Carly Watters

I hope to see you there.

Welcome to another episode of Shooting the Shit with literary agents Carly Waters and Cece Lira, where we dissect publishing gossip, discuss book industry trends, and the overall state of the book business.

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Yeah.

It's a kid's scholastic book fair this week.

So do they have scholastic book fairs in Brazil where they come to the schools and put out the... In the American school.

Yeah.

It's so cute.

So I volunteered a little bit this week, watching all the classes come in and watching them pick their books and see what they're excited about.

And they all want to go spend their money on bookmarks and like...

pencils and the teacher's like your parents asked me to make sure that you buy a book so anyway lots of cute cute things seeing what they're buying seeing what they're excited about and just bringing me so much life and joy watching these little readers I have the best memories like seriously from my childhood like it was like Disneyland for me

Anything related to books.

I think I've mentioned this on the show, but my mom was a school librarian.

So I, as a kid, would obviously love my own book fair.

But I would also go help my mom at her book fairs.

And so I would go to her school and help her set up.

Anyway, so scholastic book fair culture runs very deep in my lineage.

So yeah, I'm excited.

Excited for the boys to enjoy it.

And yeah, kind of be a part of that.