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Hey, everybody, welcome to the writing room.

And I hope this is a place, whether you're an aspiring author or not, that you'll learn some tips about how to get your story out because each of us has an

important message to get out. It's not always the same message, but oftentimes it's similar.

But this is a place where we'll be interviewing authors that are getting their word out and

finding out about some tips along the way, some places where they got snagged,

and co-hosting this, the actual leader of this parade, is my friend Kim Stewart.

And Kim, tell us a little bit about you.

Well, first of all, I've never led a parade.

I've never been been in a parade.

But I feel like that is in me and I'm

going to organize it tomorrow. I am a writer too, Bob, and I've loved writing for years,

about 17 years. And a lot of that time, I've written novels. I'm doing some nonfiction now,

but a lot of that time was on my own. And so what I love about this space and our work

together and the conversations we're going to have is that it doesn't need to be alone. Writing

doesn't need to be such a solitary endeavor. So that's really my heartbeat is to come along.

Other side folks who are doing this crazy job. I've been many times and I've thought,

what about bank telling? Feels like that would be a lot easier. But I stuck with it. And I'm so

glad I did. And we want to really cheer on others on this road. Yeah. And today we have a mutual

friend of ours, Jason Patterson, who is just a great guy and has been really had his head

down in writing. And we thought that would be so encouraging for you to hear from somebody who

hasn't written a book before, but said, like, let's go do this thing. So Jason, welcome on to the

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