Überraschung: Bestseller-Autor Brandon Sanderson legt eine bewusste Veröffentlichungspause ein. Nach dem Abschluss von Wind and Truth (Dezember 2024, Die Sturmlicht-Archive) müssen Fans auf den Start der Ghostbloods-Trilogie im beliebten Mistborn-Universum bis Ende 2028 warten.
Diese dreijährige Lücke ist eine strategische Entscheidung. Früher beschleunigte sein Verlag den Zyklus auf sechs Monate, was Sanderson heute als übereilt und nachteilig für Qualität und Kontinuität ansieht.
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Sein neuer Plan: Er will die gesamte Ghostbloods-Trilogie (die im Äquivalent der 1980er Jahre spielt, auch genannt Era 3) fertigstellen, bevor Band eins erscheint. Dieses Vorgehen sicherte bereits die Kohärenz der Original-Mistborn-Reihe. Die bewusste Verlangsamung soll langfristig eine höhere Qualität der komplexen Cosmere-Erzählung garantieren. Die Veröffentlichung von Band 1 ist für Dezember 2028 angepeilt.
00:00So, one of the questions we're getting a lot lately is why is it going to be such a long time before Ghostbloods 1 comes out?
00:09If you're not familiar, I released Wind & Truth, Book 5 of Stormlight, in 2025.
00:18And so the question is, what's going on next?
00:21Well, the next thing that I'm working on is Mistborn Ghostbloods.
00:23And that first book is coming out in 2028.
00:26That's a long gap between mainline books for me.
00:30In the past, usually, you know, we have some cool side projects and things like that, but mainline books come pretty regularly one a year.
00:38So why a three-year gap?
00:40Let me talk you through what happened in the early part of my career.
00:44So, early part of my career, I would turn a book in to the publisher, and it would go through production.
00:51It would take about two and a half years before it ended up on shelves.
00:54This is pretty common for authors.
00:57I would say that, on average, it's closer to 18 months, but a lot of authors, it's two years.
01:02This gives the time for editorial.
01:04It gives all the time for everybody behind the scenes to be working on the book, for marketing to come up to speed, all of those things.
01:11So, you turn in a book, two to two and a half, 18 months to two and a half years later, a book comes out.
01:17So, I was doing that.
01:18That's what happened with Elantris.
01:20That's what happened with Mistborn.
01:21Suddenly, something happened in my career that you might be aware of.
01:26I started hitting bestseller lists.
01:28That happened, I believe, with Mistborn 3 for the first time and Warbreaker, hitting bestseller lists.
01:34And then, The Wheel of Time happened.
01:36And so, all of a sudden, I was drawing a lot of attention.
01:40And all of a sudden, my books were selling very well.
01:43I say all of a sudden.
01:44It was a pretty slow and steady thing, but I started hitting the bestseller lists.
01:47And the way that publishing works is very similar to the way that a lot of entertainment works, where your top-selling titles do tend to form the bulk of your income, which you use to fund releasing the rest of your books, hoping to get more and more top-selling titles.
02:05Tor started to realize, hey, Sanderson turned in a book two and a half years ago, and that's worth a lot of money to us.
02:14If we release that in 18 months, we hit this milestone and have a Sanderson book out for that quarter, and it improves then all of our sales metrics.
02:24And then, they started to realize, why wait 18 months?
02:29Why not wait 12 months?
02:31And then, it eventually got so bad that I would turn in a book, and the book would be out six months later.
02:37This, you might have noticed this with the middle two Wax and Wayne books, where one of them came out, I believe, in September or August.
02:45The next one came out, like, January, February.
02:47So, this has been detrimental, I believe, to the way that our business works.
02:55People still take a lot of time on the projects, but they feel rushed.
03:00And I feel rushed.
03:02And it's just not a good place to be in.
03:05And so, now that I'm in the position where I have the power to determine when my release dates are, I'm like, for years, we've been saying, we need to get this, claw this time back.
03:14And this is the time to claw it back.
03:17I want to finish Ghostbloods 1 this year.
03:21I guess it wasn't 2025, it was 2024, when Stormlight 5 came out.
03:27I'm writing Ghostbloods 1 in 2025.
03:30And then, it will have three years until it needs to come out, because it will be scheduled for fall of 2026.
03:37And I will have this done by the end of this year.
03:39And so, I'll make sure that there is one in the finished each year.
03:46And that just gives that time back to us.
03:49And I think we're really going to appreciate it going forward.
03:52So, I am sorry about this wait.
03:55But, it is the best way to make sure that this is all sustainable going forward.
04:01So, that's why it's taking us three years.
04:03It will also have the advantage of, theoretically, I will have the third one, first draft done, before the first one actually has to come out.
04:10And so, I can make sure the continuity all works through all three books.
04:14It's something I did on the first trilogy that I want to try again with this one.
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