Hi everyone. Magical Garbage is a podcast mini-series about fantasy storytelling and the enchanted

things that helped make us who we are. I'm doing this mini-series in celebration of my new novel,

Skipshock, which is out on June 5th, and it's a story about love and time travel and parallel worlds

and the moment in your life when you realize that you can't really

be on the fence about things anymore. That you've got to love with your whole heart and fight with

your whole heart and on one occasion violate the rules of a nude bathhouse with your whole heart.

I'm so proud of this book. I think it's so fun and exciting and I would be so honored and delighted

if you could pre-order a skip shock from any brick-and-mortar bookseller of your choice.

I'm sure you know this already, but pre-orders are so important

in the early stages of a book success.

So if you're going to buy the book anyway,

please think of a pre-order as a special favour to me,

the girl who's been talking to you from this recording booth for seven years.

Okay, on with the show.

Hello and welcome to magical garbage, the podcast where the Magisterium forbids this research.

My name is Caroline, and my demon is a small white dog who's farting right next to me.

And joining me is the head of the ablation board.

It's Ella Ristbridgeer.

Hi.

I don't want to be the head of the ablation board.

No, no one wants to be the head of the ablation board.

I want to be a nice one.

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