We’re celebrating the release of Steelheart, my new novel! It’s out this week. If you missed yesterday’s post, you can read up on the book here, listen to the first five chapters of the audiobook here, and watch the trailer here. Please consider going to your retailer of choice and looking at th ...

A few years back, I wrote an essay on creating magic systems that I titled Sanderson's First Law. It had to do with the nature of foreshadowing as it relates to solving problems with magic. In that essay, I implied that I had other "laws" for magic systems that I'd someday ta ...

Introduction I like magic systems. That's probably evident to those of you who have read my work. A solid, interesting and innovative system of magic in a book is something that really appeals to me. True, characters are what make a story narratively powerful—but magic is a large part of wh ...

High resolution interactive map of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth with timeline of events, character movements and locations.

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You know what, we’ve covered the work of French artist Michel Donzé twice here on Fine Art, but both times it’s been as part of a larger piece. It’s about time the guy got his own showcase.