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This is the Book Ride podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill and today I've got as my guest filling into Rebecca for Rebecca,

a book writer editor Danica Alice, and I dialed up, Danica, a solid gold week of real hard-hitting industry news, and I'm not joking, we've got real industry stuff to talk about.

I appreciate that.

Makes me easier for me.

I know, you know, we don't have to gin up like oh what are we going to do it's mid

August and all we've got is an announcement of the paper back of some book we

didn't care about pretty tough stuff. Anica write excuse me Danica writes for us our

queer shelves which is our newsletter focused on books

buying about LBTQIA plus folks. Also, the Reed Harder Challenge Challenge you are captaining that and breaking news

deals all the other integral stuff that goes on here welcome back to the show

we're gonna start well I'm gonna I'm gonna do a sponsor break here in a second

Danica, but I guess my first question it's interesting to have you on for this first story I think we'll start with RuPaul's all store

Because that is is kind of in your even pre-Book Riot wheelhouse of being interested in how to get books by queer people about queer experiences out there in more publicity.

I'm going to tease the folks with this before the sponsor.

What did you make of this story? And I'll do the hit in a minute, but what did you make of this story and I'll do the hit in a minute but what did you was your first was this is cool or this is weird is about time or what?

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