Hi, everyone back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor. And today we are doing our April book club about good people by Pat Mena Sabit. I'm very excited to discuss. I just finished this yesterday. Oh, me too. I listened to so many interviews and did kind of a lot of deep diving on the internet for this outline. So I have a lot I want to discuss.

Oh, I can't wait. But first, tell me about your high.

My high is that, so I've been in Maine this week and it has been both great and really fun. And it's also been productive. I partially came up here to lock

myself in a room and make some book progress. And I was just telling you before we actually

started recording that, so I had been working off of a draft that I had kind of worked on

intermittently over the past three years. I had like 23,000 words that was going to

get cut down and changed and I changed the POV. I changed the tense. But I was working off of

a blueprint that already existed and I ran out of road this morning. So I'm into the scary

wilds, but I'm feeling really good. The Wild West is how you described it and we are just

talking and that is also how I describe it. Yeah. The unknown, but kind of exciting in its own way.

And what better place to be at while you're heading into the wilds? Totally. And I have a Saturday,

fun day to look forward to hopefully have a lobster roll in my future.

Very nice. Yeah, the weather hasn't been great here, but it's not great at home either, so I'm not really missing anything.

It has been all over the place. But fingers crossed, you get some nice weather. And if nothing else, a lobster roll, which is great in all weather.

True. I also want some clam chowder. Oh, you could do both.

I'm going to have both weather for sure. Definitely. What about you? What's your high?

My high is I had a whirlwind of a weekend where I flew from here to Chicago to Missouri. There was a tornado while I was there. I was there for this literary festival,

which I've never been to a literary festival before. Me neither. It was super interesting.

I had never attended anything like it. But yeah, it was called Unbound Literary Festival in Columbia,

Missouri. It's completely free to the public, completely volunteer run, lots of amazing authors.

It was very cool. I had never been to Missouri before or a literary festival, so it was an

adventure. Did it focus on a specific genre or it was just all types of reading?

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