Representation for Every Black Woman with Alexandria House

As a devoted fan of Alexandria House's work, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to sit down with this captivating author and delve into the stories that have captivated readers. Alexandria's ability to weave complex narratives that explore the nuances of human emotion, from the most tender connections to the darkest desires, has made her one of my favorite authors. In this fund conversation, we unpack Alexandria's unexpected journey to literary success, the driving force behind her commitment to diverse representation, and the powerful themes that permeate her expansive catalog.

A true southern girl, 3x Audies finalist Alexandria House has an affinity for a good banana pudding, Neo Soul music, and tall Black men in suits. When this music-loving fashionista is not shopping, she's writing steamy stories about real Black love. Her books have been featured on Shondaland, BookRiot, Cosmopolitan, Ebony Mag, Oprah Daily, and many other online platforms.

In this episode, we're discussing:

• Alexandria's unexpected path to becoming a successful romance author, coming from an academic family
• The importance of writing exclusively Black romance and reflecting her own upbringing in a predominantly Black community
• The depth and complexity of Alexandria's characters, often dealing with trauma and real-life issues
• Powerful representation of mental health, albinism, and adoption in the "St. Louis Sires" series
• Alexandria's foray into dark romance with the "Three Kings" series and her plans to challenge herself in new genres

Alexandria's stories serve as a testament to the transformative power of representation, reminding us that love, in all its complexities, is a universal language that deserves to be heard.

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BOOKS/AUTHORS MENTIONED:

Love After (Amazon)

Them Boys (Amazon)

McClain Brothers (Amazon)

Romey University (Amazon)

St. Louis Sires (Amazon)

Three Kings (Amazon)

St. Louis Cyclones (Amazon)

The Strickland Sisters (Amazon)

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction - Alesia Welcomes Alexandria House
• 2:40 The Importance of Writing Exclusively Black Romance
• 7:27 Complexities in Alexandria House's Romance Novels
• 12:06 Mental Health Representation in the "St. Louis Sires" Series
• 14:45 Representation of Albinism and Adoption in the "St. Louis Sires" Series
• 19:58 Venturing into Dark Romance with the "Three Kings" Series
• 24:50 Future Projects and Genre Exploration
• 31:09 Closing Thoughts and Reader Appreciation

Transcript

Alesia Galati: 0:00

Alexandria house is a master of weaving captivating stories that explore the complexities of human emotions, from heartwarming connections to the darkest desires. Today, we're delving into her diverse works and discussing the power of representation within black romance. Listener, discretion is advised. This podcast contains mature content intended for adult audiences only. Alexandria house, I am so excited to have you on the podcast. I fangirled so hard when you said yes. So thank you so much for being on if you could just start by telling everyone a bit about your author journey. I would love to hear that. Yeah.

Alexandria House: 0:47

Well, first of all, thank you for inviting me. I'm glad to be here talking about my favorite subject. Me my writer journey. I don't know everybody's just unique, but writing wasn't a thing I ever thought I'd do for a living? I come from a very academic family, very I guess you could say realistic family. My father's a physician, has been for eons. My late mother was a teacher, Master's degree teacher, highly educated people, and I just figured I need to be a teacher or a doctor. That's just what I figured I'd do. Ended up because I ended up getting pregnant early, getting married early, getting divorced young. I ended up going to nursing school so I could take care of my children. But I was always someone that knew, although it was never presented to me, that the arts could be a career. I was someone that always knew that I'd never be happy working a regular job. I knew that from childhood that was not going to be happy. I couldn't imagine spending my life clocking in or just working shifts, and I always felt like I was supposed to leave some type of legacy. So my strongest subject was always English. I was always really good at writing anything, if it had to be written word. I get my point across better than if I was speaking. I was a natural poet growing up, and I was always an avid reader. My mother used to say I decided reading it too. I don't know how true that is, but that's what she told me. So one day, I just said I was unhappy in my career as a nurse, and it wasn't the patience, it was everything else that goes with it. And I just decided, after my oldest child was grown and going to college, I said, let me just see if I could write a book. And I just started writing. But when I started, like, 2016 is when I put my first book out. It was higher love the book one in the love after series, and people actually liked it. I was like, let me keep doing this. And it's kind of how it all happened,

