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Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. Hello, and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.

I'm your host, Danny Lavery, and with me in the studio once again is Carmen Rita Wong, the author of Why Didn't You Tell Me, a memoir?

She's also written Never Too Real and Never Too Late, and she heads up Malacom Productions, a company focused on women-led content.

Carmen, welcome back to the show.

Thank you so much for having me back, Danny.

I mean, I'm thrilled.

I mentioned to you before we went on the air that we got a lovely little burst of letters

after your last appearance of people saying, please, please set me up with Carmen.

And I didn't, sorry everyone, but it's always nice when people

express general warmth and interest in your existence. Oh my goodness. It's wonderful. Thank you.

Yeah, but you're going to have to work a little harder if you want to go on a day with Carmen, okay?

You can't just email me and say I'm done. She is, you know, the bar is higher. Email more people. Danny, you did your job already. You had me on. Like, you don't have to do any more work. You know what I mean? I never want to do more work. Find me. Same. Also, I have to finish my book this week. So I really don't want to do more. Oh my gosh. Good luck. I got to have the best experience of all, which was at the beginning of September, I got that email for my agent that said, hey, where's your book? And I said, I thought it was due next month. And she said, no, I'm pretty sure it was due this month. And I said, I really feel like we had a conversation where we said October. And she said, maybe we did and didn't write anything down.

I'll see what I can do.

And everyone said, you can have October.

All right.

There you go.

That's excellent.

So excited.

And it's actually going great.

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