Laura Yamin: [00:00:00] Hello, Lizzie. Christina and Natalie, welcome to the Retro Next Podcast.
Lizzie Stanley: Thank you very much for having us.
Christina Berry: Yes, thank you.
Laura Yamin: Excited to have you all three here we're, so as I was sharing with you beforehand, we're doing all things holiday season, all things Christmas, and you guys are writing some of my favorite niche of Christmas, which is tropical Christmas. It's a meat that's underserved. It is people, and it's. Southern Hemisphere and the Caribbean.
And many places in the EQU equator have tropical Christmas. They do not get snow. So I really appreciate so year all three are writing a series of merry mermaids holiday novella series. And so we're gonna talk about your, how you guys met some of your books, about some of the holiday writing, and then some book recommendations.
So first things first we'll start with Lizzie and just tell us a little bit about yourself and then we'll go for each one of you.
Lizzie Stanley: Okay. Right, so I'm Lizzie. You might be able to tell from my accent that I'm British and live in [00:01:00] the uk, is. Why I was so glad when we worked out the timing for this, that it wasn't in the middle of the night for me. I still would've
Laura Yamin: Yeah.
Lizzie Stanley: but I write, I call, healthy relationships, but dark themes
Laura Yamin: Okay.
Lizzie Stanley: I first met Natty before I wrote my book. She'd written her wonderful debut novel, see her, and she was looking for a beta reader. She thankfully picked me and she's been my bitch ever since. And I love you babe. And,\ Christina, I think I met you through Natty, didn't I?
Christina Berry: it was through Erica and through a group on,
Lizzie Stanley: Yes.
Christina Berry: Instagram.
Lizzie Stanley: Yeah. The pain Posse. Yeah. That now. Yeah, but we all got talking and honestly. Two of the best people I know. And yeah. So, doing this has been, something really meaningful for me. Even if we never sell a single copy. I've had a blast writing [00:02:00] this with you both and yeah.
I love you both. So
Christina Berry: you
Natalie: Mute.
Lizzie Stanley: talk, I'm getting all mushy.
Laura Yamin: All plenty of copies, but I'll be one of them. So,
Christina Berry: Oh, nice.
Laura Yamin: all right, so let's do Natalie since let's met Natalie first, and then we'll do Christina and.
Natalie: Okay, I'm Natalie. I write just contemporary romance. I keep it mostly lighthearted, although I have been known to go kind of on the serious emotional side. I. On occasion, but for the most part, I kind of keep it lighthearted and I stick to mainly the blue collar cinnamon roll heroes.
Laura Yamin: I like it.
Natalie: And yeah Lizzie said, met her through, we were in the same writing group
Lizzie Stanley: Yes, we were. Yep.
Natalie: and, that's Carian Coles,
Lizzie Stanley: Yeah, it.
Natalie: group.
Laura Yamin: Oh my gosh.
Natalie: And yeah she beta read for me and like through that process we re we, we [00:03:00] just really bonded, hit it off. Just messaging each other daily just became this natural thing.
And
Laura Yamin: Yeah.
Natalie: then, yeah, we met Christina through the now Forbidden Pain Posse. A group we were all in that got a lot of flack and fizzled out. And, and then and Christine and I have, met up a couple of times in real life and gotten to kind of become like coworkers now helping each other out and sprinting together.
So yeah these two, two of my best friends right here.
Christina Berry: Aw. Yeah. So I came along through that Instagram group that it was fun for a while and then it fizzled out. But the three of us have kind of stayed in contact and continued to move through our careers as friends. And then this opportunity came along and out as something completely different and we decided to take it. To the [00:04:00] mermaid direction
Lizzie Stanley: Yeah.
Natalie: Christina's idea.
Christina Berry: yeah. I had just watched that Netflix documentary Merr People, which is a great documentary if you're ever in the mood for just something kind of feel good. And I was obsessed with Mermaid people and I was like, okay, why don't we do this? There'll be bartenders.
And then they also perform as mermaids and they were like, let's do it. So here we are.
Laura Yamin: Talk to us about. What made you write mermaids? I know the mere people, obviously documentary and Christina, but like how did you actually put together, a cohesive, three novellas that have some sort of even though each writer is writing their own world, it's still sharing some sort of part of, cohesive world together.
So how did you go about it?
Christina Berry: What we decided to do was basically make them coworkers. So they all work in this same bar where they are bartenders, but then during happy hour they have the happy hour or the Happy Mermaid Hour [00:05:00] water
Laura Yamin: Yeah.
