Mm-hmm.

There was no...

I had the plot in my head, and so I just started writing.

There was no, um... 'Cause I'm very type A, and normally before I do anything I like to have, like, a plan.

I like to have, like, a kind of skeleton script.

I, I pre-write everything.

But with this one, I just started writing and writing and writing and writing.

Mm-hmm

I'm the author of A Boy to Feed the Gods and Spirit Warriors, and the book I'd like to add to your summer reading pile is Smalley by Eden Mackenzie-Gillard.

Mackenzie-Gillard.Hello, I am Steph Yeboah, author of Doing It for the Plot and Chaotic Energy, and the book I'd like to add to your summer reading pile is I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder.

Your journey started off around, would you say, plus size women?

Yes.

Yeah.

So I, growing up, I was always quite big and I had a lot of insecurities about being plus size.

And when I was a teenager, I went on every single diet you could think of.

Atkins, Cambridge, the fastest, just every single one.

And I developed such a self-hatred for my body.

But what I would want to ask you as well is like, what would you say to anyone about putting their stamp on to, you know, redirect the negative narratives or certain stereotypes that is put on us?