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Welcome to Cop Between a Tie and High Heels.
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Today is Tuesday, the 13th of October, 2026.
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And in this week's episode, I've got a huge amount of updates to give you.
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There's a lot of stuff going on, so let's not waste any time.
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Let's get into it.
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Now please enjoy the show.
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Hello, all my beautiful listeners.
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I I just want to give you a behind the scenes, a peek behind the curtain, if you will, that while that music is playing, I'm sitting here doing like all the and all this other stuff to try and make sure that I can make it in in hopes that I can make it 30 minutes of talking with you without having like massive amounts of drainage, of congestion going down the back of my throat.
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So I'm doing every possible bodily function sound that nobody wants to hear.
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And even before I even start saying, you know, welcome to Caught Between a Tie and High Heels, I'm prepping myself.
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I've got two tissues.
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After 130 episodes, you know, plus episodes, I've got two tissues, I've got my tea, I've got water.
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I'm basically going between the two of them.
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So now it's so much just trying to coat my throat.
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I'm I've got slosh gut because I'm just filled with a whole bunch of tea and water.
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And then while the music plays, I'm blowing my nose, I'm doing all this other stuff.
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So you don't have to listen to me cough, or I don't have to do as many edits during the program in order for me to really give you a raw sense of what's going on.
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I just realized that I wanted to share that with you because you all just have no idea the amount of crap that I end up doing.
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Like it's just, it's insane.
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I feel terrible, but I have massive congestion and I work with it.
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You can probably hear it in my voice already.
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Um I know I've I've sounded worse, but anyway, let me.
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I'm sorry.
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Let me I got totally, totally uh taken off guard there.
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Oh, I wanted to say there's a um we've got a new country um that is downloading us uh the episodes, and that is Japan.
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I am um Oregato Gozamas.
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Um Domo Aregato Gozimas.
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Uh, and I cannot thank you enough.
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Um I'm just flawed.
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Every single time I see a new because I get reports on new countries, like you know, new new where I'm where things, new listeners are coming from.
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And it's not it's not pinpoint, but it's a vague, you know.
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You're in this area, you're in this area, or whatever.
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But I have not seen Japan before.
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And this is a new one that popped up, and I am just I'm thrilled.
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I've often wanted to go to Japan.
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Um, that's definitely on my bucket list, so who knows?
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In my in my world travels that I have going on, maybe that'll become a reality.
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That would be super awesome.
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Would love to go there.
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I got the I I will tell you, uh I watch uh Midnight Diner.
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I it's uh I've watched it probably uh it's a TV show.
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If you've never seen this, I believe it's on Netflix.
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If you've never seen this, it's literally just a diner.
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Uh a diner that opens up at midnight or late at night, stays open all night, and the people that come in, there's a community that builds and everything, and the show ends.
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It's called Midnight Diner.
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It's all in Japanese.
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You've got to uh read the sub uh subtitles.
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But the cool, I just find it so cool.
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And the the the um the master, he makes all these dishes, and it's just really.
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I mean, I'm like I'm frothing at the mouth, like I'm drooling and everything because some of these dishes look so good.
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Um, and then that goes on for a couple seasons, and then they do another one.
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I want to say it's Midnight Diner Tokyo Stories.
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I want to say, um, and I think that this is a this is this all takes place in the Shinjuru.
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Uh I think that's the correct pronunciation.
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If I'm not, I'm screwing it up.
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Sorry, I'm a guy Jean, I know.
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Um, but anyway, if you like that kind of movie, if you're into uh anime or anything else like this, this is not anime, this is live action.
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It's still a great show, and I love it.
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And I've watched it fully probably twice now.
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Um, and it's just really awesome.
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So, anyway, another tirade.
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Uh, thank you, Japan, for for uh uh for tuning in and listening, and I really appreciate it.
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Yeah, you taking the time to let me talk to you with you uh a couple of times.
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So, okay, we've got the book.
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Now, there's a lot of stuff going on.
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I again I I mentioned this once before.
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It's it took me seven years in order for me to write it, and um the amount of effort and stress that I had going through writing it pales, pales in comparison to all the shit and all the red hoops I've gotta jump through and the the red tape that I've gotta do in order to try and promote this book.
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Holy shit! Wow, man, it is something else.
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And I'm trying desperately because as I mentioned before, I didn't do it right, so I'm trying to play catch up and everything, and I'm trying to get there.
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But it's just so much.
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Excuse me.
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See, I couldn't do it.
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I couldn't make it 30 minutes.
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Um, I couldn't even make it 10, 5.
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We're not couldn't even make it five without coughing in your ear.
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Um, the good news is um I took a break a little bit to do some travel.
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Dee and I needed to decompress.
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Um, Dee gets to a point, she is uh very into her work.
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She gets very focused and it gets her very stressed out.
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And I can tell when she needs to break away.
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And we just need a long weekend or just a little, a little getaway.
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Something to where we can do that's not here, it's not at home, it's not sitting around on our ass watching TV.
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It's getting away, removing ourselves from everything, and just doing it.
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And our place that we have been going to the past, I don't know, three or four years, um, has been Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
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On the off-season, not in the in-season, because it is nuts.
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It's a A, it's a gorgeous beach.