Christina Berry: and they get in there and they perform and like one of them will perform all the other serve and they kinda switch off.
And then there's a much larger sort of lagoon that they also swim in on the weekends. For a big weekend show and there are all these rescue animals in there. And so it's, it was, we just had this like really fun time sort of creating this shared universe of this strange little bar called The Salty Palms. it's just this little bar in an island off of Florida. O once we imagined the shared universe, then we could figure out where our characters that we wanted to create existed within that. And it was just the sort of like small island, sort of small town, but an island, Community. And so it was really easy. We, we have mine as a paramedic Natalie, hers is the sheriff. And so we've got and then Lizzie, hers is the like boat captain who sort of like fairies people to the mainland and it all kind of just fit together in this great little community that [00:06:00] we created.
Laura Yamin: I love this. All right, so let's talk about, we're gonna talk about each of the books in the series, and each author can give us deliver pitch. So if we're starting season greetings by Christina. This is obviously the paramedic and a mermaid. So talk to us. And this is the love, which is, if you like and love, this one will deliver.
Christina Berry: Yeah. Well, it's kind of funny because it starts out in the love and then it ends up turning into slow burn because. Yeah, because she is a mermaid who falls out of the water tank and when she falls out, they call 9 1 1 and that's when the paramedic shows up and that's how she meets her paramedic And. It turns out that when she's not in water, she's an absolute walking disaster. She's just a, they call her calamity tape because she's constantly falling and messing things up. So she's got a broken arm so she can't swim and her and her [00:07:00] paramedic kind of continue to bond. He keeps kind of like saving her from falling. But at one point she falls on him and injures him in a very severe way that turns their Insta love into slow burn because he basically can't do anything physical. And so it's kind of just. Very silly, funny comedy. A little bit of like physical comedy 'cause they fall on each other all the time. but yeah, it was a super fun one to write 'cause he's the absolute epitome of hero and she's just
Enjoy themselves. And so they kind of slowly become over the course of healing. They're both like, she's got a broken arm, he's got a broken appendage.
They just like slowly get to know each other while they're healing. So that's why it turns into slow burn a little bit, but
Laura Yamin: Oh, so it's the best of both worlds. You [00:08:00] get insula for, and then you get we're gonna build this out. We got some time here.
Christina Berry: Exactly.
Laura Yamin: Awesome. All right. Natalie, talk to us about tropical tidings. Yes,
Natalie: Am I allowed to swear on here?
Laura Yamin: you are. It's explicit. We actually we're right explicit, so we're good.
Natalie: Okay, so yeah, my my, my heroine is she is the town bitch. People often wonder how how she keeps her job at the bar. But I think it's because they find customers seem to find it entertaining, but she is definitely she is like tall, kind of Amazon ice queen, kind of just intimidating all around and yeah, she's super bitchy. However, the, Sheriff of the island has and he's her opposite. This is reverse grumpy sunshine. He's just happy go lucky. he is, had a crush on her since childhood, despite her [00:09:00] demeanor. And so, they, it's fun because while he's had a, and he is had a glow up, he was always like the scrawny kid. But now he is like just the tough, handsome sheriff and he's finally gonna shoot his shot and it's easy for him because he's had to come arrest her. So the book literally starts out with him being like, oh, yay, she is in my jail cell. She can't go anywhere. To hit on her. And and as expected she blows him off.
But lovely friends and coworkers help him conspire. Get a date with her.
Laura Yamin: Recipe, daddy,
Natalie: that's.
Laura Yamin: I love this. And then we got Jingle Shell, [00:10:00] which is the me to Convenience,
Lizzie Stanley: Yes. So, yes, she is British because I thought, bit of, representation on the Gulf of Mexico. Just, she's studying for her PhD in marine biology. So she's half working at Mary Mermaid so she can, be employed. And the other half is studying for a PhD and working at the local aquarium. And that's where a lot of the cute animals come in. Like Jerry Lee, the mischievous sea lion, who was great fun to write he like was mentioned before is the sort of the fairy man. But he also takes people out on his yacht, lives on his yacht and takes him out sort of whale watching or fishing, that sort of thing. he is actually gray ace. Which was, very fun to write. And I spoke to some of my gray ace friends and they seemed to be pleased with what I put. So fingers crossed. I got it right, guys. [00:11:00] he's always had a massive thing for for Clem, that's her name, Clem. Since he first saw her and now she's under threat of being deported. Because her sponsor has suddenly reneged on their agreement with immediate effect. So, if she can't find a way to stay, she's got to go back to England and completely forget everything about her PhD. So in Swoop Lincoln and says, Hey, I'll marry you. Yeah, so. He gets his wish, but you know, to be married to Clem, but not in the way he thought. And she's wow, this really handsome guy with a yacht wants to marry me. This is handy. And he's very pretty. So yes, so that was a lot of fun because I've never done marriage of convenience before.
