Bryce Met Brandon Sanderson!!!!

 As a lot of you know, I am a writer.  I will one day, maybe even very soon, be a published author. (Yes that is determination that you are reading there :-) So why am I running a soap business?  Good question. I'll get back to you on that one.   Anyway because of my love of the written word, I do a lot of reading.  I even got my husband into reading.  He hated it growing up because he never was able to read books that he enjoyed.  He always had to read what the teachers told him to read.  Over the last few years we both have come to love the works of Brandon Sanderson.  He really came to our attention when he was asked to complete the Wheel of Time series that was written by Robert Jordan, another highly beloved author of mine.  Since reading the first book of the WoT series that Brandon worked on (The Gathering Storm) I have become interested in his work.  Since then I have read the Mistborn Trilogy, The Way of Kings, and am currently reading Elantris.  His writing is so phenomenal.  It really makes me wish that I could take a writing class from him (oh, I forgot to mention that he taught/teaches at BYU).

Anyway, as it so happens, Bryce was down in the Southern California Area for work and Brandon Sanderson was scheduled to do a book signing in Huntington Beach for his newly released book, The Alloy of Law.  Do I even have to mention how excited I was when Bryce texted me and told me he was thinking about going?  Think silly, giddy school girl about to see their most favorite actor in person.  Yeah that was me.  And I wasn't even the one who was going!  When Bryce got there Brandon was doing a little Q&A and Bryce was texting me a play by play the whole time.  It was so much fun.  Then he got to meet him. . .

They talked for a little bit and Bryce was telling him how I was a writer and then. . .

I talked to Brandon Sanderson ON THE PHONE!

Ok, yes, you can roll your eyes at how silly I'm being.  But really I actually had a short conversation with him on the phone.  He asked me if I was doing NaNoMo (National Novel Writing Month) and when I told him that I remembered too late he suggested that maybe I could do it another month.  He also really encouraged me to just keep writing as much as I can.  It was so neat and fun to talk to him.

Here is the book that Bryce got for me (he's such a wonderful husband) and that he had Brandon Sanderson sign.  It really is very cool.

I really wish that I had been able to be there in person to meet Brandon Sanderson but I'm confident that I will still have the opportunity coming up in the future.  So Bryce is one lucky guy!