Um, okay. Welcome everybody to Fate Emates. I am Sarah McClain. I write romance novels and I read romance novels.

I'm Jennifer Procop. I'm on summer vacation and read romance novels. You lucky

duck.

What? Hi guys I'm done with my grading I'm done with my class at Northwestern I'm done with everything.

Well there it is they don't get paid very well teachers but they do get the feeling of being done with school.

Yeah, it's like, honestly, I just want you all to know, like remember that feeling as a kid.

Now magnify it times a million million and that's how teachers feel and I love

my job I'm not sad about my job but man this morning I woke up and I was like

oh yes all you have to do is talk about chassis and I was like, yes.

All you have to do is talk about chastity belts and anal sex.

I mean, hello. Sign me up.

That delightful laugh is one of our very favorite people, one of my very favorite people, one of Jen's very favorite authors, Sophie Jordan is with us today.

Hi everybody, I'm so excited to be here.

Sophie has been with me from the beginning of my IID journey.

She is one of the reasons why I read it. I read it. That's true. Feels like a lifetime ago. But like it does, but also it's not, this is, IAD is not the book Sophie Jordan made me read in the middle of the night on a red eye on a

plane flying back from RWA in Anaheim?

Where were we?

Why was I in California on a red eye?

I can't remember, but we were there for some reason.

And Sophie Jordan and May Chen,

who's an editor at Avon Books yelled in my face about the master.

I think I had told you about the master and you were like, and then May yelled in your

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