YouTube Livestream 33

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Steven Bohls

One night at Magic night, he [Brandon] said, "Hey, one of these days, maybe we should talk about doing a co-author project. I have this idea for a middle-grade fantasy."

Brandon Sanderson

Which you can't reveal, because some day I'm gonna do that one.

Steven Bohls

I won't, I won't. So I went home and started thinking about some ideas, and I met with him the next Magic night and said, "Hey, I have some ideas about that book." And he said, "Actually, let's hold off on that one. There's something else that's kind of coming up right now. Audible is interested in continuing the Reckoners series."

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Brandon Sanderson

Over time, those three [Lux] novellas morphed into a single novel. Each draft, they were more like that, until finally, we were just, like, "This is just a novel." Because originally, it was, like, three novellas about three different characters. Then it was three novellas about one character doing three different missions. Then it was three different novellas taking this one mission and breaking it into three parts. And then its, like, "Okay, it's just a novel."

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Brandon Sanderson

It [Lux] starts during the events of Calamity, the third Reckoners novel, and goes past the events of the end of Calamity.

Steven Bohls

Ultimately, what we decided was to start it around middle of Calamity, and then have it go past the end of Calamity with kind of the promise that we'll see post-Calamity as the story progresses.

Brandon Sanderson

And if people really like this book, we have plans for how to kind of integrate it a little bit more into some of the characters. It was important to us that this one be standalone; that if you haven't read the first three, this one stands on its own, it introduces the premise again but it works on its own. And so you're not gonna see a ton. You'll see little easter egg connections that we're building toward; hopefully people really enjoy this and we'll do some more with this.

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Brandon Sanderson

The first one [reason for starting Mainframe] is to publish audio originals that match the audio format. I'm working on one of those with someone right now that, just, you couldn't write it in another format. It just doesn't work.

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