Tress of the Emerald Sea

​Tress of the Emerald Sea

By Brandon Sanderson

• Born in Lincoln, Nebraska

• Discovered love for reading in junior high

• Started writing in high school

Brandon Sanderson

Multiple Choice

What type of fiction interested Sanderson the most?

• Romance

• Fantasy

• Horror

• RPG

• ​First novel published with Tor in 2005

• Mistborn Trilogy, The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings

​Publication!

​Robert Jordan's
Wheel of Time series

• Chosen in 2007

• Finished the series

• The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight, A Memory of Light

Multiple Choice

Why did Brandon Sanderson have to finish The Wheel of Time series?

• Robert Jordan asked him to

• Robert Jordan passed away

• Robert Jordan lost his memory from Alzheimer's

• Brandon wrote a creative fan-fiction ending

The Secret Novels

1. Tress of the Emerald Sea

2. The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

3. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

4. The Sunlit Man

Multiple Choice

What was Brandon Sanderson doing when he got the idea to write Tress?

• Gardening

• Grading essays

• Watching The Princess Bride

• Walking around Salt Lake City and contemplating the color of the water

• Inspired by The Princess Bride

• Tress sets off from her tiny island to save her stableboy

• Unstable narrator?

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​Tress of the Emerald Sea

Open Ended

Have you ever seen The Princess Bride?

Tress of the Emerald Sea

A high adventure novel in an alternate world where the seas are not made of water, but spores. If the spores are touched by water, something happens to them. Many will not travel the open seas, but Tress seeks the adventure to save the love of her life.
How far will she have to go for True Love?