@tattoosbychels on Instagram if you wanted to see more :)

Here’s a photo of me with my sculpture of Vin. I’ve decided to call it “Ascendant”. I’ll be posting a cool video of it this next week. Also for those interested in seeing it in person, it will be on display in Provo, Utah at the annual LTUE conference Feb 13-15th.

The Mistborn book series is absolutely brilliant! Brandon Sanderson is an incredible author. The ending of the "The Hero of Ages" made me cry through the last few chapters because it's such a powerful ending to the journeys you experience with the characters.

Vin is wonderful in so many ways. I knew by the end of the first era that I had to cosplay her. So here it is! I'll be making an epic cosplay music video soon, which I'm so very excited about! I'll share it here once it's done!

These shots were taken by my wife at Vancouver Fan Expo 2025.

Hey there, mistings! I’ve posted a few times in the past months about putting together a Wax cosplay, and have just gotten back the last of the edits from my photoshoot at the end of December. Really proud of how this all came out, though of course there are few things I’d do differently… (hair could be better, probably won’t shave down as much in the future).

This is just the first batch of photos, we took about 250 total, but mind you these finished ones tend to be composites of a handful of raw photos in the pose range. I’ll see about ordering some more in the next month or two, depending on the photographer’s availability.

📷: M.G. Norris, found at www.mgnorris.com and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/MGNorrisPhotos

Will be at MAGfest this weekend, helping a friend sell in the Artists’ Alley at Katsucon next month and then maybe DSNX ‘25? If you’re around, say hello!

Greetings, all! Brandon here with another update on your book. Short version, the rough draft is finished!

Before I get on to the longer explanation, I want to apologize. I planned to give you an update between the first one (which you can read here) and now. Turned out, the timing around early July proved difficult, and by the time I had a chance to work on an update, the book was almost done. I figured I'd just wait until it was.

That said, the book is finished at 149k words. It has an extra beefy epilogue, as this is the end of Era Two, and I wanted to make certain to linger just a little extra with the characters and the setting. I also thought that doing this book at 50% longer than the previous three in the series felt right. It is, hopefully, a very nice send off to what turned out to be one of the most rewarding accidents of my career.

Plan is, I'm afraid, to publish the book NEXT year. I have been pushing hard to get things done this year so my team can get to a place where they have more time to work on books. Rushing to do production on each one and have it ready just a few months before publication is proving too difficult. I don't want my team to be stressed or burn out.

So, our schedule looks something like this: I'll launch into a second draft starting on Friday, and do a solid revision ending sometime mid September. Then the book will go to my editor and beta readers, followed by two more revisions (one substantive, one a polish) sometime in spring when I need a break from Stormlight 5. Then proofreading and continuity can be done the rest of the spring with a turn in sometime in the summer for a publication in November. (This should coincide with the first two books being published as a leatherbound special edition.)

I've already started turning my eyes toward Era Three, which will be my main big project following the completion of Stormlight 5. My goal there is still to write three novels, 200k words each, back to back like I did with Era One. We'll see how that works out! Between now and then, I still need to finish Skyward 4, Stormlight 5, and (most likely) the Horneater novella about Rock.

I will plan to roll around and give you another update later in the year, perhaps once I know better my schedule for 2022 in regards to the third and fourth draft.

Best,

Brandon

p.s. Some of you might have noticed, but I've been extra bad at responding to my DMs lately on reddit. Livestreams and weekly updates on YouTube are gobbling away at my social media responding ability. I do still see most everything people tag me in, but often it's weeks after the tags, so I don't get around to responding.

Likewise, as is my habit, I won't have replies here sent to my inbox--so I apologize if I don't see or respond to your comment here, though I will try to look them over.

Hello, all! After far too long, and with many apologies, I'm finally at work on your book. The Lost Metal (this will be the final title; I have more say over my titles with Tor than I do with Random House) is in progress. So far, I have around 10k words, and I'm anticipating a book somewhere in the 120k-150k range. (The progress bar on my website is set for 150k, where it was set at 100k for previous W&W books.)

A mini reminder for those who are wondering, "Why four books?" I wrote the first book as an experiment during the Wheel of Time days, when I worried about the cosmere (and Mistborn in particular) languishing while I saw to the needs of Randland.

The book turned out well--and I liked the characters so much that I outlined a trilogy to follow up Alloy of Law. Hence the four books--and this WILL be the final one.

My current plan is to try to finish this one by August 1st, with a Christmas 2022 publication date. (Skyward 3 being this year, and Skyward 4 being somewhere early 2023.) It will be followed by the fifth Stormlight book in Christmas 2023. After that, the good news is that I plan to write Era Three (three books long, 200-250k each like the original trilogy) all in a row. I'll need a few years on that project, so goal is tentatively to see those start being published in 2025 or so--with one a year for three years after that, followed by Stormlight 6 in 2028.

That's an ambitious schedule, so we'll see. Fortunately, the schedule for W&W four is not ambitious. If I finish by August, we'll be ahead for like the first time in ten years, giving my team a solid 14 months for editing and the like. (Which will make everyone very happy.)

Right now, everything is looking great for the book. Writing Group started on the prologue last week, and will be reading the first few chapters this week. Outline was well received by my team, and it feels really great to be writing Wax, Steris, Marasi, and Wayne again.

I will try to remember to give you an update here in a couple of months somewhere around the 50% mark to let you know how it's developing. (Though note, I've started doing short, weekly updates on YouTube so you can follow along there if the progress bar isn't enough.) Book will have a slightly more complex narrative than previous W&W books, but my goal is still for it to be fast paced and snappy.

As always, I'll be turning OFF replies to inbox for this thread--so my apologies if your reply or question doesn't get seen. And, as always, thank you for humoring my style of jumping between books and series.

Brandon

I wanted to make my books look a little bit fancier on my bookshelf after seeing similar sleeves online for wheel of time, this is the result.

This was made by me by hand, photos were taken by a friend of mine. I was going to try to to a semi tutorial/cost breakdown in this post but it's waaaaay past the character limits so I'll just answer any questions instead 🥴 This mistcloak technically isn't even mine. It's a gift for someone but I love it so much I just needed to show it off before I give it away!

I did two versions because I couldn’t decide which one I liked best hehe! I feel like I really struggled with this one ☹️ but I plan to do more Mistborn fanart in the future, if there’s anything specific you’d like to see lemme know