Laura Yamin: Yeah.
Natalie: I think you should touch on gray bit, Lizzie, because I know, I didn't know what it.
Lizzie Stanley: Oh, okay. So,
There's there's a spectrum [00:12:00] of asexuality.
Laura Yamin: Okay.
Lizzie Stanley: on one end, absolutely no attraction to anybody regardless of gender. Even repulsed by sex. gray ace people are, they're mostly a, I can't speak for all gray ACE people, but generally speaking, it means that sexual attraction is possible under certain circumstances. Like with, it's, some people are gray ace because they're demisexual, which means that they need to get to know somebody in order to experience attraction. They don't just feel it physically, they get attracted to the person. That sort of what happened with Link is he is a pure, untouched maiden. So yeah, male virgin representation, but yes, he. Describes himself at one point as CLA sexual. Because
Laura Yamin: Yeah.
Lizzie Stanley: literally the only person he's ever felt attracted to other than Eliza dku when she played faith in Buffy the Vampire Sleigh. But that was never gonna [00:13:00] happen. But yeah, so that was, I always like to try and bring some sort of representation to what I write because my whole shtick is that everybody deserves whatever happily ever after would be best for them.
that's what I try and bring to my books. And in my other books I've got people who, face infertility people who have severe mental health issues or I can't talk,
Laura Yamin: Mm-hmm.
Lizzie Stanley: of thing, not selective mutism, but actual, they have an injury
Laura Yamin: Yeah.
Lizzie Stanley: talk. And everybody deserves a happily ever after. Apart from Peter. And if you've read the Wishbone tattoo series, you know who I'm talking about.
Laura Yamin: Awesome.
Christina Berry: The ex-boyfriend.
Lizzie Stanley: NA's face. Yes.
Natalie: I love I love to have a villain to hate
Christina Berry: Mm-hmm.
Natalie: When I'm the reader. I love having just [00:14:00] someone to absolutely hate on because then I just enjoy it so much when they get their Just deserves and.
Christina Berry: Mm-hmm.
Laura Yamin: I love to root for a villain. She just. Go down the rabbit hole and just do terrible things and then just have this, just you, God, what the life you deserve. You. You made your bed
Natalie: Yep.
Laura Yamin: And
Christina Berry: Yep.
Laura Yamin: you're gonna have fuck around and find out,
Lizzie Stanley: oh yeah.
Laura Yamin: Yeah.
Yeah. So let's talk about your back list or other books for leader for readers to pick up after reading some of these holidays. 'cause I feel like this is a great way to get a, say a sense of your writing style with their novellas. So talk to us about like, where did they get start, where readers can get started, if they wanna go into your back list.
Let's start with Natalie and then I'll go Christina and then Lizzie.
Natalie: Okay. So I think, if you were to read [00:15:00] Tropical Tidings, my book two, and you wanted to read more of my backlist, I would say maybe kind of start from the most recent actually, and maybe work your way back. Because my most recent release is called Fast and Dirty. It is book one of a small town rom-com series that and I've only got the one book out, but there's two more coming it's based on dirty jobs, like I said, blue collar heroes. Anyway, fast and dirty is, pretty funny, town romcom going by, the feedback I've gotten from it and I had not quite put it out yet when we came up with this idea, and so I decided to write our Mary Mermaids characters into the epilogue. So I've got my two main characters [00:16:00] from Fast and Dirty going on their honeymoon at the Salty Palms Resort and witnessing some shenanigans.
I feel if you really enjoyed the Merry Mermaid series and you're hopefully having a little bit of a book hangover and you just need another hit,
Laura Yamin: yeah.
Natalie: Go to my book Fast and Dirty, and you'll see us in the epilogue there and then, and it's very sexy, very dirty and and funny. And before that I've got a more on more of the serious side, another small town romance.
It's more deeply for your heart and a blender emotional. And then my biggest series, or not biggest in size. Amount of books would be a rockstar series.
Laura Yamin: I am excited to try in some of your back list and I'm just definitely gonna do fast and dirty first because we gotta keep, having the characters lived a little more time [00:17:00] with them, so that's exciting.
