Book Talk w/ JESSA HASTINGS

I'll Read What She's Reading

Arts, Books

4.4 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Jessa Hastings is one of the girls’ favorite authors, and for good reason—her writing is unlike anything they’ve ever read. In this episode, they sit down with the Magnolia Parks and Never author to talk about the magic she weaves into every story, the characters that feel like real people, and the emotions that linger long after the final page. With her newest book releasing on April 1st, Jessa shares insights into her writing process, the themes that drive her stories, and what readers can ...

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. Welcome back to All Read with She's Reading. I'm Reggie. I'm Michaela and I'm Kennedy.
0:14.4	And we have a very special guest with us today, someone who we are so excited to be interviewing.
0:19.3	We've been peeing her pants. You've been hearing
0:22.5	us yap about her books from the second we pick them up. Welcome, Jessa Hastings. Yay. Thank you so much
0:29.8	for having me. We're so excited to have you. It truly is an honor. I know we said that before we started
0:34.8	the call, but we just feel so special that we get to sit and chat with you. And it feels surreal to, you know, be eating up all your words that we've been reading for so long and then get to see you. So thanks for being here.
0:48.6	That's true. Thanks for having me. I'm glad to be here. We made a list of authors that we want, like dream authors we wanted to have on the podcast and you were one of the top authors. We never truly thought we didn't think we'd be able to get you on our podcast, but here we are. Yeah. We're so excited. Here we are. Oh, my gosh. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. Oh, we're glad. We're in Utah. Utah. Yep. Yeah.
1:13.1	, cold here. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty warm right now, but it's usually the winters are brutal.
1:19.2	It's starting to melt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty bipolar weather. It's been cold in Nashville, but it's, it's spring.
1:26.6	Yeah. Lucky. That's so fun. It sounds like a dream it's spring. Yeah. Lucky.
1:28.1	That's so fun.
1:28.8	It sounds like a dream.
1:29.1	Beautiful day.
1:29.9	Yeah.
1:30.6	Well, to kind of start us off, tell all of our listeners a little bit about you and your story and how you became an author.
1:40.0	Yeah.
1:40.6	I mean, I think I have a fairly unconventional story.
1:45.4	I'd always wanted to be a writer and was the kind of kid that would like read a book
1:55.2	and didn't like the ending.
1:56.6	So we'd like rewrite the ending, which I now realize is just fan fiction, but I didn't know that
2:01.6	at the time. I felt like I was so ahead of the curve. I wrote an iteration of Magnolia Parks
2:13.0	like in 2016, I want to say, like it was very much a response to like I had a baby and she just
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