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If you enter Code Zibby, Z-I-B-B-Y, at checkout, you'll get three audiobooks for the price of one. So please check it out, Z-I-B-B-Y, three audiobooks for the price of one. I'm really excited to be here today with Sarah Shepard, who's the number one New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liar series, which inspired the free-form television series. She has also written other young adult books and adult novels, including The Lying Game, also show on Freeform, The Perfectionists, and The Areses. Her novel, The Elizas, has been optioned for TV development as well. Her latest book, Reputation, came out in December of 2019.

She also produced Crown Lake on Brat TV, a graduate of New York University with an MFA from Brooklyn College.

She currently lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and children.

So welcome, Sarah.

Thanks for coming on moms.

Don't have time to read books.

Thanks for having me.

I'm so excited.

This is Sarah's first podcast.

I'm so honored.

I am so, I love podcasts so much, and I love this podcast.

So this is like a great first podcast for me.

I'm going to go really easy on you.

Okay, please. It's going to be really easy on you. Okay, please.

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