Why did I say this is an exciting week? Well, there’s going to be a lot of show and tell. So you should stick around and see the show and tell. But first, a few little things.

So, I’m here right now to tell you how you get your signed copies of Wind and Truth. We are doing something different this year. Normally, I go to my warehouse, and I sign as many copies as I can get in a couple of days. We’ve maxed out at about 5,000 copies because we have to open up each book and have me sign them. You’ve seen the videos. If you haven’t, there might be one linked in the description. You can see the process. TOR came to me and said, “We really would like to get some into the retailers,” the Barnes & Nobles and the indies and all of these people across US and Canada. And we said, “It’s just so hard to, like, unbox and things like that. We can maybe try it if we can do a tip-in page edition.” So a tip-in page is where—like you’ve seen me signing for the leatherbounds, except it’s a special sheet that they give me that I sign that gets bound into the books. We’re going to try that this year instead. And because we’re doing it that way, we can do 15,000 instead of 5,000. That is going to be split 5,000 for the publish and 10,000 for me. Our 10,000 will release in the same way we normally do, as a numbered edition with a book bundle tie-in with Dragonsteel Nexus. But you don’t have to be going to Nexus to get the book bundle. But it will have a swag item and things like that. I believe you have to get the whole bundle to get the signed and numbered edition from us. And that’s just how we’re going to do our 10,000. It’s just so much easier for us to have one product done one way, and those will be numbered. These 5,000, the other 5,000, are going out into the world to the various retailers. Those won’t be numbered, but they’ll be the same edition otherwise, with a tip-in page signed at the front. I’m not exactly 100% sure how they’re going to get these and divide them up and things like that. They do want to start a preorder, starting today, and this is for the US and Canada. And they’ve given us a FAQ that you can look at in the description about how this is going to work out. There’s like a limited number of copies available at select retailers, and you might have to check with your local bookstore. They may have to be like, “Hey, TOR, how many of these can I get?” And things like that. It gets complicated when you do this when you do this through the publisher. But this is the only way that I can get signed books out to everybody who can’t get them from my store, doesn’t want to, just wants to support their local bookstore. So, we’re going to try and figure out how to make this work. Read the FAQ if you’re interested. I expect these 5,000 to go pretty quickly. But I’m not exactly sure on the details. You’ll have to look at the FAQ. But can keep an eye out here if you want to find out about our book bundle, which we will talk about in coming months, about how you get the signed, numbered edition.

Next item, before we get to our show and tell. Remember we have a Kickstarter for the Stormlight pen and paper role-playing game happening this August with Brotherwise. Dan has been putting so much work into this, and the Art Team, and I’ve been reading through it for continuity, and it’s looking really good. I think you guys are going to really love it. And there will be a world book as part of this that you could buy separately if you are only interested in the world guide, either for your own games or just for a coffee table book. And there will be a separate, just game guide, is what the plan is right now. So keep an eye out for that. I know people have been clamoring for this. It’s looking really, really good.

So one more upcoming announcement. I have a cover reveal for you. I guess this is the beginning of show and tell. The beginning of Show and Tell is, look at this awesome cover! So, if you weren’t aware, I am doing a picture book. I’m not doing the art. The art is by Kazu Kibuishi, who is amazing. He does the Amulet middle-grade epic fantasy series, which is the single best young person’s epic fantasy that I’ve ever read, and he kind of is the Brandon Sanderson of middle-grade epic fantasy, and he agreed to do this with me. He was my number one choice for the artwork. And so it was really exciting to get my number one choice. The cover is here. Now, the joke of this book, which is called The Most Boring Book Ever, is that the art does not match the words. And we’ve done some pretty extensive beta reads. We’re having a really good response from 7 to 11 and even a little bit older. My 14-year-old loves it. Any kid who can kind of get the joke, “Wait a minute. These words are really boring, and this art is really epic,” seems to really love the book. It releases September 24th of this year, and we’ll be talking a lot more about that. We’re going to have Kazu come and be on the channel and some things like that. And he’s delightful. I think you guys will really enjoy that. So keep an eye out for that.

So, the real show and tell. Thank you for putting up with me telling you about all the cool things that I have coming. Here are the cool things that have already arrived. A lot of you have asked about the size of the banners. So these are the banners that happened with our crowdfunding campaign. This is the Windrunner one. They are super cool. I love having these, like, banners/pennants/flags that you’ll be able to, like, hang in a dorm room or something like this. Like, somebody has their team banner over here, and you’re like, “Yep. Yep. Well, I’m going to hang up the Bondsmith symbol.” So these came together really well. I am bad at showing off how cool they are, but they’re nice and sturdy. They’re looking good. I suppose we’ll do Dustbringer because it looks so cool, the coloring on that one. So these are your banners if you participated in the crowdfunding and selected one of these. These have come in. These are our samples. This is what they’re going to look like. So we got them for all—I’m just going to hold up all of these. We got them for everything. The team made sure I have plenty to do show and tell with today.

