It feels terribly insecure because, you know, I've got to deliver a book a year and it's got to be good.

And I have no clue, no idea.

It feels like the way I feel when I'm doing it is like I'm a movie stuntman and I just jumped off a high building.

I'm on a coaching like hell that the stage crew gets the

airbag in position just in time.

Hey, hey, can you believe it's holiday time again?

What a year of incredible guests sharing the very best of their writerly wisdom with us.

I'm Linda Sievertson and and this is the Beautiful Writers'

podcast, and that was Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series. With 23 bestsellers,

including the new one, past tense, now a number one New York Times bestseller, the books

continue to live up to their Forbes magazine label as the strongest brand in publishing.

With over 100 million books in print in 49 languages and over a billion dollars in sales,

the author and his protagonist, Jack Reacher, show no signs of slowing down.

Jack is a former military policeman who somehow keeps

inadvertently ridding the world of evil. Our guest co-host today is our mutual friend, the

Uber Talented Tom Bergeron, who you know as a host of Dancing with the Stars and America's

funniest home videos. He rids the world of negativity in another way.

I called Tom and I said, hey, you want to guest co-host this with me?

And when he said yes, I asked Tom which author he most admires, Tom chose his friend Lee,

and here we are.

Lee is a native Brit who has long called New York home,

and I thought that bringing these two on together would be a really strong combination,

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