Something that, however, has hardly had an impact on his status as a bestselling author, since, as an almost slave to his craft - he sees himself as a sort of worker in a factory that bears his name - Sanderson does nothing but write and talk about writing (on his podcast Writing Excuses, twice nominated for the Hugo Award). He found out that biochemistry was not his thing in Seoul, Korea, where he spent some time as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - because, like Orson Scott Card and Stephenie Meyer, another pair of classics of the fantastic, Sanderson is a Mormon. Tolkien conjured up his Middle-earth - wrote seven novels at that desk in the time he spent studying biochemistry, first, and then English at Brigham Young University, where he is a teacher today.

The future creator of the Cosmere - a lucrative literary universe of global reach, the largest in terms of epic fantasy since J.R.R. At least he wouldn’t be dozing off in one of the armchairs, like his predecessor did. His boss shrugged and replied that he could do whatever he wanted, as long as he took care of the customers. When he was hired as a night receptionist at the Best Western CottonTree hotel in Provo, Utah, a university town near Salt Lake City, Brandon Sanderson told his boss that he planned to spend all those nights writing while he worked at the front desk.

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