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At the same time that the announcement video was posted, a new Kickstarter campaign for the four secret novels went live.{{url ref|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonsteel/surprise-four-secret-novels-by-brandon-sanderson|text=Surprise! Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson|date=2022-03-01|site=Kickstarter.com|name=secretKS}} The campaign is intended to make 2023 a "Year of Sanderson", with the top backer tier including monthly rewards: one of the secret novels each quarter (in e-book, audiobook, and hardcover formats) plus eight boxes of themed merchandise in the other months of 2023. The campaign's goal was set at one million dollars, and it surpassed that amount in 35 minutes. Within 24 hours, it had raised $15.4 million, the single most successful day of any Kickstarter campaign.{{ref|name=nytimes}} After three days, the campaign broke the previous Kickstarter funding record of $20.3 million held by the [[wikipedia:Pebble Time|Pebble Time]] smartwatch.{{url ref|url=https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22960365/brandon-sanderson-fantasy-novels-kickstarter-cosmere|text=Brandon Sanderson's surprise novels overtake Pebble watch as most successful Kickstarter ever|date=2022-03-04|site=theverge.com}} The project ended on March 31, 2022, with 185,000 backers and $41.7 million in funding, attracting widespread media attention due to its sheer size and groundbreaking nature within the publishing industry.

 

 

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