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Interview #943: Reddit 2013 (WoT), Entry #14

Kintanon (March 2013)

Why, of all of the people in the internet, do you have ‘Novice Writer’ as your flair? I mean, I understand that you don’t have the ungodly library of titles to your name that someone like David Weber or Piers Anthony does, but I think once you write more than 1 best seller you have to at least upgrade that to ‘Professionla Writer’ or at least ‘Journeyman Wordsmith’ or something!

Also, I must give you many many many thanks for the way you handled completed the Wheel of Time series. I admit to being overcome with trepidation when I heard that you were going to be completing the series because while I really really really liked the Mistborn novels, then didn’t seem quite in line with the feel of Jordan’s universe. I was worried. But you handled the completion of a series that has been with me since middle school incredibly well and brought everything to a satisfactory conclusion in some an artful manner that it was never at any time obvious that Jordan himself wasn’t penning every word.

I’m looking forward to more of your works in the future now more than ever.

Brandon Sanderson

See elsewhere in the thread why I chose that flair, but I’ve been persuaded that at this point, “novice writer” was strange enough on me to be out of place. So I’ve gone ahead and changed it.

Working on the Wheel of Time was one of the great pleasures of my life. Thanks for the kind words.

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