BRANDON: Hey! Brandon here with the Weekly Update.
All right, let's get the percentages done. Mistborn screenplay. How's the Mistborn screenplay going? I am at, Bing! 55%. Made another little inch forward on that into the second half of Act 2, which is always a difficult part to write. So kind of in the whole snarl going on with Vin going to balls and learning to be a Mistborn and all of this stuff. So lots of fun. And I feel like I'm making good progress.
Janci's work on Book 3 of Riftwake is at, Bing! 20%. So nice motion on those things.
So what else do we got going on? So you may have noticed that my Magic: The Gathering book, Children of the Nameless, was done through Subterranean Press. They're a specialty press. They do very nice work. They released an expensive limited edition a little while ago. Now they're releasing what they call their trade edition. So this is a $45 version, which is much cheaper than their limited edition. Still a little on the pricey side, I recognize for a novella. But it was illustrated by Cynthia Sheppard, and it's quite gorgeous. And if you are a fan of Children of the Nameless, I'm quite proud of the story. The story I wrote for $1, because I couldn't help myself. They called me and said, “We'd like you to write a story, Brandon.” They had all these pitches, and I said, “No, I'm going to write my own thing. I won't take any money for it. You just got to let me do my own thing.” And they're like, “All right, do your thing, Brandon.” So I did my thing, got it out of my system. And then I told them that eventually I would like them to do an edition for charity. And so a percentage of this is getting donated to charity. Basically, what I make off of this one, we are donating to charity. So you can get that. I don't know if there's any of the limited edition left. They may have sold out. But the trade edition is available. There's a small chance that there'll still be a regular through a New York publisher in bookstores edition of this. So if $45 on this is a bit of a steep price tag, there is potential that there will be an eventually even cheaper edition. But this is just a little fun side project that we did, and it's kind of a side thing for me and for Wizards. So we get things done with it when there's time between the cracks of other things that we're working on. I'm just happy that we finally got one out. Thank you to Wizards of the Coast for letting me play in your playground.
So I will be visiting Atlanta in a couple of weeks. It's pretty close, right? Right around two weeks from when I'm recording this. John Scalzi, my evil nemesis, and I will have an author event together on Thursday, April 16th, 7:00 until 8:00 P.M. at the Decatur First Baptist Church. Tickets have sold out to this, but we will be posting the full video on YouTube. And even if you can't go to the event or you are not interested or the tickets sell out or sold out or whatever, we will have a pop-up shop at the church throughout that full day as well. So you can go, we should have some signed books there. I don't know how long those will last, but we'll have signed books, we'll have merch, we'll have all sorts of things just there at the church all that day. So April 16th, stop by. We want to do a test run on having pop-up shops like this where I sign a bunch of books ahead of time and we have the shop pop up for a short time when we're in a place so that you don't have to like go to an event or go to a convention in order to go see the Dragonsteel shop. So I'd love feedback on whether you like this, if this idea works for you, if you're in Atlanta and can't make the event, if this was convenient for you. These are all really helpful things to know. So give that a look. There should be some really fun things there for you to check out.
What has been going on YouTube lately with me? Well, I've got two things for you to go watch. My interview with Jay Kristoff is live. That was a fun interview. He came through town and I went up and hosted him as I like to do when authors come through town. The other thing is I did finally see Project Hail Mary a bit later than the rest of you. It took me a couple of weeks. My schedule can be a little bit complicated. It was fun. We went to the theater to go in, and we walked in and it was Super Mario Galaxy. And it turns out that our tickets had gotten mixed up and we had tickets at the wrong theater. So we ended up going to the other theater and eventually seeing Project Hail Mary. For a short time, you were going to get a Super Mario Galaxy review instead. I'm sure you would all love that. But I did make it to Project Hail Mary. I did get to see get to see Grace on screen, and that was a lot of fun. The review will go up on Thursday. Spoiler again, I liked it. So, and I hope you enjoy the review, but if you haven't seen the movie, go see it. If you haven't read the book, it is spectacular. So, read the book.
Spring break is right around the corner, and if you're itching for something to do, my team suggested to me that I tell you what I've been reading lately. So, you know that I had been reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and I finished that. I highly recommend the Andy Serkis audiobooks. Andy is spectacular. He is really good with all the voices. It's interesting how he does these audiobooks, because he doesn't do impressions of the actors from the movies, but you can almost kind of feel that he's somehow doing their take on it without doing an impression of them. It's never distracting, but you hear the voices, you're like, “Oh yeah, that's Merry, that's Pippin. Makes perfect sense to me.” And then of course, when Gollum comes on, it's just like chills. You're like, “Oh, right.” And so Andy Serkis is just one of the best audiobook narrators I've ever listened to. He did a fantastic job. Before that, the book series I read that I would also recommend is the Jade books. Jade City is the first by Fonda Lee. I will stamp a content warning on those. They are mature books for adult readers. How about that? They definitely come with a content warning. The premise is a fantasy world based on like a mid-1900s Hong Kong gangster sort of thing going on. So lots of gangster stuff with a cool magic system and whatnot. So if you're looking for something like that, those books are quite good.
And what am I reading right now? I decided that it had been so long, I needed to reread Red Rising because I've been hanging out with Pierce Brown. And I'm like, I read your book like a long time ago, Pierce, and I can only vaguely remember it. And he gave me this cool helmet from, you know, like, and so I'm like, all right, I got to reread Red Rising. So I downloaded the audiobook of Red Rising and I'm like two hours in. It's only like a 10-hour book or something like that. So I'm decently far. I'm to the first big twist. So that's what I'm reading. Red Rising is great. Action-packed, quite energetic, science fiction, borderline YA adult sort of story. So there you are. That's what I've been reading.
Let me know what you've been reading and what I should read in the comments. I will try to eventually get to some of the things people have been telling me to read for a while. I did eventually get to Fonda Lee. Dan has been working on me for like 10 years.
There we are. That was the Weekly Update. I hope you guys all have a great spring break, and I will be back next week with more progress on the Mistborn screenplay.
