Tweets January 24-February 10, 2012

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BrandSanderson Tue Jan 24
Would you have bought Alcatraz Smedry and the Incredibly Long, Exaggerated, and Somewhat Boring Fantasy Book Title? link

BrandSanderson Tue Jan 24
If that was an obscure question, read the first ALCATRAZ annotation where I talk about the title. link

BrandSanderson Wed Jan 25
Pia Maria Vaajakallio, you are Aes Sedai. (Unfortunately, we're not accepting new names. Details: link) #AMOL

MagickalMan Wed Jan 25
@BrandSanderson Just saw the Nov 2012 unofficial release date, that's fantastic! Also, I want to say how proud I am of you and your work.

BrandSanderson Wed Jan 25
@MagickalMan Thanks!

Bryzie101 Wed Jan 25
@BrandSanderson just wondering if there will be any sort of way RJs ending will stand out, or if it just flows with your work. #WoT #AMoL

BrandSanderson Wed Jan 25
@Bryzie101 I think those who know our different writing styles will be able to pick out the differences.
BrandSanderson Wed Jan 25
@Bryzie101 It depends on how closely one watches the prose.

TinkerPride Wed Jan 25
@Southpaw2014 For a normally verbal and talkative individual at book signings, @BrandSanderson goes silent about Valan Luca. #WoT

BrandSanderson Wed Jan 25
@TinkerPride @Southpaw2014 Ha. Well, honestly, I don't want to answer too many questions about things like this.
BrandSanderson Wed Jan 25
@TinkerPride @Southpaw2014 For some of them, it would require me to deviate from the work I need to do by reading deeply in the notes.
BrandSanderson Wed Jan 25
@TinkerPride @Southpaw2014 For others, I think RJ himself would have stayed quiet, so I stay quiet myself.

Dinstaardude Wed Jan 25
Gettin my #nerd on HARDCORE!!! just entered a #magic tournament at Epic Puzzles and games against @BrandSanderson they're going to kill me!

BrandSanderson Wed Jan 25
@Dinstaardude Ha. See you there!

BrandSanderson Wed Jan 25
Maureen Sampson, you're in the White Tower too.

BrandSanderson Thu Jan 26
Saw an ad for a LAN party today, and (I kid you not) my first thought was: "What's Lan doing away from the battlefield?" #AMOL

BrandSanderson Thu Jan 26
Natalie Doyle, your name came up for #AMoL.

BrandSanderson Thu Jan 26
Melissa Bergevin, your name came up next.

graphicbin_sean Thu Jan 26
@BrandSanderson Guess what? My good friend/cousin-in-law @eenasm gave birth today & named her baby girl Nynaeve Maya.

BrandSanderson Thu Jan 26
@graphicbin_sean @eenasm Give them my congrats!

BrandSanderson Thu Jan 26
Harm Wieringa, your name came up next. #AMOL

MorpheusStone Fri Jan 27
@BrandSanderson Taking a long time to add the names hehe

BrandSanderson Fri Jan 27
@MorpheusStone I'm doing the first revision, and running across places where I left placeholders instead of names.

FunnyShorts Fri Jan 27
Why @BrandSanderson has inspired me to try to read The Wheel of Time books again: link #Fantasy #RobertJordan

BrandSanderson Fri Jan 27
@FunnyShorts Enjoy!

hieuta Fri Jan 27
@BrandSanderson Just got my signed Mistborn book from your website, thank you so much!!

BrandSanderson Fri Jan 27
@hieuta My pleasure. Sorry about my terrible handwriting . . .

BrandSanderson Fri Jan 27
Jordan White, you're a wolf. #AMoL (Unfortunately, we're not accepting new names. Details: link)

BrandSanderson Fri Jan 27
Lindsey Turnbow, you too. #AMoL

Martyrayhart Fri Jan 27
@BrandSanderson Hey Brandon, I know everyone (including myself) wants the WoT book. But any word on the next Stormlight Archive book?

