Right. Like I’m enraged and terrified for the people featured in the book but I’ve also never been so grateful to have a job, to be able to pay rent with ease, to have family that can pay rent and who I can depend on. Things were rough for my mom when I was growing up but I don’t think I realized how close we were to having this book become our reality. We moved states to stay with my grandparents and I’ve never been more grateful that we were able to do that.

Stacey Abrams is most well-known for almost becoming the governor Georgia in 2018 and then working her ass off to fight voter suppression in 2020, which a lot of people credit with Biden winning the state in 2020.

But she also wrote Harlequin romance novels under a pen name since law school.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has co-written three novels about Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock’s older brother.) Apparently he was a Sherlock Holmes fan as a kid.

He’s also written a bunch of nonfiction and was one of the writers in the Veronica Mars revival.