Hi, I'm Melissa Milano, and this is Sorry Not Sorry. The Los Angeles area is experiencing an unprecedented tragedy.

Thousands and thousands of homes and businesses have been destroyed by wildfires, and it's not even fire season.

In fact, Alyssa is not with us today because her internet is out due to winds caused by these fires.

Millions of people have been impacted, losing not just their homes and what they

represent to them, but the contents of those homes and the communities that they love.

Casey Lansdale has been in the middle of it all working to make a difference. She's a writer,

a musician, and publisher who's been collecting, organizing, distributing critically needed

donations throughout the affected

areas.

Casey Lansdale, welcome to Sorry Not Sorry.

If you wouldn't mind, just start out by telling our listeners a little bit about who you are

and what you do.

Well, as you said, my name is Casey Lansdale, and I am from East Texas.

I am a musician and I am a writer and I also own a small business.

And tell us about that business because I think it's pretty cool.

You know, as I mentioned, I'm a writer and that also extends to songwriting.

So I grew up in that fiction world because my father's an author, my mother's an editor. So that's always been a part of my life. And the small business comes from that. So the shortest version I can give you is that it was originally created about a decade ago. It's called Pandi Press, P-A-N-D-I-P-S. And we created it as a place to house the

backlist of my father's work, because after X amount of years, certain work would return to him.

And we thought, we don't want that work to just get lost. So we're going to put it into a place.

And we're going to name it Pandi because my dad calls me Panda and it's going to be adorable and it's just

going to be this thing that we do for us. A decade later, it's actually become a business where we've

contracted authors outside of the Lansdale name and we just switched to a subscription box service

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