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SUMMARY

BOOK PROGRESS: Stormlight 5 is at 73%, expected to be at 75% next week. Skyward Legacy is at 34%.

BOOK NEWS: Defiant Bundles + Signed/Numbered/Stamped book and Defiant Bundle without book are available for pre-order. You can pre-order for it to ship to you from the Dragonsteel store. If you want to pick up a bundle at the convention, order through the convention site.

Barnes & Noble has a sale for 25% off Defiant, possibly USA only, from September 6-8. You can find the Defiant book page here.

KICKSTARTER NEWS: nothing was announced.

OTHER NEWS: Brandon talks about why no book adaptations have been announced. He’s going to be in a livestream on Daniel Greene’s channel with Joe Abercrombie on Sept. 7. That same evening is the Frugal Wizard livestream with non-spoiler questions and some spoiler questions. You can submit questions on the dedicated Reddit thread.

TRANSCRIPT

[The video can be found at the end of this transcript!]

Hey everyone, Brandon with our weekly update! Alright we are inching toward the ¾ mark with Stormlight 5. We’re at 73%! That means next week, almost assuredly, we will be at 75% so we’ll need a special graphic for that Taylor. Just little confetti explosions when we get there. Look forward to that! I am still writing for a couple of days and then I’ll be going to revisions. Probably we’ll announce that next week would be my expectation then there will be two weeks of no progress.

Skyward Legacy is at 34%.

Apparently I’m told, I was a little unclear last week, about how you get signed editions of Defiant. Let me go down, they’ve given my very clear instructions this times. Defiant Bundle is available to Pre-Order. This includes the book and some cool items, one of which I came up with and I’m super excited that we’re doing. I can’t announce what those are yet? It’s on the shelf behind me? Oh it is! We have a Hesho plushie as part of that, if you’ve been reading the Skyward series. Yeah let me… go ahead and grab that for me. Ooh is that all the stuff? The pin? We’ve got our Hesho plushie, he’s so cute. We’ve got… I didn’t know if we could announce this. These are our things! They tell me the kids love lunchboxes these days. Who knew?! If you do the Defiant Bundle, you’ll get the Slug Squad lunchbox. You will open it up and it will have your Hesho plushie inside along with a pin which is Hesho’s mask. It’s super, super awesome. I really like this. This is available as a bundle with a signed copy of the book, which will also be numbered [and stamped]. If you buy it from us, the bundle can be shipped directly to you. You buy it through our store, you get the book and you get the cool swag and the book will be signed and numbered.

If you want to pick up your bundle at the convention with a valid badge, you order through our convention website. The links to all this will be below. That you can pick up in person and don’t need it to get shipped to you. We will have bundles for sale at the Dragonsteel booth at the convention. Barnes & Noble and everybody else will have Defiant for sale individually but it won’t be signed. It’s everywhere you expect to find a book. That is how it’s going. I’ve gotten a thumbs up from Kellyn, it looks like I’ve made it clear this time that’s how you get your signed and numbered editions and you also get your book bundle! We’re just gonna put Hesho hanging out right here. There we go, our little fox gerbil.

Barnes & Noble has a pre-order sale, this is probably USA only being Barnes & Noble, this is September 6-8 it’ll be 25% off for Defiant if you pre-order those days. If you want a cheaper version of the book that’s how you do it.

Regarding adaptations of my books. Here at Dragonsteel we support the Writer’s Strike and wish them the best and are in their corner. We are happy that they are pushing to get the money that they need to survive on. Things have been really rough in the streaming world for them. People have been asking, you know they’ve been expecting some announcements from me about adaptations of my books. And they’ve been wondering if the strikes have delayed that. A little bit but that’s not the main reason that you haven’t heard any updates on adaptations. More just things are pretty chaotic in Hollywood right now. Things that everyone expected to do well in the theaters have not been doing well. Things that people expected to do well in streaming have not necessarily been doing as well in streaming. They are still figuring out how their business model works in the post COVID and post streaming wars era. That’s caused a lot of uncertainty. That’s why you haven’t heard anything. People like to start talking, I’ve noticed a lot people saying “oh he’s going to do a big announcement at Dragonsteel.” Do not be expecting a big announcement at Dragonsteel. That’s just me managing your expectations. I really thought we would have an announcement this year, I was wrong, I don’t expect an announcement this year. Just things in Hollywood… Hollywood does it’s own things, they are going their won way. And we’ll give them the time to sort out their stuff. I do think it’s inevitable that we will have some adaptations but probably no announcements this year. I know that will be very disappointing to some of you. I continue to work and try and navigate that world as best as I can.

On to happier things, I’m going to do a livestream with Joe Abercrombie on David Greene’s channel, that’s Thursday September 7, at 1:00. If you want to see me and Joe chat about things, Joe is fantastic, he is extremely entertaining and he’s a very good writer. Look forward to seeing us both there. That’s MDT 1:00. Our own livestream on this channel will be that same day September 7 but ours will be at 6 PM MDT. Link below to ask your questions. We have a Reddit thread for that. We will do as part of that some spoilers at the end for Frugal Wizards. We’ll probably be doing an hour of non-spoiler and then we’ll add a little bit of time on, we’re not going to do a full 2 hours because of the livestream earlier with Daniel and Joe, so we’ll go a little bit longer than an hour but probably expect maybe 15-20 minute of spoiler questions from there. If you have burning spoiler questions for Secret Project 2 then we will talk about that then.

Last thing to announce are the Podcast Week 12 winners. This is week 12, this is the last of our pushing into the final 4 bracket. We have our Food Heist, the Great Maple Syrup Heist, Dan’s favorite of the food heist’s, well the one that made him a food heist aficionado. It has severely trounced Pure Legal Butter Guarantee 76% to 24%. Not very surprised there, that’s not an upset, that’s how we expected it to go. And in Bad Stories, it was a little bit closer, not terribly a lot closer but a little bit closer. Vikings vs Cthulhu at 63% has beaten Free Fall Burrito World. Free Fall Burrito World, you did better than I expected you to. Vikings vs Cthulhu, that’s a t-shirt in the making. I’m not surprised to see that. And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, come watch Intentionally Blank with us every Wednesday.

I’ll be back next week theoretically with the big announcement that we are ¾ way through Stormlight 5, so I will see you there!

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