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Dark Romance Holiday Gift Guide 2026 · Two Girls, One TBR

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  Welcome back to 2 Girls, 1 TBR, your chaotic book besties here
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  to wreck your reading list. 1 Morley Gray man at a time.
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  I'm Rebecca and the one who buys books that she's running out of
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  time to read. And I'm living like I have 9
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  lives. Oh, but you can find me at
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  Azrilla Reads on Instagram. But today we are officially
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  opening the gates to our 2026 Mother's Day Coven Gift Guide.
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  Yeah, I'm Heather. If you are looking for someone
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  who lives for a dark aesthetic and a book that will absolutely
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  record you, found her. Find me at Kindle me reading on
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  Instagram. And today isn't just about
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  flowers and brunch, OK? It's about honoring the coven
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  Queens who keep the magic alive. We have hand selected 12 authors
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  and 12 small businesses to curate the ultimate Treat Your
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  Shell experience. Whether you're a mom, a dog mom,
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  a plant mom, or just the matriarch of your local book
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  club, this guide is for you. So how are you doing today?
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  Good. It's been kind of a slow Monday.
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  I made my husband go to the grocery store so I didn't have
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  to so. What are you reading right now?
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  I'm still again. I'm still here.
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  I know. Soon it'll change.
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  Look at this puppy. Oh, look at those annotations.
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  What book is that? I got to move myself.
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  Oh, very nice, that's book 2. Wrath of Starlight book 2, so
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  car physical copy. I was a physical copy winner for
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  book 2, so I've already read it. Look at all my annotations.
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  That is a lot of annotations. I love it.
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  This is a epic fantasy, so there are a lot of clues and a lot of
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  like character building and leading up to people and things
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  happening and stuff. So I trying I have to go back
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  through breakfast our light and do this too.
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  Yeah, this is 700 pages. And I gave her a little feedback
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  since I was a early ARC reader and she's putting some more
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  revisions in. She's like, this thing is going
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  to be so long. I'm like, yes, quality over
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  quantity, OK. Well, she said, it's going to be
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  what, a nine book series? She said.
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  It's a trilogy. Trilogy's very nice.
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  Very nice, yeah. And that's not the real.
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  This is not the real cover. This is just like a placement
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  cover. She did come out with her cover
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  on Instagram where she drew the characters and the setting and
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  stuff like that. And we go under the surface so
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  it's very it's like a darker compared to like when they're on
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  the surface with the sun and things like that.
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  So now we're in the dark, so those.
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  I have breath of Starlight. I ordered the the special
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  edition. Yeah, the special edition one,
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  but it doesn't come. I won't get that until the end
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  of May I believe, is what she said.
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  So I'm excited for that. So then I can read the story.
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  But that because I knew that one because didn't the the rash he
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  would come up every 20 years to the surface because I remember
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  her saying that. So OK, so that takes place on
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  the surface. And this next book we're going
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  under. Oh yeah, I like it.
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  And that comes out in July, I believe.
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  Yes, she's. Summer she's.
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  She wanted these out quick. Yeah, so.
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  And I think she has like book 3 in the works or it's like almost
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  done. But she's been sitting on that
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  on this story for years, like since she was a child in the
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  sense like she's had these characters in her head for a
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  very long time, has established a lore over years of, you know,
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  writing out her characters and stuff.
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  So you could tell it's very well done, like character building,
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  plot, lore, all the stuff kind of comes together and you could
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  tell she spent a lot of time on it.
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  And if you, when we have her back on the podcast, it'll be
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  really fun once we've all read the books and stuff to be like,
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  you know, how did this come about and what was your
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  inspirations for this? Because I'd love to know if
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  she's from Russia, I wanna say. OK.
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  And she came over with her mom. I don't know if her dad came
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  over. I think her mom and her grandma,
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  and now she was in Georgia. I don't think that's where she
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  came to originally from Russia, but I think she was young, young
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  though, like school age. And she said she has like little
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  notebooks from that time of her characters, from like these
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  stories. Isn't that wild?
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  Because she doesn't have any accent or anything, so she must
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  have been Little Little when she came here.
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  Yeah. Yeah, Well, I guess she would
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  have. She has more of an American
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  accent. Right, because.
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  We do have an accent. I have so very good.
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  I would have to think about that.
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  Yeah, she speaks English very well and like, doesn't have an
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  accent to her English language when she speaks it, Yeah.
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  Oh, that'll be neat. I didn't know that.
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  That's neat. Yeah.
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  So there's that. Maybe she'll be able to show us
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  some of her stuff. Like I know she's so fun.
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  She's fun. Some of her videos that she's
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  been doing, she's the clips that she's been putting up on
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  Instagram has cracked my heart and size.
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  Yeah, that's good. She's funny, but like, again, I,
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  I told you that's what I'm I'm still on this.
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  I didn't get a chance to read last night because we've
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  recorded back-to-back here 2 days in a row.
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  So I didn't get a chance because when I I was tired because I had
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  been up from 7:00 in the morning and by the time we went to bed
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  it was midnight and I'm old and I get tired.
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  It's OK when I get tired like that I start skimming.
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  In some books you just can't skim.
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  Yeah. And I or, or I'll keep reading
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  the the same part over and over again, or I will have that I'll
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  jerk with the book. You know what I'm talking about
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  because I'll start falling asleep and then the book almost
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  falls and hits me in the face. Or you get hit, yeah.
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  Yeah, most likely, yes. Well, I I have with my new
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  phone, I have one of those little pop lock things, you
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  know, so it goes between my fingers, but I will to do that
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  also. But I haven't hit myself in the
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  face because my I'm holding it better.
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  That's good. But hopefully, I'm hoping this
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  week to have it done. My Kindle color I need to get a
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  like pretty you need to get a case yeah, I need to get a case
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  for it and a pop socket or something because mine
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  definitely less with 3D like this and you go.
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  Oh yeah, because they're a pop socket.
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  I called it a pop Locket. What was a pop Locket?
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  What did you get? I thought you called it.
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  Maybe that's a? Is it a pop socket or is it a
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  pop Locket? What do we call them?
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  So there's the company called Pop Socket.
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  They were like the original company to make them.
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  Now there's a bunch of, you know, knock off.
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  Oh, OK. 1. Yeah, yeah.
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  So yeah. The one I have is on my phone,
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  'cause my phone has like these flowers.
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  I can't my phones I'm looking at it, but it has these real pretty
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  flowers and they have glitter and there's like little sparkly
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  things. And then my that thing I hold
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  the pop socket thing. It's it's like it has like
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  Chrome and it has like this real filigree looking stuff on it.
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  It's pretty. I like it because this this
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  phone, I had to put those doohickeys the the screen
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  protector on the screen. But because of how this one is,
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  it has four cameras on the back of it.
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  I have the screen protectors on it too.
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  I don't know you could do that. Yes, they make them now.
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  And I was like, and my husband actually cracked his already,
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  not his phone, just the protector on the cameras in the
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  back. And I said to him, I said, how
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  did you do it? But it it, it must have just
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  something hit that corner in it. I cracked it, but I had another
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  set and I fix it. I said thank God you had that on
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  there. Yeah.
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  Those are expensive. Now I.
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  Remember, these are 13. Hundred a piece.
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  I know. Yeah, they weren't.
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  I mean, they were expensive back in the day, in the hundreds, but
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  yeah, now they're like a laptop. Absolutely, absolutely.
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  It's just nuts. But Oh no, I put screen
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  protectors on everything. Yeah, everything we have, if it
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  if it's an electronic and it has one of those screens, they all
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  have those screens on them. I don't put things to chance
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  since my son broke my iPad many years ago and cracked the whole
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  screen. It's like, but I don't know if
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  that would have saved it because I think he stepped on it.
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  That makes sense. He was.
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  A boy that was. That was the last iPad I had.
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  After that I've gone too. I have my big Samsung Galaxy
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  tablet and I prefer it. Yeah.
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  Over Apple I I prefer Android over Apple.
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  See, I'm the opposite. I don't know.
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  I think Apple's very user friendly and all connects to
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  each other. You don't have, I don't know,
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  you have like software people to help and stuff like that.
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  Well, all my Android stuff, because everything's Samsung
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  that I have, they all interconnect and everything.
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  That's good, but I just, I didn't like the thing with Apple
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  is it seemed like they slowed their operating systems down.
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  It always felt like and then after a while then they don't
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  even do anything with it. Android, it seems they go a lot
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  longer. It's a lot longer that they
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  support those kind of things. So that's why I.
