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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're talking with Andrew DePlessy.

Andrew is a writer, an entrepreneur, and a television producer. He was inspired as a kid by the

Goose Bumps series, written by R. L. Stein. And Andrew is now one of the most widely read authors online, where he has millions of followers reading his short stories.

His following got so big that the savvy Harper Collins, one of the big five publishers, decided they needed to publish Andrew.

So he's now out with his first book called Too Scared to Sleep, which is a collection of 30 short horror stories, as well as 30 short films. So as you are reading through the hardcover, it's all inside there, through the magic of QR codes and a technology called flow code. As you're reading the hardcover, you scan your phone over the QR code, which then launches into a

companion short film with the horror story. It's just incredibly cool. And if you, that makes you

curious, we're going to get into all that as we as we talk. So Andrew, welcome. Thank you so much

for having me. That was an amazing intro. I feel honored. Thank you. I'm so excited to talk about

all the cool stuff you're doing. the book is terrific the stories are great thank

you and today I can never like fully settle in until we've had our cocktail and had

my rum so today we're having dark and stormies there you go my favorite drink

all right appreciate it yeah I'll get the ice going in the glass here

So we've got the dark rum

The ginsger beer

Love that

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