Fantasy King Brandon Sanderson just raised $15 million on Kickstarter in a single day, and may become the 1 project in Kickstarter history. BrandSanderson BrandonSanderson novels crowdfunding
On Tuesday morning, literary fantasy icon and incredibly prolific writer Brandon Sanderson made a “shocking announcement” via his personal YouTube channel. In a video entitled “It’s Time to Come Clean,” Sanderson explained that he had been lying to his loyal fans for the last few years … because he’d actually been working on a new series ofin secret.
As of this moment, about 24 hours later? It’s currently at $15.1 million and continuing to climb. That numberin history. The project will have to earn more than $20.3 million to unseat the biggest campaign ever, that of the Pebble Time smartwatch, but at this point it sure as hell seems like the sky is the limit. Are you about to doubt Sanderson, or the passion of fantasy geeks, when they’ve already gone 75% of the way in the first day? We wouldn’t bet against them.
This project strikes us as wonderful for a few reasons—first for the fact that there’s something deliciously archaic about the fact that the number one crowdfunded project of all time may soon be a … series of physical fantasy novels. Does that not feel like a direct rebuke to the persistent claim that “people don’t read any more”? Secondly, it’s simply hard not to root for Sanderson, one of the genre and literary world’s most gregarious and likable figures.
Backers for the Kickstarter are choosing from an array of different contribution levels, ranging from $40 for simple ebook copies of each of the four novels, released quarterly, to $500 for a wide-ranging “Year of Sanderson” experience.
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