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  Yeah. Stuck with Samsung but I have
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  had iPhones but I just I prefer but this one here that I have
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  now is the S26 ultra. It's the flagship of Samsung.
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  Oh. That's what they told me.
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  Oh, and I and I have one of those little I have to go boop
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  like this and it has a stylus that comes out with it.
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  Oh, you got the fancy one. The fancy one.
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  Isn't it Samsung who has the the the one that?
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  Yeah, they have the flippy ones and all that stuff too.
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  It looks like a like a cosmetic case is what they look like.
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  But it's tough. I'm just afraid.
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  I'm afraid with those. When I was young, I don't need
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  another one, but they were cool back in the day, OK.
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  I think right, it would protect the screen more, but some of
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  them, I think one opens this way and then there's one that opens
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  like a like a cosmetic case. OK, but they're different.
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  But no, mine's just mine's the real big screen.
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  I'm old. I need a big screen.
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  Yeah, but this one here, I I really, I really so far, I like
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  it. It's it's a big upgrade going
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  from something from 7 years ago to this.
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  Yes, technology. Changes.
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  Yeah, yeah, I mean everything is changing really fast now, like I
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  know yeah, new car with navigation and like the screens
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  and stuff until I had a baby in 2020 and the prices were cheap.
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  Otherwise I would have like a 2000 early 2000 Honda Civic that
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  was falling apart that had ACD player.
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  OK. And like nothing else like
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  electric air. Like I guess I had electric
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  windows and air conditioning. Like that's like the the top
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  line back then. Now, you know, we have like all
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  the heat seaters and like, I've never owned anything like that.
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  So yeah, like I was always the less like people that had all
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  that stuff. Oh.
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  Yeah. Well, now, now ours is our
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  vehicle's a 2024. We have a Buick in it.
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  You plug it in or it it does Bluetooth there and we have
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  Android Auto or you can have the Apple Play or whatever,
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  whichever ones they are. Yeah, like all that you don't
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  have, you don't have to worry about having navigation in your,
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  your car anymore or anything. You know, it's, you have it with
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  your phone because you have Google Maps or whatever and it
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  just plays it. But I added this new one.
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  It's not Google Maps, but it's something with Google.
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  And then you can be like a little you're like a little icon
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  thing and you can have it that it sounds like a villain, a
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  super villain giving you directions, different
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  celebrities do voices for your navigation it, but you can have
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  it that you're if you're you make yourself visible.
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  People can see you when you're out on the road to but I didn't
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  want myself visible. But I can see like all kinds of
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  people that use it. And they're like little icons in
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  there, these little cartoons and you can see them all over the
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  highway driving and it's hilarious.
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  Oh my goodness. But I picked this.
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  I think I picked the Super villain, you know, because he
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  became a super villain because his ice cream fell off a cone
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  it. Was.
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  It's not like, and it's how it talks to you and but like I
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  said, and there's all different. You have SpongeBob, you can have
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  all kinds of stuff. It's your kids might like that.
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  My gosh. I have to remember what After
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  we're done here, I'll look and I'll tell you what the app is.
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  It's hilarious. But now before we get into the
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  actual guide, please go remember to go and check over on our
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  Instagram and our highlights under our sip section.
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  The collection this week is the Midnight Garden.
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  There's two different drinks. There's the Midnight Bloom,
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  which is the alcoholic one and the other one for your mocktail
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  is the Lunar Nectar. So go and check those out and
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  and make them for us because I want to see somebody make one of
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  these. Heather, you need to make one of
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  these. I know I was thinking today, you
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  know, I was thinking about buying plants for in here and I
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  was thinking of buying a bar cart with my plants today.
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  And I was like, you know, maybe one day it would be great if we
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  got sponsored by somebody to pay for all that stuff.
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  But like, I have some stuff that I I could, but it's expensive.
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  And I was thinking like, maybe after my car payment goes away,
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  I could start kind of dabbling in that hobby.
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  That would be a fun hobby. Of making mixed drinks, so that
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  would be really fun and this was here.
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  I was like, a lot of these things I've never even heard of.
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  Like what they have is the base and stuff like that.
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  And I'm like BlackBerry Nectar. Where do you buy that?
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  I. Don't know, I'm assuming at the
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  liquor store. I guess, yeah, you.
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  Have to look the next time I go. Yeah, the liquor stores are
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  weird. Wherever you live, they aren't
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  all the same, so. You see here in Kentucky, I know
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  if we go like to total wine and more hint, hint.
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  Oh, that's. Sponsorous that.
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  Would be awesome, I love that place.
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  The one they have, well, they have several, but the one I love
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  to go to, it's huge. It's massive inside.
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  And they have everything. You have beer, you have, you
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  know, your, your imports, you have wine, you have whiskey.
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  Of course, we're in Kentucky. So you have bourbon, you know,
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  all that kind of stuff. But it's massive inside.
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  It's a giant one. I love it because it's right
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  next to Barnes and Noble and on the other side of it, Bath and
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  Body, it's like my, it's like a trifecta of wonderfulness.
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  So I like to go to that. So the, it's, I think it's
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  called the Shops of the Paddock or something like that is what
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  it's called in here. And it's really nice.
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  But somebody make these and of course, remember edible glitter.
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  I know I was thinking again today about Velvet Hammer and I
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  was like, should I do that? I'm like, I'll ask for it for my
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  birthday. So I was thinking about that.
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  So I'm like, I can't, you know, just keep dropping money on
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  books and bookish things like slow it down so.
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  Sometimes we have to do this. This is why you pre-order books.
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  It's like yeah when they arrive it's like I didn't spend any
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  money, I spent that a while ago. Even though technically you
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  really don't. They actually charge you when
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  they ship them. Yeah, Amazon does, yeah.
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  Amazon. Amazon.
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  Yes, I have a book coming tomorrow.
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  It's the oh, what is it? It's the 5th book in the Briar
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  series. They're, you know, bonded by
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  the. OK, I don't.
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  Remember the name of it. I thought it's coming about on
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  Audible sale, so I'll read those with you.
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  Well, I'll probably go through them really fast, but so do you
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  And Cassandra always talk about that series, and I've seen it
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  elsewhere too. Like it's very like constantly
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  talked about. So I'm like all right, I'll
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  break down and I'll buy the series.
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  So when they were like 3 bucks apiece, I'm like, OK, all right,
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  we got. Well, I know this is book 5 now.
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  Make sure you get the prequel too.
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  There's a little or it's like a little prequel novella, OK.
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  And it's probably a little thin. KU OK Kindle Unlimited probably
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  those are quicker to read than it's like a novella.
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  Little on audible and they're like 4 hours long.
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  It's little. OK, I can read that.
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  This is it. That's now the novella does not
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  have the sprayed edges, but now books, books one through 4,
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  those are all reprints and we all have that printed edges.
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  But she's the, because it's Elizabeth Helen, the two
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  sisters, they said it's getting very hard to find the sprayed
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  edges. And now the book that's coming
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  out tomorrow is brand new. It's not one of the reprints.
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  So it's, you know, it's a new book.
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  So that comes out tomorrow. Then in July 1 comes out and
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  then I believe maybe October I think is the final book comes
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  out and I think that will be a completed series.
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  OK, so I have that coming. I think that's the only one I
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  have pre-ordered for April. I don't think I have anything
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  coming right now in May, but I do know I have in August.
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  I have bedeviled coming because yeah, I have to have them in
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  them. I.
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  Pre-order that. Who has an audio book for that?
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  But I'd like to do the audio book.
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  I'll just see if I I think I pre-ordered that.
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  I pre-ordered a whole bunch of books like at the beginning of
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  the year. So I have I have to pre-order
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  several of them because I have I have them and I want to get the
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  Chrissa Broadbent's other book there.
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  The first book in the the last duology, I can't remember the
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  name of it. It's purple.
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  It's that one. I have to pre-order that one.
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  I have to best Maura. That one I pray won't be able to
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  pre-order because she or she might have it pre-order.
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  I don't know she'll have it that you can do that.
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  But I want to get that Demonica when it comes out.
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  I want to get that one I have. I mean, I have a list, but I
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  told you to get that app even though again, they don't sponsor
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  us, but they could is bookmarked and it's bookmark and then it's
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  apostrophe D and it's a little app.
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  And you put in your favorite authors and it tells you when
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  their next book is coming out. And it does a countdown days,
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  which I thought is pretty nice. That's always the hard part is
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  when you love so many books and you love so many authors, it's
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  hard to keep track of everybody. And when everybody's books are
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  coming out online and that does that does help, I have to say.
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  Yeah. Especially if you pre-order
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  like, you know, oh, pre-order that so.