Alesia Galati: 2:40

yeah. And it's definitely progressed since then. I mean, now you have events that are centered all around your books, like you are doing the thing. So I love it. I love it so much. You are my most read author in 2024 which is when we're recording this. I am obsessed with all of your books. Specifically today I want to talk about the Roma University series, McLean brothers series, St Louis sire series, them boys series, and then three kings, which is in progress. So getting into your stories and kind of the behind the scenes of it you write, I want to say exclusively black romance. Why is that important for you?

Alexandria House: 3:25

Because I'm black, and because I often tell this story. But I grew up in the South, in Arkansas, in the most populous with black people town in the state, so there's an HBCU in the hometown, the mayors were black. All of my doctors growing up were black. All of my teachers were black, mostly all of my teachers. So it's all I knew, and all I knew was black excellence. And it's just this is all I know too, right? Because that's how I grew up. And as a matter of fact, when I left my hometown and me and my youngest moved to a different town, still in Arkansas, this town, we were the minority. She had never experienced that in her life. She said, I didn't know what people meant when they said black people were minorities. I was like, What are y'all talking about? And she said, now I understand it, but that's how I feel. Like I had a very privileged upbringing in that and living in that type of world where the HBCU home come and shut the whole town down. It's just everything. It was, it was, it was a beautiful way to grow up. And my parents, my dad, wouldn't let me have anything with black baby dolls. I grew up with all these rich black music and Alex Haley's Roots was on the bookshelf. It's just how I grew up. So it's what I know, and those are the stories I know to tell

Alesia Galati: 4:42

that's so beautiful, and to be able to grow up that way, right? And see that as the majority, I'm sure, is so incredible. I grew up in a very mixed household, right? So my dad is black, my mom is Hispanic, and so it was a very like I would go with my black cousin. Cousins that would be very different than, like, hanging out with the Puerto Rican cousins that was very different, right? And so to be able to have, like, your full heritage surrounding you, I think, is so beautiful, and I do see that, right? Reflected a lot in your books. Now you also touch on some very important topics, right? I don't want to say they're deep topics or troubling topic, because they're not right, like, these are life experiences that I think a lot of us can reflect on, and I think that's what it's one of the things that I love so much about romance is that, you know, people who don't read romance are like, Oh, it's just smut, it's just porn, it's just listen, read an Alexandria house book and tell me that it's just porn, because it is not okay. Like, yes, the spice be spicy, but

Alexandria House: 5:52

be much easier to write at this right? No,

Alesia Galati: 5:55

your characters have so much depth and layers to them, complexities of childhood trauma or trauma that happens as they're adults. There's just so much around that. Now I want to talk specifically about them boys, because I did just finish the last one in that series as I was, like, going through all your other stuff. Just kind of dabble those in as I have time now for that series, you've got three men. They're in their 40s. I want to say, is that correct? Okay? And they have an absolute terrible father and a terrible childhood, and a lot of their coping mechanisms now have to do with how they grew up and when they find their love. It is not so much about, oh, this person is healing me, or I have to forgive my father. It's none of that. It's how can I be content where I am and who in who I am and have this one incredible partner alongside of me that brings me peace, which I think is is obviously what they were lacking when they were children. Brings me so much peace and happiness and contentment in who I am that I can move forward in my healing. And that doesn't have to be forgiving my terrible father. It could be just, I'm moving forward. I'm gonna say what I gotta say, and I'm gonna keep moving so why was that important to have a partner that comes alongside those, those guys, specifically with their trauma?

