Welcome to this bonus episode of From the Front Porch. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf,

an independent bookstore and beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. And today I'm not joined by

Chris Jensen, but I am instead joined by Beth Silvers and Sarah Stewart Holland, the hosts of

the very popular podcast and the podcast I happen to enjoy, Pantsuit

Politics. Sarah and Beth have written a book coming out today, February 5th, called I Think

You're Wrong, but I'm listening. And so today I'll be chatting with them about their podcast,

the book, what inspired it, and what lessons we can take away from it.

Without further ado, Sarah and Beth. Okay, so the first thing I want to talk about is moving from podcasting to writing a book

because you guys have been recording together for a couple years, I gather, but I would

imagine, I'm always curious about authors who co-write books together.

I'm always like, how does that work?

And I'm curious, you guys going from a verbal platform, like this platform where you're conversing

with one another, to writing together.

So tell me how writing this book was different from recording the podcast, how it was the same, the process for you guys.

I think one of the things I realized that works so well with co-writing that the way the process was maybe different when you're writing individually but was really beneficial, is we really had to sit down together and map out the structure of the book.

So we went away for a weekend and took some giant post-it notes with us and lots of office supplies.

And we really mapped out the entire structure of the book, which is something that I've

talked to. I think I had this conversation with our editor who was like, yeah, I wish every writer

would do that. But you kind of don't have to when you're by yourself, but you have to when you're

writing the book with another person. And so I think that helped the, because did that we had because we had to.

It also helped the flow of writing the book go much easier because we weren't doing a lot of reorganizing as we were writing.

In a way, I can imagine you would if you were writing the book by yourself.

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