The book started its life many years ago being about a young man who made a good decision. But a great book for me isn’t about a magic, it’s about the people that the magic affects. On one hand, this delights me, as I do put a lot of effort into the magic in my books. The author who creates interesting types of magic for every book he writes.

I’ve begun to build a reputation as the “magic system” guy. And so this time, I’m going to try to talk about what The Way Of Kings is. How much the project has come to mean to me over the decades.) But such things describe the book but don’t actually tell you anything. How I’ve written hundreds of thousands of words worth of worldbuilding for it. (How I started work on it over fifteen years ago. I often end up talking about its creation. Kings has stymied me each time I’ve tried to describe it. A boy who finds that librarians secretly rule the world. A man cast down by a terrible, magical disease and forced to rebuild a society among those similarly afflicted. The gang of thieves who want to rob an immortal emperor. Each one was built around one or two central premises. Before, I’ve found it easy to explain my novels. I’ve been asked to introduce The Way Of Kings to you. Knowing that you’re reading my books is such an honor for me.This post originally appeared on Tor.com. I’d love to see you at one of my signings, but if you can’t make it I understand.

15 – San Francisco, CA, Borderlands Books I’m starting to think that this author thing might work out for me!īelow is a list of my tour stops, and you can find full details for each stop on my upcoming events page.

Thank you all for coming out to support the book. There were about 1,600 people who came last night you can see a small portion of them in the photo below, many of whom stayed until the wee hours of the morning. My tour for Oathbringer officially starts this evening in San Diego, but the release party last night was the real kickoff. (By the way, I’m about to send out my Newsletter to all subscribers, and it has a sneak peak of the final Legion sequel.) This is the only year that Oathbringer is eligible and hopefully you’ll be able to read it before final round voting ends on November 27th. For those of you who have been following the preview chapters, I thank you for your write-in vote for the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards. If you haven’t had a chance to pick up your copy yet, and you wanted to give it a try before you do, you can read the first 32 chapters on Tor.com. We thank you for your patience, and we are so excited for you to be able to finally have it in your hands. Huzzah! I know that this has been a long wait for many of you as my team and I have been working on this book for about 19 months. Well, the day you’ve been (not so patiently) waiting for has finally arrived.

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