Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind books to get to their hearts with your host, me and Raylene.

And today we have a special guest.

We have Melanie Murphy in the house. It me, it's me. Everyone,

we're so excited to have Melanie on. Not only is she just like a ray of sunshine, but Melanie,

you have a new book coming out. So that's pretty damn exciting. When does that come out?

That comes out on May 5th and it feels like it's been the longest journey ever because

when I actually started the book, it was before the pandemic.

So I feel like I've aged 50 years since I started writing this book.

So yeah, that's going to be...

And I've, like, had a child in the meantime, so it just feels...

And bought a house.

Yes, it's been...

Who are you?

It's been a time.

And yeah, I'm a completely different person than I was when I started the book.

And it's going to always be very special to me

I think for that reason like on my bookshelf future me is going to have lots of books I this

is going to be my third published book but I feel like I'll always look at this and be like

um oh special child.

Special child who somehow survived that insane episode.

Oh, gosh.

Well, we're so excited to have you here.

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