Hi everyone. My name is Otis Gray and you're listening to Sleepy.

A podcast where I read old books to help you get to sleep.

I've got a wonderfully snoozy story for you this Valentine's Day.

But before we get to tonight's story, I just want to thank all of our brand new patrons on Patreon.com.

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radio. Thank you. And as always, the music you're hearing is by my good friend James Lev Kowski,

and the cover of Sleepy is by Gracie Cana.

Well, it is Valentine's Day. I hope you all are having a wonderful

Lovey-Dovey Day. And while tonight's story is not necessarily very romantic, is a very, very good book to fall asleep to.

One of the better books to snooze to that I've stumbled upon in a while, and it's by one of

my favorite old school authors, Edith Warren. And the story or reading that we'll be doing tonight

is a little book she put together called The Writing of Fiction. And the entire reading is just her

talking about literally the writing of fiction. It's form how to do it. Different ways that subject

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