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  Now also now when everybody know as we're going to be going
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  through all the different authors and all the small
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  businesses we are going on, when you get to hear this, you can go
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  to our Instagram. We do have carousels of the
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  authors and a carousel of the small business.
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  So you can actually get to see stuff.
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  The small business ones, you can actually see some of their
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  products and things like that and which is pretty neat.
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  And of course, under the author ones, you can actually see a
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  picture of them and the book that they currently have out.
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  Now the first, the first author we're going to talk about
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  because we're we did 12:00 and 12:00 because this is our
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  special guide. Is this TL Scheffler?
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  Is that how we pronounce her last name?
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  Sure. All right, She has a book called
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  The Stardust Duke that is out, and it's a Cinderella retelling,
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  blending whimsical magic with dark spice and horror.
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  Oh, very dark Cinderella. OK.
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  That looks really good. Yeah, and then AG Harris has.
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  Oh, never mind. I was thinking her next book.
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  No, this is her book. Yeah.
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  Silent Kingdoms of Silent Sorrows.
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  That is a dark fantasy with arranged marriage, faded mates
• 22:17
  and fire. Daddy's OK, Daddy.
• 22:21
  'S I know there's. I know it's like Vampire Fay.
• 22:25
  I have not started it yet but it has great art so of course I
• 22:29
  bought it. Oh, that.
• 22:32
  Awesome. Yeah.
• 22:33
  Awesome map in it. And then she has just, I know
• 22:38
  yours is such a character, but mine, but mine's a black and
• 22:41
  white. But look at how beautiful her
• 22:42
  art was. And AG does all this art
• 22:46
  herself. She's she's an artist.
• 22:50
  She will actually be hopefully coming on the podcast in June.
• 22:55
  That's our that's what her and I were talking actually today.
• 22:59
  So so. We have time to read.
• 23:03
  Yeah, Yes. And then we'll pester her about
• 23:05
  book too. Oh, absolutely.
• 23:08
  Oh, absolutely. Now the the next one we're going
• 23:11
  to talk about we we did talk about her a little bit here just
• 23:14
  a little bit ago is Ravenna Veil and she does the breath of
• 23:18
  Starlight and that book features disability representation.
• 23:24
  She does all the artwork in her book, all her character art and
• 23:29
  her, you know. Would you say it's a touch her
• 23:31
  and die vibes? Yeah, and both ways.
• 23:36
  And she just has very unique tropes.
• 23:41
  Like they're a mixture of different tropes.
• 23:44
  I feel like she doesn't, like, sit in the category when we talk
• 23:48
  the tropes that we're used to, right, like forced proximities
• 23:51
  and stuff. Like she it's very unique.
• 23:58
  Yeah, like a blend of tropes, but it's lyrical storytelling.
• 24:05
  So it does sound kind of like Lord of the Rings when you read
• 24:08
  that. And it's, what else was I going
• 24:12
  to say, brain part? Oh, it's epic fantasy.
• 24:18
  So it is going to be like Lord of the Rings where you have a
• 24:21
  lot of different character arcs kind of going on and branching
• 24:27
  out. The cast in the first book is
• 24:29
  actually pretty small though, maybe like 4 main characters or
• 24:33
  so. There's a a horse that has 6
• 24:37
  legs named Astinos and he's really sweet to our FMC.
• 24:43
  Of course you know and. The horse doesn't.
• 24:46
  The horse doesn't do anything in that book like The Neverending
• 24:49
  Story, does it? No.
• 24:52
  No. Good to know.
• 24:53
  That's a broody horse, but he loves our FMC and he's a
• 24:58
  faithful seed. Yeah.
• 25:00
  Oh OK, well I like that a whole bunch.
• 25:02
  I can't wait to read it and again I have to wait till May.
• 25:05
  Oh I know, I'm sorry but the but and the side characters are
• 25:09
  going to fall in love with them. She does a really great job at
• 25:12
  character building, so grab that one.
• 25:16
  I cannot wait for that one like again.
• 25:17
  And I don't know if she has any copies of her special edition
• 25:23
  left or it's various. Ways after that, I think she has
• 25:29
  a few put away for giveaways and that'll be the only chance that
• 25:32
  you could get a special edition. So yeah.
• 25:37
  And if you go right now currently on our Lincoln bio,
• 25:42
  our link tree, you can go and you can actually click into her
• 25:46
  link tree and you can actually go there and you can order her
• 25:50
  books right directly from her, which is pretty neat.
• 25:53
  Now the next one we have, of course, is our lovely Stephanie
• 25:56
  Storm. She was on the podcast a few
• 25:59
  weeks ago. She has her book Legion of
• 26:02
  Pride. Now that has morally Gray
• 26:04
  characters and there's themes of revenge and forgiveness.
• 26:09
  It's now did you did? You read that one, Yeah.
• 26:12
  You read that one? It's very like Supernatural
• 26:16
  meets Lucifer. And what else?
• 26:19
  Oh, Dexter. Yeah, yeah.
• 26:22
  So we got like serial killers, FBI agents, supernatural stuff
• 26:28
  like not I wouldn't say sci-fi, maybe like paranormal,
• 26:34
  supernatural in a sense of like beings, but supernatural like
• 26:40
  Lucifer. So like demons and Angel kind of
• 26:43
  stuff going on? Yeah.
• 26:46
  So I it was really good. I love the ending and I'm very
• 26:52
  excited to see where she goes with this.
• 26:54
  But because that's a series, right?
• 26:56
  Yeah, it'll be a trilogy, I think, she said.
• 26:59
  Yeah. But right now she's taking a
• 27:02
  break from that to go into a new series.
• 27:06
  I know she's finishing her rule of the damn series or trilogy,
• 27:11
  and then she's going to be doing another one.
• 27:14
  Yeah, she's like getting busy. She's a busy girl and she's
• 27:18
  hilarious and she cracks muscle inside.
• 27:21
  She's a great. Her and I, we we talk often and
• 27:25
  she's very, she's very funny and I enjoy her a tremendous amount.
• 27:30
  She's going to, one of these days, come back on the podcast
• 27:33
  and join us because she's like, because I told Chelsea, Chelsea
• 27:37
  has to meet her and she has to. That's right.
• 27:39
  She's so bad because it was only us.
• 27:41
  Yeah. But yeah.
• 27:43
  So that's another good one. Go and check out that book as
• 27:46
  well. Mixed up is Ellie Sells.
• 27:51
  She has a series out well book one Kindred and survive.
• 27:57
  It's a vampire dark romance and dragon phoenix shifters.
• 28:02
  Expect blood bonds and faded mates.
• 28:05
  I did just get her e-book on that one that that was very
• 28:09
  intriguing to me. I can't wait to read that one.
• 28:12
  Now I can't remember, is that one the book that she writes
• 28:16
  just herself, or is it the one where she has a co-author?
• 28:19
  I'm pretty sure that's the one she writes herself.
• 28:21
  She does have one that we put on the guide actually that she Co
• 28:27
  writes with and that one's like survived in damned or something
• 28:33
  like that. And I think that one is a is it
• 28:36
  dystopian or sci-fi? I think it might be dystopian,
• 28:41
  maybe. Oh, it's yeah.
• 28:42
  It's survive from the ashes. That's.
• 28:45
  What that one's called. And that one's she's writing,
• 28:48
  that she co-authors it with B Stephens.
• 28:52
  Oh yeah. That's how I'm going to
• 28:54
  pronounce it. I apologize if that's incomes,
• 28:57
  but she will be coming on the podcast as well in June.
• 29:02
  So those are that's the second one that's coming.
• 29:05
  So everybody look forward to that.
• 29:09
  Then the next one that we have is Miss Heidi Adams.
• 29:13
  Oh, she's a. She is a sweet girl, and her
• 29:17
  book is Rose Moon, and she just actually did this past week a
• 29:21
  new cover for that. Yeah.
• 29:24
  And that one's emotional forbidden love.
• 29:27
  Yeah, and does it have mermaids or sirens?
• 29:30
  I think Stuff or stuff. Chelsea.
• 29:33
  Chelsea Reddit. Yeah, Chelsea, she, I think
• 29:37
  Chelsea got that as it was like in one of her book subscriptions
• 29:41
  and it was a book that she didn't, she didn't know about.
• 29:44
  And she said she's so thankful she got it because she said it's
• 29:46
  an amazing book. Yeah.
• 29:48
  Yeah. But yet, she'll be actually
• 29:52
  coming on here soon, Miss Heidi. Yeah.
• 29:58
  And then? Parker Gardner.
