It's the Simple Show. You've got episode 63. Hi, I'm Tish Oxenwriter and on the Simple Show. We talk about books, travel, and life at home. In this episode, I'm joined by my co-host, Haley Stewart. Hello, Haley. Hi, Tish.

Hey, Tish. Haley, tell us who you are and what you do. I'm a blogger at carrots for Micklemish.com and a podcaster for Fountains

of Carrots, also a speaker and homeschool my three little ones in Central Texas.

And I'm also a writer and mom living in Central Texas, and I'm online at the art of simple.net.

Well, this is a book's episode. So we're going to talk about

the middle grade novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. And we're also going to talk about the fantasy

mystery, the air affair by Jasper Ford. All right. Now, before we begin, first up, I just wanted to

bring up a little bit of fun news that as of not too long ago, you can now pre-order my book at home in the world, which releases really soon. It releases April 18th. And so, you know, this trend, I don't know what I think about this trend, Haley, but it's just, it is what it is.

People can now get things for pre-ordering books.

I think publishers.

Yes.

Publishers are really trying to push that.

And actually, pre-ordering is super great for books because it tells booksellers like Barnes & Noble and Amazon and all those guys, whether a book is going

to continue to sell well. And so they will order copies and they will promote it more and they

will bring it to the front of their, you know, browsers and buyers' attention. And so pre-ordering

is actually a really great way. You can support an author you like. And so I think publishers like to toss in

these free gifts just to encourage people to go ahead and order now instead of the week it releases.

And so the pre-order gifts you can get, I actually told them, don't do too many because I sometimes

feel like if you have too many pre-order gifts, it almost looks like, okay, what's wrong with this book?

Like, what are you telling me? But a few of them are fun. And so the first one is a travel journal that I actually wrote. And it comes in a paperback. So it's not a PDF. You get a real paperback book. And it's a travel journal helping plan the other stuff, quote. So it's not like what to pack and how to

budget it's it's more like how to prepare yourself emotionally and relationally and spiritually and

I really liked it um you get an instant download chapter from the book so that means you can start

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