It will likely be years before we can be certain how much this actually earned us after all expenses. Also, don’t underestimate how much money it costs to maintain the infrastructure (like a warehouse–or in this case, probably more than one) it takes to be able to ship several hundred thousand books. While this Kickstarter is an incredible event, and (don’t get me wrong) is going to earn me a good chunk of money, it’s going to be comparable to other projects I’ve done. Also, it’s not outside of reason that as I move into doing more film and TV, I will want to partially fund some of the projects.) (We’re still planning on building a physical bookstore, and this will help accelerate those plans. Part into savings, part into paying salaries (along with nice extra bonuses because the Kickstarter did well), part reinvested into the company. I will spend the money as I spend the rest of my money. I didn’t hit the lottery, any more than any other business hits the lottery when they have a product that connects with their market. It’s a valid question, but it took me by surprise, as I haven’t been looking at this the way that some people seem to be. But this question stopped me for a moment. He gave an excellent interview, and we had a really great conversation. I got this question from the journalist from the Associated Press who interviewed me.
Particularly not one by my favorite game developer. This would not be a good time to start a new video game. I’d love to be playing Elden Ring right now, but I think I’ll need to put that off also until I know that I have momentum on Stormlight 5. (The bright side here is that I added about 25k words to Wax and Wayne in this revision.) If Stormlight 5 does slip, it won’t be the Secret Projects slowing me down, but instead the extra attention to Wax and Wayne that has done it–or specific needs of Stormlight 5. The end of a given sequence (like is happening with W&W 4) deserves extra attention. As I’ve been saying for a while now, I’ll allow Stormlight 5 to slip into spring 2024 instead of fall 2023 if I need the extra time.
That isn’t terribly bad the way I pace these things it’s fully possible that I can finish by the end of the year, as I’d like to. Regardless, I’m roughly a month behind on Stormlight 5. Fortunately we have the Skyward Flight sequence to pick up the slack–and if you haven’t looked into those, I would recommend them. I won’t feel comfortable doing the 2.0 on that until I have at least a month of daily progress on Stormlight and I have Secret Project One turned in. The bad news is that the delay means that I didn’t have time to do the Skyward 4 2.0 draft, so that book might end up being put off until summer next year instead of spring next year.
#Tor publishing stock trading full#
(I sent in the 4.0 last night.) This does mean that I’m officially on Stormlight 5 full time. I hoped to be done in early February, but I only just finished. I really wanted to get finished with the revision of Wax and Wayne earlier than I have, however. (Actually low-key, no secret projects being worked on, I promise.)
There was too much I wanted to do to Wax and Wayne 4, and beyond that I needed to chill a little bit–and so the first two weeks of the year were pretty low-key for me work-wise. That said, I’m feeling a tad behind–I knew (once I finished Skyward 4) that I probably wouldn’t be able to really start Stormlight 5 in January. We’ll start easy, then get into some more in-depth explanations of why I approached this project the way that I did. The short version, which you can read here. (Or ones I’ve been seeing people pontificate about.) Consider this a kind of halfway point retrospective. After seeing some of the discourse around what is going on with the Kickstarter, I thought you all might enjoy it if I answered a few questions I’ve been getting. It has been, to say the least, a wild two weeks for me.