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Interview #1133: Chicago, Entry #35

Question

Thank you for writing everything, and I know your guilty pleasure. And that’s why I want one of those special card things, otherwise I’ll reveal it.

Brandon Sanderson

Oh you will? What’s my guilty pleasure?

Question

Writing the Alcatraz books.

Brandon Sanderson

Oh yeah, that is the guilty pleasure. Here you go.

Question

Are you going to continue writing those? Or is your guilty pleasure just writing “You are about to be sacrificed on a pile of old encyclopedias. I’m going to write five books where it doesn’t happen and then just stop”?

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, that would have been fun but I felt that the scene needed to be in the series. So the scene is in Book 5. But there is a different evil thing.

Question

I’ve actually read everything that you’ve published. I really only read Alcatraz because I thought “He really can’t be good at /children’s/ books”. My ex-girlfriends a preschool teacher, and I wanted her to have a book that was somewhat children’s.

Brandon Sanderson

There are people who actively hate those books, because Alcatraz is so mean to the reader, they are so fourth-wall breaking.

Question

They’re not, I actually wrote a letter because I was waiting for so long and I knew you had so many people.

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