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about writing i'm best-selling author b author Bianca Murray and I'm joined by

Cece Leera of Wendy Sherman Associates and Carly Waters of PS Literary. Welcome everyone to a

very special episode of our podcast. Listen, we've had some really fun original episodes on the show,

but I feel like today's episode will become a fan favorite. This is my prediction. Let's see

if I'm right or not. So we have, if you're on Zoom, you already know, we have all four of my

fantastic colleagues at Wendy Sherman Associates.

So we have, of course, Wendy Sherman, our veteran, our eponymous founder, the veteran publishing professional that everyone wants to be.

We have Charisse Fisher, who recently got a new title at the agency.

She is now the vice president, although I heard that a few people

call her the queen, so we'll have to ask her about that. Laura Mazer, Laura Mazers are superstar

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