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Interview #1108: WOR-Omaha, NE, Entry #12

Macen

I have read White Sands and Aether of Night. Why aren’t they published?

Brandon Sanderson

White Sands isn’t published because I feel that Kenton doesn’t have the depth of character that I like to have nowadays. He’s more of an oldschool character of mine where he just isn’t–personality wise doesn’t have quite enough. Beyond that, I feel that White Sands is narrative. It meanders a little too much. I felt that if I cut 50k words and fix them, we would have a good book. Aether is not published because I feel that I wrote two different books and didn’t blend them together very well. There’s kind of the farcical Shakespearean switch-places-silliness and it’s fun but it’s like mistaken identity almost, sort of stuff, and the romance. Mixed with these dark things are coming out of the shardpools and destroying the world. And these two stories never meshed together well enough for me to want to publish it. White Sand one more revision, we’re trying to go to graphic novel. I’m not sure what I could do with Aether of Night.

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