Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

So I'm going to jump in right now because we have a special guest.

You know, I do that very occasionally.

And this woman is very special indeed.

Her name is Linda Siebertson.

And she is a book midwife.

She has brought many, many books into the world,

including her most recent book, which is The Beautiful Writers.

And it's a very interesting book on how to write a book because it's not only Linda's story,

which we'll get into in a minute here, but it's dozens, like maybe even how many.

60, 60, who are, how would you define the, are they all writers or?

All bestselling authors, yeah.

60 bestselling authors quoted here.

Legends like yourself.

My idols.

I'm a legend in my own mind.

Yeah, so it's the combined wisdom of a bunch of successful authors with Linda's very, very informed

take from having midwife so many books.

So I just want to, can I just ask your questions?

Oh, please, please.

So you say at the beginning of the book that you always wanted to be a writer.

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