BrandSanderson Fri Jan 27
@Martyrayhart I'll start writing it as soon as I finish the AMoL revision. It should be out next year, early in the year, hopefully.

431 Fri Jan 27
@BrandSanderson @dragonmount is anyone keeping track of the names that are being drawn for #AMoL ?

BrandSanderson Fri Jan 27
@431 @dragonmount Yes, they are. We'll post them eventually.

BrandSanderson Fri Jan 27
I'm playing Magic at the midnight release of the new set tonight. I don't know if there are spots left; just in case: link

BrandSanderson Sat Jan 28
Off to Epic Puzzles and Games in Lehi for Dark Ascension pre-release. Bringing prizes that Wizards sent me. Also have books to sell/trade.

BrandSanderson Mon Jan 30
On my way to Taiwan today. 21 hour of traveling. Should be fun. (Taiwan, I mean. Not the flights . . . )

bmoorebooks Mon Jan 30
@BrandSanderson Have fun! What are you up to in Asia?

BrandSanderson Mon Jan 30
@bmoorebooks Doing some events for my publisher in Taiwan.

madasspenguin Mon Jan 30
@BrandSanderson Any chance of a stop in Malaysia?

BrandSanderson Mon Jan 30
@madasspenguin Afraid not. Maybe next time.

madasspenguin Mon Jan 30
@BrandSanderson Alright. We'll start campaigning or something to get you here. (:

BrandSanderson Mon Jan 30
@madasspenguin Usually, I rely on a publisher or (more often) convention to bring me out. So if you have a sf con local, they may be willing

BrandSanderson Mon Jan 30
Savannah Rose Young, you're a Seanchan general. #AMOL

BrandSanderson Mon Jan 30
Sally Rankin, your name came up too. #AMOL

BrandSanderson Mon Jan 30
Boarded the plane for Tokyo, stage two of my Flight to Taiwan. 10 hours, during which I will be editing #amol

ZacharyNorth Mon Jan 30
@BrandSanderson Are these names for #AMOL going in as is? Many don't sound very WoT-esqe.

BrandSanderson Mon Jan 30
@ZacharyNorth They all get changed. Some as little as Thom or Mat (if appropriate.) Some to things very different.

PeteLicata Mon Jan 30
@brandsanderson where will you be at in Taiwan? I assume somewhere in Taipei . . .

BrandSanderson Mon Jan 30
@PeteLicata Yes. At a convention.

adamgoucher Mon Jan 30
@BrandSanderson how many names got submitted? #calculatingodds

BrandSanderson Mon Jan 30
@adamgoucher Three thousand, I think.

BrandSanderson Mon Jan 30
Taiwan, Orem, Australia Australia Australia, Las Vegas, BayCon, SDCC, Chattanooga, GenCon Indy, Albuquerque, Dragon*Con link

BrandSanderson Tue Jan 31
Ah, pop media, you have led me wrong again. The toilets in the Tokyo airport are nowhere NEAR as crazy as everyone says.

BrandSanderson Tue Jan 31
(Also—Hello Japan! Alas, I will only be visiting you via the airport this time. Your Delta lounge is awesome, though.)

daughterofmars Tue Jan 31
@BrandSanderson please please PLEASE tell me you will be at Supanova in Sydney in June. Please.

BrandSanderson Tue Jan 31
@daughterofmars My trip to Australia is in April, I'm afraid. But I will be visiting a lot of locations while there.

BrandSanderson Tue Jan 31
Hm. 1:00 am at home, 5:00pm here. I've been up for twenty-three hours now. Perhaps not the best time to try working on #AMoL.

BrandSanderson Tue Jan 31
And here I am, safely in my hotel in Taipei. Total travel time: 27 hours. Time for some sleep. :)

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 01
I wrote a few short Wheel of Time posts for @tordotcom. The first, on THE EYE OF THE WORLD, went up today. link

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 01
Subterranean Press has announced preorder availability of my new novella "Legion," coming sometime in the summer/fall. link

whursmabelly Fri Feb 03
@BrandSanderson Did you know there's a Marvel Comics character called Legion who has abilities very similair to those found in your novella?