Natalie: I enjoy specifically enjoy a certain side character.
Lizzie Stanley: Yeah.
Laura Yamin: I am intrigued.
Natalie: Agonist. Her name's Agnes and she's the town lady, like just
Lizzie Stanley: love
Natalie: cra crazy geriatric.
Laura Yamin: Yeah, I love this.
Natalie: no fucks.
Laura Yamin: I love that energy. Yes.
Christina Berry: Nice.
Laura Yamin: All right, Christina, tell us where readers can get started after they finish. The Mariner rates.
Christina Berry: Sure. I would say that probably the best series, if they like the merry mermaids vibe, my Hearts of Texas series is a good fit. It's a small town firefighter series set in central Texas, the hill country, it is. Rom-com, mostly rom-com. There, there are some suspense elements. There's some drama I do [00:18:00] touch on, like mental illness issues and stuff like that. And so, with everything I write, there's always I always say ish, like rom-com ish and dark ish because I'm never like a hundred percent in one thing or another. I've always got my toe in everything. But I would say that's the most, like what I'm. What I've written in this one. And it's firefighters. So the first one is a firefighter cat dad, and he just rescues cats everywhere he goes. He is always rescuing cats. And so he's just adorable and the cats are a lot of fun too. And then he falls in love with his neighbor who's remodeling our house. And then the second one is a second chance female firefighter and her like childhood boyfriend who went off to war and came back, a single dad. Then the third one is male dog dads. And so it's just there's, they're all dads in some way and lots of animals and cute kids. And so that was a lot of fun.
And so there's a lot more comedy in that one. My debut series lost in Austin. I. [00:19:00] I'm in Texas, if you can't tell, I'm in Austin. So I started with the Lost in Austin series and that one is a lot more emotional, like the heart and a blender kind of series. and it kind of starts out with a woman who's married and not happy.
And so she and her husband opened their marriage. Hi jinks ensues four books later. You've got four different happy endings weren't where we started, and it's just a lot of. A lot of drama. I'm excited too 'cause that one's about to come out on audio book. So if you're an audio book reader, check that it one out.
Laura Yamin: Oh my gosh. I am excited. I'm gonna pre-order those audio books for sure. Bye. Awesome. Lizzie, tell us where, what word leaders can get started from your,
,
Lizzie Stanley: So yes, if you want another short read because it's the end of the year, we're all trying to get our reading goals and you want the same sort of rom-com vibe, then that perfect fit by me is, it's fun. It's about 12,000 words, [00:20:00] so it won't take you very, it will
Laura Yamin: Shorty.
Natalie: Can I speak on that one?
Lizzie Stanley: Yes.
Natalie: That, that one is comedy genius.
Christina Berry: It's very good.
Natalie: No one can I, no, Lizzie I say it all the time. Lizzie's a comedic genius. Just She comes up with these sayings and these descriptions that never would've entered my mind. And and there's just this one line that I read in that book that like, dropped the book, tossed back, shoulders shaking, laughing,
Lizzie Stanley: I think I know the line you mean. And thank you. Thank you.
Natalie: It's, no, it was genius. Just, no. It's a quick read and it's a, like I'm telling you, do yourself a favor.
Lizzie Stanley: thank you. That's really
Natalie: Read that one.
Lizzie Stanley: Also the hero in that one is unique
Christina Berry: Mm-hmm.
Lizzie Stanley: in one respect. Mm-hmm.
Natalie: it's, [00:21:00] but he's a perfect fit for the heroin.
Lizzie Stanley: Yes. He's, that's all we're gonna say on that subject, but, so trust me. Trust me, it works out well. And other than that, there's my Wishbone tattoo series, which is set in, a tattoo shop in the British seaside community of Foxton on Sea, which is absolutely not Brighton. It's not Brighton. Nothing like it's based on Brighton. The the heroes are all well, Leo's half Cajun, but the other two are full Cajun. And they're living in the UK for reasons that become apparent. And it, the first one is I'd say her comfort very emotional. All of the feels happily ever after love after divorce and or abuse that sort of thing.
And that's a very personal story to me because it's semi based on my own relationship with my husband. He's not a Cajun tattoo artist [00:22:00] but there's some things that happen in the book that actually happened in real life. Book two is y check the trigger warnings. That's all I can say about that.
