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I'm here today with author Julie Valerie,

who is the debut novelist of Holly Banks, full of angst.

She currently lives in Virginia with her college sweetheart husband and their four children. And by the way, we're being filmed today by Sandy Kenyon of ABC News. And hopefully you'll see a clip of us in the feature that he does about Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books soon. So welcome, Julie. Thanks for coming on Momstone, have Time to Read Books. Thank you so much for having me, Zibi. debut novelist. This is very exciting. Oh, it's so exciting. Yeah, it's a very exciting time. So can you tell listeners, please, what Holly Banks full of angst is about? Absolutely. So Holly Banks full of angst is a laugh-out-loud debut novel that was written for anyone who is trying to live the perfect life and learning the hard way. There's no such thing. And it features Holly Banks as the main character. She is a

less than perfect mom, searching for mostly happy and a pretty good life. I love the scene where

she drives to school in her pajamas and it ends up as front page news in her community.

Yes.

I was like the idea that I would have to be like on the news for doing something like that.

It's like so terrifying.

How did you come up with this idea? Is this reflective of your own community at all?

Well, so it's tricky. I wouldn't say that anybody in particular in the novel is based on a specific person within

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