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B, I think we heard one local restaurant uh owner that told us that like something in the area of like 40 to 50,000 people descend upon that town in the on-season.
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And like, yeah, that's that's way too much.
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That's an amusement park I don't want to be into.
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Um, so I'm totally happy with going with the off-season, but we go there all the time.
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It's a relatively short drive from where we are, so it makes it nice uh proximity in a nice place in order for us to go.
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It's very LGBTQ friendly, um, and we really feel comfortable there.
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So you can't go wrong.
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Um they have on Rehoboth Beach Avenue, there is a bookstore that has been around since it's a local um independent bookstore called uh Browse About Books.
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And Dee and I are, I mean, I love bookstores, don't get me wrong.
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And I also the reason I love Browse About is that not only do they have a fantastic bookstore, but then they also have like an amazing gift shop.
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And we go, we stopped there on our very, we stopped there on our very first visit to uh Rehoboth Beach.
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Um and uh literally it was down the street from our hotel uh when we first came to town, and we were like, oh, this is awesome.
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And it is just an amazing bookstore.
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And I said, I I told one of the uh the the people that worked there this last year um in 2025, I was like, listen, I'm gonna try and get my book published around June of 2026.
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I would really love to try and do a book signing here in Browse About Books.
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And uh they said, well, yeah, and again, you know, and I got a business card and everything.
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And I was like, you know, when you get your book published, let me know, and the whole nine.
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So you know what's happened.
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So the book's published, and I gave them a call, and um we ended up contacting them with this visit, and I've got a book signing coming up, um, which I am frickin' I I am thrilled.
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Um I am trying to find the date for you.
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Hold on.
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I know, I know, I don't know why I don't know this off-than, but I don't want to give you the wrong date because there was a couple other dates.
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Um, but literally, it is the uh 15th of November.
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Uh, it is from 11 to 1 at Browse About Books in in uh Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
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And I am absolutely thrilled.
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They actually right now have my book on the shelf.
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Five signed uh five signed copies uh is on their shelf right now.
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So you can actually go into their store and pick my book off of the shelf, which I am so thrilled about.
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Um and uh they have five and but they are signed as well.
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And I number my signings.
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I don't know if I told you all this, but I do number my signings.
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I don't know why.
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I don't know if I'm gonna like do a cutoff later on or whatever, but I just sign, I do a number for for each signing.
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So uh and what's really making this great for me is that that literally is the third day into the transgender awareness week in November.
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And I just thought, what a better way to celebrate being transgender than doing a book signing about my transgender memoir.
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And it's really awesome.
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So yeah, that uh I cannot tell you how thrilled I am about that.
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I hope you can make it.
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I would look forward to seeing you there.
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If you're in the Delaware area, please let me know.
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Now, another thing that I've been trying to do, along with this book signing, well, let me tell you too.
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There's if you're wondering, like, well, what the hell is there to do in the offseason in uh Rehoboth Beach, you can walk the boardwalk.
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And it is a beautiful boardwalk.
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And Dee and I do it all the time.
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Um, even when we're wrapped up like Eskimos, I mean, we are we've got like four layers on and everything else.
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It's cold, it's windy.
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It is still so nice.
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And uh even in the off season, it's wonderful.
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They still have restaurants that are open.
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We always make uh again, we have our regulars.
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So we're very predictable when we go to Rehoboth Beach that no matter how long we're there, whether or not it's a day or four days or whatever, we have certain places that we know we're going to go to.
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Browse about books is gonna be one of them.
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The other one is a Jewish deli that's there.
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Oh my god, it is Rosenfeld's.
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Can I tell you how magnificent it is to be able to walk into a restaurant and the matzo ball soup is it's just healing.
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As soon as you take the first spoonful for me, it's oh my god.
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It just makes me feel better.
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And it's just delicious.
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The portions are huge, and but it is so good.
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I do the turkey pastrami um Rubin, and uh it is oh my god, out of this world.
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The hot dogs, I'm a hot dog lover.
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When I bought the hot dog, I'm like, holy shit, it is a huge hot dog.
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Um I had almost I had a lot of difficulty finishing it.
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But Rosenfeld's Jewish deli, you cannot go wrong.
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They have some of the best food.
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They they I mean they start you off with a bowl of pickles.
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I, you know, it's like you read my mind.
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You come in, I come in, I sit down, you read my mind.
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It's really wonderful.
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Um excuse me.
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The other place that we end up going, besides browse about, and we also go to Rosenfeld's at least once.
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We've done multiple visits.
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We've literally gone for four days one time, and we've hit Rosenfeld's every single day, trying something new.
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I'm not proud, but I'm I'm not I'm not ashamed to admit it, you know, because they are delicious.
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It's really wonderful.
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The other place that we go is the purple parrot, which is almost right across the street from Browse About Books.
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And this place is wild.
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If you've never been there, the decor, first of all, I'm digging it.
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You walk in, there are dollar bills, tapes, stapled, whatever the hell, all over the place.
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And they've all got a little message on it and everything else.
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The food is good, um, really, really good.
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Uh, and we always find something.
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We actually, this last time that we went, we were only there for two days.
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And the first day we drove up, we were like, well, we'll just get something to eat.
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We'll just go to the parrot.
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Why not?