'cause not a single alpha reader, and I believe that includes Natalie, if not Christina as well. a single alpha reader. Made it through the prologue without crying, like ugly crying and sending me abusive messages going, why have you done this to me? I hate you. Please miss the book. Yeah, he, that one's opposites attract very high trauma, a guaranteed HEA because duh. And then the final book. Thank you. Yeah.
Christina Berry: Mm-hmm.
Lizzie Stanley: Oh yeah, I've, they're, they have to work for it, I put my characters through my paces, but the happy ever after is worth it and then the third book is best Friends to Lovers. He fell [00:23:00] first, it's always been her, surprise pregnancy. Did I say that out loud?
Sorry. The one and only surprise pregnancy I will ever write. Ever. 'cause my God I'm child free and I spoke to a lot of my friends who have been pregnant and given birth and asked them to tell me everything about pregnancy that isn't portrayed. And dig God, those women are heroes. God, pregnancy is trip, man.
It's wild. But, yeah. So that happens in that book. There's a spinoff called Still, which is about a couple of side characters in the Wishbone world. I've got three more spinoffs planned.
Natalie: And I.
Lizzie Stanley: You did? Yes. The the FMC in still is called Nat for this Nat and there'll [00:24:00] be a Christina in a future book. Also, I wanted to if I had to recommend one book from Christina one book from Natty for Natty, I think it's got to be Lavender Moon, which is the heartfelt that she spoke about.
It I read it and I was like, what have you done with my heart? Seriously. And yet you have to read it. It's childhood.
Natalie: Ver.
Lizzie Stanley: Oh yeah. I mean there are some bits of that book where I was crying actual tears and yeah. I'm so proud of Natty for writing it and for Christina, I'm sorry, it's got to be all the rest.
Christina Berry: Oh wow.
Lizzie Stanley: I love manic. Manic is like one of my all time, I think he's probably top three romantic heroes of all time because he's just so real. And the bit with the tail, I mean, just.
Christina Berry: Okay, so that's book four of My Lost in Austin series.
Lizzie Stanley: [00:25:00] Yes.
Christina Berry: the book wasn't gonna actually be written. I was gonna write it about these three best friends that moved to Austin from Tennessee. and when I was writing those, there's this side character Cheryl that everybody just loved this roller girl full of energy. And then there was the bartender manic, who is a former circus. Sideshow performer, everybody was like, you need to give Cheryl her own book. And I was like, well, who? Oh, obviously manic. So Cheryl and Manic a book
Natalie: And if I may, manic makes an. In book
Christina Berry: mm-hmm.
Natalie: to Bear.
Christina Berry: Cheryl's in there too.
Natalie: Yep.
Christina Berry: Yeah, my stuff is all said in 2005, and so they're still kind of like running the bar together By the time that Paul's characters come through Austin for South by Southwest, I think is why they're there, because she's, she does rockstar. so yeah, that was really fun.
I was like, woo.[00:26:00]
Laura Yamin: I love this like con connection of the three of you and having shared rural and shared connect like share stuff. Like I love that you three have been like working together and like really supporting each other and.
Lizzie Stanley: my God.
Natalie: gosh. Yeah. All like Christina and I are working on we're done with the mermaids and we're working on own things now. We're on Zoom probably twice a week, helping each
Laura Yamin: Okay. Yeah.
Christina Berry: together. 'cause
Natalie: And it's
Christina Berry: That partner, the
Laura Yamin: Yeah.
Christina Berry: partner, really
Natalie: And, yeah. And and it's not always having to do with the books themselves will talk about marketing and. And stuff like that. And so it's like incredibly supportive. And then, yeah, Lizzie and I like will cross our characters over quite a bit.
Lizzie Stanley: Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. Absolutely.
Natalie: me write, the last book in my Rockstar series [00:27:00] because she just has a, such a bond with that particular character and she's able to kind of get in. And even though he's my character, she's just so able to get inside his head.
Laura Yamin: Yeah.
Natalie: So she helped me write the last book the Crazy Drummer, Chris. And then of course we incorporated her. We've decided Leo from her Wishbone series, and crazy drummer have kind of a long distance bromance going on,
Lizzie Stanley: That was so much fun to write seriously,
Natalie: and and so yeah we've crossed over many times.
Lizzie Stanley: mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Christina Berry: I love it.
Lizzie Stanley: Yeah, it's so much fun bringing your characters into mind and seeing mine brought alive in yours. It's just, yeah, love it.
Natalie: like this, it's like just this refreshing moment you kind of get the smile on your face as you're writing it.
