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Intentionally Blank

What Makes A Perfect Book? — Intentionally Blank Ep. 226

Intentionally Blank

Brandon Sanderson & Dan Wells

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews, Fiction

4.9567 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells are back with another Intentionally Blank, this time answering more of your questions! We make a quick pit stop too chat about the Hugo's, determine how Santa works in the Cosmere, and when a person out grows reading fantasy works. Want to send me something to open? Dragonsteel Entertainment ATTN: Adam P.O Box 698 American Fork, UT 84003 Get your Wheel of Time updates here with the Bound and Woven newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/brandonsanderson/eye-of-t...

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0:00.0

So, hi.

0:05.0

I am wearing it.

0:06.0

What a wonderful shirt you're wearing.

0:08.0

Yes, where would I have gotten this wonderful shirt?

0:10.0

Where did you get that? You have great taste.

0:13.0

My friend Dan Wells brought me, went and looked at all of the cool shirts he could have gotten me.

0:18.0

And he decided that this was the shirt that he most wanted me to show

0:22.1

myself to the internet way. He sounds like a smart guy and a pretty handsome guy. I just got to say.

0:28.3

I would say that I did think he was a handsome guy, but then he got a t-shirt with a more handsome

0:33.1

guy by comparison. That's true. Yeah. Bigfoot here is not doing me any favors. Mm-hmm. I need shirts with less impressive people on them. All right. So I have a thing for us. Do you have a thing? Well, I just want to shout out some awesome people that won Hugo's. Not you. Not me. But Rebecca Rhonehorse won for series and she's great. Yes. I had not

0:57.0

met her before. I don't believe. At least not. I have emailed with her. I haven't met her in

1:02.0

person, but I did read the first book of her series that won and it was awesome and I loved it.

1:06.7

I also read this one. Clearly I need to keep reading the rest of the series.

1:11.1

So, excellent writer.

1:11.9

She was really fun to chat with.

1:13.8

Oh, good.

1:14.2

She was really good on the panel.

1:15.6

Just really genuine, interesting person.

1:18.4

So congratulations to Rebecca.

1:20.4

It's a tough category.

1:22.1

I know Shannon has been trying to win for encrypted for a number of years and hasn't quite managed to get there.

1:29.8

The way that Hugo's work, she was actually winning.

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