Failing again. Failing better.
I started reading The Wheel of Time 20 years ago. I bought THE EYE OF THE WORLD for my father, but started reading it when he didn’t. After a couple false starts, I was hooked. And so, 20 years later, with enough books to fill an entire bookshelf and enough characters to fill a high-rise…
My dad is the reason I grew up reading genre fiction. He helped me pick out books at the library, and they often had little green men or spaceships on the cover. As I got older, I started including fantasy in my selections. I should have picked up on this sooner, but my dad tends…
I started reading Robert Jordan’s Eye of the World series in the seventh grade, way back in 1992 (that will make me sound really young or really old to most readers, I’m sure). I’ll admit it: it didn’t hook me right away. I actually put it down, and then a few months later, I picked…
Prolific fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson (@BrandSanderson) has done aspiring writers a great favor. While you may know Brandon Sanderson as the author of the Mistborn trilogy (now series), THE WAY OF KINGS (the first of a 10-part series) or the author chosen to finish Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, he also teaches at Brigham…