Welcome to the People I sort of Know podcast, Chase Parham here with you as a

It's every podcast, but this one too, we're just going to talk to people. Some of the people I know really well, some of the people I know a little bit.

Maybe I know them through somebody else, or they have a topic or a specialty that I think we all should get to know together a little bit.

So that's this weekly show on the MPW Digital Network.

And a great guest to kick it off, Aaron Napier from HTTVV hometown. She is the author of the children's book, The Lantern House that's out here just recently. It's sitting on my desk here in front of me at the moment, and I've known Aaron for a long time. We were at Ole Miss together. I did some sports copywork for her when she was the editor of the Ole Miss yearbook. And then we reconnected in

2015. It was a tough year for me. I had found her journal for that she had started in 2010.

I reached out. We reconnected a little bit at that point. And she was great helping me a couple

times during that difficult season of my life. So we've been friends for a long time. I think you'll love hearing from her today. She's been on this podcast, or at least it's on this podcast network, before this. So from HD TV hometown from Ole Miss. Let's get started. Here's Aaron Napier. Aaron, great to see you. It's been a little while. Well, you're always busy. You and Ben are always busy, but you've been busy right now. You've got a new children's book out, the Lantern House. You've been doing some signings. It's been out for when we're recording this just for a little bit. And I've got to ask you, I appreciate the time today. When you get into these signings, you've still got to have the anxiety of, is anyone going to show up? What's it going to look like? I mean, what kind of goes into your head when you're walking into these buildings? Yeah, always, because how embarrassing would it be if no one came? That's always a thought that exists. Fortunately, we had great, we did the Mississippi Museum of Art last weekend and Adam and

Ben were with me and it was a packed house, which always feels good. That feels like people

really do want to read it and hopefully they're going to share it with other people. It was really

fun, but I do always get super anxious about writing someone's name wrong in a book,

even if they fill it three times. Kinsley. Like, I just panic. And I've written the wrong name

several times, wasted many books. I wonder what happens to books where you wrote someone's name

wrong in them, because I have a few, and I don't know what to to books where you wrote someone's name wrong in them,

because I have a few, and I don't know what to do with them now. There's something, maybe they're more valuable. It's like the offshoes of me just kind of put somewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So let's talk about that for a second. I want to get into a lot of different things. I'm going to kind of go back and forward. But the book, I read it to Carly Ann last night. It is, you know, it's deeper than some

children's books. There's a lot of hope. There's home. There's lots of different elements to it.

Where did it kind of come from? Tell me about it a little bit. When did you, when did you start this

project and what was sort of the inspiration for it? I wrote it about a year ago, and it took about 30 minutes.

Writing a children's book is vastly different from writing a memoir, for instance.

I've done both, and writing children's books.

It just was a story that I had had in my mind for years doing, I mean,

we've renovated almost 100 houses now. And all of them have the same story where the house

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