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And then we found out that there's a drag show happening at nine, and we're like, fuck that, that's awesome.
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We're in.
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So we went to a drag show.
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We got a drag show and we got a a um uh a uh a nice, really good dinner.
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I mean, I could barely finish it.
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Dee got a fish and chips, and she was like, couldn't even make it halfway through the chips.
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It was just crazy.
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I mean, the fish was huge.
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Um, so yeah.
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It so if you're wondering if you're ever wanting to go, well, maybe I should take a trip to Rose uh Rehobith Beach, you should.
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And those are some really good places.
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Uh again, just three out of a number of places that you can go to.
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Um, and they have candy stores out in it really it's bad.
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There, I call them crack shops.
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And uh because I love hard candy, I love um like I have a sweet tooth the size of Texas, I'm not gonna lie.
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And it's really it's bad.
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And then I pass these crack shops that are all over the place, and it's like, oh my god.
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Luckily, most of it is fudge and chocolate stuff, and I won't get in too much trouble, but yeah, it's there you go.
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But it's really good.
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Um, okay, anyway.
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Um, what was I gonna go from there?
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Oh, so along with the book signings, I'm also trying to spread the word on this.
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Again, because I know that I'm making up for lost time, stuff that I should have done before the book got published.
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Um, I am also now looking for uh book clubs.
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LGBT like legit LGBT LGBT2.
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Is that what I said?
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That's crazy.
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LGBTQ.
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I gotta slow down.
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Um LGBTQ plus uh book clubs, like legitimate book clubs.
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Like not just like, yeah, me and my brother stand, we get together and read some books and you know that that's I mean like you've gotta have like a it's great that you do that, that's fine.
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But I mean I'm talking like a real book club.
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And what I'm looking to do is that if you're a legitimate book club, you've got a presence on social media somewhere or whatever, I am more than happy if you let me know you're interested.
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I will send you a free copy of my book, whether it's an ebook or it is a uh paperback version, I'll send you a free copy.
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Signed, not a problem.
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Just let me know.
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And I would really love some help in spreading the word to be able to um get the book out there.
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To, I mean, I'm I'm I'm an independent, you know, I'm a self-published person, you know, so the whole thing is I'm I'm doing everything on my own, and I could really use some help in getting the word out there.
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So again, any book club out there that you've got a social presence somewhere, um and uh you would like to uh uh read my book, I'm happy to send you a signed copy, or I will send you a uh free ebook if you would like.
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Either way, it doesn't matter, just get in contact with me.
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And here's how you can get in contact with me.
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I've also been busy the last couple of weeks making, remaking a new design for the website.
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I know you're saying, Jamie, didn't you just do that like a couple years ago, like a year or so ago?
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Yes, I did.
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But I'm trying to be grown up again, this adulting shit.
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So I I went and looked at like, you know, what are some must-haves and with the growing um instant gratification and everything else that is going on, uh the they gave suggestions and I did the best I could.
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So I'm I ask you to please go check out uh tyinghighheels.com.
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It's a brand new layout, it's really kind of cut and dry.
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Hopefully the neg uh the navigation is really good, and it's really simple.
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Um also, uh don't know you I'm doing um VIP reader and listener uh uh mail list, mailing list.
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So they told me that I was uh one of the things as a new author that I needed to do a mailing list and for upcoming books, and I do have other books that I want to write.
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It's not uh transgender memoirs, but it is fantasy adventure because that's where my true love it really is.
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Um and so you can keep up to date on all that.
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Um, and I'm not gonna bombard you.
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One of the notes, if you go onto the website, you'll actually see that it says, I'm not gonna overload you with a shit ton.
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I don't have time for that.
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And quite nicely, I'm too old and too fucking lazy.
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I really I don't I don't have you'll you'll get a couple emails here and there.
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I'm not gonna bombard you with it, but if you sign up for it, at least I'll be uh able to send you some updates and cool stuff um that's going on.
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And then also you get an opportunity in order for you to tell me whether or not you're interested in being part of my ARC uh group, which I now have learned since I published my book that a publisher needs an ARC, which is advanced reader copy.
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So what this means is wow, and that is a congestion making my voice crack.
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So I do apologize.
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So what this means is an ARC group, you will get, if you're interested, you will be the first on the list in order to get the uh a copy of the final edited book before it gets published.
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And then you can uh give me feedback, uh write a review, let me know what you think, uh, give it a rating.
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That way there are talking points that I can use to be able to advertise the book for a pre-sale.
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Again, it's a it's almost like a dance, if you will.
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I need an ARC in order to get the the ARC's feedback in order for me to give people something to look at when I published a book instead of me just going, hey, I wrote a book.
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You want to read it?
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Here's what it's about.
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I I've got nothing.
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So that's uh, and again, this is a lesson learned.
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So it's just one of those to where, you know, I I'm I'm trying to make up for lost time once again.
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So yes, if you would like to join the VIP uh reader and uh listener club uh or group, not a club, it's just a group.
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You're you're gonna be on a mailing list.
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That's all.
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There's no club, we're not doing any meeting, there's none of that.
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Um it's I don't even know why I said that.
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But if you join that group, you also have there's there'll be a um in the form, there'll be a checkbox saying, yes, I'm interested in joining the ARC uh for future uh publications.