• 30:01
  Yes. Oh.
• 30:02
  Yeah, so she just sent us some books because she's coming on
• 30:05
  the podcast dates and Twine series that is going to be an
• 30:12
  enemies of lovers horse proximity rooted in Irish for
• 30:15
  folklore, dude. So cool.
• 30:18
  I know. And did you open up your magpie
• 30:20
  dude? I did open it because I put it
• 30:23
  back in. Oh, did you?
• 30:24
  I was like, I wanted to keep it pretty.
• 30:26
  Yeah. So I kept it in its little seal.
• 30:28
  I need to start this this week and yes.
• 30:33
  We got I'm going to read this one and you're going to read
• 30:37
  this one, but I I'm going to read this one, but I'm going to
• 30:39
  read this one before she comes. Oh yeah, Look at the character
• 30:42
  art with it. Wow, character art.
• 30:45
  So this is the Magpie and these are the lovers.
• 30:50
  Is this a tarot card? It looks like tarot cards.
• 30:52
  It does get that vibe. Yeah.
• 30:55
  So, yeah, this is a dark this one.
• 30:58
  What did she say this one was? Because the face entwined.
• 31:03
  I put that down there. Magpie is something with a
• 31:06
  mansion. And it is dark.
• 31:10
  I can't remember if this looked like a dark thriller or.
• 31:15
  But it doesn't. Sounds great.
• 31:18
  Good. Yeah.
• 31:19
  And it says a key, a choice, a darkness she cannot outrun.
• 31:25
  It's on the back of Magpie. OK.
• 31:27
  Oh yeah, dark contemporary fantasy with gothic elements
• 31:34
  shaped by my own experience with oppression and suicidal
• 31:37
  ideation. So relation right there.
• 31:41
  So I was like, yes, let's read this.
• 31:44
  I had bad postpartum depression, so it got scary for a while
• 31:48
  there. So I'm really interested to kind
• 31:51
  of see what element she brings into this.
• 31:54
  And then we'll talk about that for May mental Health Awareness.
• 31:57
  So I'm excited to have her on talk about stuff like that.
• 32:01
  That episode will be I believe it airs on the 7th of May.
• 32:06
  So it's the first week of May. So that'll be for the the mental
• 32:10
  health month since May, is that so?
• 32:13
  I'm super excited to meet her and meet her in person.
• 32:17
  I've talked with her, you know, of course, yeah, Instagram and
• 32:19
  that. But I'll be excited to talk with
• 32:21
  her. So we have those.
• 32:24
  So then the next one is Claire Brauer.
• 32:28
  Now you have read her books. Yeah, she has Ren.
• 32:33
  And how do we pronounce the second one?
• 32:36
  OK, I don't. Do you know me?
• 32:37
  I don't. I say this correctly.
• 32:40
  And she's told me how many times like I are greed for her.
• 32:43
  So OK, it's recchia. That to me is coming from my
• 32:50
  mind. So we're going with it.
• 32:52
  I think it's recchia. So yes, she has two books.
• 32:56
  Recchia the in the rising or something Rising.
• 33:01
  Rekia rising I think is what it's called.
• 33:04
  Her covers are beautiful. I love Oh they are.
• 33:07
  Her artwork that she gets done but Rekia is kind of like a
• 33:12
  prequel of a sister that is in Rin an Assassin's tale and Rin
• 33:20
  an Assassin's tale is magic base kind of for what is that bridge
• 33:29
  Kingdom. I think that's.
• 33:32
  Bridge Kingdom I What's her face?
• 33:35
  Danielle, Danielle, it's Jensen. It has.
• 33:38
  Like those elements of like the assassin and the sisterhood and
• 33:42
  corruption kind of stuff mixed with like magical elements and
• 33:47
  secrets portrayals. Yeah, very cool.
• 33:52
  I like. That.
• 33:54
  So I really love that book and then and then a sister and that
• 33:59
  is in the prequel that she just released in January and she's
• 34:03
  working on book 2. So when she comes on the podcast
• 34:07
  here, I think in fall, is she coming end of?
• 34:11
  No, I think she's, we were thinking June, but I don't know.
• 34:14
  I'm in the, I'm in the planning stages of the summer months.
• 34:17
  So we'll see. Some questions together about
• 34:20
  Book 2. Because I need to know some
• 34:22
  things we're going to know, I'm considering a.
• 34:25
  Spill Well, I've added I have those on my TBR list and stuff
• 34:31
  like that because you had recommended them and it sounded
• 34:35
  so good and I I love the cover of Ren with the assassin, the
• 34:39
  lady on so pretty. It's so pretty because, you
• 34:42
  know, adding your. Attention.
• 34:44
  I mean so simple, but I mean it's just like.
• 34:48
  And it's beautiful. Yeah, it is beautiful.
• 34:50
  You know, You know, because sometimes books that have people
• 34:53
  on them on the cover, it's kind of.
• 34:56
  But hers is beautiful. Yeah.
• 34:58
  Certain ones that are really, really pretty.
• 35:01
  But that one is it grabs your attention.
• 35:03
  I agree with that. Yeah.
• 35:07
  But yeah, so we have her. Oh, Landon Hill is next.
• 35:11
  OK so we just talked to Lane and Chelsea and you did He has
• 35:17
  cowboy. Oh, you got her book.
• 35:19
  How cool. OK so she writes cowboy romance,
• 35:23
  but it's dark ROM com cowboy romance.
• 35:27
  OK, so we got that twist in there.
• 35:30
  Chelsea just read one of her books and said she.
• 35:32
  Just read this one. It's she.
• 35:34
  Read this first one. Like dark romance, she said.
• 35:37
  So it's out there, and it's very different from Chelsea's little
• 35:42
  contemporary romances. She likes to read, yes.
• 35:45
  Her little cowboy romance, she's like, yeah, that was a lot
• 35:48
  different. Oh, yeah.
• 35:49
  But she liked it, though. She did like.
• 35:52
  Oh, yeah, she liked it. But she was like.
• 35:54
  But our little Chelsea was like, oh.
• 35:58
  It's great that she. Yeah, the darkness.
• 36:00
  It does have. Some that was.
• 36:02
  Dark. Oh yeah, well, because she the
• 36:05
  now she has read what is it haunting and hunting Adeline?
• 36:11
  And that was the probably the darkest that she has read which
• 36:15
  and now I myself personally, I haven't read those, but I know
• 36:19
  they're they're dark. But but I myself personally, I
• 36:25
  love dark. I love it.
• 36:27
  So I'm excited to to read this because I've never read a cowboy
• 36:30
  romance before. That was never something I was
• 36:33
  interested in. But the thing that's neat about
• 36:36
  Landon is she's kind of like a hybrid.
• 36:39
  She has that cowboy romance element, but it is truly a dark
• 36:45
  romance. So she meets those two worlds
• 36:47
  together. And so people who are out there
• 36:50
  that are dark romance lovers, you know, and you love it, give
• 36:54
  this a chance. Give this an opportunity, and I
• 36:56
  think you will absolutely love it.
• 36:58
  And she is hilarious. She is the nicest, the nicest
• 37:02
  girl. And Chelsea made the statement.
• 37:04
  She said she is so sweet. And she said, where did this
• 37:06
  darkness come from? Right?
• 37:08
  Is she when you talk to her? Yeah.
• 37:11
  But I love it. I I I really.
• 37:13
  I really. Give this one a chance.
• 37:16
  Add it to your Mother's Day TVR because it's called the Trauma
• 37:19
  Bonded series, OK? Yes, there's going to be 4
• 37:24
  books. For.
• 37:25
  We are out. Yeah, it says here western Noor.
• 37:30
  How do you say whack in like French Noor?
• 37:34
  Western Noor with morally Gray Cowboys?
• 37:38
  Deep trauma healing cool. And each book is they're
• 37:43
  interconnected so read them in order, but they all they all
• 37:47
  follow a different couple in each book.
• 37:49
  Oh OK, and stand alone. Interconnected.
• 37:52
  So, so it's kind of like the same kind of thing.
• 37:54
  Like if you read Phantasma and Chantra, you know how they're,
• 37:58
  they're all in the same world, they're all interconnected, but
• 38:01
  they're different couples, correct.
• 38:03
  But the first one, Oh, yeah, it's, it's, it's good.
• 38:07
  Everything she has said, it just is like, yeah, I'm like, I told
• 38:11
  her she definitely sold me from everything she was saying.
• 38:14
  And you know, and you know what my wheelhouse is?
• 38:17
  And it is spicy. So does she have villains?
