Hi, everyone, welcome back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman.

And I'm Olivia Mentor.

And today it is our second half of the year reading preview episode, and we have some very exciting book recommenders today.

I'm very excited to share these mini interviews.

Yeah, each of them was so much fun.

And the variety of picks picks every time I am just

amazed at the the wide range of genres, topics, everything. Truly, yeah, I always hear about

books that I've never heard of before in these. Well, let's get into some highs and lows before we

get into the picks. You have a huge high.

I finished. Share with us your good news. I filed my draft. It is in. Congratulations.

How does it feel? Tell us everything. Honestly, right now, I just feel brain dead.

This has taken a lot out of me, especially this week, going really hard at kind of doing a second

pass. So I don't feel like I feel as excited as I should. I right now kind of just feel like a zombie.

Yeah, it's a lot of mental effort to read that much, write that much, and then do a strange

combination of both at all time. So I salute you.

I'm so happy for you. And I hope you can just relax now and not think about it for a bit.

I'm so happy it's in. And I'm really looking forward to next week and kind of having, I don't know when my editor will get

notes back to me, but I know that I have at least a week, probably much more, but I'm very

excited to have a week to catch up on everything that is slipped. Are you planning on like

taking a mini staycation or just kind of not putting any pressure on yourself to work, you know, to the

extent that you did these past few weeks? Neither. I mean, I still am going to do newsletter stuff.

We still have the podcast. So I'm just taking the book stuff off of my plate. But I do have in mind

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