I mean… wow. Thirteen million on a one million dollar pledge goal. In the first day. That is, like, massively cool.
Congratulations, Brandon Sanderson. It’s fun to see this going on. Not as much fun as seeing it going on for you, I imagine, but still fun to see.
I sense business leverage.
Quite a bit, yeah.
Does “quite a bit” invoke an agent and a publisher hiding under their respective beds, in the fetal position, sucking their thumbs and whining piteously?
Very possibly. If Sanderson gets even 10% of the gross he won’t need an advance check for quite some time.
That’ll buy a lot of swag for the swag-collectors, but that’s tens of thousands of packages per *month* next year.
Yeah. I looked at the Kickstarter, and after I finished raising my eyebrows at the original goal total I decided it was actually reasonable. I could easily see somebody spending a lot of money on materials and labor for something like those packages. 15.25 million, though… that’s a powerful temptation to go overboard.