that fear never goes away i've done 12 books i've got 10 out i've got two in the hopper and i'm gearing up

for another one and that fear is there all the time and the advice i always give is write like no one will

ever read this because if you do it like you're sitting in your closet with a flashlight, writing secret stuff,

you're going to be very brave and audacious and free.

And you can censor it back later or whatever if you have to.

But when you do it that way, you're not worried about what your parents or your neighbors or your shrink

or whatever is going to think about what you did.

This is The Beautiful Writers' Podcast.

I'm Linda Severson, and that was Toska Lee, the award-winning bestselling author of 10 novels,

including the just released dystopian thriller The Line Between.

With Dean Coons and Lee Child representing for the gentlemen so well on this show,

with their hundreds of millions of copies sold in Hollywood movies,

I thought it was high time to bring on a celebrated female in this genre.

And guess what?

Edward Burns and his Marlboro Road Gang

Productions is teaming up with Radar Pictures to develop this new book and The Progeny, another of

Toska's books for television. So yeah. Today's guest co-host came into my life nine years ago

when I met my fiancecé, because she is his

daughter. I can't take any credit for Haley Baez's beauty or brains, both of which are formidable,

but she does call my son her brother, and I am now officially Granny Goose to her baby girl, Hazel,

although she and Hayes are the only ones allowed to call me that.

Haley and Tosca are both beauty pageant girls who attribute some of their current success to that

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