Emily now works from home part time as Brandon’s business manager.īrandon’s repertoire expanded into the children’s market when Scholastic published Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, a middle-grade novel, in October 2007. Emily had spent seven years as a teacher, but chose to quit with the birth of their first child in October 2007. They never met, however, until a mutual friend set them up on a date in 2005. Emily and Brandon ran in many of the same circles at BYU during their student days, since Emily majored in English as well. In July 2006 Brandon married Emily Bushman. Additionally, along with Howard Tayler, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Dan Wells, he hosts the doubly Hugo-nominated writing advice podcast Writing Excuses, which has twice won a Parsec Award. It also gets him out of the house, he says. In spite of his busy schedule, Brandon continues to teach this one section of creative writing focused on science fiction and fantasy because he enjoys helping aspiring writers. In 2004 after graduating with his Master’s degree in creative writing from Brigham Young University, Brandon was asked to teach the class he had taken as an undergraduate student from Dave Farland. Other projects continue to be in the works.
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Over the next few years, Tor also published Brandon’s Mistborn trilogy, its followup The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings, the first in a projected ten-volume series called The Stormlight Archive. In May 2005 Brandon held his first published novel, Elantris, in his hands. Brandon had submitted the manuscript a year and a half earlier, and had almost given up on hearing anything, so he was surprised and delighted to receive the offer. It was in 2003, while Brandon was in the middle of a graduate program at BYU, that he got a call from editor Moshe Feder at Tor, who wanted to buy one of Brandon’s books. He eventually met both his current agent and one of his editors at conventions. Brandon and a small group of friends who were also aspiring writers began to do so. One piece of advice Dave gave Brandon was to attend conventions, such as WorldCon and World Fantasy, in order to connect with industry professionals.
He read many submissions, formed some lifelong friendships, and served as Editor in Chief during his senior year.īrandon learned much about the business side of being a writer by taking a class from David Farland, author of the popular Runelords series. Volunteering for The Leading Edge, BYU’s science fiction/fantasy magazine, was a wonderful experience for Brandon. In spite of this he continued to be a dedicated writer. and accumulated quite a pile of rejection letters.
Brandon submitted many manuscripts for publication . . . He says it made for a rather dismal social life, but he finished seven novels during his undergraduate years.
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During this era he went to school full time during the day, worked nights to pay for his schooling, and wrote as much as he could. Upon his return to BYU, Brandon became an English major, much to the dismay of his mother, who had always hoped he would become a doctor.īrandon began writing in earnest, taking a job as the night desk clerk at a hotel because they allowed him to write while at work. Brandon often says that it was during this time in Seoul, Korea that he realized that he didn’t miss chemistry one bit, but he did miss writing. From 1995 to 1997 he took time away from his studies to serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1994 Brandon enrolled at Brigham Young University as a biochemistry major. His first attempts, he says, were dreadful. He liked epic fantasy so much that he even tried his hand at writing some. Brandon continued to be an avid reader through junior high and high school. He discovered such authors as Robert Jordan, Melanie Rawn, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, and Orson Scott Card. Brandon thoroughly enjoyed this book, and went in search of anything similar. Reader, gave Brandon Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. This all changed in eighth grade when an astute teacher, Mrs.
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As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested for him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. Brandon Sanderson was born in December 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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