Peter Sagal

There'll be a bidding war.

In your case, there was.

How weird was that?

Yeah, I see it.

It's like, oh.

Future therapist?

Let's talk about the fact you're not in therapy.

That's fascinating.

I wouldn't have written this book if I was in therapy.

I want to get to the book in a second, but your character, as I've said, the principal character, Natalie, is a trad wife influencer.

The novel has the feel of reality, like this must be what it's like to be a trad wife influencer or an influencer.

You're not one.

How did you find out what their lives are like?

Yeah, I know you had to say that it's not based on anyone for legal reasons, but really, who is it?

Because apparently there's a lot of people saying, oh, I think it's this person, or I think there's one trad wife influencer who's got a farm, just like Natalie does, and she's like, no, it's not me.

It's really not me.

Which I guess is also flattering, that people are having to deny being your model.

And I say this with all sympathy.

And maybe I'm not going to ask you the question, but I'll ask how you're dealing with the question.

Someone like you who has an amazingly successful, deservedly so, debut as a novelist or anything else always gets asked, well, what are you going to do next?