Brent Weeks
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Epic fantasy writer. The Night Angel Trilogy & The Lightbringer Series. NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS. Working on sequel to NAN now. **Business tweets only for a while**
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I've finished Lightbringer 5: THE BURNING WHITE. It's in my editor's inbox now. Merry Christmas!
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Congratulations to my friend
@BrandSanderson
successfully funding his Kickstarter with a bit of time to spare. Mark my word, one of these days, this talented newcomer is really gonna shake things up!
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It’s been a long time coming . . .
NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS.
Spring 2023.
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I've turned in the finale of the Lightbringer Series, THE BURNING WHITE. Late October publication looks solid. 1,420 manuscript pages. Lego for scale.
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I love praise. Everyone loves praise. But fans, please don't praise a writer by saying, "Your books are so much better than __'s books!"
Especially in our genre, those two writers are often friends, so that kind of praise doesn't feel good, it feels bad.
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A long book is inconvenient for EVERYONE in the industry--writer, editors, sales, buyers, stockers, transportation, bookstores, librarians, and everyone else--except readers. Everyone in the industry should remember the last.
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I'm working on a novel set in the Night Angel universe. No timeline on publication or other details yet--other than that you will see at least a couple familiar faces. :) I'm having fun!
@BrentWeeks
I just finished up The Burning White. Once again you manage to dazzle, entertain, and exhilerate me once again. Well done! It was undoubtebly worth the wait and im glad you took the time to perfect it. I know it's probably too soon, but what is next on your agenda?
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Had my first-ever sighting of someone reading my book in the wild. Didn't know how (if?) to start a conversation, but then she came up to me. "Hey, are you Brent Weeks?"
"Yes?"
"I know your wife!"
"...Oh."
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Working on edits on this monster (THE BURNING WHITE), and I'm again reminded of Terry Brooks's words of wisdom to me:
"Shorter books, Brent. Shorter books."
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As I walked out to my writing shed this morning, it occurred to me that this is my dream. Quietly going to work, wrestling the words day by day.
It’s an enormous privilege to get to do what I was made for. I feel grateful beyond what a few sentences can capture. Thank you!
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Someone scolded me for not spoiler-tagging a post about the Odyssey.
It's been out for 2,700 years.
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Was on vacation. Saw a couple newlyweds reading. One had a TOME. "Gotta be fantasy," I thought. Yep, they were enjoying
@BrandSanderson
&
@scalzi
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They didn't. So this anecdote kinda ends with a whimper.
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One of my favorite misspellings is when people write "defiantly" for "definitely".
"Mr. Weeks, I will defiantly be picking up your next book." I'm like, yeah, that's the spirit.
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Didn't you just post that it was at 50% earlier today?
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It's THE BURNING WHITE's release day, so I'll be putting a lot in the tweet-stream this week. You can put me in Twitter timeout if need be. Here's a non-Burning White offering:
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Just made up a wrinkle that fits the established history AND makes a character feel much, much worse about himself. Small, but wonderfully guilty.
Sorry, Gavin.
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@DanielBGreene
Do YOU enjoy doing them? You have to pay the bills, absolutely, but chasing the algorithm or the market can mean losing your own love for what you do.
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Fun fact: THE BURNING WHITE has two copy editors working on it simultaneously. One of them thinks equine excrement should be "horse shit." The other one prefers "horseshit."
(Just to give you a whiff of the kind of thing I'm talking about.)
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Had this image come to me. Thought I'd jot it down, then start work. Ended up writing the first scene of a new Night Angel novel. Oops.
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Why would you think I can count that high? I'm the guy who got lost on the way to a trilogy and ended up with five books.
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This sequence of scenes is awesome, but it's getting longer than I'd intended.
Hey,
@BrandSanderson
, how long is too long again?
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Yes! I think I've successfully made this book unfilmable. Some would call that a financial failure. They'd be right. But it can be an artistic triumph. Movies do some things better than books, and to a wider audience. But books can do things movies cannot. Why read? This is why.