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And so I definitely will be doing that because I've got honestly, I'm working on uh in my spare time when I'm not pimping this book out or trying to figure out how to pimp this book out, um, I've got two chapters already done for the fantasy adventure series that I want to do.
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And I've already got the outline um for four books.
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I'm halfway through book number five to get the outline done.
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I've just gotta now start writing them all.
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So if you like fantasy adventure, like literally uh in and again, I'm not I'm not anywhere near like The Hobbit or um The Witch in the Wardrobe, Lion of Witch in the Wardrobe, or anything like that.
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That's my genre.
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I grew up D D.
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So these are these are actually some of my DD characters that I just have grown up with since I was 14, 15 years old, and I've now turned them into characters and built this world uh around them.
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And uh I want to start writing these stories about it.
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So I'm if you're interested in that type of stuff, join the the uh the the mailing list.
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That would be really, really awesome.
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But also check out the website.
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Um, you have opportunities to be able to purchase from the two places that are giving me signings, so following Inc.
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bookstore or bookshop, and also browse about.
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Books.
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Uh, there's links to both of their uh pages.
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You can purchase um directly from them.
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You can go visit them because both of them are awesome enough in order to carry my book on their shelves, which is really sweet.
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Um, or you can order them from them online.
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Uh, and there's also then a uh to give me a review, uh, good reads.
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Oh, David, I really love this.
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Uh, at my book signing that I did in in um Fallen Acorn bookshop, uh, I sold a book to a par I did a signature for a book uh for a lovely gentleman uh named David and went home.
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He went home and read the book and he gave me such a wonderful, warm-hearted I I started crying when I read the the review.
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I just can't thank him enough.
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It was just really, really wonderful.
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And so you too have the opportunity to if you've read my book or if you want to read my book and you do read my book, you can uh there's a link in the on the website um that will take you directly to uh goodreads.com and you can do a review there.
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If there's any other places you can do reviews, I don't know about them.
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I did look.
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Um, but I've got three so far, and I would really love it.
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I've got four ratings.
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Four people have given me five stars, which I'm so humbled and grateful for, and then three people have given me a review.
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Um, and uh so I am just absolute you can actually see blurbs of those reviews on the website.
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So hopefully let me know what you how you what what do you think about the new look?
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I'm I'm hoping that it's a good, easier to get around.
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Um, and along on the uh the contact page also made it really simple.
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Uh there's links to the our our Facebook and Instagram pages.
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And then there's also a quick form if you want to just send us a note.
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There you go.
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And that's about it.
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And uh I think it's uh, you know, hopefully I think it's better.
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I would love to hear your your um your thoughts on it.
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Tell me what you think.
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And uh my next step is to try and zhuzh up the uh Facebook page and the um Instagram page a little bit more, try to get some more stuff uh posted up there besides the the episodes.
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Again, I'm just too old and I'm lazy and I don't give a shit.
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I'm not I don't have that much energy.
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And my ADHD also kicks in.
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I do have good intention of doing posts, like, oh, that'd be a really good post.
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And then I never post it.
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I take the picture, I edit the picture, and then I just never put it up online, and I'm just like, I don't even understand what the hell I'm doing.
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But yeah, I just get so distracted with doing other things.
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So maybe one day I will uh make enough money in order to be able to hire someone who knows what the hell they're doing as far as social media, because I just don't I I want to be there, I desperately want to be there, like to know the technology and to be able to work it to my advantage, but I just feel like oh my god, uh I just the time is it would be a full-time job just doing social media.
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It's crazy.
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So yeah.
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Anyway, with that being said, uh let's see, I covered book signing.
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Um November 18th.
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Shit, I gotta check in it.
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Yes, November, no, shit, November 15th, November 15th um of this year.
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It's a Sunday, it's gonna be from 11 to 1 in Rehoboth Beach, uh, Delaware at Browse About Books.
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You cannot uh go wrong if you're in that that area.
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Just even if you don't come for the signing, just go to the store because they're so nice.
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The staff are wonderful.
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They've already influenced me on three books that I ended up buying from them, and now I'm hooked on their series.
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Um, really good staff.
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So I've got that.
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I told you about Rehoboth Beach, great stuff going on there.
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Oh, and they have outlet malls.
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And guess what they don't have in Delaware is sales tax.
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Yeah, bitches, that's what I'm talking about.
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So you can actually go do some chopping uh when you come to get your book signed for me.
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And um, that'll be awesome.
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I told you about the new website.
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I'm spreading some words, so free copies once again to any book clubs, legitimate book club that's out there.
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Uh free copy of the book.
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Um, happy to do that.
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And uh hell, if you're if you're if I'm able to travel to you, I'll even come and do a um uh a visit with you guys and and just you know be able to talk to you about the book and everything else, give you a little bit more behind the scenes and the whole nine.
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But yeah, I'm down.
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We I I'm I'm interested.
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So just hit me up on my new website.
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Um, all right, that's good.
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So I got everything out.
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If there's anything more, you know me.
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Um I'm gonna be doing another uh uh another episode uh and I'll let you know that I missed something and I'll tell you how dumb I was for missing it.
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Until then, I really thank you so much for the therapy.
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I appreciate you letting me get this all out of my mind so I don't have to worry about it anymore that I know that I've told you.
