Business & Finance Wired Hit Piece on Brandon Sanderson

Bear Ribs

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Wired has thrown down a surprisingly hateful op-ed about Sanderson, emphasizing how unwoke and terribly religious he is and pouring on mountains of salt about how terrible his writing is. I'm amused to see them claiming Sanderson is just some obscure upstart and not a famous writer like George RR Martin which is just... bruh, in books Sanderson is a way bigger name. He takes time to heap extra hate on Sanderson's neighbors, his family, the shower in the suite Brandon lets him use, and the apple pie Sanderson serves him during a meet-and-greet which the Wired writer finds "Too PG." Dude uses "Lame" and "Boring" the way an edgy teenager writing their first dark fantasy fic uses apostrophes.

Sanderson himself responded in quite the classy way, taking the high road and not punching back.



I strongly suspect this is business motivated, Sanderson has previously expressed dissatisfaction with the current publishing industry and the extremely exploitative way big publishers like Amazon are abusing their monopolies, and just recently he's started up his own publishing company after a wildly successful Kickstarter. He hopes to compete with them and cause some reform from within by providing a better option, so naturally big media's being used as their attack dogs to try to tear what Sanderson's built down.
 

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