think it was Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives.

And that's just part of what he does as his social media content.

He's like, this is a book I really like.

Stay engaged with your readers by having a social media presence and providing updates on your work.

If you want an example of an author who has a strong online presence and provides frequent updates, you can look at Brandon Sanderson's YouTube channel and his social medias as an example.

Granted, he does have a full-time team helping him with that, but it's possible for a writer to do something smaller scale without too much of an investment of time and effort.

Although many writers dread anything related to business or social media, indie authors need to learn how to engage with these parts of being a writer if commercial success is a goal of theirs.