Debut Author Spotlight

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This week, we talked to four debut authors with books that came out in 2024 or are coming out in 2025 about their paths to publication! Get ready to load up your TBR and hear their advice for writers and recent favorite books.

We chatted with

Marian Schembari, author of A Little Less Broken

Amanda Eisenberg, author of People Are Talking

Lauren Evans, author of Casket Case

Courtney Preiss, author of Welcome Home, Caroline Kline

Obsessions

Olivia - Puzzles

Becca - McIntosh apples

What we read this week

Becca - Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley (out 2/24)

Olivia - Babel by RF Kuang, We Used To Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor.
0:23.1	And today, we are talking to some debut novelists about their books that came out in 2024. And I think we have one that comes out in 2025 and what their books are about and what their experience has been like. And if they have writing advice. So I think whether you're a reader or a writer, you will enjoy this one.
0:42.7	Yeah, it's a fun one.
0:44.6	Olivia. Should we start with the low? Yeah. Yeah, let's start with that. Go for it.
0:51.7	My low is the presidential election.
0:55.0	Seconded. And the fact that we have as a nation elected a convicted felon and someone who tried to overturn
1:04.7	the results of the last election.
1:07.2	And I could go on as president once again.
1:11.0	In this exact moment, I have a lot of anger.
1:13.8	I feel like I've been through multiple stages of grief.
1:18.0	I am mad about a lot of things, but I cannot believe we have normalized this.
1:24.2	It baffles my mind.
1:26.5	I was talking to Becca about this before, but I had people in my
1:30.2	DM saying things like, not all Trump voters are bad people. There's just bad eggs. And, you know,
1:36.1	I was like, the bad egg is the person you have elected. Like, the leader of the whole thing is a bad
1:42.6	person. Like, I don't know how we have lost the plot so entirely anyway.
1:49.7	I don't know.
1:50.5	It sucks.
1:51.7	It sucks.
1:53.0	It sucks.
1:53.7	And I'd said this on a previous podcast episode, but I had really let myself hope and believe that it would not be this way.
2:02.2	And I don't regret that.
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