You're listening to the beautiful mess podcast, your cozy comfort listen.

In this week, we are deep diving into all things books from our favorite series to what book

shelves we love to use.

I love the subject.

I'm so excited for this episode.

So before we jump into it, would you want to give any updates about your book that you've

written?

Yes.

So I lovingly call it my murder book, but the working title is Handmade Murder and I've

talked about it many times on this podcast, but if you're new, it's a thriller.

So my update is I've decided to self-publish the book because essentially I've gotten

tired of waiting, which is maybe not the best reason, but I'm explaining this to Elsie,

so I will tell all of you and it's a little bit woo-woo, but I feel like you'll go with

me because we do a lot of woo-woo stuff on this podcast.

So this is the second work of fiction that I've written, so I've written two full novels

and I kind of have an idea for the next one and I really just want to be a fiction writer.

I want that to be a part of my life, part of my career.

I don't necessarily have big goals around like how many books I want to publish and how

much money I want to make from it.

I don't really have concrete ideas around that, but I do want to be a fiction writer.

I just feel that it's a dream of mine and I think the way to become a great writer is

to do it, to be writing a lot and writing all the time, and I kind of like have an

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