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Good evening and welcome to the live author event. Iam from greenlight and we are thrilled to host tonights event with perri klass and the new book a good time to be born. And before we start i want to say a huge thanks to the team at norton for making this happen. And with the theaters are still here. We are grateful for your support and thank you for your connection. Now just a couple of housekeeping things you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you. And those at the bottom of your window. And youre welcome to post your comments in the chat. And then to interact with fellow attendees. Please post that on the module and with the q a. And we are recording tonights event and it will be on the channel later on. And then we encourage you to shop at the actual location new and through 7 00 oclock p. M. And many others onsite. And the green light bookstore. Com or for shipping anywhere in the us. If you care about supporting authors and independent bookstores tonights
Glaude, jr. Good evening and welcome to knights live online author event with greenlight bookstore. I am chelsea from green light and we are thrilled to host to knights event with perri klass presenting her new book a good time to be born how science and Public Health gave children a future. She will be talking with andrew solomon, so youre in for an excellent time. Before we start i just want to say a huge thanks to barry, andrew, and the team at norton for making this happen, and to all of you for showing up. So were not able to events in our store spaces, our community, authors and readers is still here. We are grateful for your support and for the chance to make the space for conversation and connection. Now just a couple of housekeeping things. In our zoom webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you. They can see you are here though and you can see an account of your fellow attendees at the top of your zune screen. Theres a couple of functions
And to all of you for showing up. So we are not able to host events in our store spaces, our community of authors and reader is still here. Were grateful for your support and for the chance to make this space for conversation and connection. In our webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you. They can see youre here, though and you can see a count of your fellow listeners at the top of your zoom screen. A couple of functions that well be using throughout the event you can find at the bottom of your zoom window. One is an icon labeled chat win one speech bubble. Youre welcome to post comments and thoughts in the chat. Thats great way to show your appreciation for the author and to enter act with fellow attendees. If you have a specific question youd like to have answered by the author, please post that in the q a module. You can fine it by clicking on the icon label q a that looks like two speech bubbles. Well be pulling questions only from the q a
For we start i just want to say a huge thanks to perri, andrew and the team at norton for making this happen and all of you for showing up. So were not able to host eventsin our store spaces , Community Authors and readers. Were thankful for your support andfor the chance to make the space for conversation and connection. Now just a couple of housekeeping things. In our dual webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers. They cannot see or hearyou. You can see a count of the top of yourscreen. Theres a couple of functions youll be using throughoutthe event. You can find at the bottom of your resume and down, theres an event labeled chat. Youre welcome to post your thoughts in the chat. Its a great way to show your appreciation for the author and interact with yourfellow attendees. If you have specific questions that cant be answered by the author please come to the q and a module and click on the icon labeled q and they that looks like two speech bubbles. Well be pulling questions