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Aw, one of the two best authors ever? Me?!
*reads on*
Oh. Not actually me. You meant
@PatrickRothfuss
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Introvert: n. One who doesn't need a pandemic in order to notice the merits of social distancing.
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For perhaps the first time in my daughters' lives, I cooked filet mignon. I shared with them, not expecting much. (Parents, you understand, right?) My sometimes-finicky 7 year old gets a rapturous expression on her face. "Dad. This. Is. Perfect! This is better than hot dogs!"
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Editors troll authors by giving them deadlines.
Authors troll editors by promising to meet them.
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Q: But how many BOOK pages is that, Brent?
A: That depends on font, margin, etc, so here's another attempt: It's the length of The Way of Shadows, plus Shadow's Edge, plus a third of Beyond the Shadows.
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That thing where you have a character say a thing, and people think it's your own deepest belief.
@BrentWeeks
quote on meaning of life.
#purposeoflife
#meaningoflife
#lifepurpose
#purposedrivenlife
#brentweeks
#goodqn
#goodquotes
#ikigai
#lifepurpose
#purposefullife
#purposefulliving
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Thank YOU, Orbit! And many, many thanks to hardworking booksellers and my amazing fans. :)
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Got an email from a "fan" outraged that a novel I've been working on for two years, six days a week is $13 in ebook. Enjoy your $4 coffee.
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Only 200,000 words? Can you translate what that actually means for the epic fantasy fans in the audience? That's like... a novelette, right?
So, The Trouble With Peace is finished. 195,000 words, so about a Before They are Hanged length.
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They tell you that in its own way, every age of your child's life is magical.
What they don't tell you is that at age three, it's dark magic.
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I was innocently browsing a recipe thread on Reddit the other day when this happened. (That's not an alt, promise.)
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So, I ended up on the semifinal list of Best Fantasy Book for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards...
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A tipple to celebrate coming home after a successful book tour. Thanks to everyone who came to see me!
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Whew. It finally happened . I was worried that I would go through a whole fantasy novel without once doing it--but today, I finally wrote the word "widdershins."
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At the last minute, I almost had to murder a minor character for introducing a continuity error.
Managed to save her instead.
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes
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Received a very nice letter from a fan asking if she could use a quote from my book, THE WARDED MAN.
Naturally, I told her that she could use as much of that book as she likes--or all of it as far as I'm concerned. That as far as it's mine, she can now consider it equally hers.
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After this thing is over, there are some words that are gonna need to go back on the shelf to cool off for a while. What words do you want to put in time out? I'll go first: "unprecedented".
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*makes up a name for secondary character*
*Googles it to make sure it's original*
It's not.
*tries 6 more times*
*finds out Rule 34 applies to fantasy names, too*
No more writing today.
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I reached that critical phase of plaguehair where I decided to shave my head. My wife originally objected, but I decided to show her who's really the boss of me and proudly asserted my autonomy.
Ergo, freely and entirely of my own volition, I've decided to keep my hair.
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Happy Valentine's Day to all of you who hate Valentine's Day. You too are worthy of love. Even though nobody knows it. Or ever will. You'll probably die alone.
Well, shit.
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Aw, awesome fan art makes me so happy. Love it!
🌕 The Night Angel ✨
Kylar Stern from one of my all time favorite books The Way of Shadows by
@BrentWeeks
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People ask me what author I'd most like to meet. I say, "Brent Weeks, obviously." Not because I'm arrogant--which, ok, fine, that too--but do you know how many books I could write if I had a clone?
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That’s by my alter ego,
@PVBrett
.
But really, we’re both pen names for
@BrandSanderson
, who was worried he was publishing too much.
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You think THAT'S sad?
Hold my beer.
The saddest chapter of the
#lightbringer
series is, by far, chapter 24 of The Broken Eye. I'm on read four of the series and it never fails to make my heart hurt.
