Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Baton Paper Podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia

Mentor. And today we are joined by author and friend of the pod Ashley Winstead to talk

all about her new book, Midnight is the darkest hour. And then we also have some of our

own spooky witchy book wrecks for you. And Ashley has some, too, other than her own

book, of course. So I think we have a nice smattering of spooky books for you. A smattering

of spooky. That could be your memoir. Oh, I like it. But before I get into that, let's

do some highs and lows. Tell me you're high. My high is that I am leaving for England

tomorrow. I am doing my second group trip with Trova trip. And then I'm going to visit

my friend who lives in England. And in there, I have a few solo days as well, which is kind

of funny because originally Jake was going to go with me on this trip, but he's not now.

And one of my goals for this year was to go on a solo trip. So I've kind of provided.

It did. So I'm really excited. I've been making my little itinerary and my creativity

guide for the people going on the trip. And I'm really excited journal and to go to the

Cotswolds and to tour a castle. And I have a lot of outfits planned that are all just

like shades of brown, which sounds not exciting, but I'm very into brown right now. I'm happy

for you. I'm just excited. It's been a really long time since I've traveled. So substantially,

I should say. So yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I can't wait to live vicariously through

Instagram. What's your high? I have a little high. So do you remember over the summer

when I throw my back so badly? I do. I seem to remember a blue arch somewhere in there.

Yeah. Well, yeah, you have your own traumatic memories related to it. So I feel like it was

like a wake up call for me about my body breaking down and longevity. And so I went back to Pilates.

I used to be really devoted to Pilates before the pandemic. And then I moved to Brooklyn.

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