Haili Blassingame

And then you have the nuances and the specifics and the language.

And that's sort of how my sensitive reader helped me.

And she didn't have a ton of notes.

So yeah, I mean, I think it's important...

I think it's important to know that you will probably get things wrong in a novel, but you have to give yourself permission to get it wrong, but you do the best that you can.

And I think, I think Rebecca McKay also talks about this as sort of like, it's, it's worse not to do it to only write characters like yourself because you're afraid, but you do the best you can and you recruit help where it's needed.

So.

So I'm having an event at Lost City Books on June 4th.

Yep.

And then I'm doing something at Politics and Prose in August.

Yes.

Oh, so, you know, East city bookshop.

Yeah.

They're amazing.