These pieces are not only great art for a book, they are great art period, deserving of a place in any gallery. I wanted these to have a style evoking classical paintings of the Renaissance and the later Romantic era, and both Dan and Howard exceeded expectations. Dan dos Santos and Howard Lyon are responsible for the paintings of the Heralds on the front and back endpapers. It takes a variety of artists to recreate the styles found in the ephemera of another world, so this time around we’ve worked with even more artists than before. I love that she gets a place to shine on the cover of this book, and I continue to feel honored and grateful that Michael takes time away from his gallery work to paint the world of Roshar. We again have a fantastic cover illustration by Michael Whelan, whose attention to detail has given us an incredibly accurate rendition of Jasnah Kholin.
Oathbringer continues the tradition of filling The Stormlight Archive with beautiful art. Thanks again, guys, for making time in your schedule for this! The audiobook was read by my personal favorite audiobook narrators, Michael Kramer and Kate Reading. Emily’s assistant is Kathleen Dorsey Sanderson and our executive minion is Emily “Mem” Grange. Adam Horne is my executive assistant and publicity/marketing director. Continuity editor-and holy keeper of our internal continuity wiki-is Karen Ahlstrom. Our shipping manager (and the one who ships you all our signed books and T-shirts via the store) is Kara Stewart.
Vice President and Editorial Director is the Insistent Peter Ahlstrom. Our manager and Chief Operations Officer is my lovely wife, Emily Sanderson. A Stormlight novel is “crunch time” for us here at Dragonsteel, and so make sure to give the team a thumbs-up (or, in Peter’s case, a block of cheese) next time you meet them. Many people at my own company worked long hours to produce this book. The ebook was prepared by Westchester Publishing Services, along with Victoria Wallis and Christopher Gonzalez at Macmillan. Our copyeditor on this book was Terry McGarry, who has done excellent work on many of my novels. Irene Gallo was our Art Director, Peter Lutjen the cover designer, Greg Collins the interior designer, and Carly Sommerstein our proofreader.Īt Gollancz/Orion (my UK publisher) thanks goes to Gillian Redfearn, Stevie Finegan, and Charlotte Clay. Karl Gold was our Production Manager and Nathan Weaver the Managing Editor, with Meryl Gross and Rafal Gibek in trade production. Others at Tor who provided help include Robert Davis, Melissa Singer, Rachel Bass, and Patty Garcia. Special thanks to Tom Doherty, who has believed in the Stormlight project for years, and Devi Pillai, who provided essential publishing and editorial aid during the course of the novel’s creation. My editor at Tor on this project was the ever-brilliant Moshe Feder. Special thanks also go to John Berlyne, my UK agent, of Zeno-along with all of the sub-agents who work with us around the world. Others at the agency who worked on them include Brady McReynolds, Krystyna Lopez, and Rebecca Eskildsen. My main agent for these books (and everything else) is the wonderful Joshua Bilmes, of JABberwocky.
They deserve my most hearty of thanks, and yours as well, for their tireless work across the three years it took to write this novel. Now, on to the parade of names! As I often say, though my name goes on the cover, there are tons of people involved in bringing you these books. If you’re intrigued, you can find a longer explanation I’ve written at /cosmere.
That said, as always, every series is written so it can be read and enjoyed on its own, without knowledge of these other series or books. (The universe in which this series, Mistborn, Elantris, Warbreaker, and others take place.) Find it sold on its own, or in the story collection Arcanum Unbounded, which has novellas and novelettes from all across the Cosmere. If you haven’t had the chance to read Edgedancer-a separate Stormlight novella taking place between books two and three-I’d recommend it to you now. Stormlight books are a huge undertaking-which you might be able to infer from the large list of people below. Welcome to Oathbringer! It’s been a long road, creating this book.