Oh boy Rebecca it is news wall to wall here at the book ride

podcast this week 20 20 which is saving all of its centrally book, you know, news that's not

like COVID related for the end of the year. Interestingly, only one of these is a story related to COVID and it's saying it's not a thing.

Yeah, it's also interesting. It's been a couple weeks since we did news here on Yield podcast.

So some of these links have been piling up

as we were in the zone of custom recommendations for folks.

But yeah, it's interesting how few of these are tied to the defining parts of 2020 really in terms of the rest of the news cycle

Yeah, it's like cleaning up like there's a Woodward thing we'll get to about Trump, the book supply and

chain, people worried about with COVID and demand seems to be doing okay.

And then everything else is, I don't know, kind of like, the book world gonna book world a little bit so let's do a

sponsor and get into it here in just a second.

Today's episode is brought to you by Flat Iron Books, publisher of the Cautious Travelers Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks.

So this one is really interesting. It's a little creepy. There's some mystery to it. So it's about people who travel across this area called the wastelands. The way they travel across the wastelands is by the Trans-Siberian Express, which is a train that is famous for its luxury as well as its danger.

The train is never short of passengers eager to catch sight of

wastelands creatures, but on the train's last journey something went horribly wrong

and no one seems to remember what it was. So now the train is back to business as usual. It's about to

embark again with a new set of passengers, but there are warning signs that the rules of the

wastelands are changing and the train might once again be imperiled.

Question is, can the passengers trust each other as the wildness outside threatens to consume

them all?

I'm excited.

I don't know about you. Thanks again at 2 flat iron books a publisher

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