Alexandria House: 7:29

Because number one, one of the things is very important for me to always remember, is there's a reason why people are the way they are. Most people didn't just spawn forth me whatever they are. And so a little background on that series. The inspiration for those characters came from a family where, in my hometown, they were known for being bullies that could fight. Everybody was scared of them. So my brother, who's 10 years older than me, he was scared of their family. I was scared of their family when I went to school and my children were mind you, none of us have ever seen these people fight. They just had a reputation. And I wanted to take that and run with it for the Mitchell Brothers, because they had this reputation, come to find out, they had all this trauma behind them, and they were just they were very protective of each other. Nobody was going to mess with them, period. And they just came off as just these angry guys, troublemakers. And so I wanted to first give you a little understanding of why some people are the way they are. Second to show that you don't have to have it all together. You don't have to be perfect. Your Life doesn't have to have been perfect, past or present, to deserve love and to deserve acceptance and to be able to give love, because they were very loving toward their partners, and I think they gave just as much as they received from them. So that was kind of my, my goal with them. The second goal was I just wanted to write something completely different from the McLain brothers so, and I think I did that

Alesia Galati: 9:00

too. Yeah, I love that so much. I mean, yeah, it is very different than the McLean brothers, right? Those ones are more like family oriented, which the them brothers are as well. You know, they're successful, they're all these things. The other ones are kind of all over the place, and like, what they're doing, or how they're approaching life, how they cope also with their trauma is all very different. And I just I love it so much. Obviously, those

Alexandria House: 9:26

brothers really did love each other through it all. Even though their father might have had them pitting them against each other, they still had that bond. And I also want to show that's possible. There are people that come out of bad situation and they end up being good people. It doesn't necessarily have to be a tragedy in the

Alesia Galati: 9:42

end. Let's move on to the St Louis sires now that series. Oh, okay, so in book one, you've got the not even single father, because he's not it's him taking care of his younger sibling. Things who are not fully related to him, taking care of them, needing to figure some things out. This is a hockey series. For anyone who's not read it, please just go read it like you don't need any more explanation. Just go read it. But in that one, there's a lot of I want to give spoilers. There's some other woman drama, like previous woman drama that happens, and just the way that he stands up for their relationship, like, Hey, that was passed. This is now. This is where we're at. I just love that so much. Then in Book Two, you've got, oh my goodness, so much mental health awareness that I think is just so beautiful. Second Chance romance. Let's touch on that one for a second, because I feel like we could stay there for a bit. The female main character, and I can't for the life of me, cannot remember her name at the moment, Crystal. Crystal, yes. So crystal is bipolar? Is that correct? Yes. Which I absolutely love that representation, because my mom was manic depressive, and so to be able she got her diagnosis relatively later in life, and so to see that reflected on page, those really high highs, those are really low lows. Yeah, was just, I thought, so beautifully created. And also, again, romance is not just born guys like it can reflect the life experiences that you've seen in your life or that you have, and then having a partner who, you know, she pushes him away. It's not which I think is very different than a lot of the romance genre tends to be where it's like, oh, the guy's like, oh, I want to go do something else, or Oh, you're too much for me, or whatever, the guys make terrible choices. But in this one, she was like, I don't deserve you. You don't deserve me. Go away. And so pushes him away. He obviously has such a love for her, wants her back, cannot stop thinking about her and wants to be with her. Why was that story really important for you? I

