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Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast, and we're here talking with my friend Kim again

about writing things.

And so what are we talking about today in the process?

This has been so much fun for me to put you in the

hot seat and pick your brain about what it looks like to be in the middle of launching a book.

Your new book, Catching Wimsy comes out pretty soon. And so it's fun for me to think about and to

hear you kind of weigh in on what it looks like, the beginning, the middle, the launch.

And today we're going to really center in on that. What does it look like

to launch a book? We have lots of friends who are in the middle of this process or just finishing

or just considering this process. And it used to be that when you would write a book, you would

bring it to a publisher like your little child, leave it on the desk. Everyone would give you

well wishes and say, see ya, can't wait for you to write another one. And now a lot of the launch

process really rests on the shoulders of an author. And so since you were right in the middle

of this, I'd love to just hear a little bit from you. I know listeners would as well. How do you

approach knowing when to start talking publicly about a book? Because we said in a previous episode,

you know, this book has been hanging around in your head for a long time. By the time it

actually has a cover and a barcode, you're almost over it. So how do you know when to start yapping

about it to other people? Yeah, think about that for all of you listening. There has been something

you're thinking about. But you want to bring it contemporary enough that it is closer to real time,

like for me to write a book about how I was in the middle of choosing colleges

to go to.

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