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There's recorded history of me telling you.
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So thank you so much.
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I really look forward to talking with you all again very soon.
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Until then, toodles.
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Hello, all my beautiful listeners.
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I I just want to give you a behind the scenes, a peek behind the curtain, if you will, that while that music is playing, I'm sitting here doing like all the and all this other stuff to try and make sure that I can make it in in hopes that I can make it 30 minutes of talking with you without having like massive amounts of drainage, of congestion going down the back of my throat.
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So I'm doing every possible bodily function sound that nobody wants to hear.
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And even before I even start saying, you know, welcome to Caught Between a Tie and High Heels, I'm prepping myself.
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I've got two tissues.
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After 130 episodes, you know, plus episodes, I've got two tissues, I've got my tea, I've got water.
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I'm basically going between the two of them.
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So now it's so much just trying to coat my throat.
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I'm I've got slosh gut because I'm just filled with a whole bunch of tea and water.
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And then while the music plays, I'm blowing my nose, I'm doing all this other stuff.
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So you don't have to listen to me cough, or I don't have to do as many edits during the program in order for me to really give you a raw sense of what's going on.
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I just realized that I wanted to share that with you because you all just have no idea the amount of crap that I end up doing.
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Like it's just, it's insane.
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I feel terrible, but I have massive congestion and I work with it.
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You can probably hear it in my voice already.
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Um I know I've I've sounded worse, but anyway, let me.
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I'm sorry.
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Let me I got totally, totally uh taken off guard there.
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Oh, I wanted to say there's a um we've got a new country um that is downloading us uh the episodes, and that is Japan.
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I am um Oregato Gozamas.
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Um Domo Aregato Gozimas.
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Uh, and I cannot thank you enough.
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Um I'm just flawed.
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Every single time I see a new because I get reports on new countries, like you know, new new where I'm where things, new listeners are coming from.
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And it's not it's not pinpoint, but it's a vague, you know.
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You're in this area, you're in this area, or whatever.
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But I have not seen Japan before.
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And this is a new one that popped up, and I am just I'm thrilled.
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I've often wanted to go to Japan.
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Um, that's definitely on my bucket list, so who knows?
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In my in my world travels that I have going on, maybe that'll become a reality.
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That would be super awesome.
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Would love to go there.
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I got the I I will tell you, uh I watch uh Midnight Diner.
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I it's uh I've watched it probably uh it's a TV show.
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If you've never seen this, I believe it's on Netflix.
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If you've never seen this, it's literally just a diner.
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Uh a diner that opens up at midnight or late at night, stays open all night, and the people that come in, there's a community that builds and everything, and the show ends.
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It's called Midnight Diner.
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It's all in Japanese.
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You've got to uh read the sub uh subtitles.
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But the cool, I just find it so cool.
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And the the the um the master, he makes all these dishes, and it's just really.
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I mean, I'm like I'm frothing at the mouth, like I'm drooling and everything because some of these dishes look so good.
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Um, and then that goes on for a couple seasons, and then they do another one.
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I want to say it's Midnight Diner Tokyo Stories.
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I want to say, um, and I think that this is a this is this all takes place in the Shinjuru.
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Uh I think that's the correct pronunciation.
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If I'm not, I'm screwing it up.
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Sorry, I'm a guy Jean, I know.
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Um, but anyway, if you like that kind of movie, if you're into uh anime or anything else like this, this is not anime, this is live action.
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It's still a great show, and I love it.
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And I've watched it fully probably twice now.
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Um, and it's just really awesome.
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So, anyway, another tirade.
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Uh, thank you, Japan, for for uh uh for tuning in and listening, and I really appreciate it.
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Yeah, you taking the time to let me talk to you with you uh a couple of times.
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So, okay, we've got the book.
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Now, there's a lot of stuff going on.
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I again I I mentioned this once before.
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It's it took me seven years in order for me to write it, and um the amount of effort and stress that I had going through writing it pales, pales in comparison to all the shit and all the red hoops I've gotta jump through and the the red tape that I've gotta do in order to try and promote this book.
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Holy shit! Wow, man, it is something else.
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And I'm trying desperately because as I mentioned before, I didn't do it right, so I'm trying to play catch up and everything, and I'm trying to get there.
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But it's just so much.
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Excuse me.
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See, I couldn't do it.
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I couldn't make it 30 minutes.
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Um, I couldn't even make it 10, 5.
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We're not couldn't even make it five without coughing in your ear.
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Um, the good news is um I took a break a little bit to do some travel.
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Dee and I needed to decompress.
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Um, Dee gets to a point, she is uh very into her work.
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She gets very focused and it gets her very stressed out.
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And I can tell when she needs to break away.
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And we just need a long weekend or just a little, a little getaway.
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Something to where we can do that's not here, it's not at home, it's not sitting around on our ass watching TV.
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It's getting away, removing ourselves from everything, and just doing it.
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And our place that we have been going to the past, I don't know, three or four years, um, has been Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
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On the off-season, not in the in-season, because it is nuts.
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It's a A, it's a gorgeous beach.
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B, I think we heard one local restaurant uh owner that told us that like something in the area of like 40 to 50,000 people descend upon that town in the on-season.
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And like, yeah, that's that's way too much.