Alexandria House: 12:07

did have a relative they passed on that was he's both bipolar and schizophrenic. And when, even when I was in nursing school, the mental health portion was, like my I was just so fascinated. It was, like, my favorite part of nursing school. And I just I know that there are people out there that are experiencing bipolar and similar neurodivergences, and it's just important to me to represent a black woman. Every black woman is my goal, every shade, every height, every size, the spectrum of black women, and I want all of us to know that we're worthy of love no matter what that is, something that she could have done nothing about. It's hereditary, you know. So she inherited it, and because she inherited it, and she was trying to figure it out, and they discovered it at the same time, and he went through the discovery with her, none of that means that she didn't deserve the support or the love or the acceptance that he gave her, because he loved her long before any of that started. He loved her as a child. So yeah, I wanted to represent that. I thought it was important, and I have had people contact me and thank me that were bipolar, so that really helped him to see that on the page and to see the support she received. And that really is my goal. I'm a girls girl, 100% I just, I just want even the sex part. I want women to black women to feel free in their sexuality, free in wanting satisfaction and receiving satisfaction and giving satisfaction. So I just wanted people to see that even before you understand what's going on with her. You may think, why would he keep dealing with her? I knew that was what everybody was gonna think. But he loved her, and true love, you want to try to figure it out. You don't just want to give up. And that's what I wanted to portray, yeah,

Alesia Galati: 14:00

and you see that in book one, whereas buddies are like, man, get over her stuff. Obviously she doesn't want you anymore. Oh, my God, but it's so true. And then when you're able to see that, especially in the beginning chapters, where you see them falling in love as children and just being like, I'll always be here for you. Oh, my goodness, I love it so much,

Alexandria House: 14:26

so beautiful. I'll enjoy writing that one too, and just sweet old country love story.

Alesia Galati: 14:32

And then in Book Three, you have a black woman who has a melanin deficient disorder. Is that correct? What was the correct terming for she

Alexandria House: 14:45

has, I'm about to call it the wrong thing, albinism.

Alesia Galati: 14:52

Okay? And then you've got a mailman character who was adopted, which is just a very interesting. Especially when you tie in the them brothers as well. Oh my goodness. I was like, Yeah, you get to see the kind of crossover. So read them brothers first, then get into the st louis ire series. But having those two, she was a very predominant rapper. He was fangirling really hard on her, which I thought was so adorable, and then like his buddies dogging on him, like, man, come on, you made fool to yourself. Yeah, I did. I definitely did. I love it. That's another representation, I think. And to your point of before, of being able to showcase every complexion, every color, every weight, every spectrum, mental health of black women is so powerful, right? Because someone who might see her might think, oh, no, you're not, or you're other. And I think that it's really important that we see the world outside of ourselves reflected in the pages that we read. I think that it can be used as a sense of like window, right? That's how they say. It's like a window or a mirror. The things that we read can be used that way. And so being able to see something that I don't think I'd ever heard of or ever seen, I was like, Wow, that's so interesting. And her experience and the way she described it and felt about it. What was the kind of decision behind that? Well,

Alexandria House: 16:26

I get inspired by a lot of things. In a Tiktok video I was scrolling through, and I was like, Oh, she's gorgeous, and yeah, she had the nystagmus, or eyes moved. And I was like, Huh, I'm a writer by the girl with albinism, and so, yeah, that's where I got that from. I just thought the girl I was watching on or the young lady I was watching on Tiktok, was so striking. I was like, whoa. But what I love about it is, although albinism runs the gamut of all ethnicities, you could tell by the her features that she was black. And I thought, Man, she still hair texture and everything. Just didn't have that melanin. I just thought it was fascinating. I have a science degree too, so I love anything scientific or genetic or whatever. And then I do have a birthmark where I have, I'm missing melanin on this. Oh, a lot of parties are part of my back too. I forget it's there, but I, you know, kind of identify a little bit. Everybody thinks I was burned, but now I was, this is a birthmark, or this, what my parents always called it, this kind of, where that kind of helped with the inspiration, too. Just knowing, you know, different doesn't mean gap normal, I guess is what I'm trying to say. We all our norm is our norm, you know. And then the adoption rep came from my trainer, and my very patient trainer, she was adopted, and she was telling me her story, and I said, Would you mind if I kind of use, you know, talked about she said, No, I don't mind at all. So I interviewed her instead of working out one time, and she gave me all this information, I was just really fascinated. There were so many things I didn't realize as an adoptee that you would go through, like the just knowing that someone's missing, or even the seeing that I went through and researched, like all these children, the babies, would have this look on their face that's common with them, because they know you've been inside someone for nine months, and you're used to that voice and that smell, and even as a baby, you realize this is not the person that carried me, that never occurred to me, but I learned a lot from her and from researching. I wanted to show that it's not that necessarily that child is ungrateful. It's just they know that there's a piece missing that they innately would like to find, yeah,

