Book one of twenty,' and thinking, 'I don't know if this author can pull it off,' right? I would rather try them out on a single book, or maybe a trilogy, and see if they can really tell a good story before I commit to something huge. When they said, 'Do you want to do a sequel to Elantris?' I thought, 'I really like that there are sometimes really great standalone books to try an author out on, and I would rather people be able to have a standalone to try me out.' Because back then I remember looking at new authors coming out and saying, 'Brand new author. I thought I could do a really good job with a trilogy. And when I wrote it I was really excited by Mistborn-or when I published it, because it was years later. It was the only one that was worth being published. It's the only one of those thirteen that got published. It was the first published of those thirteen I wrote. One of the reasons I didn't do them, or haven't done them yet, is when I first published, Elantris was my sixth book. They are probably the sequels to the world rather than sequels to the characters. I was wondering if there will be any follow-up books to Elantris?įollow-ups to Elantris.

Elantris 2 is probably Kiin's children who I've seeded to be main characters for the sequel and book 3 will probably be somebody else, right? So, keep in mind that that's how the Elantris books are intended to go. Sarene and Raoden will not be the main characters of Elantris 2. It's the story of the world more than just the story of characters, so you'll find about the characters and things, but don't expect.

But the trilogy of Elantris is not the same. So the goal will be to go, Mistborn Era 3 book 1, then Elantris 2, then book 2 of Era 3, then Elantris 3, then book 3 of Era 3.Įlantris? Yeah. *applause* And then, what I'll probably do is, I'll try to - this is not a promise - but this is what my goal will be because Mistborn and Elantris books are about each half the size of a Stormlight book, I can probably do one a year, where Stormlight takes me about one every three years. So, right now - what it's looking like - I will finish Stormlight 4, I will do Wax and Wayne and Skyward and then I'll do Stormlight 5. There are certain things that have to be in there before I can finish that series. Elantris 2 has to be done by the time I do Era 3 of Mistborn, which is the contemporary era.

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