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Warbreaker
by Brandon Sanderson
Introduction to WARBREAKER
Welcome! My name is Brandon Sanderson. Before anything else, I'd like to thank you for your interest in my books. I hope you enjoy Warbreaker.
In case you don't know, I'm a professional fantasy novelist. My first book, Elantris, was published in some thirteen languages, earned me a Campbell nomination, and got starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly and the Library Journal. It was also picked by Barnes and Noble editors as the best fantasy or science fiction book of the year.
My second book, Mistborn, is out in paperback. Mistborn 2: The Well of Ascension was published in August of 2007. Book three is out in October of this year. I also have a kid's book Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians out from Scholastic Press. You can find sample chapters of these books at the end of this file. If you like Warbreaker, consider buying those!
As many of you might already know, I was chosen in December of 2007 to complete Robert Jordan's epic masterpiece The Wheel of Time. I'm hard at work on the twelfth and final novel in this series, titled A MEMORY OF LIGHT. It should be out sometime in the fall of 2009. Coincidentally, that should be the same year Warbreaker is released.
How this Book Came About
Warbreaker is something of an experiment for me. For a long time, I've wanted to release an e-book on my website. My first inclination was to grab one of my old, unpublished books and offer it.
And yet, one of my main reasons for releasing said e-book would be for publicity reasons. I wanted something I could g