New York Times Best Selling Author, 400 weeks and counting.

I know, it's only at the beginning.

An N-A-C-P Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children in 2015.

Nomination for Nickelodeon Kids Choice Book of the Year Award in 2011. and worldwide has garnered such honors two Children's

Choice Book Awards in 2011. You know sometimes you feel not worthy and Rachel Renee Russell is a person that makes me feel

unworthy because she's doing such a wonderful job with her books and the new Max

Crumbly Masters of Mischief, is now available.

And Rachel joins us on chewing the fat.

Hello Rachel, how are you?

I'm doing great, Jeff.

How are you doing?

I am fantastic.

Thank you for coming on. So your new book is out and you're excited

about getting that on the shelves but for those that don't know give us a little

bit of history of some of the books in the past that they may have missed.

Yes, well as you just mentioned I'm the author of Dorke Diaries and I started that book series in 2009 and here it is 10 years later.

So this year is actually my 10th anniversary of writing Dork Diaries and I think we're like

what 45 million in print at this point of the Doric diary series

and I'm currently working on Dork Diaries book 14 so once I finish up here I'll have you

know a bite to eat and then I will hit the computer and start working on that

Door Diaries Book 14.

So it's it talks about how you work with your daughter, Nicky, on this book Max Crumbly. Does your daughter, she worked

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