All the Backlist! December 20, 2024

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

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0:00.0	You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.
0:15.4	I'm your host, Liberty Hardy, and I'm little in the middle, but I've got much backlist.
0:20.0	Today is December 20th, 2024. And for this week's episode, I'm going in the middle, but I've got much backlist. Today is December 20th, 2024.
0:22.5	And for this week's episode, I'm going to talk about a couple of great backlist titles
0:26.6	as we head into a new year.
0:29.8	So, hello, it's December.
0:32.9	It's almost over.
0:34.6	It's almost next year.
0:36.7	I'm excited about all the new books that are coming, but of course,
0:42.2	I'm always thinking about all the books that I haven't read yet, you know, which is why that
0:48.1	makes it great, because I could read them and then I can use them for this, The Backlist Show.
0:52.6	So I'm sure you probably have a big list of things that you
0:55.9	wanted to get to this year that you haven't read. And I'm thinking like by the time I get to some
1:00.1	of it, it'll be a backlist. And then there's all the books that you have to read. I just,
1:04.2	it's just so exciting to have things to read all the time. Just whatever it is. Just excited about
1:09.5	books. Yay books. So I'm going to tell you about a
1:13.3	couple of books today because that's what we do here. But before we do that, we are going to hear
1:19.4	from a sponsor. Today's episode is brought to you by Lydia M. Hawk, author of bold urban fantasy for women who know their power.
1:30.3	In Becoming Crone, the first book in the Thrillient Crone Wars series, divorce has already turned Claire Emerson's tidy, predictable life upside down.
1:38.7	So when her 60th birthday brings a cranky gargoyle, an overprotective wolf shifter, and an unknown magical calling,
1:45.4	she thinks she's losing the only thing she has left, which is her sanity, been there, girl.
1:51.6	Because listen, menopausal grandmothers with creaky hips don't usually discover that they're
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