Hey, it's Jessica Mernan. I hope you're loving the new cookbook deal podcast. If you haven't heard it yet,

it chronicles a year I spent making my cookbook one part plant, all the ins and outs, ups and downs,

meltdowns, and everything in between, things I could never have expected. Starting now,

the cookbook deal podcast is moving over to its own feed search for the cookbook deal in

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try to add that too before you head over to the new feed and subscribe again it's the

cookbook deal that's where you'll find it here's a preview of the next episode bye I'll see you over

there Bye. I'll see you over there.

This week on the cookbook deal.

So I'm sitting in a bathroom with the fan on so no one can hear me.

Cry. I'm just kidding. I'm not crying, but I want to.

We have not been able to move into our place. So I'm living at my husband's parents' house in North Carolina.

And they're super nice, but it does not take away from the fact that I am freaked out about finishing this book. I haven't even started

yet. I mean, when did I sign that deal? At the end of July, it's now going to be almost November.

And all of our stuff and my stuff and my cooking stuff and my ingredients,

they're all sitting on a moving truck in water.

So I'm bringing myself down right now.

I'm going to get out of this bathroom.

And I know I can do this.

It just doesn't really feel like it right now.

Get over there.

Get over to the cookbook deal.

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