Welcome to Food for Thought, everyone. I hope you're having a wonderful week and I hope you've been enjoying the episodes I've been putting out.

As I work on a few more, I just wanted to share this news with you and see if we can't do anything in a

final ditch effort to guide people, help people become vegan.

So if you are on my mailing list,

you would have seen me talk about this.

There was an email I put out last week. The subject was all things come to an end and they do.

But I do want to give this one last shot. I'm stubborn.

But if I were to reframe that, I would say I'm stubborn, but if I were to reframe that I would say I'm loyal and tenacious when it comes to something I believe in.

So I'm tempted to record this episode and give you the entire story and I just thought about it and I don't think that's necessary or the right thing to do.

I have always kept close to my chest what happened to the

30-day vegan challenge, the original book that was published by Random House,

which was a pretty big deal to have Random House pick up my book, especially

after having had not great deals prior to that with my other books, Joy, vegan baking,

vegan, color, be vegan, and vegan's Dalek companion, you could just consider them, you know,

they were great success for the publisher

and they were great success for the people who have them

because I'm so proud of those books.

But they certainly didn't you

know they weren't lucrative in any way for me I didn't have an agent when I

wrote each one of those books and so I didn't really have an advocate you know and I that's the

route I chose I was you know definitely naive and so when the 30-day vegan

challenge was bought by Random House through an agent who was very capable agent, it was a really big deal.

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