Ep. 101: Jessica Morgan & Heather Cocks (aka the Fug Girls) on the Creative Process
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week, I got to sit down with Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks, the writers behind Go Fug Yourself and one of my favorite books The Royal We, for Raise Your Hand Say Yes.
In this episode, we go behind the scenes of what it's really like to run a super glam celebrity fashion website and write an amazing novel. (Hint: there's a lot of hard work involved. And diet cokes! And compression socks!) (Hint #2: Laughter helps a lot.)
You'll hear how Heather and Jessica have evolved their voices on Go Fug Yourself through the years, how they got The Royal We written collaboratively, what they learned from the earlier books they wrote, and their tips for anyone who's feeling shy about putting their work out into the world.
And, of course, we talk about Hamilton.
Heather and Jessica, thank you so much for making the time to share your stories!!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Raise Your Hand Say Yes with Tiffany Hahn, a podcast all about the creative adventures of extraordinary people. |
| 0:10.9 | To get information on today's episode and past episodes, visit Tiffanyhan.com slash podcast. |
| 0:17.2 | Now on to the show. |
| 0:21.1 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:22.2 | Welcome back to another week of Raise Your Hands Say Yes, episode number 101. |
| 0:29.2 | How does podcast get made one episode at a time? |
| 0:32.6 | Woohoo! |
| 0:33.7 | This week I am super duper excited to be talking with Heather Cox and Jessica Morgan of the |
| 0:39.2 | website GoFug Yourself, also known as the Fug Girls. Um, it is, go Fug Yourself is, uh, the only website |
| 0:48.2 | that I visit every day. Um, it is a website that has been in my life for a lot of years. |
| 0:56.9 | I would say probably since 2007. |
| 1:01.4 | A huge fan. |
| 1:03.0 | It makes me laugh every day. |
| 1:04.6 | It is a celebrity fashion site that is cheeky and funny. |
| 1:09.3 | And also, there are moments where it kind of speaks to my soul |
| 1:16.8 | and I feel like Heather and Jessica are always whenever I read what they write I'm like how are |
| 1:22.7 | they in my head or whenever I see somebody wearing something kind of ridiculous, I immediately then go to |
| 1:29.1 | go fug yourself to see if they've covered it. |
| 1:31.4 | A lot of times they have. |
| 1:33.0 | Heather and Jessica are also the authors of three different novels, the most recent of which |
| 1:38.4 | is the Royal Wee. |
| 1:40.1 | And if you are a fan of British monarchy, if you like following the adventures of Will and Kate, |
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