Brandon Sanderson’s TRESS OF THE EMERALD SEA, the first of the books he offered through his record-smashing $41 million Kickstarter campaign, publishes in its regular trade edition next Tuesday. As his employees pack March swag boxes for his over 38,000 of his backers (the Kickstarter had 185,000 backers overall), Esquire visits Sanderson in his “underground supervillain lair” in Utah. “To fulfill the Kickstarter, we had to double our staff,” Sanderson says, and his company Dragonsteel now employs 64 people. He tells the magazine, “The Kickstarter didn’t make us more money than just selling those books in New York would have,” […]