Brandon Sanderson went from being hailed as the next Tolkien — the author who finished Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time and built the sprawling Cosmere multiverse — to becoming a cautionary tale about author saturation, Kickstarter overreach, and the limits of reader goodwill. Mike’s Book Reviews published a detailed analysis of how Sanderson lost the room, arguing that the Secret Projects Kickstarter, the AI controversy, and an accelerating release schedule combined to break the trust he’d spent twenty years building. Jon Del Arroz, a 50-book indie author who runs his own crowdfunding campaigns, responds with the perspective of someone who has watched this pattern from inside the indie publishing world — and what every author building outside traditional publishing should take from Sanderson’s trajectory.

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