• 38:20
  Did you guys ask her that? Does she have a villain and your
• 38:23
  villain has? Villains.
• 38:24
  Oh yeah, these are all villains. This is all villain stuff.
• 38:28
  Perfect. And and the one that just came
• 38:30
  out, they're both villains. Fire.
• 38:35
  They're from prior books and I'm like.
• 38:38
  Interesting. I know kind.
• 38:40
  Of feel like reading that now like.
• 38:43
  I think you would love it. Bandits, you know, because I'm
• 38:46
  thinking like old Western, right, like you have your town
• 38:50
  with like the bank and the saloon and you Hor riding the
• 38:54
  horsebacks, right and those towns are like this big, you
• 38:57
  know, like while you're going through and.
• 39:00
  Well, and she said. It's very, you know, it's the
• 39:03
  dart, it's the, the villain Kit, you know, the the cowboy.
• 39:06
  That's not the good guy. These aren't the, these aren't
• 39:10
  the people that are going to come save the ranch.
• 39:12
  Yeah. They're not the shares, no. 3rd
• 39:16
  the like Lone Ranger Bandit. Oh, I'm going to steal your
• 39:20
  women and money out of the bank. Well, in the in the main main,
• 39:25
  the main female character in this one, her name is Stetson.
• 39:29
  And then the guy that's the the I guess the love interest in
• 39:33
  this one, it's Augustus, which she calls Gus.
• 39:36
  And when we asked her who would she, what was it?
• 39:42
  How did we ask? Fight, fight, fuck or kill?
• 39:50
  Or maybe it was Mary. No, it wasn't kill.
• 39:52
  It was Mary. Well, she was she.
• 39:54
  Was going to fuck us, that's what she said.
• 39:56
  So the one in here is the one she wants to fuck.
• 39:58
  So that tells you what? Yes.
• 40:01
  Love it. But she's hilarious, so please
• 40:06
  go and check out her book. And the third book just came out
• 40:09
  last week, so that was on April 14th that came out.
• 40:16
  So go check that out. Yeah, and remember when you buy
• 40:20
  a series is one book, so all three of those is one book on
• 40:24
  your TBR. So just remind your family of
• 40:30
  these rules. You want them all?
• 40:32
  Exactly. And you can get it right from
• 40:35
  her her site too. Yeah.
• 40:38
  Nice. Because you can get on her
• 40:40
  Lincoln bio, her Lincoln bio, she has it and I, I right now I
• 40:43
  currently have it on our Lincoln bio too, where you can go
• 40:46
  directly in order. Yeah 2 year olds 1 TBR does have
• 40:51
  3 links. Sorry, not pre-orders.
• 40:53
  Yes. And then now our next one is
• 40:57
  Evelyn Ashe. She is going to be on the
• 40:59
  podcast later this summer. She has a series or a book
• 41:05
  called A Beautifully Crafted Lie.
• 41:07
  It comes out in August. It features shadow days and
• 41:12
  excellent anxiety representation.
• 41:15
  I have anxiety. We all have anxiety.
• 41:18
  It doesn't. So excited to to see what that
• 41:23
  one is. I don't know if this is her
• 41:27
  debut novel, but it's supposed to be very good.
• 41:31
  Nice. OK, yeah, I have not heard of
• 41:35
  her yet until we were making our list here for Mother's Day, so
• 41:42
  I'm excited. I have a her book coming, so
• 41:45
  yeah, I'll definitely. She's from Australia.
• 41:50
  For some reason I'm saying she's from there.
• 41:53
  OK, I might be wrong. Well, but I think that's what
• 41:57
  I'm. Another author in Australia, so.
• 42:00
  But I think this is the second one though.
• 42:01
  She's in Australia cuz we have another author.
• 42:04
  That's that she is from over in England.
• 42:08
  We have her as well, but that's that's a different that's I
• 42:12
  think she's in June as well. Cool.
• 42:16
  But we'll see once I have to plan everything.
• 42:18
  I have to get everybody coordinated because we have
• 42:20
  vacations and things going on. Anxiety about like all these
• 42:23
  books I need to read now, Rebecca, I got to go, got to
• 42:29
  bring you. All right, now you'll do this
• 42:33
  next lovely one because we just met this lovely.
• 42:35
  Lady she, I didn't know she lived in North Carolina with me,
• 42:40
  Rhiannon Hartigut, Hargadon, Hargadon, she does the Queen's
• 42:45
  fate and bloody black. So she has, I think that's a
• 42:50
  bloody Black's a stand alone and we are having her own podcast to
• 42:54
  talk about bloody bloody black and that's a pirate's like the
• 43:03
  towing of. Blackbeard.
• 43:07
  Thank you. I was like Beard and Blackbeard
• 43:13
  is a woman that goes through some traumatic things and has to
• 43:17
  deal with her trauma while thinking about vengeance and if
• 43:24
  it's worth having at the end of the day.
• 43:27
  Very good emotionally damaging. It kills it.
• 43:33
  It is amazing. I I just have to say that I did
• 43:38
  audio book also really great so. I loved it cuz I read this.
• 43:44
  Sorry today, April 20th when we were recording, but this will
• 43:48
  come out on Thursday. But she just came out and told
• 43:53
  us that she got a book deal. So I just saw that on Instagram.
• 43:57
  She didn't announce that for Bloody Black.
• 43:59
  So she's getting tried. So I'm excited for some new
• 44:03
  additions and maybe a graphic audio.
• 44:07
  Just go to. Yeah, put that out there.
• 44:10
  Would be this this book is is amazing.
• 44:14
  It's you know, it's pirates night.
• 44:15
  This was the first pirate book I've ever read.
• 44:18
  And I just, I loved it when I read it.
• 44:21
  That's why I was like, Heather, you have to read this.
• 44:23
  Yeah, it's it's so. Elements.
• 44:27
  But it's not like Faye monsters. It's like you have your siren.
• 44:32
  Magical. There's magical beings, but
• 44:35
  they're not. It's different.
• 44:38
  Your old, like, mythical creatures that you had, you
• 44:43
  know, that people would talk about out in on the ocean in
• 44:46
  those days, You know, your sirens, your genies, your
• 44:50
  treasure finders, you know, stuff like that.
• 44:53
  So there are magical elements, but not really like, yeah, Faye.
• 44:58
  I I I'm thinking like Faye. Well, there is.
• 45:00
  Well, there is a Faye. Well, there is one Faye person
• 45:02
  in there. She's.
• 45:04
  Yep, the one that likes to leave the bodies at the door.
• 45:12
  She was Faye. Oh, OK, well.
• 45:15
  She was Faye. There's Faye, There's a genie.
• 45:19
  Well, that they call it Gin. Yeah.
• 45:22
  Then the the one guy I don't know what I would consider him
• 45:25
  cuz he had the like the spiky things that there's witches.
• 45:32
  Like ignore all of that while I was reading.
• 45:36
  I did not like see them this way.
• 45:39
  That's. So weird that's not even though
• 45:40
  she mentions what they are, that's not the predominant thing
• 45:43
  about. It's more what they are, the
• 45:45
  characters and stuff. Because you build such a
• 45:49
  relationship with the characters itself, I guess.
• 45:52
  Yeah, those parts were just details.
• 45:55
  Right. It's not like using their magic
• 45:57
  consistently throughout that book.
• 45:59
  Like it's very random when. They do, but it's vengeance.
• 46:03
  It's a revenge tour. And it is.
• 46:05
  Yeah. Good.
• 46:07
  Oh man. I love it.
• 46:08
  Roger, man. Charlie.
• 46:10
  Yes. That's my favorite.
• 46:13
  Character. I can't wait till Chelsea has
• 46:17
  just started it. I know so.
• 46:19
  Moving today so she can't read and maybe once she gets
• 46:25
  audiobooks so she can audiobook while she unpacks.
• 46:28
  She needs to read this thing. But it's so good yeah, but it's
• 46:32
  it's good. So everybody go and that now
• 46:35
  she, her episode comes out next week, not cuz this is the
• 46:40
  Mother's Day one this week and then hers comes out the
• 46:42
  following week. So you'll get to see her
• 46:44
  interview and our chat with her and she gives like a the back
• 46:50
  story of what, why she started writing this.
• 46:52
  And you know, she's, she's really, she's an amazing person.
• 46:57
  Yeah, and we're gonna get a sneak peek about what she's
• 47:01
  working on right now, Yes, so. And if she's going to continue
• 47:08
  anything with Bloody Black. I'm going to keep telling her
• 47:13
  she needs to do it. Yeah, but we'll talk about all
• 47:17
  that in another episode. Yes, so, but again, so everybody
• 47:22
  check her out and then. Yeah.
