people she introduced me to is this this woman who eventually became my and really good friend, tina bennett. and as i quickly learned, when you an idea and you have somebody like tina really advocating for it the publishing, finding publisher is is is relatively easy and that's that's sort of what happened with me is that the hard part for me was getting into the agent publishing world and then once i was there, it wasn't hard to find the publisher sometimes the first time authors say, you know, this shouldn't be that hard to write a book. and then about halfway through they say, how i get out of this project. so were in that category. did you ever want to abandon it? yeah, i definitely didn't want to abandon it. if my wife is here, she can probably tell you how miserable i was about that 50% way through. through the writing process. yeah. i mean, for me, what was so tough is once i got about halfway through the book, you know, obviously it was to late to give up. i couldn't just stop writing it, but, you know, writing an additional 40, 50,000 words just seemed so imposing. and i realized t