Who We Were Before Our Books with Matt Dinniman and Robin Hobb — Intentionally Blank Ep. 190
Intentionally Blank
Brandon Sanderson & Dan Wells
4.9 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I think we're going to go ahead and move on to topic number two, which is actually Dan's topic for us. |
| 0:10.8 | Oh man, does that mean I have to drive the show? |
| 0:13.5 | I'm going to let you drive the show. |
| 0:15.3 | Oh, gosh. |
| 0:16.9 | I am really curious. |
| 0:18.3 | I would love to have a conversation about what we did before we did this. |
| 0:23.6 | What other jobs have we had? What have you done? What careers? What work did you do before you were a writer? |
| 0:32.6 | Do you want me to go first? |
| 0:34.6 | Yeah, and we don't even have to, like, you can give us one, |
| 0:54.7 | and we can talk about it for a while, and then someone else, and then we can come back, because I bet all of us have multiple things that we did. I have multiple. The job I had immediately before this, I was still a writer, but I was an artist. If you Google Matt Dinnaman art, to this day, you can still see it. To this day, |
| 0:56.5 | IKEA carries some of my artwork. |
| 0:57.0 | Really? |
| 0:56.5 | I designed greeting cards. If you Google Matt Denhamen art, to this day, you can still see it. To this day, IKEA carries some of my artwork. |
| 0:57.0 | Really? |
| 0:58.8 | I designed greeting cards for a living. |
| 1:02.9 | Paper Chase stores in the UK still have Matt Denhamen cards. |
| 1:05.3 | If you look, there will just be a silly picture of a rabbit. |
| 1:06.2 | It's cute art. |
| 1:06.6 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:09.9 | And you will have no idea I did it until you flip the back and it says Matt Deniman. And that's what I did for years. |
| 1:13.2 | I was in corporate advertising right immediately before that, but I quit that to sell art. |
| 1:18.5 | And I would also travel to conventions to sell my art directly. |
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