This would let me both explore storytelling in some new ways and build toward one of my eventual goals, which is having my own film production company. We figured that we could start taking some of the things I wanted to do for film/television and do them as audio originals-as this was a space the two of us, with some help from things like a writer’s room, could do ourselves. Yet I had a lot of projects I thought would work really well in this space.Īs kind of a stepping stone toward that, the two of us founded Mainframe with Recorded Books being a launch partner. Such projects are just way too big for us to do on our own. Part One: Mainframe AnnouncementsĪs I will be getting into some of these projects below, I think it’s time to talk a little bit more about Mainframe, my audiobook company.Ī few years back, a friend of mine from Hollywood and I were chatting about how hard it was to get things made for film/television. If you’re done with Rhythm of War and want some more (non-canon) Cosmere, feel free to give this older one a read. I started again from scratch in 2009–2010 to create the book actually published as The Way of Kings. This is the (very, very different) version of the book I wrote in 2002 that I decided not to publish. If you missed it earlier this year, we released a book I call The Way of Kings Prime. So hopefully, my stories provide you with a little relief from these “interesting” times. I’ve been able to work on a lot of behind-the-scenes projects that will eventually come to light-as well as meeting all of my deadlines for things I wanted to accomplish this year. I hope the vaccines are widely available soon.įor now, if you can appreciate one silver lining to the pandemic, it’s this: A year of staying home and not touring has led me to be rather productive. However, I’d prefer this experience not come at the terrible expense many people have paid this year because of COVID. I like it when things are different it is good for my writing brain to live in a different way. Well, this has certainly been quite the year, hasn’t it? Dan Carlin on his podcast likes to quote the old (supposedly) Chinese saying that goes: “May you live in interesting times.” I think I better understand why that phrase is usually used as a curse, not a blessing. Part Ten: Projected Schedule Introduction Part Seven: Film/Television/Video Game Updates Part Three: Way of Kings Leatherbound Kickstarter Updates

It’s usually a very long post, so feel free to jump to the section that interests you most using the following handy set of links. In this essay, I’ll talk about projects recently released, ones upcoming, and ones in limbo.

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