so and roxanna, he did a very good job of coach ready. practice for fresh air being able to talk about your book that's really sense. i could ask all of you so many more questions about the content of your books about the process of writing them, but i want to give our audience a chance to ask questions. so there's a microphone right there in the middle if anyone has questions for our for authors, please feel free. we've exhausted you. and our our zoom audience can also send in questions, right? so any questions that come in that way? hi, thank you and congratulations all of you. and thank you pamela. this has been a great conversation. i had a question about navigating your publishing deal. any advice you would have for someone who? was interested in having one or lessons learned in terms of as you get one getting an agent for any of our students who might be interested in possibly writing a book. just a few bits of advice on that would be great. thank you. maybe the more recent dealmakers should speak first. i don't know. i'm gonna go r

and so i spoke to a woman, her name is roxanna actor who p. and she told me what she went through when she decided to get divorced. so even on this debt, i started from minus. i did everything in an honest way, i could sell my body and on money easily in the society. i was beautiful. don't you offer is where coming from iraq. i fear my almighty and i have rid of bars from i'll grant that if you think that your almighty creator is enough for you, it is enough for it. that was my strength. based on that, i just went out of whole and managed my leave it when i started arming, i started leaving on my own. my situation was getting improved and then everybody came around. now everybody likes me. that's the, that's the harsh reality. money matters. i think she said it right there. money matters, but beyond money, it is the strength to process and resist and decide to live with this very real stigma that divorced women must carry in south asia and countries like bangladesh. and she told me though, that she has fought those prejudices and it is her fai

also in the countries to nothing really has changed on the ground yet was rely journalists, roxanna, whizzy. thank you so much. on the time in germany, lawmakers have new concerns about energy being used as a weapon. the biggest pipelines supplying russian natural gas to the country, closed for 10 days of annual maintenance work authorities in germany and across europe. for that moscow may keep the taps off to punish the west for its support of ukraine. leaders are now warning industries and households to prepare for gas shortages. gas has stopped flowing through the node stream one pipeline. it's meant to be temporary, but german authorities are worried when moscow will turn the taps back on in the m shims to fire. in the worst case scenario, if there really is no gas coming in from russia, a few parameters are crucial is and how fast we are with the liquefied natural gas terminals. the government is procuring how much gas we can save ourselves. there are several scenarios where we would end up in a gas emergency. we must do everything possible now to avoid that tom van duster for m

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. >> and what roxanna said. i was going to say the most important thing is getting a good agent but that feels a bit like atautology . obviously you need an agent, you need to do the work. there's patrick. but yeah. writing a few pieces just to see if you even like it is i think a good thing to do just to test it out. i think just having conviction that it's a good story and in some ways fails like external validation of having an agent. that stuff doesn't matter as much i think when you're younger, that stuff is really important and it does help you obviously but if it's really good someone's going to buy it. so just trusting the process and knowing that it's going to come together i think that feels important.>> i would add i don't think the book is something youback into . it's something that you must write. that's what makes it the right project and having a great agent i am so blessed to have tina bennett is not rsjust about having a brilliant businessperson to help kind coof get you the best deal. it's abo