How to Keep Up With Brandon Sanderson's Release Schedule

Brandon Sanderson is one of the busiest authors in fantasy, and that makes it genuinely hard to keep up with Brandon Sanderson releases using memory alone. Across Mistborn, the Stormlight Archive, the Skyward series, various standalones and companion novellas, Bleepia currently tracks 32 titles under his name. New instalments, prequels and side stories can turn up in more than one series at once, which is exactly when readers start missing things.

Part of the trouble is sheer volume. Novels like The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, Oathbringer and Rhythm of War form the main Stormlight Archive, while Edgedancer and Dawnshard sit alongside them as shorter companion pieces set in the same world. Meanwhile the Mistborn saga runs on its own separate timeline, from Mistborn: Secret History through to more recent entries such as The Lost Metal.

Add in the Skyward series (Skyward, Starsight, Defiant, and the novella ReDawn), standalone books like Elantris, Warbreaker and Tress of the Emerald Sea, and younger-reader titles such as Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians and Steelheart, and it becomes clear why so many readers lose track. A title can slip out quietly while you're still finishing the last one.

There's also the release-date problem. Some of the books we track, including The Hero of Ages, The Well of Ascension, Firefight and Shadows of Self, don't have a confirmed first-publication year in our records, so we simply name them rather than guess. That's fine for a catalogue, but it makes it even less realistic to keep a mental timeline of what's out and what's coming.

Sanderson isn't unusual in writing across several series at once, but few authors manage quite this many moving parts simultaneously. Readers who also follow authors with sprawling, interconnected catalogues, such as Robin Hobb, will recognise the feeling: you finish one arc only to realise there's a companion novella or tie-in book you never spotted.

Even authors working in adjacent media find themselves feeding several release streams at once. T. Kingfisher, for instance, recently published a tie-in novel, Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion, sitting neatly alongside her other fantasy work. It's a useful reminder that "new book by an author I follow" doesn't always mean the next number in an obvious sequence. Sometimes it's a side project that's easy to miss if you're not actively checking.

This is really what alerts are for. Instead of trying to hold 32 titles and their various sub-series in your head, or periodically checking retailer pages out of habit, you can simply follow the author once and let the update come to you.

On Bleepia, that means visiting the Brandon Sanderson author page, following him, and getting an email the day any new title from his tracked catalogue goes live. There's no need to remember which trilogy is currently active or whether a novella counts as part of the main sequence. The alert does that work for you.

The same approach works for any author whose schedule feels unpredictable. If you read across several writers with multiple series on the go, it's worth taking a look at the full releases page to see what's coming up across the board, not just from one name.

Keeping up with an author like Sanderson by memory is a losing game, simply because there's too much happening across too many series. Alerts remove the guesswork entirely.

If you'd rather not check retailer sites every few weeks, take a moment to follow your authors or create a free account and let the emails do the tracking for you.