#teamgavin
@BrentWeeks
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It took a few years, but a reader FINALLY asked me if I did this on purpose:
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I'm fine with merely being readers' favorite living author.
Because I don't want to die.
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Ouch.
@LordGrimdark
waltzed into my AMA yesterday and roasted me. I only managed this weak riposte. (The rest of the AMA is at this link):
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One beauty of novels is that your imagination has an unlimited budget, and you get the perfect cast every time.
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I love going outside and smelling campfire. Though I do wish it wasn't from the camp being on fire. And I wish the camp wasn't, you know, Oregon.
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I was complaining to my 7 year old how my hair poofs out when it goes too long without a cut.
Daughter: Daddy, I like your hair. It makes you look like a clown.
#roasted
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Great day writing. Cut 2,000 words. Then added back in 1,000 better ones.
Sometimes, in writing as in life, backward IS forward.
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"This is NOT the time to add scenes to this book!"
-me, looking at approaching deadline, editor, and word limit
"Just one more scene."
-also me
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English major, I said. I'm gonna be a writer!
So you're gonna be a teacher, they said.
I said, Nope! Someday, someone's going to say:
I got so excited that the library had Brent Weeks audiobooks that i started choking
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(For those unfamiliar with my pace, I've written a big book every 2 years for 14 years now. But finales of huge series are harder and more complex--and yes, I did let her know early on that this one would take more time.)
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You should try the Lightbringer books next. I foreswore the use of plot twists in those.
Been reading the night angel trilogy and I just finished Shadows Edge and- GOSHDAMMIT
@BrentWeeks
IM GONNA LOSE MY DANG MIND WITH ALL THESE PLOT TWISTS I SWEAR TO THE GOD.
EVERY
DAM
CHAPTER.
I love it.
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Someone just told me there was a lot less death than they expected at the end of Lightbringer.
I'LL DO BETTER, I PROMISE!
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Seeing a typo in a tweet you posted hours ago. Sigh.
Typos are like sand. I don't like them. They're coarse and rough and irritating. They get everywhere.
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The Night Angel was a trilogy. Trilogy means three books. So clearly I can't add to it.
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Odd thing today: Put my family first, burning precious writing time this morning. Then went to work out late, though I'd already burned precious writing time. Then had to face a super hard scene, starting WAY too late...
And it went awesome. Go figure.
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Wait. What? Is this for real?
Replaying Fable 3 and noticed this Easter egg that I missed the first time around
@BrentWeeks
#bibliophile
#gaming
#bestofbothworlds
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Idea: a combo coffee and marijuana stand. No wait, it gets better! Call it The Coffee Pot.
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10 Lessons I've Learned from 10 Years Writing The LIGHTBRINGER Series. (A thread.)
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Just saw the premise of Lightbringer put like this: "magic-powered wizard pope Tony Stark's lies are holding the whole world together, and they've begun unraveling".
-
@Michael_06S
Dang. If I'd used THAT as my pitch, they'd have doubled my advance.
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I finally finished signing all the pre-orders of THE BURNING WHITE. Best thing to come of this? My signature is now sometimes legible. Worst thing? I picked up a fountain pen habit. I also learned why people will buy expensive paper.
Yes, PAPER. Madness.
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In today's chapter, I have to kill a bad guy.
I'm sorry to see him go.
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THE BLACK PRISM (Book 1 of The Lightbringer Series) is $2.99 on Kindle today.
(US only, I suspect.)
But if you're reading this, you already own it, right? RIGHT?
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After clicking to the full pic... dang, I think you actually ARE my biggest fan.
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Funny thing is, after I did recaps last time, I found someone on Reddit who'd done a better job of it than I had. The nerve! Turns out I'm better at writing epics than brief recaps. So I asked his permission to use his instead of mine. (I did edit it.) Thanks, Joseph Mondragon!