BrandSanderson Fri Feb 03
@whursmabelly Someone mentioned it to me yesterday. I'm afraid, though, it's impossible not to do things that Marve/DC haven't covered.
BrandSanderson Fri Feb 03
@whursmabelly Magneto vs Allomancy, for example, or about a billion gravity manipulation superheroes vs Szeth.
BrandSanderson Fri Feb 03
@whursmabelly When I write something, I can't ask "Has anyone done this before?" because the answer will ALWAYS be yes.
BrandSanderson Fri Feb 03
@whursmabelly :) That said, it's amusing (but perhaps not surprising) that we both used the same idea with the name.
whursmabelly Fri Feb 03
@BrandSanderson Have you ever felt the need to change anything in your writing that was TOO close to something already out there?

BrandSanderson Fri Feb 03
@whursmabelly Yes, I have—but only in the pre-publication stage. If I'd known about the Marvel character, for example . . . (more)
BrandSanderson Fri Feb 03
@whursmabelly . . . I probably would have used another name. Still, knowing now means I can change it if I do a full novel.

BrandSanderson Thu Feb 02
One of today's activities was buying magic cards in Chinese. (Traditional.) You all knew I was going to do it . . .

BrandSanderson Thu Feb 02
I'm trying to find Fantasy Foundation's (my publisher) facebook page so I can post pictures they've taken of me. Does anyone have the link?

BrandSanderson Thu Feb 02
Thanks to @qrevolution, who sent me the place to see goofy pictures of me in Taiwan: link

BrandSanderson Thu Feb 02
The Superstars Writing Seminar in Las Vegas that I'll be an instructor for in April/May is having a drawing. link

BrandSanderson Fri Feb 03
About to do my first event here at the book fair in Taiwan!

BrandSanderson Fri Feb 03
About to do my first event in Taiwan. I will be knighting people. They have a sword for me and everything.

BrandSanderson Fri Feb 03
So . . . turns out I'm kind of a superstar here. That event was crazy big. Thank you for making me feel loved, Taiwan.

ubiquitousthey Fri Feb 03
@BrandSanderson as someone who just spent way too many hours on a plane to fly halfway around the world, how do you avoid jetlag?

BrandSanderson Fri Feb 03
@ubiquitousthey Depends on the distance. I have trained myself to go a long time without sleep, then crash, then get up in eight hours.
BrandSanderson Fri Feb 03
@ubiquitousthey From there, I'm adjusted. It makes the initial flight hard, but the time in-country work fine.

BrandSanderson Fri Feb 03
Blogged about my novella "Legion" that's up for preorder at Subterranean Press. link

BrandSanderson Sun Feb 05
Back in the Tokyo airport, waiting for my flight to the States. Taiwan was awesome. I'm going to miss it.

BrandSanderson Mon Feb 06
Anna Roberts and Andrew Holcombe, I drew your names most recently for AMoL. (We're not accepting new names. Details: link)

BrandSanderson Mon Feb 06
Caitlin Sullivan, you're in the White Ajah. #AMOL

BrandSanderson Mon Feb 06
Courtney Gliszczynski, your name came up next. I think I'll adapt your first name, not your last, if that's all right . . . #AMOL

BrandSanderson Mon Feb 06
Michael Sarcone, you asked to be a darkfriend for some reason, and I obliged. #AMoL

iskaare09 Mon Feb 06
@BrandSanderson just starting Warbreaker! Is it a serie cz I found 1 book only?!

BrandSanderson Mon Feb 06
@iskaare09 One book so far. Maybe some day another, but it was written to stand alone.

Indulgent_Words Mon Feb 06
@BrandSanderson is there any way to download old seasons of #writing excuses? I really want all of them, any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

BrandSanderson Mon Feb 06
@Indulgent_Words You can get them all on the website. If you want an easier way, Howard sells a complete DVD with files of all of them.

