How to Name Things in the Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson: This is the first of a 10 book series. And this book ends with a big crazy out of nowhere cliffhanger, at least for me. I just loved them all and couldn't decide if I couldn't cut them. It may be the wrong move, but it's what I did. The issue with this one is I had beginning middle end for these three different plot lines going on, and then some subplots. So when it came to the big kind of, here's where we're going next, I ended up having five of those,. which I then put together into one big sort of section that became my ending.