This is the bookwryb podcast. I am Jeff O'Neill.

And I am Rebecca Shinsky.

And it's summertime, Rebecca. We were just talking about how it's going to be a little bit lighter here for a while.

We have to do a little. I'm not quite into my got to dig up some links to talk about era like I come

sometimes get to in June and July, but you can definitely feel summer Fridays in publishing started

this week. Well, actually, maybe last week. Usually it's the Friday after Labor Day, but I think

they start pushing that up. For those of you don't know, in a lot of the publishing world, noon on Fridays is see you

later, which is great, I guess.

Maybe something you use in your union negotiations, Hachette, something in the future I do wonder

about, which we could talk about.

But the news is pretty slow, Rebecca.

So it's going to be a leisurely

briefer kind of maybe episodes. Yeah. And we've had it. Last week was packed. There was so much

AI stuff going on. We've had a lot of things to talk about. But it will just be a little quieter here.

Through the summer, who knows, surprises happen all the time. There will inevitably be stuff. But the publishing year is on, you know, half mental vacation. Really until early September when we start to get the National Book Award long list. So between now and then, it's just let's all catch up on our reading and nobody make any big moves keep let's everybody be

cool that that last Tuesday in August has turned into actually a pretty interesting new release

week because people are trying to get ahead of that first September Tuesday which I think is

the biggest day of the publishing year now is that first Tuesday in September.

So we send to see it a little bit over there.

Maybe we'll get some announcements on the other side.

If you are looking for ways to fill the lazy, hazy days of summer, can we interest you in hot Greek summer?

You can come join us over on the Zero to Well Red Patreon, which we are going to do a read

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