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Don't be a writer. If that sounds harsh, please understand. I mean stop investing in Writer as Identity. Invest in learning to tell a story, or share a poem, or whatever. Stop looking at yourself and look to the thing you love. Then share it.
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After several pages of lovely prose showing how my world is alive and in flux, how common people are affected by decisions made by those in power far away, I ask myself a fatal question: "Yes, Brent, this is nice, but how much of it needs to be in _this_ book?"
Crap.
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I don't know if I could handle that sort of pressure. I'm the guy who once signed a fan's book:
"To Brent,
-Brent"
His name was not Brent.
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Hold up. I have to do something next?
It’s 1 AM and I just finished
@BrentWeeks
‘s Lightbringer series and wow of my god wow it’s so good. I can’t handle it, this is such a masterful series, wow. Hands down the best read I’ve had in my 20 years on this planet. Can’t wait to see what he does next.
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@BrandSanderson
They said 350k. I said, Doesn't Brandon get like 400k? They said, Well, yeah... but are YOU Brandon Sanderson?
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Good morning! I have a little something to share with you. Did you want to see it?
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Me retweeting this is only going to go to the people who _have_ heard of me, isn't it?
Marketing is hard.
@johngreen
The Lightbringer series by
@BrentWeeks
. Great characters, cool magic, fantastic worldbuilding, subverted tropes, no one ever seems to have heard of it.
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My 3 year old: Daddy, I think you would look better with no beard. Or a short beard.
Me: Did mommy tell you to say that?
Her: Yes.
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Ever wondered what Alexander Pope meant when he referred to "damning with faint praise"?
Real fan comment from my FB page: "I really enjoyed most of Light Bringer! I appreciate your work for what it is."
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Because early in my career I still thought a trilogy had to be three books.
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Ten years. Twenty-one thousand seven hundred forty two tweets, and I've finally monetized my time on social media. TAKE THAT, DOUBTERS!
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Someone I work with just said, "Comic Sans is an option."
Yes, I work with monsters.
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Writing a novel is a high-wire act where half the people hope you’ll fall.
But if you don't, you can look forward to half the people arguing that you actually did.
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Gavin. No, not that one. The other Gavin. No, not that one either. Gavin Greyling.
How could you all be confused?
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If you've ever said to yourself, "Before I die, I'd really love to fall down a staircase." I have a recommendation.
Have children.
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It looks like a guy could write a book set sometime later in that world someday with a little hook like that just sitting around.
Huh.
I'll have to think about that.
@BrentWeeks
I know you've probably been asked a million times about this. But what does this even mean? Did you have something planned already or did you change your mind about including it?
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*writes clever line*
*chortles*
"Ha! They're gonna love that!"
*frowns*
"...in a year or two... if it survives edits..."
*sighs*
*returns to glamorous life as a writer*
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Booksellers recommending my books to readers are a huge part of why I keep getting to do this job I love. Thank you, Christian! (And thank you to all book evangelists. Authors need you.)
Christian recommends the Night Angel trilogy by
@BrentWeeks
#142bn
#irvine
#irvinewoodbridge
#woodbridgevillagecenter
#irvinefamily
#books
#bnbookpassion
#reading
#readerforlife
#lovetoread
#bookseller
#weareopen
#bn
#bookaholic
#bookworm
#barnesandnoble
#bibliophile
#bnbuzz
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Gutted that I only just learned that in France, the word for novelist is romancier.
Mom: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Me: (•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
Un grand romancier.
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A good guy just made a bad choice. At the finale. Silly good guy, you need to make your bad choices early in the novel, then it'll show growth when you make a good choice at the finale. Never make your bad choices at the finale of a gritty novel.
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Early Book Gremlin: If you make a mistake now, it'll take you six months to fix later.
Writer: So what do I do?
Early Book Gremlin: Panic. And write nothing for six months.
Writer: That's not a solution!
Beer: But, technically, I am.
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I get my greatest ideas in the shower, so my writing advice is this: shower.
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