BrandSanderson Mon Feb 06
New Alcatraz annotation, Writing Excuses episode about the podcast's origin, and newsletter about my 2012 conventions. link

BrandSanderson Tue Feb 07
Chris Gilbert, you entered your son's name into #AMoL and it has been used.

BrandSanderson Tue Feb 07
Just noticed that RA Salvatore is doing a Reddit fan interview right now. Check it out. link

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
Drew a bunch of names I didn't report. Eric Silva, Hugh Hill, Sean Little, Rion Kinosaki, Helen Cousins, Eyal Weinstock. #AMoL

Gaidin_of_SDS (Sean Little) Wed Feb 08
@BrandSanderson San D'ma Shadar as the name?

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
@Gaidin_of_SDS Yes.
Gaidin_of_SDS Wed Feb 08
@BrandSanderson Thank you very much.

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
@Gaidin_of_SDS Trying to figure out the San in that phrase, though. Is the "San" a name, or a word in the OT I'm missing?
Gaidin_of_SDS Wed Feb 08
@BrandSanderson The translation used on the site (made by our OT experts) is Slayers of the Shadow. I could ask for the exact translation

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
@Gaidin_of_SDS That works for me. I actually put the name in a place where it could refer to a group, so I'll tweak it to do so.
aazizorg Wed Feb 08
@BrandSanderson Your favourite two rivers man, Azi al'Thone, back to bug you again :D I had put in an entry for SDS as well . . . and since I'm a member of SDS of TarValon.net, I'm wondering what (if any) possibility there is of making Azi part of it? Of course, I understand if that's complicated or doesn't fit with the story—had to ask anyways.

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
@aazizorg The group is referenced by Mat as being part of a historical battle.

xXPoitinXx Wed Feb 08
@BrandSanderson Way of Kings is the best book i have read in several years. Thank you

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
@xXPoitinXx It is my pleasure. Thanks for reading.

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
Oh, bureaucracy, you are my bane. It always takes me like five minutes to figure out how to spell that word . . .

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
Other fun things from Brandon's spelling mind: I always want to write Darlin Sisnera's name "Darlin Sinestro." Crossover time! #AMoL

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
Don't even get me started on algai'd'siswai and siswai'aman, by the way.

ethercrow Wed Feb 08
@BrandSanderson How about Writing Excuses episode about apostrophes and italics in fantasy?

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
@ethercrow Ha. That's a good suggestion, actually.

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
Just updated the % for AMOL draft two to 70%. Should have the whole book done and off to Harriet in a week or so.

kierankerr01 Wed Feb 08
@BrandSanderson hi Brandon. What's the official release date for the final wheel of time novel. Can't wait!!!!

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
@kierankerr01 I don't think there is one yet. Fall, sometime, probably. But Harriet is the one who will decide.

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
A lot of people ask after the release date. Fall/Winter this year is still likely. However, I would like to note that Harriet is in charge.

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
She hasn't yet read the entire book; she gets to decide when it will be released. She can delay it or push it up, whatever she wants.

BrandSanderson Wed Feb 08
I've posted my schedule for LTUE. I'll be there on Friday and Saturday. link

gabapple Thu Feb 09
@BrandSanderson What is your myers briggs personality type? I am debating with some other podcast listeners . . . :)

BrandSanderson Thu Feb 09
@gabapple INTJ is what I usually score on those.

BrandSanderson Thu Feb 09
I posted a bunch of pictures of things I was given in Taiwan. You guys were awesome. link

bugsbriez Thu Feb 09
@BrandSanderson If you like Valrona chocolate come see us in Rhone Alpes (France) at the source :-D

BrandSanderson Thu Feb 09
@bugsbriez Next time I'm in France, I might take you up on that. :)

Alkazor Fri Feb 10
@BrandSanderson If anyone from the Mistborn trilogy and anyone from TWoT were to hook up, what couple would be the most fun to write?