Lizzie Stanley: Yeah, absolutely. And literally, the only reason I'm not in a lot of your sprinting sessions is because of a [00:28:00] time difference,
Natalie: oh I, we know.
Lizzie Stanley: Yeah. Basically, by
Natalie: You are still part of, you are still part of this, you are still part of this what do we call it, Christina, this like work environment? This, I don't know.
Christina Berry: Yeah.
Lizzie Stanley: and we're
Natalie: Yeah.
Lizzie Stanley: do this again. I think, team up again for more novellas and
Natalie: coming up with all sorts of wacky ideas.
Lizzie Stanley: you had a great one yesterday about the Cowboys. Yeah. Dunno if.
Christina Berry: been talking about burlesque performers too. There's all
Laura Yamin: I.
Christina Berry: of
Natalie: Yeah, Christina and I have talked about burlesque, I've talked
About ladies in male dominated professions like lingerie football, or maybe they run a mechanic shop or, and then yesterday, yes I came up with a cowboy themed escort service.
Laura Yamin: We got plenty of ideas. So I really love the fact that you, three of you came together, wrote this, three novellas, and I got to meet with the three of you, and I now have three separate back lists [00:29:00] to dive into and love the cross pollination of the world is happening, and I know I, my readers will love to have this experience because we love connecting with Sirius.
We love connecting characters, but it's kind of like fun wanting to see other characters in other authors books. It's I read this person, this is my friend who
Christina Berry: Yeah.
Laura Yamin: this. Please keep doing that because we just love that. So, Lizzie, Christina, and Natalie, tell us where you can find you online. So we'll start with Lizzie and then Christina.
And then Natalie.
Lizzie Stanley: Online you can find me on Instagram at Lizzie Stanley, author and on TikTok. You can find me at Lizzie Stanley, author. You'll know it's me. It's the su, the one with the sunflower emoji.
Christina Berry: Yes.
Lizzie Stanley: Yeah that's where you'll find me and, oh, and if you want to send me a peppermint slice recipe 'cause I need one, or you want to tell me that you love my book or that my book sucked or anything like that, then Lizzie stanley.author at gmail.com.
I love hearing [00:30:00] from people. So please do.
Laura Yamin: Awesome.
Christina Berry: And I'm on I'm online@christinaberry.com. You can contact me through there also. I'm on all social, either as Christina Berry author or author, Christina Berry. I, it depends on which. Social network. It is, but that's generally my those are my two different what's the word I'm looking for? My name's on there. I'm most active probably on Instagram as far as like chatting and actually with Facebook too, I've got my Facebook group on there. I love posting dirty jokes in my Facebook group, so
Laura Yamin: I love that.
Lizzie Stanley: yeah. Oh yeah.
Christina Berry: yeah.
Lizzie Stanley: All of them. So yeah.
Christina Berry: Yeah, the one that, this one this week was like this necklace that looks like a pearl necklace, but it's like raindrops, but it doesn't look like raindrops. I'm like, oh, okay. Natalie's face.[00:31:00]
Natalie: We had this talk, Christina,
Christina Berry: Oh, right. Natalie doesn't like fluids. I almost forgot. I gotta stop talking. I gotta stop talking about fluids around her. Sorry.
Natalie: I'm gonna develop some kind of Pavlovian bar reflex from, sorry, Lizzie. Sorry.
Christina Berry: Yeah. Which is also a fluid.
Laura Yamin: Sorry, Natalie.
Natalie: Hey Natalie.
Laura Yamin: All right, Natalie, tell us. We're gonna find you on my.
Natalie: I am on Instagram is Natalie Parker author. and my Facebook group is Natalie's Backstage VIPs. I that. Okay. Name while writing my long and extensive rockstar series. So that's where you'll find me being me. Whatever's on my mind I throw on there. [00:32:00] And I am trying to actually I've, I got locked out of my TikTok account, so I've had to start fresh. So let me look up my new user handle, but I definitely need the followers. I believe that Nat Parker Romance Books
Laura Yamin: Awesome.
Natalie: new TikTok handle. really need the followers. And then
my website is just Natalie Parker romance.
Laura Yamin: Awesome. Well, thank you Lizzie, Natalie, and Christina
Lizzie Stanley: Thank you.
Laura Yamin: being on the show. Thank you.
Natalie: Thank you. Thank you so much for having us,
Christina Berry: you,
Natalie: for giving us this time, this platform.
Christina Berry: Mm-hmm.
Natalie: appreciate it.
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