Comment Re:Pen name? (Score -1, Troll) 148
He's not dead, either. He just finally realized he had no fucking clue how to end the series and tell a coherent story and needed a way out.
His wife hatched the whole "I have an incurable disease and am going to die soon" plot to boost book sales. She then got Sanderson to finish the series for a song and kept the rights.
As best I can guess, she had her husband lobotomized -- seemingly sometime around book 5 -- and keeps him around as a pool boy.