Alesia Galati: 18:44

I have a friend, and she's adopted, and she talks very openly about her experience and how, like, had a perfectly fine childhood, had loving parents, very German, but loving parents, and how, when she finally was like, All Right, I want to try to find my birth parents. Both of them had passed away. And so, like, was that a blessing or a curse? You know, what would that have looked like for her? And so she talks very openly about that as well, and just those feelings and those experiences of still having but still feeling like you're missing something and have wanted something kind of that grief, right? Of, yeah, of what could have been. And so to be able to reflect that, I think, is so beautiful in your story. Thank you. Moving on to three gigs, this, I think is very different than a lot of your books. But I love I'm, I'm a dark romance girly. So I love it so much. And like going in I do. Okay, this is a Alexandra house dark romance. All right, let's go tell us a bit about the backstory behind this series. I don't want to give away too many spoilers for book one. So how are you talking about i

Alexandria House: 19:58

just want to do something different. I. I want to challenge myself. I'm not saying anything else I write is just simple and easy, but this is much harder because it's not in my wheelhouse. And I'm the type of person who would get burned out and get very bored very quickly. I had every nursing job you could think of because I was just tired of doing the time, you know. And this is something I love, and I don't ever want to get burned out or tired of it, so I said, Let me the hockey series was a challenge too, because I knew nothing about hockey until I started working on the series. So I said, let me figure something else out. So I said, Okay, we'll try dark rubber bands. And, man, it's not easy. It's because it's just a whole different world. And I want it to feel like a different genre. I want you to feel like, okay, did something happen to her, because why did you

Alesia Galati: 20:42

who hurt you?

Alexandria House: 20:45

And I always had to warn people, don't give up. I'm going somewhere. It's gonna look real strange at first, but just keep going. I've had so much it's been hard, but it's so much fun. It is so much fun writing these unhinged, morally corrupt people, really, I don't have to worry about him being good. Oh, man. Ray was so much fun to write. He was so much fun. He is so unhinged. He is just out of his mind. And I had just as much fun writing this. Memphis is the second, the oldest sister's story, the second book. I had so much fun. I mean, it was torture doing, but I had fun with it. And then my favorite part is always, once I finished going back and reading through it, and seeing what, you know, seeing it all come together, and I'm like, Oh, I might have done a little something with this one. No, I think that's it's with the editor. Now, the beta readers have read it all, but one is reported back. They love it. Everybody understood everything. That's my biggest worry, especially this book, is because I write shorter books, and I try to pack so much into them, and there's so much going on in this book, I was worried that something would get lost in translation. But everybody's saying they loved it. I love the series. Oh, I'm enjoying it. It's just to me, it's like a edgy, prime time soap operas.

Alesia Galati: 22:15

It definitely gives that for sure. It feels that way. I love that. And so to give people a little bit of an idea of book one, right? Because we don't want to give too many spoils for two, which will be out by the time this airs, and then look out for Book Three. But to start us off with book one, we have a older woman who left her man because she was like, Look, you're not going to commit. You said you were going to commit. This is going on too long. I'm not here for it anymore. Of course, he goes running tail back. Oh, please keep me, I promise, bro, step off. And then you've got this younger guy, which I want to say, this is one of the only books that you have that there's such an age gap between older women younger man. Is that correct? Yeah,

