Hi, everyone back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor.

And it is our monthly installment of three things. One of my things I am bursting at the seams to talk about.

Oh, wow. I don't even know what you will have to say about it, but I just need to put some thoughts out there. So I'm looking forward to it.

Well, I haven't been warned, so I can't wait to hear what it is.

But before we get into that, tell me your high this week.

My high is that I had a book signing in Natick, which is outside of Boston in Massachusetts.

And it was out of Barnes & Noble.

It was a signing. So it wasn't an event. I just kind of sit at a table and see what happens. Essentially, I make eye contact with people until they

wander over to me. But it was really nice. And a lot of really sweet podcast listeners and

substack readers showed up and were just so supportive and kind.

And I had this one interaction that I wanted to talk about because it relates to the podcast,

but it was just so special to me. And it was that this woman came up to me and she, you know,

bought the book so nice and I signed it. And then she

handed me this book. And she said, I wanted to give you this because because of the podcast,

I either started writing or I kept writing or I felt inspired to keep going. And I had a short

story published in this anthology. And so she gave it to me. And I just, I don't know, something about it

was so emotional to me and lovely. And there are so many authors who I meet who have inspired me

in some way to keep going. And so I don't know, the fact that the podcast sort of gave that to her, it was just really cool and that she gave me the book.

I haven't had a chance to read the short story yet, but I haven't.

And I'm looking forward to it.

It's called Other.

It's a 2024 speculative fiction anthology from Bannister Press. Her name is Jacqueline Perez, Jackie. So

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