Reviewing the biggest Kickstarter ever: Sanderson’s Secret Projects and the Journey from ‘Tress’ to the ‘Sunlit Man’!
DISCLAIMER: This article contains major spoilers from the Cosmere Novels.
In March 2022, Brandon Sanderson shocked the publishing world with the most successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in history, for four novels he wrote in secret during the COVID-19 pandemic. With premium hardcovers, ebooks, and audiobooks available to crowdfunding backers in 2023 on January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1, the second ebook will be available here in wide release on April 11, and is now available for preorder.
Those are not my words but those of every media outlet when my favorite Fantasy-Novelist’s Kickstarter titled ‘Surprise! Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson’ blew past $20M in the first 72 hours to become the most-funded Kickstarter of all time. As of September 29, 2023, this Kickstarter has been backed by 185,341 backers who pledged $41,754,153 to help bring this project to life.
This is a remarkable amount for any author. In the past, I have only seen Kickstarter becoming the launchpad for many tabletop games, tech gadgets, and other tech-related products. For an author to surpass so many other highly-pledged Kickstarters and place their…
