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Have you been sitting on the fence about signing up for the Beta Reader matchup?

Or have you signed up before but haven't yet found your writing soulmates?

The next matchup is the last one for the summer, so don't snooze on it.

Get matched up with those writing in a similar genre and or time zone so they can critique your work as you critique theirs.

Your manuscript doesn't have to be complete to sign up for this 3,000 word evaluation.

This particular matchup will be open to registrations from now until the 1st of June with the matchup emails going out on the 2nd of June.

For more information and to register, go to BiancaMarie.com and go to the Beta Reader matchup page.

and welcome to our show, The Shit No One Tells You About Writing.

I'm best-selling author Bianca Murray and I'm joined by Cece Lira of Wendy Sherman Associates and Carly Waters of PS Literary.

Hi everyone.

Today's guest is the New York Times bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post notable book, the editor and NPR best book of the year, The Guncle, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for Novel of the Year, The Celebrants, a Today Show read with Jenna Book Club Pick, The Guncle Abroad, a USA Today bestseller, and The Dogs of Venice.

His fiction has been translated into 20 languages,

He resides in Palm Springs, California.

It's my pleasure to welcome back Stephen Rowley.

Stephen, welcome back to the show.

It's always wonderful having you.

We are huge, huge fans.

So Stephen, will you show the cover of the book?

Because I didn't get a galley or a hardcover.

There we go.