So, let’s talk about next the charms. The charm sets come with three little charms. We’ve got the sparkly, we’ve got the symbol, and we’ve got the name of the order. I’m really pleased with how these came out. They all look pretty solid and sturdy. Once again, the colorings on Dustbringer’s look so awesome. I know you haven’t been able to read much about them as an order. So I suspect that there’ll be more of you who are Dustbringers in coming years, once we have some books out that really focus on them. But these look incredible, and I think you’re really going to like them. So, that’s how those turned out. Like I said, I know a lot of people have been asking, “How are these things going to look?”

So, what else do we got coming up here? Well, coasters! Coasters are something we added to our first crowdfunding campaign, the Year of Sanderson, that was just kind of an afterthought as we were looking for something cool to add. And we loved them so much we have another set of them. We have four of them. The first one is Storm Form, which is so cool. It’s like a Mountain Dew. “Powerful results. Lightning fast.” It looks so good. It says, “Tired of feeling ordinary? Storm Form!” and then our coaster for “The Ornery Chull, a cut above the rest,” which is a restaurant, for our first time. It says, “Feeling down with the crown? Find your friends at The Ornery Chull, the war camp’s prime station for assassination.” (laughing) It says, “When you’re here, you’re crime family.” “Brew d état?” (laughing) And then we have a nice singer that might be Rlain or somebody showing off “Crem Soda.” Crem Soda. “Discover the refreshing taste of Crem Soda, the crem de la crem.” “It’s gem heart healthy.” “Five out of five recommend Crem Soda for thirsty listeners of all ages.” Yep. That actually looks a little bit more like Eshonai on the back because it’s got Shardplate. But yep. And then finally, for you discerning people, high class, we have The Precipice. “For the discerning lighteyes who live on the edge.” This is where you can go enjoy a meal and a drink as a storm is coming. And on the back it has the waiter being blown away by the oncoming storm. So these are our coasters. As you might be able to tell from our chuckles, we have a little bit of fun.

Then we have our sticker packs. Really these are our decals. Is that what you would call them rather than stickers? They’re more fancy if you call them decals. But these turned out really well. We’re trying to level up on our stickers so that they earn the title of decal rather than just ordinary sticker. They look really sharp, and I think you guys are going to love these. You’ve got your spren at the bottom. You’ve got two of the small symbol, one of the large symbol, and then, of course, your order name. And the Stormlight at the top is also, you know, there for you to press out. It’s had the—what do you call it? It’s been struck so it can be peeled off by itself. And so you will be able to adorn your water bottles and/or, who knows, you know, as we said, there are some of you discerning. Some of you can stick these on your Ferraris. We’ll let you do that. I think that they would look very nice on a Ferrari.

And then last. Last is, we’ve got the Dragonsteel Prime and Way of Kings Prime. For those who for some reason don’t know, these are the versions of the books I wrote long ago, before I was a published author, and they’re OK. They’re not fantastic books. They’re OK. I wrote Dragonsteel write after I wrote Elantris. And Way of Kings Prime was the last book I wrote before I sold Elantris, so this was number 13. And then Mistborn is number 14. And so I thought we’d show those off because we had to do a new version of Way of Kings Prime because the cover material we had chosen went out of stock, is no longer being made. So those are those.

So if you have these things coming, we are getting everything together. These are just the samples. So we don’t yet have everything to ship out. But we are waiting as they all pour in, hoping to be able to ship out to you as soon as is reasonable, is what we will say.

Last two little more housekeeping items. I did a Five Favorites Book Cover with Tran, who is the cover illustrator of the mass market edition of Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. It’s a really fun video. So if you missed it, it came out on Friday.

Finally, as I complained about on TikTok, 7% of you have still not filled out your crowdfunding campaign survey. We can’t send you your cool stuff until you fill out the survey because that’s where you give us, like, your address and stuff. You have already been charged, but we can’t send you things. Now, we don’t have it to send yet, so, you know, you do have some time. But please go fill out your survey, because we would like to know that those are all done so that we’re not just sitting on your money, that we indeed can send you the things, because we have ordered them for you. We don’t want to sit on them. We don’t want your stuff in our warehouse. We want it in your house. So please fill out your form so we can send you all these cool things.

I will be back next week, where I will almost assuredly announce that Stormlight 5 has hit, you know, pen down, and has been handed off to Editorial Team for proofreads and things like that. So join us next week for that potential celebration. Thank you, as always, for putting up with me going on and on about random things. It is kind of my job.