• 47:26
  Now this one here, I feel you should you should talk about her
• 47:29
  because you you love her as much I I love her too.
• 47:32
  Yeah, but I have, I am generous. I haven't read it, but I have
• 47:36
  them sitting there on my shelf. Chelsea.
• 47:38
  Never told me if she liked ever sees or not but.
• 47:41
  I don't know if she started it or not, she said she was going
• 47:44
  to but then her move got in all and that involved so I don't
• 47:48
  know if she ended up with the time to read it yet.
• 47:51
  Exactly. OK, well, if you have not read
• 47:55
  LJ Andrews and you've been thinking about it, it's on your
• 47:58
  TBR definitely by this series, the Eversee series.
• 48:03
  It was re released because they got trad picked up by Tran
• 48:07
  publisher and it's a pirates, Vikings Fey.
• 48:13
  OK, magical elements of like sea bending, tide bending, water
• 48:19
  bending, all that kind of stuff. And yeah, there's a scene where
• 48:26
  it's kind of like you disrespect my lady and we'll and then make
• 48:32
  jewelry out of you. OK.
• 48:35
  So I'm so I'm super excited to read that one as well.
• 48:38
  My husband bought me the three books, the ones that are out in
• 48:43
  the Ever sees, the Ever King, the Ever Queen and.
• 48:46
  Miss Thief and then bought. Them for me for Christmas.
• 48:49
  Yes, October, yeah, because they just were re released as
• 48:53
  hardbacks because they were in the before, so they were only
• 48:57
  paperbacks. So now they did hardbacks are
• 49:00
  out and paperbacks are coming with the new covers.
• 49:06
  Hold on, let me think May, June and July, I think because or
• 49:12
  something sometime very soon, but they're going to release
• 49:17
  like one month after the next. And then Stolen Crowns is book 5
• 49:23
  and it's like an interconnected stand alone 444.
• 49:29
  Yeah, what did I say, 54? You said 5.
• 49:31
  My bad, Stolen Crowns is book. 4 and that comes out, what,
• 49:37
  October, right? October, yeah, yeah.
• 49:39
  So that's super exciting. Now I was looking on her on her
• 49:45
  website cuz you can order all her books from there and she
• 49:48
  packages them herself. Yeah, she it.
• 49:50
  Says on there. Sir Aubrey, Hilarious.
• 49:53
  Love her. She she works in the warehouse
• 49:56
  and stuff and she does like warehouse day reels and stuff
• 50:00
  with the merch. They've got some really great
• 50:04
  merch and yeah, the books. Oh my gosh, the table.
• 50:08
  The broken sell. Them.
• 50:10
  That's her. That's the series that is the
• 50:13
  prequel to the Eversea series, right?
• 50:16
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, the mommies and
• 50:18
  daddies of the people in the Everseas are in the.
• 50:24
  Broken Kingdom. Broken Kingdom.
• 50:26
  Is that what it is? Yes.
• 50:27
  Broken Kingdom. Yeah.
• 50:28
  Well, they have she has the entire is it 99 book series and
• 50:33
  it's in one collection and it's it's you can pre-order it.
• 50:37
  So it mustn't be available yet. OK, and they're hardbacks and
• 50:41
  they're beautiful covers and they're all different colors and
• 50:45
  they're I think she signs and it says all every copy is signed by
• 50:49
  her in them. Yeah, so and I think it's like
• 50:50
  300 and some dollars, but for 9 books.
• 50:53
  That's that's, you know, hardback and they're signed my
• 50:56
  in a set. My Melissa Lady of Darkness
• 51:02
  there with all the sprayed edges and stuff was like 2, 80, maybe
• 51:07
  three with shipping so and that's 5 bucks, but with a bunch
• 51:11
  of character art sprayed edges, yeah, all those stuff so.
• 51:15
  I don't know if these have sprayed edges I'll have to look
• 51:17
  at, but I know they are beautiful.
• 51:18
  They're they're real bright colors and it's cool.
• 51:21
  They're all different. As it goes down.
• 51:22
  You'll have to look on Yeah LJS that.
• 51:25
  Could be dangerous though. But they do, they're pretty, but
• 51:30
  they're preordered. I don't know though when they
• 51:32
  ship because I looked on the description just to see, but I
• 51:36
  didn't see any detail of exact that is.
• 51:40
  But yeah. So you can preorder, maybe
• 51:42
  summer, maybe sometime. I have not heard OK.
• 51:47
  I saw it on our website just a little bit ago.
• 51:50
  So now that is all of our authors and now we're going to
• 51:55
  go into our small businesses. So please again, but the authors
• 52:01
  go give them love. Please order their books.
• 52:03
  We recommend all of these, all those books that we listed.
• 52:06
  For. You won't be.
• 52:08
  Gifts. Yeah, and you won't be
• 52:10
  disappointed. And as you remember, even though
• 52:13
  it's Mother's Day, you, you, you push that child out.
• 52:17
  You deserve to buy yourself whatever you want.
• 52:21
  You know, now the small businesses now the first one
• 52:26
  here, this is Nayana. That's how I'm going to say it.
• 52:31
  I, again, I don't know how to pronounce it.
• 52:33
  Nayana designs. But now, if I remember
• 52:36
  correctly, she is in Australia, but she does ship worldwide.
• 52:42
  She does fine bookish jewelry and she's officially licensed
• 52:46
  gold and silver pieces and everything she's had or that she
• 52:51
  sent the pictures and stuff of is absolutely beautiful.
• 52:54
  Yeah, she has daggers and like, dragon pendants, like coin kind
• 53:01
  of stuff. To me it feels rustic but like
• 53:07
  yeah. Not Rusty.
• 53:10
  It's not like helping little things.
• 53:12
  Yeah, it's they're, yeah, they're very pretty looking.
• 53:16
  Yes, yes, I would call that OK, but that's really neat.
• 53:22
  And then Chris. Yeah, Kristen.
• 53:25
  I almost said Kirsten. Sorry.
• 53:27
  Kristen's creations is character inspired charm jewelry to keep
• 53:32
  your buck boyfriends close. Oh, cute.
• 53:36
  And everything again. All her stuff was really cute
• 53:39
  when I was. Looking at her, the one with the
• 53:42
  like they had like stars and moons and they're a little
• 53:45
  bigger pieces. I think like kind of more like
• 53:48
  neck like not like your necklace.
• 53:51
  Now that's like a little pendant.
• 53:53
  The girl before Nae Nae is like pendants.
• 53:58
  Her Kristen's creations are like neck pieces where they they're
• 54:02
  like a bunch of charms that come out and stuff.
• 54:05
  So yeah, I'm looking at the pictures like she had sent US1
• 54:08
  It has like a dagger and then it has like looks like like a star
• 54:13
  possibly or something. And it goes all kinds of things
• 54:15
  that maybe that one is a book. I don't know what the they're
• 54:18
  no, they're jewels. They're just really, really,
• 54:20
  really pretty and and they're they, she has like the gold and
• 54:24
  then the one is like on a pearls and stuff.
• 54:27
  It's just you have to go and check out her stuff.
• 54:29
  It's very, very pretty. I like that kind of stuff.
• 54:35
  Now the next one is our friend. This is Lucid Glass Art.
• 54:39
  She does stained glass. She lives out in Washington
• 54:44
  state and she does absolutely beautiful pieces.
• 54:49
  She does one-of-a-kind stained glass heirloom pieces for your
• 54:52
  library. Everything and anything I've
• 54:56
  ever seen her do. It's absolutely gorgeous.
• 54:59
  Yeah. I'm like, I would love to buy
• 55:02
  all this stuff that. She has cool hobby to have.
• 55:05
  Like it is not going to lie, I'd probably start that next.
• 55:08
  That's pretty cool. If I remember correctly, not
• 55:11
  long ago she made a stained glass lamp.
• 55:15
  Oh my goodness. Really beautiful.
• 55:16
  Oh yeah, she does all kinds. She has her website you can go
• 55:19
  to, and you can look at all the different pieces she has.
• 55:21
  It's neat. Yeah, she's making tarot cards
• 55:24
  right now and stained glass. So like book lover tarot card,
• 55:28
  stuff like that looks really cool.
• 55:31
  Yeah, good colors, beautiful. Next is ink and Ivy.
• 55:36
  They are aesthetic stickers and e-reader inserts.
• 55:40
  So, Kindle girl girlies, I might actually get something for my
• 55:47
  colored Kindle. Do you need something for yours?
