Hey, wonderful's welcome to episode 348 of the podcast with my wonderful guest Sarah

Annie. Sarah is an author, podcaster, and journalist. Her debut young adult novel Tell

Me Everything is out now. She's also been featured in the

New York Times best-selling villain anthology because you love to hate me and she

also created and hosts the first draft podcast where she talks shop with other

storytellers. I was pointed out to be recently by a longtime

listener that sometimes I just don't in fact most of the time I don't tell you much

about the guest in the intro which shame on me so I'm

trying to make a concerted effort to be a little more aware of that not make assumptions

that you did you know any sort of homework which you're certainly not required to do

before you start listening and pay the that our guests or respect they're due by

making sure to to get things started with who they are

rather than letting that tie up at the end,

which is typically what happens on the podcast.

So please enjoy this episode.

She's marvelous.

I feel sure you will.

And I hope everyone's doing wonderfully. Here I am, we're going to see how I do. We're going to see how much

I'm going to see how I do we're going to see if I how much lounging how much it's

a creatively lay down just let me know if my voice takes like a weird pitch you're

not getting don't give me away. Okay great,

just be like, hmm, so she's fully upside down now. I mean, there are,

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