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That's an amusement park I don't want to be into.
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Um, so I'm totally happy with going with the off-season, but we go there all the time.
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It's a relatively short drive from where we are, so it makes it nice uh proximity in a nice place in order for us to go.
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It's very LGBTQ friendly, um, and we really feel comfortable there.
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So you can't go wrong.
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Um they have on Rehoboth Beach Avenue, there is a bookstore that has been around since it's a local um independent bookstore called uh Browse About Books.
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And Dee and I are, I mean, I love bookstores, don't get me wrong.
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And I also the reason I love Browse About is that not only do they have a fantastic bookstore, but then they also have like an amazing gift shop.
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And we go, we stopped there on our very, we stopped there on our very first visit to uh Rehoboth Beach.
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Um and uh literally it was down the street from our hotel uh when we first came to town, and we were like, oh, this is awesome.
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And it is just an amazing bookstore.
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And I said, I I told one of the uh the the people that worked there this last year um in 2025, I was like, listen, I'm gonna try and get my book published around June of 2026.
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I would really love to try and do a book signing here in Browse About Books.
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And uh they said, well, yeah, and again, you know, and I got a business card and everything.
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And I was like, you know, when you get your book published, let me know, and the whole nine.
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So you know what's happened.
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So the book's published, and I gave them a call, and um we ended up contacting them with this visit, and I've got a book signing coming up, um, which I am frickin' I I am thrilled.
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Um I am trying to find the date for you.
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Hold on.
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I know, I know, I don't know why I don't know this off-than, but I don't want to give you the wrong date because there was a couple other dates.
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Um, but literally, it is the uh 15th of November.
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Uh, it is from 11 to 1 at Browse About Books in in uh Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
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And I am absolutely thrilled.
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They actually right now have my book on the shelf.
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Five signed uh five signed copies uh is on their shelf right now.
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So you can actually go into their store and pick my book off of the shelf, which I am so thrilled about.
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Um and uh they have five and but they are signed as well.
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And I number my signings.
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I don't know if I told you all this, but I do number my signings.
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I don't know why.
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I don't know if I'm gonna like do a cutoff later on or whatever, but I just sign, I do a number for for each signing.
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So uh and what's really making this great for me is that that literally is the third day into the transgender awareness week in November.
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And I just thought, what a better way to celebrate being transgender than doing a book signing about my transgender memoir.
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And it's really awesome.
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So yeah, that uh I cannot tell you how thrilled I am about that.
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I hope you can make it.
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I would look forward to seeing you there.
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If you're in the Delaware area, please let me know.
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Now, another thing that I've been trying to do, along with this book signing, well, let me tell you too.
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There's if you're wondering, like, well, what the hell is there to do in the offseason in uh Rehoboth Beach, you can walk the boardwalk.
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And it is a beautiful boardwalk.
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And Dee and I do it all the time.
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Um, even when we're wrapped up like Eskimos, I mean, we are we've got like four layers on and everything else.
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It's cold, it's windy.
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It is still so nice.
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And uh even in the off season, it's wonderful.
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They still have restaurants that are open.
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We always make uh again, we have our regulars.
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So we're very predictable when we go to Rehoboth Beach that no matter how long we're there, whether or not it's a day or four days or whatever, we have certain places that we know we're going to go to.
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Browse about books is gonna be one of them.
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The other one is a Jewish deli that's there.
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Oh my god, it is Rosenfeld's.
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Can I tell you how magnificent it is to be able to walk into a restaurant and the matzo ball soup is it's just healing.
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As soon as you take the first spoonful for me, it's oh my god.
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It just makes me feel better.
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And it's just delicious.
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The portions are huge, and but it is so good.
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I do the turkey pastrami um Rubin, and uh it is oh my god, out of this world.
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The hot dogs, I'm a hot dog lover.
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When I bought the hot dog, I'm like, holy shit, it is a huge hot dog.
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Um I had almost I had a lot of difficulty finishing it.
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But Rosenfeld's Jewish deli, you cannot go wrong.
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They have some of the best food.
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They they I mean they start you off with a bowl of pickles.
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I, you know, it's like you read my mind.
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You come in, I come in, I sit down, you read my mind.
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It's really wonderful.
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Um excuse me.
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The other place that we end up going, besides browse about, and we also go to Rosenfeld's at least once.
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We've done multiple visits.
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We've literally gone for four days one time, and we've hit Rosenfeld's every single day, trying something new.
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I'm not proud, but I'm I'm not I'm not ashamed to admit it, you know, because they are delicious.
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It's really wonderful.
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The other place that we go is the purple parrot, which is almost right across the street from Browse About Books.
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And this place is wild.
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If you've never been there, the decor, first of all, I'm digging it.
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You walk in, there are dollar bills, tapes, stapled, whatever the hell, all over the place.
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And they've all got a little message on it and everything else.
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The food is good, um, really, really good.
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Uh, and we always find something.
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We actually, this last time that we went, we were only there for two days.
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And the first day we drove up, we were like, well, we'll just get something to eat.
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We'll just go to the parrot.
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Why not?
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And then we found out that there's a drag show happening at nine, and we're like, fuck that, that's awesome.
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We're in.
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So we went to a drag show.
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We got a drag show and we got a a um uh a uh a nice, really good dinner.