• 55:49
  Yeah, I'm going to look at her store, add that to my Mother's
• 55:52
  Day gifts and get like an insert, maybe a case, little pop
• 55:57
  socket. And then I've never had one of
• 56:00
  those little charms that people put it on the back of them.
• 56:04
  So I'm like you need. That.
• 56:05
  Brat and then they she sells those little butt.
• 56:08
  They call them butt plugs. They're dust plugs, but they're
• 56:13
  butt plugs. OK, OK.
• 56:17
  And they have like little charms that come off of them.
• 56:20
  We'll see if you need that. Of course.
• 56:23
  I'm surprised you don't have a case.
• 56:25
  I'm surprised I don't. On there.
• 56:27
  That is shocking to me, I know. I have not been kind to this
• 56:33
  Kindle, Yeah, because usually I buy like the whole setup when I
• 56:38
  buy it. But because this freaking thing
• 56:40
  was so expensive to begin with. Yeah, I just bought it and I
• 56:47
  tried to. That's the you said that's the
• 56:49
  color 1. So you see the color covers and
• 56:52
  stuff like that or anything that's color.
• 56:54
  But you know, I need to mess with the settings because like
• 56:56
  you can kind of see the color on there, but to me it's still very
• 57:01
  dark where is like my paper, my paperwhite, like it's very much
• 57:09
  more vibrant and this is black and white and this is colored.
• 57:13
  Maybe it needs? Like your brightness and stuff
• 57:16
  needs to be. Turned out that's what I'm
• 57:18
  wondering because I'm not like and I was reading because.
• 57:22
  It does seem dark. Yeah, I was reading on my
• 57:24
  Paperwhite the other day and I feel like it has a like a better
• 57:34
  reading. Yeah, like a reading preference
• 57:39
  preface, something like that. I do like the color because you
• 57:44
  can highlight in color and stuff like that.
• 57:47
  OK. Whereas the Paperwhite is just
• 57:49
  black and white. So.
• 57:51
  But I don't know, there's more pros and cons to both.
• 57:54
  Maybe we should do like a Kindle guide.
• 57:58
  Yeah, thing. Maybe we'll do that, have
• 58:01
  memorial. Thing do you have the remote and
• 58:04
  stuff so that you can turn your pages and stuff and do you have
• 58:08
  it that a stand that you hook it on so you can be laying down and
• 58:12
  just have it in? Front of the face.
• 58:13
  I did, I did and then I had to get rid of it when we moved.
• 58:17
  So I am still looking for a better one because it wasn't
• 58:21
  really that great. It was kind of one that clamped
• 58:24
  and it was really hard to move around.
• 58:27
  OK, so I want to get one, a new one, but I don't know if I want
• 58:31
  one that's like the pillow top kind that sits in the back.
• 58:35
  Yeah. I know what you're talking.
• 58:36
  About or if I need like an actual like standing one where I
• 58:40
  can kind of like move it around. Because I've seen the ones where
• 58:42
  you can stand it, it's like a, it goes on the floor and it's a
• 58:46
  stand. Like you can have it for your
• 58:47
  bed or if you're on the on the couch or something like that.
• 58:50
  And then I've seen the ones where it's like a little poofy
• 58:52
  thing and you can set it in. Then you can have your snackies
• 58:55
  and your stuff with you too. That's cool too, yeah.
• 58:59
  You need to start making yourself your birthday list.
• 59:02
  I would think so. So that your husband knows
• 59:07
  things that you. Want yeah with links so he could
• 59:09
  just click yes. Because make it simple for him
• 59:14
  and then he and then he can't have any excuse of that.
• 59:17
  He didn't know what you wanted. Yeah.
• 59:21
  Sometimes we have to do these things.
• 59:23
  I know now the the next one here that we have is Book Dragons
• 59:29
  library. This is a monthly themed
• 59:32
  e-reader Decor kits right there. What were we just talking about?
• 59:36
  You need decor? Yeah, but she does all different
• 59:39
  ones and she actually gave us a code and it's 2G1T10.
• 59:47
  Yeah. And that'll give you a
• 59:49
  percentage off any of your orders.
• 59:52
  I'll have the codes because we do have a few codes.
• 59:56
  We'll have that on the the slideshow there with all the
• 1:00:01
  yeah, people's pictures. We'll.
• 1:00:03
  Add that in OK, so she has a code for book Dragon library,
• 1:00:09
  Dragon's library. So if you're like, hey, I need
• 1:00:11
  some Kindle stuff, she's your girl.
• 1:00:13
  Get 10% on it looks like 10% but.
• 1:00:17
  I would say probably that's what it is, yeah.
• 1:00:20
  All right, honey and I'm honey ambrosia and honey.
• 1:00:24
  We've talked about them before. They're good companies.
• 1:00:28
  Home of the cozy coven print club.
• 1:00:31
  She does hand painted Tavern signs they're really cool like
• 1:00:36
  bookshelf signs like if you need like fantasy section and stuff
• 1:00:40
  like that. She's.
• 1:00:41
  The original person that did them too, she's the one that
• 1:00:44
  started it. Yes.
• 1:00:46
  Bravo. So that's what's pretty neat.
• 1:00:48
  Yeah, they're really pretty. I really like them.
• 1:00:52
  Yeah, I don't think she 3D prints.
• 1:00:55
  I think she like wood. Works out.
• 1:00:56
  I think they're wood. I think, I don't know, but
• 1:01:00
  they're, but they look wood. We'll just put it that way.
• 1:01:03
  But they're very pretty and you know, they put them on your
• 1:01:06
  shelf and they have the little sign and it says like the
• 1:01:09
  different categories of genres that you read and they're really
• 1:01:14
  cute. But yeah, go look at her stuff.
• 1:01:16
  She's got some really, really, really cute things.
• 1:01:20
  The next one is a Sparrow and Wild.
• 1:01:23
  They do license apparel that prioritize comfort for reading
• 1:01:28
  marathons and they have some really cute clothes, really cute
• 1:01:32
  shirts and sweatshirt and things like that.
• 1:01:36
  I do cute shirts. A lot of mine are starting to
• 1:01:41
  finally wear away, so I was telling hubby I might be
• 1:01:46
  spending some money on some new book shirts.
• 1:01:50
  They're really cute, I mean, and they look like they're good
• 1:01:54
  quality. So they would, you know, they
• 1:01:56
  would last kind of thing. Oh yeah, I'm looking here at.
• 1:01:59
  Them I mean book shirts that I have had, I think I've had them
• 1:02:04
  for like 3 years now and those were from Verse and Vibe Co and
• 1:02:12
  they do great stuff. They aren't on our list today,
• 1:02:15
  but that was my very first like bookish shirt purchase and I am
• 1:02:21
  going to go back to them actually and buy some of my like
• 1:02:27
  rebuy some of my shirts that I love today that I wish you know,
• 1:02:32
  but because I wash them so much and wear them so much that they
• 1:02:36
  stay on eventually, you know, warm out so.
• 1:02:40
  Well, I'm just looking at the pictures that we have of this.
• 1:02:42
  She has, I'm assuming since it says War College, is that
• 1:02:46
  possibly with 4th Wing? Yeah.
• 1:02:48
  Dragon Jelly Jubilee, as you know, that is from Crescent
• 1:02:52
  City. And then she has the House of
• 1:02:55
  Wind, so she's licensed with all the different authors and that.
• 1:02:59
  So they have some really, really, really cute shirts.
• 1:03:03
  So I suggest all of you go look at that and buy the ladies in
• 1:03:08
  your life some fancy clothes. Yes, I I like those that NC.
• 1:03:14
  OK, what is our next one? Charming.
• 1:03:16
  Chapters. Oh yeah, charming chapters has
• 1:03:21
  library card sleeves, so those are really cool.
• 1:03:26
  When you go and meet authors or you go to your book cons and
• 1:03:28
  stuff. It's a library leave like for
• 1:03:34
  Kindle or your book, but it has like the lines available so that
• 1:03:39
  the author can sign on the line. And that's one way to like
• 1:03:43
  collect signatures, especially if you can book or it just to
• 1:03:50
  me, it's very creative. It's very different fun way.
• 1:03:55
  Of. Finding signatures and the date
• 1:03:59
  like when they, you know, sign and so you'll remember always.
• 1:04:05
  That is a smart thing. I mean, that is really a a cute
• 1:04:08
  thing to do. I'm trying to find OH.