Alexandria House: 23:06

this is probably the biggest gap. But you know, Leland McLean had a little gap too. Yeah, I have a couple, because it's just my favorite thing to write, because I want to be a cougar. But y'all heard it here, my son is starting to kill any cub that comes toward me, so I can't do but yeah, it that probably is the biggest Well, the ladies, though, is, but yeah, he's they have an interesting pairing. Yeah, I guess this wouldn't be a spoiler. I don't think because it happened so early in the book. But she witnesses, him doing something illegal. It's a crime. And then after that, he kind of just starts popping up, because he sees her, see him, and he starts popping up. And it's it's a ride. It's definitely a ride. It's interesting. I always encourage everybody just stick with it, y'all, because I promise you, it's gonna go somewhere, and when you get there, you're gonna be like, Okay, I see what she was doing. Yes. And

Alesia Galati: 24:08

I feel like, if you're a dark romance reader, you're gonna love it, like I went into it thinking, Okay, this is a dark romance cool. I'm here for it. I am along for the absolutely demented ride that this is probably going to be, and it is okay to me, I loved it.

Alexandria House: 24:27

You're gonna love book too, too, you. Because, I mean, neither one of them is hinged. Yeah, Memphis is some kind of mean. So you should enjoy that.

Alesia Galati: 24:42

I cannot wait. It's gonna be so good. What is next, and maybe a different genre? What are you feeling? What are you thinking?

Alexandria House: 24:51

What I've got going? Next will be a Motorcycle Club series. All the characters are over 50, and they're gonna be, you know, I. Nasty so and and incidentally, Memphis is like 47 her man's like 54 they're not missing any sexy times, because it's an erotic, dark, robust, yeah, you know, I'm old. I'm tired of trying to keep up with the slang, so I said I'm gonna make everybody be over 50 and they could talk like me, but I don't have to research anything. Yeah, I'm excited about having some silver foxes. Of course, it's not a, it's a, you know, morally and one percenter motorcycle clubs, you know, be some stuff going on. Yeah, I'm super excited about that, because I've been wanting to do that for a while, so that I've planned to try to do that series next year, hopefully the whole series. Of course, I have to finish three kings first, and then the year after that, I'm actually gonna do a lesbian series, the sapphic series. So hoping that somebody will read,

Alesia Galati: 25:53

oh my god yes, I already know like 50 people that are like, hell yeah to sapphic romance, yes, because

Alexandria House: 26:02

I'm very serious about representing all black women. When I say it, I mean it. So I want to end some people have asked me, Would I do that? And I said, Let me think about it. So yeah, I can do that. And I would love to do it. So I'm gonna do that. I already got the name and everything. The motorcycle series is sons of Shango. The sapphic series is loves Equinox. And what I would like to do is sit it's gonna be three books, because that's my limit. Now, after the complain brothers, I've never do that to myself. Loves Equinox. I want to set each book in a different era, like maybe one in the 60s, one the 70s, 180s that's what I want to do. I'm not saying that's what's gonna happen, but that's what I would like to do with that. And as always with me, I want to try to try to think outside the box. I don't want it to read like anybody else's Savic romance. I see if I could put it off. I mean,

Alesia Galati: 26:46

I'm sure you can. I'm sure it's gonna be incredible. I am like, yeah, I already know a bunch of people that are gonna be all over that, and are, I'm sure, more than happy to promote it. I know I am, for sure that is and I love that you're doing that. I love that you're showing that across the spectrum in different genres today,

Alexandria House: 27:08

because that'll be 2026, and then only thing in between all of that is I'm supposed to be doing another Romeo book. So we'll see if I can make all that happen.

Alesia Galati: 27:21

Wow, this has been so much fun. Thank you so much, Alexandria, for talking through all of your incredible stories, the inspiration behind them. What is something that you want to, kind of leave your potential readers with? Where should they start if they're wanting to delve into your world, okay?