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I mean, I could barely finish it.
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Dee got a fish and chips, and she was like, couldn't even make it halfway through the chips.
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It was just crazy.
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I mean, the fish was huge.
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Um, so yeah.
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It so if you're wondering if you're ever wanting to go, well, maybe I should take a trip to Rose uh Rehobith Beach, you should.
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And those are some really good places.
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Uh again, just three out of a number of places that you can go to.
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Um, and they have candy stores out in it really it's bad.
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There, I call them crack shops.
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And uh because I love hard candy, I love um like I have a sweet tooth the size of Texas, I'm not gonna lie.
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And it's really it's bad.
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And then I pass these crack shops that are all over the place, and it's like, oh my god.
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Luckily, most of it is fudge and chocolate stuff, and I won't get in too much trouble, but yeah, it's there you go.
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But it's really good.
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Um, okay, anyway.
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Um, what was I gonna go from there?
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Oh, so along with the book signings, I'm also trying to spread the word on this.
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Again, because I know that I'm making up for lost time, stuff that I should have done before the book got published.
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Um, I am also now looking for uh book clubs.
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LGBT like legit LGBT LGBT2.
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Is that what I said?
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That's crazy.
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LGBTQ.
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I gotta slow down.
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Um LGBTQ plus uh book clubs, like legitimate book clubs.
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Like not just like, yeah, me and my brother stand, we get together and read some books and you know that that's I mean like you've gotta have like a it's great that you do that, that's fine.
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But I mean I'm talking like a real book club.
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And what I'm looking to do is that if you're a legitimate book club, you've got a presence on social media somewhere or whatever, I am more than happy if you let me know you're interested.
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I will send you a free copy of my book, whether it's an ebook or it is a uh paperback version, I'll send you a free copy.
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Signed, not a problem.
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Just let me know.
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And I would really love some help in spreading the word to be able to um get the book out there.
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To, I mean, I'm I'm I'm an independent, you know, I'm a self-published person, you know, so the whole thing is I'm I'm doing everything on my own, and I could really use some help in getting the word out there.
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So again, any book club out there that you've got a social presence somewhere, um and uh you would like to uh uh read my book, I'm happy to send you a signed copy, or I will send you a uh free ebook if you would like.
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Either way, it doesn't matter, just get in contact with me.
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And here's how you can get in contact with me.
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I've also been busy the last couple of weeks making, remaking a new design for the website.
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I know you're saying, Jamie, didn't you just do that like a couple years ago, like a year or so ago?
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Yes, I did.
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But I'm trying to be grown up again, this adulting shit.
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So I I went and looked at like, you know, what are some must-haves and with the growing um instant gratification and everything else that is going on, uh the they gave suggestions and I did the best I could.
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So I'm I ask you to please go check out uh tyinghighheels.com.
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It's a brand new layout, it's really kind of cut and dry.
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Hopefully the neg uh the navigation is really good, and it's really simple.
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Um also, uh don't know you I'm doing um VIP reader and listener uh uh mail list, mailing list.
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So they told me that I was uh one of the things as a new author that I needed to do a mailing list and for upcoming books, and I do have other books that I want to write.
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It's not uh transgender memoirs, but it is fantasy adventure because that's where my true love it really is.
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Um and so you can keep up to date on all that.
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Um, and I'm not gonna bombard you.
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One of the notes, if you go onto the website, you'll actually see that it says, I'm not gonna overload you with a shit ton.
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I don't have time for that.
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And quite nicely, I'm too old and too fucking lazy.
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I really I don't I don't have you'll you'll get a couple emails here and there.
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I'm not gonna bombard you with it, but if you sign up for it, at least I'll be uh able to send you some updates and cool stuff um that's going on.
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And then also you get an opportunity in order for you to tell me whether or not you're interested in being part of my ARC uh group, which I now have learned since I published my book that a publisher needs an ARC, which is advanced reader copy.
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So what this means is wow, and that is a congestion making my voice crack.
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So I do apologize.
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So what this means is an ARC group, you will get, if you're interested, you will be the first on the list in order to get the uh a copy of the final edited book before it gets published.
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And then you can uh give me feedback, uh write a review, let me know what you think, uh, give it a rating.
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That way there are talking points that I can use to be able to advertise the book for a pre-sale.
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Again, it's a it's almost like a dance, if you will.
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I need an ARC in order to get the the ARC's feedback in order for me to give people something to look at when I published a book instead of me just going, hey, I wrote a book.
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You want to read it?
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Here's what it's about.
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I I've got nothing.
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So that's uh, and again, this is a lesson learned.
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So it's just one of those to where, you know, I I'm I'm trying to make up for lost time once again.
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So yes, if you would like to join the VIP uh reader and uh listener club uh or group, not a club, it's just a group.
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You're you're gonna be on a mailing list.
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That's all.
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There's no club, we're not doing any meeting, there's none of that.
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Um it's I don't even know why I said that.
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But if you join that group, you also have there's there'll be a um in the form, there'll be a checkbox saying, yes, I'm interested in joining the ARC uh for future uh publications.
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And so I definitely will be doing that because I've got honestly, I'm working on uh in my spare time when I'm not pimping this book out or trying to figure out how to pimp this book out, um, I've got two chapters already done for the fantasy adventure series that I want to do.
