You're listening to the Beautiful Mess Podcast, your cozy comfort listen.

And this is a special bonus episode with just me, Emma, because guess what?

My book's out!

Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, sorry I shouldn't do my own sound effects.

Yeah, I'm very very excited if you're a long time listener of our podcast then you've

heard me talk about writing fiction for years now.

It's a goal of mine.

I want to be a fiction writer, I want that to be a part of my career long-term.

And I've written a couple of novels so far, and my second one that I wrote, which is called

Handmade Murder, I have self-published and it is available now.

Uh, sorry, it just feels so strange to say that I'm out, I'm like, ah, also as in recording

this, it's technically not, so I'm like, here's a little bit of faith.

But at any rate, I wanted to do a special bonus episode for all of you so that I can tell

you more about the book, where it's available, how you could purchase it, other ways to

support the book, and I'm going to read chapter one because I feel like this book is kind

of hard to describe because it has a number of reveals.

And I don't know about you, but if you've ever been like talking to a friend and they accidentally

spoil a book or a movie for you, it is such a bummer.

And so I'm always like really nervous to do that whenever I'm talking about this book.

I don't want to spoil it for anyone.

But I do want to give a sense of what it's about and what you can expect.

So I think a great way to do that is obviously reading the description on the back of the

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