Welcome to Intentionally Blank, where we're not signing things.

Today we actually are going to be doing something very cool.

We have special guests.

We're going to bring them out.

And this is going to be split into three episodes,

but we're going to run them just all as one big conversation.

But you'll see us kind of breaking a little bit as we do different topics.

But let's introduce our guests.

We have Matt Dinnaman, who is dungeon crawler Carl.

And we have Robin Hobb.

Yes.

The wonderful, I hope she doesn't mind me calling her

the grandmother of all fantasy authors.

Oh, we have Matt here.

Matt, thank you so much.

Welcome, take a seat.

And we have Robin. Yay, Robin.

Robin is one of the first pros that I met in the industry when I was first breaking in and she adopted me.

And I hear this is very common, she takes care of everybody. But I would come through town.

She'd be like, let's go out to dinner. Let's talk about how things are going. You might notice that

she covered Blurbed Mistborn for me, one of my very, very first blurbs that I ever got,

and a real boost to my career right at the start. And a fantastic author. I have never read a book by Robin that I haven't loved. Oh, thank you. And constantly reinventing the fantasy genre. Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinnaman here. Fantastic author. I have not read his book yet. I know. I know. I will get to it. I've been told it's so great. But I did go download it and buy it.

...