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

But today we have a guest. It's Colleen Fiddler in the house.

I'm calling.

Hi.

Hello.

We are so excited to have you on for many reasons.

So excited to have someone who reads a lot of different stuff than me and Rayleigh read.

But most excitingly, you have illustrated the third quarter of our

bookmarks and they're beautiful. Thank you. I'm so excited. People have been sending me videos

of them opening up their packages and I'm just at home sobbing with my dogs looking at me like

they don't know what's happening,

but it's all happy, feet, positive feelings.

They're so gorgeous and it's just so exciting with this project, because when we thought

up this idea and we executed it, we were like really excited to see how different

illustrators and artists tackled a bookmark.

And it's been even more fun than I imagine because they're all so different.

And yeah, no, we're thrilled with yours.

One of them is an adorable mouse on a stack of books, which is incredible.

And then the other one is a linocut.

Can you tell people what a linocut is and maybe a little

bit about how you got into linocutting? Because I think that that is so unique. So a linocut is

essentially a stamp of varying sizes. Typically, I work with 18 by 24 inches. So this project was

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