Family Lifeīrandon married Emily Bushman on Jand they had three children together. Rhythm of War, the fourth Stormlight novel, is planned to be published on November 17, 2020. In September 2020, a collaboration project with author Mary Robinette Kowal called The Original, was released. The second book in the series, Starsight, was released on November 26, 2019. The first book of the Defiant series, Skyward, was published on November 6, 2018. The third book in The Stormlight Archive, Oathbringer, was published on November 14, 2017. On November 22, 2016, an anthology of Cosmere short stories and novellas was published, titled Arcanum Unbounded: A Cosmere Collection. On September 6, 2016, the fifth Alcatraz book was published, called Alcatraz Versus the Dark Talent. The graphic novels are based on an original manuscript by Sanderson. In June 2016, Sanderson's first graphic novel White Sand- written with Rik Hoskin - was released. On February 16, 2016, the third and final book of the Reckoners trilogy, titled Calamity, was published. On January 26, 2016, Mistborn: The Bands of Mourning was published as the sequel to Shadows of Self.
In early 2013, the series was completed with the publication of A Memory of Light. Towers of Midnight, the second-to-last Wheel of Time book, was published just over a year after The Gathering Storm on November 2, 2010, debuting at number one on the bestseller list. The first of these, The Gathering Storm, was published on October 27, 2009, and reached the number-one spot on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover fiction. After reviewing what was necessary to complete the series, Sanderson and Tor announced on March 30, 2009, that a final three books would be published instead of just one. Tor Books made the announcement on December 7, 2007. McDougal asked him to finish the series after being deeply impressed by his first Mistborn novel, The Final Empire.
Sanderson became well known in late 2007 after he was selected by Harriet McDougal, the wife and editor of author Robert Jordan, to complete the final books in Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time after Jordan's death. That same year, he started the podcast Writing Excuses with Howard Tayler and Dan Wells. In 2008, the third and final book in the Mistborn trilogy was published, titled The Hero of Ages, as well as the second book in the Alcatraz series, titled Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones. The first of his "laws of magic" were first published in 2007, with the second and third published in 20 (respectively). Alcatraz confronts a group of evil librarians who are bent on taking over the world. Later that year, Sanderson published the children's novel Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, about a boy named Alcatraz with a talent for breaking things. He published the second book of the Mistborn series The Well of Ascension in 2007.