The shock was palpable on the author’s livestreams. It surpassed that benchmark just 35 minutes after going live. They set their goal for this Kickstarter at $1 million. It’s a historic moment in publishing, one that by all appearances surprised even Sanderson and his team. Sanderson plans to release details about each book throughout the month, but the vast majority of the funding thus far has come while the content of the books themselves is still largely a mystery. Even more impressive, at the time that the Kickstarter broke the record, very little was actually known about the books. To date it has raised over $24 million to fund the release of these books in 2023 backers can also opt to receive a monthly subscription box of merchandise for an additional price. Within days, Sanderson’s crowdfunding campaign became the highest funded Kickstarter of all time. The author announced on March 1 that he’d secretly written five extra novels during the pandemic, and that he would be releasing four of them through a Kickstarter campaign. One project the team backed is a parody of Sanderson's record-breaking campaign called 'Surprise! Four secret books NOT by a famous fantasy author!' - Sanderson backed it with $1.Brandon Sanderson has been in the news a lot the past week. As noted by The Mary Sue, they donated to more than 300 projects altogether and highlighted some of them in a video, which should direct some more backers their way. To celebrate his success, Sanderson and his team have donated to all literary projects on Kickstarter that aren't too unsafe for work and don't break the platform's terms of service. The campaign rewards also include eight boxes of swag that backers will receive throughout 2023. His backers will receive them as e-books, audiobooks or physical editions based on their level of backing.

Sanderson plans to release all four books next year, three of which are set in his Cosmere universe. After 30 days, Sanderson's campaign has now wrapped and, buoyed by his fervent fanbase, he has raised $41,754,153. The fantasy and sci-fi author's project, which is funding the self-publication of four secret novels, topped the $20.3 million that the Pebble Time smartwatch raised in 2015 within just three days.

Appropriately enough, the famously fast writer Brandon Sanderson took no time at all to break Pebble's record for the most-funded Kickstarter project ever.

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