Welcome back. This is episode 22 of Books Closed.

This episode is sponsored by Tattoo Smart, your resource for digital tattoo design tools and tattoo shirt of the month club,

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The last few weeks I've been telling you about a giveaway where you can win a $500

gift card to TattooSmart.com.

Well, the deadline has passed and a winner has been chosen, but you need to listen through

this episode and I will announce the winner at the end of the show.

This week I got to sit down with Julie Moon,

who's one of the coolest people in tattooing, I think.

And I think after listening to this interview, you'll probably agree.

All of the tattoo history that we revere and hold so precious, she was there for it, and she's part of it.

Sitting down and talking to her for one hour is only going to scratch the surface

about her career of over 40 years tattooing and cosmetic tattooing. She's been ahead of the

curve on a lot of things. So I am excited to share with you now my conversation with Julie Moon.

So I'm here in Lynn, Massachusetts, with none other than Julie Moon herself.

How are you doing today?

I am doing really well.

Thank you for coming all the way down here.

Well, thank you for having me. It actually was, this is one of the more convenient interviews I've done because it was about one hour from my house. Yay. It's great. Yeah,

it's easy. And the roads ended up being really, really nice and clean instead of all snowy.

Yeah, yeah, we were worried about the weather this morning, but it turned out to be A-OK. I think we might be out of the woods on winter this year. I think we're supposed to get a

little bit more. I'll edit out that I said that if it snows after this before this comes out.

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