Megan Abbott

But I think with different genders, you know, there's a little bit of nice buffers.

I think it gets more complicated with women and in this case, how they, you know, how they choose to marry, if they choose to marry at all, how much prestige and appearances matter because, you know, for the main sister who we follow Harper, that stuff doesn't matter to her.

And, but for the other sisters, it does.

And so,

I mean, you're always looking for anything to make it meatier and to make it your own and to sort of become this thing that has a life of its own beyond the premise, you know, because that initial idea is really just a premise.

And sometimes it just stays that.

So it has slowly, slowly as it builds and you find their voices, it becomes your own.

It's so interesting.

You remind me so much of my client, Laura Leffler, who she's also the youngest.

I believe also an older brother.

Laura, I'm sorry if you're listening.

I don't remember.

I actually have a theory that birth order affects authors so much.

It affects everything.

But if you're the youngest, I think that you become more observant because you observe not only your parents, but you also observe your eldest sibling, even if it's just a year.

And it's not to say that the eldest, I'm speaking as the eldest, doesn't observe people, but we're sometimes more, I think, in a world that I think that you have to be a good observer to be an author.

So there you go, guys.

That's my theory.

I think there's truth to that.

I think, you know, because you, especially if there's many kids...