How does this book connect to the author's other works?

This story is part of the Cosmere, a shared universe encompassing many of the author's novels, and it introduces a character who appears as a recurring observer in other books within that same universe.

Is this graphic novel based on a previously written book?

The graphic novel is an adaptation of an earlier, unpublished prose manuscript written by the author.

White Sand, Volume 1

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Epic Fantasy Graphic Novels

Pages: 160
Published: 2016
Language: English

Synopsis

Taldain is a desert world, and its Sand Masters have an arcane skill for shaping sand to their will. When an ambush wipes out most of the order, the survivors are left with almost no one who can lead them.

Kenton is the weakest of those who live. He has to keep what remains of the Sand Masters alive and work out who betrayed them, a task that falls to him only because the stronger members are dead.

He finds help in Khriss, a Darksider with secrets she does not share. Their partnership is uneasy, and neither has much reason to trust the other.

This is fantasy told as a graphic novel, the first volume of a trilogy from Dynamite Entertainment. Rik Hoskin adapted it from early manuscripts by Brandon Sanderson that were never published, and Julius Gopez drew it. The story sits within Sanderson's Cosmere, the shared universe that also holds Elantris, Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive, though no knowledge of those books is needed to follow it.

Volume 1 took second place on the New York Times graphic novel bestseller list. In 2018 it also won the Dragon Award for Best Graphic Novel.