(Note the emphasis-I don’t have the legal right to do this for books like Mistborn and The Way of Kings, which were published by Tor. I think the best I can do for now is give away ebooks of the books I myself publish for free, once you have a print edition. (Though I do think the industry will need to figure this out eventually.) I haven’t realistically found a way to bundle audio, print, and ebook together.

For example, doing an audiobook is more expensive than a print book as-once all the work is done for the print book-you then have to hire another team to take that text and make an audio version. This sometimes conflicts with my first impression because of additional costs involved. I figure once you’ve paid me for it, you’re good, and you should have access (at least in ebook form) to that story for the rest of your life, whenever you want to read it.Īt the same time, I want to provide different distinctive editions of the works for people who like them. The first is that I really don’t want people to feel they have to pay multiple times for the same piece of fiction. There are several motives that war within me when it comes to producing editions of my work. This seems a good time to take a moment and talk about the various editions I have out for my short fiction. (This will be handled via a coupon for my store.) Also, note that if you buy the print edition in any format, we’ll happily send you the ebook for free at your request. Please give the story a look on its explanation page, where you’ll find a synopsis and links to the first two chapters. (Audible has also released the audiobook today.) So you can choose whether you want the expensive collector’s edition, or the quick ebook. But as is our tradition, we’re simultaneously releasing an ebook for a few bucks, DRM-free, in all markets. I think you’ll like it! The print edition is only available in a special edition leatherbound from Vault Books that will be released soon (though we will also have a cheap hardcover toward the end of the year). As we’ve posted earlier, Hollywood quickly snatched this one up, and it’s currently under option to MGM. I wrote it furiously, having only about a week’s time to finish it, and I’m very pleased with the product: a kind of cyberpunk–detective thriller mashup.

Snapshot is one of those stories that, once I had the idea, wouldn’t leave me alone.

Other than Edgedancer (the Stormlight novella in Arcanum Unbounded), this is the only thing I had time to write last year that wasn’t Oathbringer. Last year during my trip to the United Arab Emirates, I took a break from working on Oathbringer to write a novella, as is my habit to refresh myself now and then. Turns out, big books don’t just take a long time to write-they take a long time to revise. Hey, all! I’ve been deep into revisions on Oathbringer.

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