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

It's Ariel and me, Raylene.

I almost said unwind books to get to their hearts. I also almost

said a different name. I was trying on the fly to think of a name that wasn't my own, like as a joke,

but then I couldn't. That's why I paused for like 0.5 seconds there. I was, I did notice that

pause. I did, I didn't want to say anything, but I did notice. I was gonna say my name was Rubin.

I don't know why.

Rubin.

Oh, oh, God.

Well, welcome everybody to what obviously is going to be a really well-put-together episode.

I'm in a mood. I don't know. I'm all giddy today.

That's good. I honestly, I was just kind of in a mood. I don't know. I'm all giddy today.

That's good. I honestly, I was just kind of in a work tunnel where I was working a lot, and I kind of have been really working hard in the last two days. As you know, Raeline,

and as people know, hopefully no, unless we're doing really bad at marketing.

Seriously.

The reading rush is coming up, and the month beforehand is pretty crazy,

juggling all of the things that have to happen.

And especially because Raylene works full-time like a normal human,

I kind of spend a lot of the day coordinating everything for everyone who we're working

with.

And so like the website stuff and the this stuff and then that stuff.

And I'm just like, the newsletter.

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