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

It's Ariel and me, Raylene.

And today our special guest, it's Sana.

Say hello, Sana. Hi. Oh, Sana, we're so,

we're so pleased to have you here. Um, I just asked before we started recording how to pronounce

your last name because you're here on a very happy occasion. Your book is out. Is it out now?

It is out. It came out. It came out a few days ago for us now, but obviously it will have been a little bit. Yeah. When this episode comes out, totally. I was like, I've got to say her last name because I can't do that cringe thing where I just do your username. You know, people aren't going to go onto a book website and, like, type in, hey hey does waterstones have books and quills book

although that is what is on the cover books and quills is what's on the cover yeah i love i actually

love that because that's like where it came from right that's your online persona that made this

happen oh i love that well your last name is vligan heart though correct you told me say it in your

beautiful in your accent though so full name is sonligan Hart, though. Correct. You told me, say it in your beautiful in your accent, though. So full name is Sonne Flechantzhardt. Oh, oh, the soft G there. Unapproachable. But yes, so we'd love to hear a little bit about you. What do you do online before we jump into asking you, the questions that we ask all of our guests, your favorite

author, your favorite books, et cetera. I can't wait because these are so difficult.

These were really stressed, they really stress people. So it's a low pressure. You're allowed to change

your mind the second the recording stops. But yeah, what do you do? So, okay, I'm going to start with,

I've been making YouTube video since 2008. I feel so old. I kind of started by talking about books partly and then books became, they've always been part of it from the beginning, but more and more it's become Booktube. Because it was before Booktube existed, the word BookTube didn't exist. And then when it existed, I was like, yes, that is me. That's great.

Yeah. And then I've also worked in publishing, in Y.A. publishing as a social media producer, and I'm currently a freelancer,

still working in publishing social media, video, everything related to that, still making YouTube videos,

and then yeah, also created the book club journal this year.

Yeah, can you share with everyone what the book club journal is? Because I feel like it's actually

a very unique thing. It's not just a book journal. We've all heard of a book journal.

Me and Raylene, I remember we were like, at one point, it would be so cool to make a Books Unbound Book Journal where you get to like track your book journal. We've all heard of a book journal. Me and Raylene, I remember we were like at one point,

it would be so cool to make a book's unbound book journal where you get to like track your reading offline. But this is sort of different. This is more specific. Yeah, so this is definitely made with people who are part of a book club in mind, although you can also totally use it as a book journal if you'd like. But the idea is that it's a guided journal.

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