Carly Watters

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Hi everyone, welcome back to another Books with Hooks segment.

As per usual, we're diving straight in.

Cece, will you kick us off please?

Thank you, Cece.

I continue to hear horror as horror.

But I'm more inclined to pick up the book if I hear horror than horror.

So there we are, you know.

There you go.

It's a marketing strategy.

I dig it.

So I want to ask you both because I don't know if this is a generational thing and because I'm 50, but, and I know it's on Instagram, the girly thing, the hashtag girly or people getting high girlies, but it drives me insane.

Being called a girly, like actually makes me not want to buy any product, pick up anything.

Is this because I'm old and grumpy?