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This is the Book Riot Podcast, weekly news and talk show about what's new,

cool and worth talking about and the world of books and reading.

This is episode 8 and we're recording on Thursday June 27th.

I'm Jeff O'Neill, I'm the editor Bookrat.com and I am not here this week with

Rebecca Shinsky. Rebecca is a way having adventures without us and we are very mad and sad at the same time.

I am joined though by special guest Chuck Windig, who is the author of Blackbirds and Blue Blaises.

He is a blogger about writing and publishing in books at

Terrible Minds.com and a general word rabble rouser Chuck. Thank you so much.

Welcome to the show. Well thank you for having me.

This is exciting.

I'm happy, Rebecca's gone.

I know, you should be.

You should be. Maybe it'll be like the guy who was the first baseman before Lou Gehrig.

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