BONUS: Sarra Manning on Unsticky
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re talking to YA hero and sex writing genius Sarra Manning about her 2009 adult debut Unsticky. We talk about everything from life in the magazine world, to orgasms, to the importance of happy endings in chick-lit novels. Don’t forget to listen to our main episode about the book with Jeanne Sutton
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hi and welcome to the bonus episode of Sentimental Garbage. |
| 0:31.0 | Here I'm talking to the author of Unsticky, Sour Manning, about sex scenes, |
| 0:35.0 | mills and boom, the publishing industry, and why still the most creative professions are the hardest |
| 0:39.8 | to get into. |
| 0:40.8 | Alright, I'm going to get... into. |
| 0:45.0 | All right, I'm going to get started properly. Okay, then. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello, ceremony, thank you so much for having me in your living room. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh, thank you for coming all the way to Roswell Hill. |
| 0:51.0 | It's quite the trek in the icy January winds. |
| 0:55.0 | I'd like to hear a little bit about your experience with writing this book, |
| 0:59.0 | what brought it about, what that time in your life was. |
| 1:01.0 | Because a little while ago now. |
| 1:03.1 | Yes. |
| 1:04.6 | I think it was around 2006, 2007. |
| 1:09.5 | So I've been writing teen books, as we called them then then now known as YA for ages and I've just |
| 1:16.4 | done it in a kind of really haphazard fashion I was working full-time I |
| 1:20.9 | didn't have an agent and so it was kind of I got made redundant and I |
| 1:26.1 | was sort of doing shifts and things really wanted to write an adult book and I got an |
| 1:30.7 | agent it was like this is time to get your shit together so I got an agent it was like this is time to get your shit together. |
| 1:34.0 | So I got an agent with the view that I was going to sort of like write adult books. |
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