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And I've already got the outline um for four books.
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I'm halfway through book number five to get the outline done.
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I've just gotta now start writing them all.
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So if you like fantasy adventure, like literally uh in and again, I'm not I'm not anywhere near like The Hobbit or um The Witch in the Wardrobe, Lion of Witch in the Wardrobe, or anything like that.
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That's my genre.
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I grew up D D.
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So these are these are actually some of my DD characters that I just have grown up with since I was 14, 15 years old, and I've now turned them into characters and built this world uh around them.
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And uh I want to start writing these stories about it.
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So I'm if you're interested in that type of stuff, join the the uh the the mailing list.
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That would be really, really awesome.
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But also check out the website.
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Um, you have opportunities to be able to purchase from the two places that are giving me signings, so following Inc.
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bookstore or bookshop, and also browse about.
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Books.
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Uh, there's links to both of their uh pages.
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You can purchase um directly from them.
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You can go visit them because both of them are awesome enough in order to carry my book on their shelves, which is really sweet.
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Um, or you can order them from them online.
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Uh, and there's also then a uh to give me a review, uh, good reads.
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Oh, David, I really love this.
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Uh, at my book signing that I did in in um Fallen Acorn bookshop, uh, I sold a book to a par I did a signature for a book uh for a lovely gentleman uh named David and went home.
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He went home and read the book and he gave me such a wonderful, warm-hearted I I started crying when I read the the review.
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I just can't thank him enough.
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It was just really, really wonderful.
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And so you too have the opportunity to if you've read my book or if you want to read my book and you do read my book, you can uh there's a link in the on the website um that will take you directly to uh goodreads.com and you can do a review there.
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If there's any other places you can do reviews, I don't know about them.
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I did look.
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Um, but I've got three so far, and I would really love it.
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I've got four ratings.
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Four people have given me five stars, which I'm so humbled and grateful for, and then three people have given me a review.
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Um, and uh so I am just absolute you can actually see blurbs of those reviews on the website.
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So hopefully let me know what you how you what what do you think about the new look?
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I'm I'm hoping that it's a good, easier to get around.
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Um, and along on the uh the contact page also made it really simple.
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Uh there's links to the our our Facebook and Instagram pages.
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And then there's also a quick form if you want to just send us a note.
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There you go.
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And that's about it.
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And uh I think it's uh, you know, hopefully I think it's better.
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I would love to hear your your um your thoughts on it.
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Tell me what you think.
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And uh my next step is to try and zhuzh up the uh Facebook page and the um Instagram page a little bit more, try to get some more stuff uh posted up there besides the the episodes.
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Again, I'm just too old and I'm lazy and I don't give a shit.
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I'm not I don't have that much energy.
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And my ADHD also kicks in.
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I do have good intention of doing posts, like, oh, that'd be a really good post.
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And then I never post it.
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I take the picture, I edit the picture, and then I just never put it up online, and I'm just like, I don't even understand what the hell I'm doing.
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But yeah, I just get so distracted with doing other things.
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So maybe one day I will uh make enough money in order to be able to hire someone who knows what the hell they're doing as far as social media, because I just don't I I want to be there, I desperately want to be there, like to know the technology and to be able to work it to my advantage, but I just feel like oh my god, uh I just the time is it would be a full-time job just doing social media.
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It's crazy.
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So yeah.
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Anyway, with that being said, uh let's see, I covered book signing.
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Um November 18th.
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Shit, I gotta check in it.
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Yes, November, no, shit, November 15th, November 15th um of this year.
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It's a Sunday, it's gonna be from 11 to 1 in Rehoboth Beach, uh, Delaware at Browse About Books.
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You cannot uh go wrong if you're in that that area.
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Just even if you don't come for the signing, just go to the store because they're so nice.
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The staff are wonderful.
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They've already influenced me on three books that I ended up buying from them, and now I'm hooked on their series.
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Um, really good staff.
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So I've got that.
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I told you about Rehoboth Beach, great stuff going on there.
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Oh, and they have outlet malls.
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And guess what they don't have in Delaware is sales tax.
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Yeah, bitches, that's what I'm talking about.
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So you can actually go do some chopping uh when you come to get your book signed for me.
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And um, that'll be awesome.
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I told you about the new website.
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I'm spreading some words, so free copies once again to any book clubs, legitimate book club that's out there.
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Uh free copy of the book.
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Um, happy to do that.
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And uh hell, if you're if you're if I'm able to travel to you, I'll even come and do a um uh a visit with you guys and and just you know be able to talk to you about the book and everything else, give you a little bit more behind the scenes and the whole nine.
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But yeah, I'm down.
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We I I'm I'm interested.
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So just hit me up on my new website.
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Um, all right, that's good.
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So I got everything out.
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If there's anything more, you know me.
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Um I'm gonna be doing another uh uh another episode uh and I'll let you know that I missed something and I'll tell you how dumb I was for missing it.
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Until then, I really thank you so much for the therapy.
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I appreciate you letting me get this all out of my mind so I don't have to worry about it anymore that I know that I've told you.
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There's recorded history of me telling you.
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So thank you so much.
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I really look forward to talking with you all again very soon.
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Until then, toodles.
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