Alexandria House: 27:42

Well, there are a couple of places you can start. You can start at the very beginning with the love after series. The first book will be higher love. And because everything's so interconnected, you will probably get the most joy. I was doing it that way, because you'll notice people, oh yeah, I remember him here and her there. But what I call my crack is Big South. Let me love you. Yeah. So I'm almost tell you now, if you really want to get hooked, go to Big South, because it's not like you can't go back and read this stuff. It's not that you want to understand it. You'll still understand it. But I would say I would highly recommend Big South first and go through the McLean series. The next series, if you want to continue some McLean adjacent will probably be teach me, you know, Romy, you go back to Strickland sisters love after. But on my website, which is ms, alexhousehouse.com ms, alexhousehouse.com there is a comprehensive book list and where you can check off what you've read and all that stuff. And there also is a book or a reading order list that you can follow if you want to. So I guess Visit my website is connected to everything me, please check out my house party event. Tickets are for sale. VIP is sold out, but everything else is available. It's going to be a time for the grown folks, it's a three day event, and I will have guest office there for the literary portion. We have open bar weekend. We feed you all weekend. You get swag bags. Just about every event, you get a swag bag. And let me just have a good time. It's my gift to my readers that, I mean, you do have to pay to pay to go, because I got to pay, you know, to do it, but it is my gift to my readers. I just wanted them to be able to come and just have fun. There's no assignment. There's nothing you have to do to have fun. Just show up and have fun and experience things maybe you haven't experienced. Sometimes we do facials, massages, erotic painting, sip we also may or may not have some naked penises the after party. Historically, we've always had those when it comes crikey, we're gonna try to keep that going. We had a wonderful brunch on Sunday. We have a live band. It's very over the top, because I am. It's. So I encourage everybody to get your tickets, but they usually run out pretty fast, and it's different from any literary event you could even imagine going to. And I wanted it to be a different experience. I like to party, and I just wanted to throw a party, so we have that. But like I said, you can go to my website and really find all the information about the house party, anything else. There's a link to buy signed paperbacks, and that's it. You can keep up with me that way. I'm on social media, posting foolishness most of the time, or sexy man Thirsty

Alesia Galati: 30:31

Thursday is my favorite. Just saying,

Alexandria House: 30:35

No, I try to keep engagement up. Yeah, the main thing I want to say to eat and you and all of my readers, I deeply appreciate you. I'm so glad that you connect with what I do, that you enjoy it. I so appreciate the support. Thank you for keeping my lights on. I'm just so great. I really love you all. So grateful. This was my dream. This is my dream job, and I get to do it, I'm beyond grateful. Honestly. I just thank you, and as long as I can write it, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I hope you all keep reading, yes,

Alesia Galati: 31:09

and we'll make sure that we have links for all of that in the show notes. So if anybody is doing other things while they're listening or watching us, we got you just go check out those links. We'll have them all there for each of the things that Alexandria mentioned. And also, if you are on Audible, I know that Alexandra has quite a few of her books included in the audible subscription for free, so please go check that. I know that's one of the ways that I was able to fly through your book. Also, Jacoby Diem, can we just have a moment of silence for his incredibly beautiful voice?

Alexandria House: 31:41

Oh, he's so beautiful. Makes it hard for me to listen to him. I'm like, Oh, am I way about what I wrote? Should I be tingling?

Unknown: 31:52

Sweet, sir. But

Alexandria House: 31:54

you know, let's go back and hear that again. So yeah, and if you're into audio, I do have some that exclusively on at my store. They're shorts and that long. They're very good, though, couple of them have full cast. Wesley Siobhan produce all of them, and so she appears in, I think, almost all of them. So if you want something short and nasty, check out alexhouse shop.com. I got you

Alesia Galati: 32:20

Yes, I think I got your holiday one recently. And yes, so good. So definitely

Alexandria House: 32:27

four seven, that's the latest one. Yes,

Alesia Galati: 32:32

so good. Oh, thank you so much. Alexandria, that's been so much fun. Thank

Alexandria House: 32:36

you for having me. I appreciate you. Wow.