This is the bookwriott podcast. I am the ball of phlegm, sometimes known as Jeff O'Neill.

And I am the ball of hopefulness here on November 4th, known as Rebecca Shinsky.

Yeah, it's a weird day today here to be our pod. As you may notice, by your pod catcher or feed or whatever you get, we're going to be coming

to you later. We're recording on Monday morning, November 4th. I was sick at the end of last week

and just trying to get over it. And we are on the eve of 2024 selection, which we're not

going to dwell on by any sense of imagination. But yeah, it's a weird time. We're feeling

weird. We are. We're feeling weird. We're going to feel even we're recording shows tomorrow.

Yeah. Are we recording shows tomorrow? I guess we do have a Patreon. We got to do the It

It Books tomorrow. It books tomorrow. Anyway, so programming notes, we're going to trundle on here

through the week. This is a regular show. Coming on the back half of this episode, who do we have, Rebecca, coming on the back half of the episode. We have Brooke Nagler, who has been working for the last little more than a year as an assistant, an editorial assistant to Julie Bear, who you've heard us talk about as one of the most interesting agents in the business. We just by accident, by coincidence,

met Julie and Brooke when we were at the Ruman Alam Jennifer Egan Book event at the Strand

back in September on our rare outing into the world of books and reading. And Brooke turns out

as a longtime listener of the show and they were kind enough to come on and chat with

us about what it's like to be in your first year working in the publishing industry. And it was a

really great perspective that we can't offer ourselves as folks who, you know, created the jobs

that we have and don't really exist inside the traditional publishing industry. So stick around

for that. Brooke had a lot of really

interesting, smart things to say. Yeah. And we're trying to do more kind of different stuff. As you know,

we like to play around an experiment. And several of you have emailed to say, I work in this or you

want to come on my show over the last couple weeks. I've been behind. I will get to you.

Thank you so much all for emailing it. And this is also my way of telling Rebecca

that we have gotten some bites on that particular hook. But now is not the time between everything

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