Hi guys. Welcome back to All Read what she's reading. I'm Michaela. I'm Reggie and I'm Kennedy. And today we have a very special guest, Ali Carter. Hello. Hi, everybody. Welcome. We actually had the most wonderful

crime of the year as our December Book Club book. Oh, thank you. Yes. It was so fun. And I just have to say,

I grew up reading, okay, correct my pronunciation, the Gallagher girl.

Gallagher, yes, yes.

Yes, I was obsessed with that growing up.

I've read it probably four or five times all the way through, and I just love them so, so much.

And so this is like a surreal moment to like meet a childhood author. And I just love it.

And we have read the most wonderful crime of the year. And then I've also read like your blonde

identity and then your new book that is coming out. So exciting. Thank you. I was, you know, when we made the transition from,

from teens to adult, I was like, you know, well, the Gallagher girls have grown up. And,

and it's, that's probably been the most fun part about all of this is meeting readers like you,

who, you know, and sometimes they'll come to events or signings and they'll have like the picture of when they met me when they were 12 you know and it's

it just it just is so incredible it's amazing to see the incredible people that you guys have all

turned into and I knew you would that it's so kind of reconnect with all my readers.

Oh, I'm, that's so sweet. Yeah, I love seeing you also grow as an author and to read your kind

of more like adult fiction as well, and it's so fun. So kind of along those lines, like, tell

us your story. How did you become an author? How did you start from like the young adult and then

going into your adult? Well, my mom was an English teacher. And so books and stories were always

very important in our house. And I also grew up on a farm. And so, and I'm quite a bit older than

you guys. And so like at my childhood, there was no,

there was no iPhone. There was no iPod. There was, if you were on a tractor all day,

bailing hay, you were on a tractor all day, bailing hay. And that was it. That was,

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