Well, on that note, I think we're going to try something different today, which maybe will become a, hopefully a long-running segment in the show.

So on our book tour and sometimes in our DMs, we get quite interesting questions from listeners, sometimes about sources or approaches or approachesan approaches actually a Taylor Mac concept to ask us

how best to get an agent or a book publish, things like that. But also quite often about

personal issues for some reason, which I take as a compliment. So on that note, we're going to

start a advice column on Extra Bad Gaze as your sort of resident gagany gunkles perhaps that qualifies us to tell anyone

anything ever again while he was here in berlin we were both talking about the different kinds of

writing that we do or would want to do and you know writers get together and we talk about where we want

to write and where we like to pitch things and what kinds of work you like to be doing more of. And both of us said we'd really want an advice column and then we just kind of looked at each other and said, well, we have, we can just do it. Like we can make our own advice podcast. So on our social media the other day, we asked if anyone had any questions they would like answers to fire

us an email. And if you want to do that as well for a future episode, our email is emailbadgays

at gmail.com. But in the meantime, we did get a large handful of questions that I think we're

going to run through today. We are. And thank you so much for sending them. And please do keep

sending them. We take questions from everybody, but we do prioritize questions, of course,

from our extra subscribers. And we'll be dropping some excerpts of our answers in the main feed.

But the full agony uncles or gagany gunkles segments, as with the rest of the Extra Bad Gaze podcast, is only for you, dear subscribers.

Today and some other days, we will make the whole extra show a kind of advice format if this really works out well.

And then most months will try to get to at least one or two questions from folks just as a regular segment to keep

the show fresh and to keep it a conversation with all of you. So should we get started?

Yeah, I do think we should add a caveat or I'm going to add a caveat for myself, which is please

don't follow any advice I'm going to give. I can't think of a worst person to ask advice from,

but people do ask. Oh, I don't know, Hugh. I think there are many people to ask advice from, but people do ask.

Oh, I don't know, Hugh. I think there are many people could ask advice of George Santos, Hugh.

People could ask advice of Malianopoulos.

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