![]() ![]() Sanderson rose to prominence in 2007 when he was chosen by the widow of the late author Robert Jordan to complete the Wheel of Time fantasy series, adapted for TV last year by Amazon Prime. With the Kickstarter running until 1 April, that potentially puts him in the earnings bracket of thriller writer James Patterson, who scored $150m (£113m) in 2009 for a 17-book deal Barack and Michelle Obama, who got a joint advance of $65m for their memoirs in 2017, and pop singer Britney Spears, who landed a $15m deal for a book on the conservatorship scandal that has dogged her life. Nebraska-born Sanderson has, at the time of writing, earned $23m (£17.5m) from fans who are paying upfront for copies of the four novels to be released next year, in effect funding their production, printing and distribution – and Sanderson’s pay packet for writing them. And less than three days after launching the project on Kickstarter he broke the platform’s record for the highest earnings in its 13-year existence. ![]() When he woke up on Wednesday, it was to, in effect, one of the biggest book deals in history.
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