• 1:04:10
  She has a color Lovett LOVE IT15 so you get 15% off if you want
• 1:04:18
  to go grab some stuff from her. And then our next one is the
• 1:04:24
  Flight of Fantasy Bookshop. It does are they do perfectly
• 1:04:28
  gifted indie books are perfectly gift wrapped indie books with
• 1:04:33
  handmade bookmarks. And she does a code as well.
• 1:04:37
  And it's mom 10 to get 10% off. And their stuff is really, and
• 1:04:41
  when you go on to their site is they have some really cute
• 1:04:44
  stuff. Yeah, and then Alyssa Marie
• 1:04:48
  Creative has spicy coloring books, literature, bookmarks,
• 1:04:53
  and woven blankets. I didn't want to see these
• 1:04:57
  coloring books though. I seen I seen the she did a
• 1:05:01
  picture because today is 4/20 and she did artwork and it's
• 1:05:07
  this very voluptuous fairy I think it was.
• 1:05:11
  And she had the sparkle tassels on the they were they were they
• 1:05:16
  were the leaves since it's 420 on her.
• 1:05:19
  Oh. Yeah, on her.
• 1:05:20
  Very curvaceous. That's cool, but she does all
• 1:05:24
  kinds of stuff and it's just, and it's like real whimsical,
• 1:05:27
  like witchy. And I just, I, I saw her one day
• 1:05:31
  when I was just looking at things and I, I came across her
• 1:05:35
  stuff and she does really neat stuff.
• 1:05:38
  So if you like to do that, I mean, she has other things
• 1:05:41
  besides besides coloring book stuff.
• 1:05:43
  She does have other things. But if you like to do that cuz I
• 1:05:47
  like to do the adult coloring books too.
• 1:05:50
  But yeah, these are really neat. And she has stuff cute.
• 1:05:53
  Yeah. Yes, the code is 2 girls TWOGIR
• 1:05:59
  LS152 girls 15. Yes, it's again, it's really
• 1:06:05
  cute. The next one is the Cozy Charm
• 1:06:08
  Store. These are handmade Kindle charms
• 1:06:11
  as well to make your tech look magical.
• 1:06:14
  Yeah, she has a little. She has a code and a code.
• 1:06:20
  Her code is Mother's Day, Mother's with an SDAY 26 and
• 1:06:28
  then our last but not least, Green Daisy soaps.
• 1:06:33
  She has these really nice handmade artis, artisanal soaps
• 1:06:39
  and bath products to elevate your reading ritual.
• 1:06:43
  Smell really good too. Oh yeah, and she has like body
• 1:06:47
  spray. She has soap and I think she has
• 1:06:49
  body butter, you know? Yeah.
• 1:06:52
  Good stuff. So homemade bath shop.
• 1:06:56
  Oh, yeah, and she does it and it's very, it's like the clean
• 1:06:59
  kind of stuff. Do you know what I mean?
• 1:07:00
  It's not like, you know, like how you buy.
• 1:07:02
  A simple. Story, Yeah, yeah, this is like
• 1:07:05
  she formulates it and everything.
• 1:07:07
  It's very clinical how they they do it.
• 1:07:10
  There, it's great. Yeah, and I've seen that she's
• 1:07:13
  been making like other like little fancy soaps and stuff
• 1:07:15
  like that too. I mean, we should, we deserve,
• 1:07:19
  you know, all those kind of fancy kind of things, you know?
• 1:07:22
  I mean, you know, it doesn't matter.
• 1:07:24
  What if you're you're you're. You have a child or if you're a
• 1:07:28
  dog mom or any of those kind of things, us as women, we, we, we
• 1:07:32
  deserve these kind of things. We put up with a lot.
• 1:07:36
  Yeah. And so we, we deserve to treat
• 1:07:39
  ourselves or have someone treat us and, and buy us nice little
• 1:07:44
  things because, you know, we as you know, as women, we take care
• 1:07:48
  of everyone. And so, you know, it's nice to
• 1:07:52
  have someone take care of us and think of us and buy us these
• 1:07:57
  little pretty things and buy us the books that we love so we can
• 1:08:00
  escape to the world's, you know, that bring us happiness.
• 1:08:05
  You know what I mean? You know, you know, years ago, I
• 1:08:09
  used to be like, oh, you know, and, and get like a card or get
• 1:08:14
  like, I would buy my mom. I would get her flowers and
• 1:08:17
  stuff outside because that's what she wanted, you know, that
• 1:08:20
  kind of thing. I would get her all her flowers
• 1:08:22
  for her window boxes and and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:08:25
  But for me, I, I like all these kind of things.
• 1:08:28
  This is, this is a way to my heart.
• 1:08:31
  Yeah. Now we now, now this is our
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  Mother's Day guide. Now we will be doing this again
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  probably in November this year because we're, we're more, we're
• 1:08:41
  making a plan. What about Father?
• 1:08:43
  'S should we do a guide? Well, we could do one for the
• 1:08:47
  guys. We could.
• 1:08:49
  We could indeed, and vote on. That I know we're like mainly
• 1:08:53
  female dominance, Yeah, in the book world, on social media, I
• 1:08:59
  feel like. But I follow a lot of the guys
• 1:09:01
  too, and they're reading what we're reading.
• 1:09:04
  So we could look at this. Yeah, we could do like a little
• 1:09:08
  mini what to buy our our shadow daddies.
• 1:09:13
  Yeah, our our husbands or boyfriends and yeah, it's.
• 1:09:20
  Thought we'll have to implement this in.
• 1:09:22
  Our and we can even like rework it to where it like benefits us
• 1:09:26
  too like. Well, of course I'll buy.
• 1:09:29
  This for Father's Day, if you know it benefits me, maybe like
• 1:09:34
  a book we can share. Yeah, maybe some candles that
• 1:09:39
  sets the mood. That is true.
• 1:09:44
  You know, you do all these, you know, you do all these kind of
• 1:09:47
  things. You might end up with another
• 1:09:48
  reason for Father's Day. I know, right?
• 1:09:52
  Maybe we'll put on there some kind of conscious.
• 1:09:59
  But, but we will be doing it again.
• 1:10:01
  But no matter what, we will be doing another one in the fall.
• 1:10:04
  I don't know if we should do this in habit that it's early
• 1:10:07
  like in October or we should wait till like the beginning of
• 1:10:10
  November because Christmas time and that is kind of crazy with
• 1:10:14
  shipping and, and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:10:17
  So I wonder if we should do it a little earlier, like.
• 1:10:19
  Late October. Late October, do something for
• 1:10:24
  the kickoff. Codes and and whenever we
• 1:10:27
  feature anyone on one of these podcasts we're trying to get
• 1:10:32
  codes from a lot of these well mainly the small businesses and
• 1:10:38
  then just kind of representing our indie authors and stuff but.
• 1:10:43
  Well, maybe even this fall, like maybe some of a lot of times
• 1:10:46
  like indie authors and stuff, they maybe they'll do like
• 1:10:49
  special packages or something like the.
• 1:10:52
  Book yeah, like little collections that for their book
• 1:10:56
  for the Christian season yeah so.
• 1:10:59
  To reach out and talk to some of them, see if they if they want
• 1:11:02
  to be part of our gift guide for that time, maybe they'll do
• 1:11:05
  something special just for us. That would be cool.
• 1:11:08
  Like like little package, like hey, if you listen to us like
• 1:11:13
  they'll put this together. You just put the code in and
• 1:11:17
  these are the things you get. I'm excited for that.
• 1:11:20
  That's something because like again, we want to make this
• 1:11:23
  special every year for all of the people that listen and us as
• 1:11:27
  well. But you know, have, you know, to
• 1:11:30
  celebrate us, you know, and have things that you know, we can
• 1:11:33
  like celebrate these authors. We can celebrate these small
• 1:11:36
  businesses and show the things that we love.
• 1:11:39
  And then we want it to be something super special that you
• 1:11:42
  can come back every year to look at these things and listen to us
• 1:11:46
  blab and mispronounce things. Always, Yeah.
• 1:11:51
  Always. But that's our gift guide for
• 1:11:55
  this year, for Mother's Day. I know what I'm buying, or put
• 1:11:59
  it on the list at least so. I have, I have some thoughts
• 1:12:05
  there. I mean, there's I would, I don't
• 1:12:08
  know, every one of them has something that I would want.
• 1:12:12
  So I mean, and every and none of it's like super, super expensive
• 1:12:16
  of any kind. It's not like you're like, it's
• 1:12:19
  not any different than any other place, but this is actually
• 1:12:22
  you're supporting a small business instead of the big
• 1:12:25
  corporation and stuff like that, which is nice.
• 1:12:28
  Yeah. Kind of thing.
• 1:12:30
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• 1:12:38
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