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Intentionally Blank

Who We Were Before Our Books with Matt Dinniman and Robin Hobb — Intentionally Blank Ep. 190

Intentionally Blank

Brandon Sanderson & Dan Wells

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews, Fiction

4.9567 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells are joined by Matt Dinniman and Robin Hobb for this special DSNX24 episode! This time around, the 4 talk about the jobs that forged them into the writers that they are today. Want to send me something to open? Dragonsteel Entertainment ATTN: Adam P.O Box 698 American Fork, UT 84003 Stay up to date by following my newsletter: https://brandonsanderson.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=7d056bb7596a3e617f82004b2&id=fa68f14db0 Interested in signed books and sw...

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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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