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Today, I'm the history of literature, maybe the greatest novelist ever. Ever. Prost. Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Jack Wilson. It has been a while people, my friends.

Many thanks to all of you who checked in, wondering how I'm doing, hoping I'm okay.

I am okay.

I'm in every sense. I am just okay. I am okay. I don't know how much to talk about me here

and how much to talk about the show and how much to just get on with the business of literature.

Maybe a little bit of everything.

When I started the show, I set a few goals and then I met those goals.

So it made me reassess. Do I still want to do this? Even after I met my

goals, it's a lot of work, it takes quite a bit of effort. Some things are fun. Thinking is fun. Talking is fun.

Reading. Pretty much everything else.

Editing interviews, the website scheduling guests, sending emails, publicizing the show, writing

summaries of it, finding graphics, dealing with technical changes, all that is not so fun. It's work. I get paid a bit to do it from the

Patreon account. Thank you very much to all our Patreon supporters, but it feels like a second job a third job if you count family

which takes up at least as much time as my other job which takes up a lot of time a lot of time, a lot of time. A lot. So my thought process becomes, how do I do the fun parts and not the that writing gave me some of that again, thinking about the books, planning

them, writing them pretty fun, with none of the other work. The problem with writing, no audience, it's just me and the words. For a long, long time. I could use an audience. Or what is the point, really? So I fell off the podcasting wagon and fell into the world of writing.

Three novels drafted a fourth one in the works, but no one to read them.

And I miss the audience of the podcast too. I do. I feel great about the people I've reached.

Oh sure I've had a couple of haters along the way. I get deranged emails like anyone else but the hundreds maybe it's thousands by now of beautiful messages

that I've received telling me that you enjoy the show. Wow.

Getting a little choked up, just thinking about it.

I've never built a community like this one before,

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