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[quote=Anonymous]There's a fascinating article in Wired about Brandon Sanderson. He's a fantasy writer with a giant following, but gets very little press despite his giant following. He's a compulsive writer, but admits that his writing isn't good. His fanbase is so big that he has his own convention and 7,000 people attended.

https://www.wired.com/story/brandon-sanderson-is-your-god/

[QUOTE]Since his debut, Elantris, in 2005, Sanderson has published 30-plus books, the biggest ones in excess of 400,000 words; there are far more if you count the novellas and graphic novels and stuff for kids. I’ve read 17 of the actual books. Or maybe it’s 20. Exactitude is pointless here. As the major books are all set in the same universe, which Sanderson calls the Cosmere, they’re all but meant to blur together.

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At that rate, none of the words could possibly be any good. They’d be right, in a way, and that’s what Sanderson agrees with. At the sentence level, he is no great gift to English prose.

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Of his own work, Sanderson has said: “I detest rewriting,” “I write for endings,” and “I write to relax.” It shows. He writes, by one metric, at a sixth-grade reading level.[/QUOTE]

At the convention...
[QUOTE]Sanderson is a bad writer; I’ve already said it. Here at the convention, most of the panelists aren’t even writers. People don’t care about sentences. They care about Sanderson.

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This is the Year of Sanderson, the panelists keep saying. Four new books, with special swag for backers! New toys and sparkly bookmarks! Now they’re talking about warehouse expansion efforts. Now they’re talking about a possible future bookstore, housed in a castle or something. “When will the Dragonsteel amusement park be built?” someone asks. The audience hoots. [/QUOTE]

Does anyone read his books? Fantasy isn't really my thing, though I've read some good YA Fantasy in the last year. The way his following is described, it feels religious (the writer talks about how Mormon his and his team are, so I'm not saying the fans are a cult or anything). 
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