Brandon Sanderson Just Launched a Massive New Cosmere Crowdfunding Campaign That Has Already Blown Its Goals Out the Water

Brandon Sanderson has been engaged implicit the past fewer months. With the caller announcement that his Cosmere beingness would beryllium coming to Apple TV, Sanderson has been actively providing updates astir his advancement via Youtube. And yet someway he's inactive recovered clip to motorboat a monolithic caller crowdfunding run that has already blown its goals retired of the water.

The Hoid's Storybook Collection run went unrecorded connected Backerkit connected March 3 and its already raised implicit $5.7 cardinal aft a azygous day. The project's archetypal backing extremity was lone $1,000,000 and the run is planned to tally each the mode done March 27.

Credit: The authoritative Backerkit page.

Sanderson isn't caller to crowdfunding occurrence and is known for delivering a large last task to anyone who backs these campaigns. The Cosmere RPG, for example, launched connected Kickstarter backmost successful August 2024 and generated a whopping $15 cardinal successful the span of a azygous month. The Hoid's Storybook postulation is seemingly connected way to beryllium adjacent bigger.

For those not intimately acquainted with Sanderson's Cosmere books, Hoid is 1 of the fewer characters who shows up successful mutliple stories. He's an ancient, immortal storyteller who is besides susceptible of jumping betwixt worlds. The caller storybook postulation includes 4 illustrated editions of salient fables Hoid has told passim his agelong lifespan.

"The inception of this run came erstwhile I wrote the communicative of 'The Dog and the Dragon' for Rhythm of War," Sanderson writes successful the run description. "We’ve chosen to marque the presumption of each of these books idiosyncratic to the fixed story. Some (like Wandersail) are luxurious, graphic depictions intended to beryllium the cleanable postulation portion for a Stormlight enthusiast. Others (like The Dog and the Dragon) person been designed to evoke a classical children’s book, to beryllium work to those who are younger."

In summation to the 4 storybooks, the run besides includes the enactment to bargain a peculiar variation of The Fires of December, an wholly caller Cosmere caller acceptable to merchandise connected December 8, 2026. The upcoming publication is portion of the Hoid's Travails series, which includes Tress of the Emerald Sea and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter.

For an thought of what to expect from the upcoming Hoid Storybooks oregon The Fires of December, you tin cheque retired Brandon Sanderson's authoritative Youtube page. He has been regularly launching caller videos for each publication successful the leadup to the campaign.