It was written during the pandemic and detailed stories of individuals who faced challenges and found ways to bring positivity and help others, serving as a source of comfort for the author.
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I started writing this book...it's the Dean's List...Fox News Radio came to me many years ago and said, we need some...content for Fox News Radio in between commercials, between shows...something that's about a minute long. Do you have any ideas for us? And I'm a radio gal. I started out in radio. And I just thought, oh, the Dean's List, a minute long, good news story that I did on Fox News Radio.
And when my editor, Eric Nelson from HarperCollins came to me after Mostly Sunny...he said, do you have another book? You know, what do you think? And I told him about the Dean's List. I said, you know, I only get a minute to talk about these good news stories, but I know that there's way more to dig into when it comes to some of these amazing people that I'm featuring.
And he said, great. It sounds like a chicken soup for the soul type of book. Remember that book a few years ago? Gosh, it must be 10 or 15 years ago. Yeah. And it was a huge success.
And so I started writing it before the pandemic and then the pandemic happened and I was writing most of it during the pandemic...it got me through the darkest moments of the pandemic. It was a book I feel that was meant to be written not only for people to read about these wonderful individuals, but for my own sanity, for my own self-care.
It's, it's a book about kindness and...and shedding light on these wonderful people that really...they are the epitome of humanity.