Goodreads member TJ says, “Please ask Mr. Sanderson whether he contemplates writing a sequel to Elantris . It’s among the finest stand-alone fantasy books ever written.
I wrote Elantris years before I got published. Back then when I was trying to break in, I always developed stories with sequel potential. So I developed a full sequence, a trilogy based around Elantris , but I also wanted early books that I wrote to all stand on their own. When [new readers] took a chance on me, I wanted them to get a story in the first book that was complete, that if they were to try my books out and decide this just isn’t for me, that they would have their full story, and no harm, no foul. So when my editor said, “Do you want to do a sequel?” I said, Yes, I have a sequel, but I don’t want to do it. At least not right now because I like the idea of having a stand-alone for people to be able to try me out with.
That was then. Nowadays, most people who try me out pick up the Mistborn trilogy, because it stands as a completed work. So I now could do Elantris . The problem is, Elantris is a really good stand-alone. I don’t want everyone who reads and writes the fantasy genre to feel that everything has to be a series. I am conflicted about it.
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