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.

You know how they do these kind of hackathons in tech companies where they'll take 24 or 48 hours and produce the

product and everybody stays up all night and they're kind of cracked out on caffeine or whatever

and like whatever it takes, they get it done. I said, I wanted to do a version of that for this

goddamn book proposal because I'm so tired of hearing myself talk about it and I know it's in there

but I can't seem to get it done in the normal ways I get things done. A proposal from me doesn't look like what a proposal for me 20 years ago would have looked like. Now I'm able to say, hey, you guys, I want to write this book. Will you let me write this book? Or do you want to be part of it? And it's a lot simpler, obviously, because I'm already inside the system.

Well, you have a track record.

They're not going to lose money on a Liz Gilbert book.

You don't have to quite tap dance for your supper as much as some.

I don't think I ever lose the tap dancing instinct, though.

I think once a tap dancer, always a tap dancer.

Here, here.

I love it.

Totally agree.

Totally agree.

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