Hey, H.B.S. You're listening to Heaving bosoms Ask a a Badass, the segment where we highlight listeners

because y'all contain multitudes.

You might have noticed that this has become a little semi-regular. We haven't dropped this completely, but there is a lot

going on for everyone at the moment, so we can't promise to do an episode every week or

perhaps even every month for the foreseeable future.

We're going to look at these as lovely little surprise gifts when they pop up.

We're still very invested in amplifying your voices and romance experiences though. This week, however, we have Lauren Connolly on. She is a super O OG listener. She actually recommended one of our favorite episode sets we've ever recorded with Split.

She's a librarian, a super encourager, and a romance writer.

She also somehow makes time to do the Tic Talks,

so follow her at Lauren Connolly romance. I'll include all her info in the show notes. Here we go.

Hi Lauren. Hi.

H-B's I'm here with Lauren C.

She's not a stranger to you.

You know a lot about Lauren C.

Lauren is an author. You wrote, you only need one correct that and also remembering the

witch which would be ones that people can buy from Amazon and then but you've

been writing for a long time, right? Yeah, I actually, so my first

degree was in writing, so I've been writing, I guess, with a purpose since college, but I've been writing before that too.

I just can't even imagine writing it. It's like just such a foreign concept to me

because I think I may have talked about this in other episodes but basically when I'm writing

it's just my voice how exactly how I talk and so no matter who the character is they talk exactly

like me they use the same shorthand that I use. So you're like, this is just, this is just Natalie, but wearing different clothes. That's just, that's just who it is.

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