Hello and welcome back to the Book Ride Podcast. It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking about the world of books and reading.

Today is Thursday, September 8th, 2022.

I'm Jeff O'Neill here with Rebecca Shinsky.

Coming to you from a really wonderful website,

internet entity, kind of idea cloud of book right. I like idea cloud let's go with that. You remember

those cloud what were those word clouds that people used to have on their blogs?

What whatever happened to those? I don't know. I was just thinking that now when I'm like

Chatting with somebody sitting next to me on a plane I can say like I work for an idea cloud

That'll keep them from asking follow-up questions.

I work from kind of a theoretical haze, really, when you think about it.

So what do you know about Schrodinger's cat.

A mist of probability is really what we're talking about.

I stopped saying I worked in publishing years ago when I figured out that that opened the door for people to tell you about the book they were writing or that their uncle's next door neighbor's friend was writing or any of those things and so now I usually say you know I'm the chief of stuff.

Have you gotten a media company?

Self-published manuscripts from friends and family

over the years?

I've gotten several.

Like three.

Not manuscripts.

I think I have figured out how to say no before the manuscript makes its way to me.

Or no one has just like given me an unsolicited manuscript from a friend or family member,

but I have gotten enough of the, like, you know, my husband's uncle

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