Note: Arcanum has a good list of all readings Brandon’s done, and the 17th Shard has a good list of all samples of any of his works, so check them out if that’s what you’re after! The scope of this post is slightly different than either of those, as its goal is to be a list of all Brandon’s unpublished books specifically without other things distracting from that aim (and admittedly also to give this instance some starter content :P).

Full Books

These are early works (mostly) from before Brandon got published that are available in their entirety.

Samples of “Prime-era” Books

These are early works from before Brandon got published that are available in bits and pieces only.

Samples of Upcoming/Potential Books

These are samples written after Brandon got published that have not themselves made it into any book as of yet. Most were simply individual test scenes, although a few have full stories attached that nonetheless haven’t been released for a variety of reasons.

† marks works currently planned as part of the Cosmere.

Full Drafts of Published Works

While Brandon does readings of a chapter or two for a lot of books, there are a few whose full rough drafts have been made available.

  • White Sand: Original prose that adapted into the graphic novel. You can get it by signing up for Brandon’s newsletter; once you confirm your email it will send you the latest edition, which includes the download link.
  • Warbreaker: For this book, Brandon experimented with releasing each draft as he wrote it. You can find a list of all versions on his website.
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    Oh this is neat. I’ve always been curious about the Warbreaker drafts, from a writing craft perspective, though I’ve never found time to really go through them.

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      The Warbreaker and Dawnshard drafts are something I want to look through someday, but never got around to it because that’s a lot of time to devote to reading a worse version of a book I’ve already read lol. I remember one or two interesting minor differences from skimming individual scenes, but that’s about it.

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    1 year ago

    There is one other story I know of which has been partially released, The Eyes (a precursor to Skyward), about fifteen pages of which were posted to the Writing Excuses Patreon. However, in addition to feeling kind of iffy about pointing people to paying $10 for a very small sample from a very rough draft, the tier the file was attached to does not actually exist anymore, so I’m not sure whether subscribing even will give it to you now or not. As such, I’ve left it off the list.