Dear Alice, Bonus Episode 2 UNLOCKED

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What did the hosts say about finishing season 1 and upcoming season 2?

Joseph Fink 0:00
We have just finished the first season of our sequel series, Don't Tell Alice, so thank you for listening. Whether you're completely caught up or just starting on the first episode of Alice Isn't Dead Now, we'll be back with part two of Don't Tell Alice soon. In the meantime, please consider supporting our Patreon. Also, check out the Alice Isn't Dead novel wherever you get books. Last time I was at my local bookstore, it was a staff pick, eight years after it came out, so that was nice. Speaking of novels, I have one coming out on September 1st called The Nudge. If you like this show, you will like The Nudge. That is a promise.

How is Joseph Fink promoting his new novel The Nudge and its book tour?

Joseph Fink 0:32
I'm doing a short book tour in California, going to San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and on September 1st, on launch day, I'm doing an event. event at Vromans in Pasadena with Mara Wilson. If you're in one of those cities, please come out to the book event. It is so scary. It feels like throwing a party and worrying no one will show up.

Why are listeners encouraged to support the Patreon‑only bonus episodes?

Joseph Fink 0:51
So if you're like, I'm in town, should I go, please come. If you're not in one of those cities, please buy the nudge wherever you get your books. It's right up your alley, I promise. Hi, this is Joseph Fink, writer of Alice Isn't Dead. What we have here today is a preview of our Patreon only bonus episode. So between every single episode this season, there will be a Patreon only bonus episode that will give us a little glimpse of what is going on with Keisha between the episodes. I wanted to share one with you so you could get an idea of what they're

What alternate life does Keisha imagine if she and Alice had moved to Paris?

Joseph Fink 1:25
like. Uh if you enjoy this or if you just enjoy the show and want to support us, we would really appreciate your support. It is the main way that we are going to be able to pay all of the artists working on the show. So please do check out the Patreon link in the show notes, and we'll see you next week with episode three. Thank you.
Jasika Nicole 1:52
Dear Alice. For various reasons I've been thinking lately about alternate lives. We all have them. Crowding our brains, whether we're happy with our circumstances or not. And to be clear, I am very happy with my circumstances. This is not a message about regret. But about wonder. As in I wonder how it all could have gone differently. We met so early that the lines of divergence mostly include you. What if we had followed that wild whim? Moved to Paris like we joked about. Been swept up in the romance of the idea. And then pushed through all the heavy logistics involved. Vieces and apartments and learning French. Which would be hard for both of us, even though you did take some French in high school. Oh, I vaguely remember you'd say a lot.
Jasika Nicole 2:55
Yeah, I knew that. You'd say about words you did not know. But we would have managed. And now we would be What? Twenty years into our French lives? Long enough to have local friends, longtime neighbors.

How does the story explore the tough decision to break up for career opportunities?

Jasika Nicole 3:13
To think of ourselves as expats, that word we use to avoid the idea that any American could ever have to be an immigrant to anywhere else.
Jasika Nicole 3:28
Or that time I got a job offer in Austin. This was long before it had become the center of the manosphere. had grown unrecognizable to its older inhabitants, who had sworn to keep it weird, Back when it was weird in a fun way. And not weird in the off-putting way the tech bros are weird. TechBros, of course, is short for the common phrase technology brothers. I'm getting off track. I got that job offer in Austin. And you had just started work in Burbank. And it would have set your career back badly to have to change again. We were only a year out of college. And so we had to decide. Is the right thing to do to break up for the sake of each of our individual lives? It would be the mature thing to do, we said to each other.
Jasika Nicole 4:28
Adults do this all the time. Make hard decisions that have nothing to do with romance. And we need to be able to make those hard decisions too. We said to each other. If it is meant to be, we'll meet again, one bright day, we said to each other.

What vivid memory does Keisha share about a neon‑blue slushie and a low‑flying plane?

Jasika Nicole 4:49
There was so much crying. A mixed C D with a tracklist that was frankly embarrassing playing on a loop in my car. And then of course.

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