Welcome to Literary Friction.

I'm Carrie Plett, here as always with my co-host, Octavia Bright. Welcome to Literary Friction.

I'm Carrie Plitt, here as always with my co-host, Octavia Bright.

Hi, Octavia. How are you?

I'm good, Carrie. Thank you. Hi.

Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi.

Reilzo said that in a weird order this time. I don't know why.

I said my introduction weirdly. That you did a little bit. I'm going to blame you.

No, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm sad that it's now very thoroughly dark when we do our recording in the evenings.

Like that's definitely something I'm struggling with a little bit. But other than that, I'm good. It's been an extremely busy few weeks of events and radio programs, which has meant I've had to read an enormous pile of books. And they were all really good. So I'm feeling full to the brim of good literature, actually, which is a fabulous feeling. That is fabulous. Yeah, no, really good. So much to think about. And then today was my

first day back to my final edits on my own book, which is terrifying. But you know what, Carrie?

It is not as bad as I thought it was. So that's good.

That's shocking to me that what you thought was a pile of trash at one point is actually very good.

I don't know. Very good's going a bit far. Let's see. Let's see. But how are you? How are you? I'm good. We're

recording this right after the Frankfurt Book Fair, where I've just returned from. And it's been three

years. And so it was really nice to go and see editors and just hang out with people and talk about

with books and be surrounded by people from all over the world who care about and edit books and sell books.

I was also reminded how weird book fairs are.

You know, we're sitting at tables all day and editors just rotate through and every 30 minutes and we pitch them our books.

I mean, that's crazy.

It's such a weird format.

It sounds like a speed dating. It is. It basically is. Wow. And it's also amazing when, you know,

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