Emma Straub

And he was worried that people would think that he had chosen it and that he was calling either me or my dad a gargoyle.

To which I responded, well, that's fine with me.

I mean, I don't care.

I'll be a gargoyle.

He'll be a gargoyle.

We're all gargoyles.

I just think it's one of the most beautiful, pure, pure love song.

One of the purest love songs he ever wrote.

Yes.

I mean, most people don't understand that all we're doing right now is running a really big merch booth.

That, yes.

I mean, I think that we had no experience

that most people could see.

But what we knew going into opening Books Are Magic was that we could do it.

And the reason we knew we could do it is because we had done it for the magnetic fields.

We knew that Mike was good at organization and logistics.

And we knew that I was good at talking to people.

And I think that we felt confident opening the bookstore because of those things.

Like we just knew that we'd be okay.

Well, you know, I have used Stephen's lyrics as epigraphs for not all of my novels, but most of them.