Hey, beautiful. My new book, Beautiful Writers, a journey of big dreams and messy manuscripts with

tricks of the trade from bestselling authors, is finally out in bookstores. For as long as I can

remember, I have wanted to write books. I'm guessing you can relate because you have stories too, world transforming

ideas tickling your brain, a unique perspective on a corner of life somehow overlooked, perhaps

a tale that won't stop unfurling its chapters inside your mind. The dream, the ache to write, has been thrumming through

your veins for longer than you can recall. And yet, something, time, confidence, life, is

holding you back. Well, not anymore if I have something to say about it. I hope you'll pick up a copy of beautiful writers

and let me know what you think. Now let's start the show.

And just one lunch that you pay for, rejection, then you go for tea, rejection, then you go for

drinks and late rejection. And, you know, you're in your shoebox hotel room thinking, what am I

doing? And then the next meeting is a yes. Hi, friends. Welcome back to the beautiful

writers podcast. I'm Linda Sievertson, and I am coming to you

after a very long book delivery season, full circle with my girl Danielle Leport, my co-creator

for this show seven years ago now, and my co-author on your Big Beautiful Book Plan. D&I have

been on book deadline at the same time,

cheering each other on, she for me with beautiful writers and me for her with How to Be Loving.

Danielle had this idea to come back together for a reunion chat before our books pub,

a casual and intimate conversation where we share the real deal

details of what we've been experiencing squirled away in our writing rooms, how bloody

hard it's been, how ridiculous and magical it's been, and some details from our past about

the wild things we did to get published.

If you know anything about the two of us, you know that we are open books

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