It's the Simple Show.

You've got episode 14.

Hey there, I'm Tish Oxen Rider, and I'm a writer, traveler, entrepreneur, and family gal.

I'm a big fan of Simple Living, but I don't think it's just about getting rid of your stuff.

It's about living holistically with your life's purpose.

On The Simple Show, I talk with other people about what that looks like for them. It's fun.

In this episode, I'm talking to Caroline Star Rose, a children's book writer I first got to know as a reader of the blog I run, The Art of Simple. It was fantastic to pick her brain about a world I really don't know much about, yet I'm

totally fascinated by. If you've ever been curious about the behind the scenes of children's books,

you're going to love this episode. We talk about her history and how she wrote three other

complete novels before her fourth was picked up by a publisher, what inspires her work, and some practical

tips for getting your foot in the door of Kitty Lit. And then, as always, we end the show

with the segment What's Making Us Happy. We'll get right to the conversation, but first, this

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audible trial.com slash simple to get started. Caroline, hi, how are you? Hi, I'm doing really well.

So you, I think, qualify as the first guest I have had on the podcast that I feel like I truly first heard of as a reader of The Art of Simple.

Back when it was Simple Mom, you know, I remember, I basically remember first being introduced to you as someone in the comments section. So that's really kind of fun for me. I feel like I'm, I'm talking to a writer, a fellow writer, but also a reader, which is really cool. Yeah, you know, it's funny. The first I heard of you, I was, as you asked me to be a part of the show, I thought, when did I first hear of Tish? Because I've been reading you forever. And I really think it was through Jamie Martin, our mutual friend. And it was when I started blogging in 2009, I emailed her and I said, I don't know what I'm supposed to do. And she said, well, let me link you up with this post that my friend Tish has written. And it was something like a blogging 101 sort of thing. And so that's where, do you remember that at all? Did you? Vaguely, I do. I mean, this is, I did used to write about that a little more around that era. So yeah. Yeah. So I read that and then I thought, well, this is kind of fascinating. And so I started following you and have just, have always really thought you are very impressive.

Well, that is really, that is really fun and an honor to talk to you because whenever I started

digging into, you know, what I do, just because we get so many comments, you know, depending on the type of post that I can't necessarily respond to all of them, but whenever I see a name consistently, after a couple times I click over and find out what's about them.

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