Oh, it's Lord of Scoundrels Week.

I'm so excited.

God, I know me too.

Oh, my God, I just can't.

Like, every time I open this book, I thanked myself, like, it can't possibly be as great as I remember it.

And then I'm like, it's better.

And fuck you, Loretta Chase.

Why are you so good at your job?

Oh my God.

I shouldn't say that.

She's also the most, for the record, she's like the most remarkable human.

Yeah.

You know, when you're a writer, I'm probably going to regret saying all this, but whatever.

When you're a writer and you're writing in the genre that, like, you have read your whole life and that you are this obsessed with, you're so obsessed with it, that not only do you write it all day, then you record podcasts about it and read it all night.

Like, when you are me, like, you go off into the world when you're a baby writer, when you're like in 2009 when I sold my first romance novel.

And I ended up at like the RWA National Conference, like, starry-eyed, right?

Oh, I'm sure.

And you start to meet people who have written books that have transformed you, like the books that blooded you.

Yeah.

And you start to be really disappointed often.

Like, you meet somebody whose books you love.

And you're like, ugh, like oh i wish like never meet your

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