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well welcome book casers it's a happy new year. Happy new year. And we're going to be with you all year long. We've got a full year of programs planned out.

Wow, is he peppy? It is. It's 2025. We're apparently very excited about it. No, we're always excited as the new year begins that you continue to welcome us into your listening library. We are the bookcase, and I am the Cape part of the Kate and

Charlie Part. And we have often said in the two and a half years that we've been doing this podcast,

that when we set out, we knew we wanted to talk about books that we admired, talking to

first-rate authors, and that our purpose was hopefully, hopefully hopefully to encourage people to read and read books that both of us

could endorse we are not literary snobs we I think we've proved that weekend and

week out we're just a father and daughter who loved to read and so what has become

an unintended consequence is that the podcast has become sort of a masterclass in writing

and to some extent a master class in reading as well. We feel as if at this point we have a good

idea of how some of the best authors approach their craft. And among other things that we probably

should have known from this start, there is no single way to go about writing a novel or even

a work of nonfiction. So we might call this week's podcast how to write a book, although we won't presume to tell

anyone how to do it. We've let the authors with whom we have had the pleasure of talking

just in the past year give us their thoughts and describe their best practices. So even if you have no

ambition to do what they do, and believe me, Kate and I don't,

we find it really interesting to delve into their methods and to read a book with those

methods in mind.

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