Google Play has released a video they filmed during BEA, in which Brandon Sanderson reads aloud a letter he wrote to Robert Jordan after he finished A Memory of Light. Sanderson speaks with touching honesty about the honor and responsibility of finishing Jordan’s series, which shaped him so thoroughly as a writer, without ever having the chance to meet his favorite author. You can see the video below the cut.
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