Hey all, all welcome to episode 281 of the podcast. I immediately threw myself for a loop because I suddenly and not with any preparation said all instead of guys.

I guess I'm doing some sort of phase out of that word. I don't know.

I was not thinking about that at all when I press record.

Hi everybody! Welcome to episode 281 with my guest Lori Kilmartin. I am just quickly going to

shout out all the wonderful people that I had the pleasure of meeting and spending

some time with at awesome Khan last weekend in Washington DC that was just a really really special trip and

it just reinforces the joy that I feel whenever I get to meet

podcast listeners in person.

It was really, really food for the soul.

I also want to thank Steve for your YA recommends.

I had mentioned that I wanted to read more YA books, and I got some. Why a right into the episode. You know what I will say is I never ever ever ever

remember to say this but if you like the podcast I would absolutely love you to

leave a positive review a five-star review on iTunes.

I never ask anyone to do that.

And therefore, my podcast is not accurately

represented in its popularity on iTunes,

because I just never ask anybody to review it.

So if you have the opportunity to do so, I'm told that's still something that matters and

it would be a huge help.

And there we go.

Now we will get into the episode and take care

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