Hey there, Nightville listener. It is Jeffrey Kramer, co-writer of this very show, and I'm bringing you some special audio today.

So I wrote a novel with my friend and author, Ginny Namathuson. This book is called You Feel It Just Below The Ribs, and it comes out this Tuesday, November 16th.

You feel it just below the ribs is a fictional autobiography set in an alternate 20th century timeline, and it chronicles one woman's

unusual life, including the price she pays to survive, and the cost her choice is hold for the society she is trying to save.

We also chose the format of found manuscript that is annotated by an unnamed meta narrator, which is a really fun way to play with how truth is perceived.

I think it's a really cool sci-fi drama, and if you love Nightville or my other fiction podcast within the wires, I'm positive you will love you feel it just below the ribs.

So what follows my voice here is an excerpt from the audiobook narrated by Kirsten Potter and Adapero Aduyet.

You can pre-order the book wherever you get your books or audiobooks and do that today pre-orders are huge for us.

So go do that now. It's like a gift to your future self. I mean, listen, it comes out November 16th. That's just four days away.

So enjoy this excerpt from you feel it just below the ribs introduction and chapter one.

Introduction.

The following manuscript was found under the floorboards of an attic room in a bed sit in Stockholm in 1996.

The proprietor of the bed sit being possessed of no small amount of insight or perhaps a greater than usual amount of self importance donated the manuscript to the Staten's Historicica Museum.

At the time, the museum did not pay much attention to the manuscript as it seemed to them to be a highly implausible personal memoir that held no cultural or historical significance, at least none that could be verified.

Its author made bold claims, but did not provide sufficient details to corroborate them.

It wasn't until a staff member by chance learned about the body found with the manuscript that the museum began to take the work seriously.

Whom that body belonged to changed the significance of the manuscript.

The woman in question had been living under a false name for more than 20 years, so uncovering her identity took some time.

Eventually, through dental records, it was determined that she was none other than Dr. Miriam Gregory.

Dr. Gregory was a prominent psychologist during her lifetime, and her work contributed to the better implementation of some of the foundational tenants of the new society.

Her understanding of how to examine and manipulate the human mind was truly staggering, and the impact her work had on the world is impossible to quantify.

She was reported missing in 1975 by her wife, Teresa Morio, after she failed to come home from work.

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