Ep. 281 The Characters Came Quickly with Jennifer Baker
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Podcaster and author Jennifer Baker discusses her YA novel Forgive Me Not, how she created its alternate juvenile justice system and what she wanted to teach young people about incarceration and grief. Plus, we hear about how Jennifer and her editor worked together to edit the book, the many ways in which publishing has changed and stayed the same, and who decides who the villain is.
The Stacks Book Club selection for August is You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. We will discuss the book on August 30th with Sam Sanders.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know what sucks really bad? |
| 0:02.3 | Missing out on tickets to the biggest tour of the year. |
| 0:06.8 | Not Taylor Swift, not Beyonce, but the live in the stacks tour. |
| 0:13.3 | We have only three stops left, so you need to grab your tickets now before you have major |
| 0:20.1 | FOMO for the rest of your life. |
| 0:22.7 | I will be in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on Sunday, September 24th. |
| 0:28.0 | I will be in New York City with KSA layman on Monday, September 25th, and you can find |
| 0:32.9 | me for the last stop of the tour on Wednesday, October 18th, with a few special guests which |
| 0:39.3 | we will announce real, real soon. |
| 0:42.2 | I promise you a night of big laps, hot takes, and more bookish conversation than you could |
| 0:47.6 | possibly imagine. |
| 0:49.8 | Tickets are selling fast, so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour and get them before they're gone. |
| 0:57.5 | And I can't wait to see you live in the stacks. |
| 1:10.3 | Welcome to the Stats, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 1:13.3 | I'm your host Tracey Thomas, and today we are joined by Jennifer Baker. |
| 1:17.4 | She is an author, editor, and podcaster who has a brand new, young adult novel out called |
| 1:22.2 | Forgive Me Not. |
| 1:23.6 | The intense and captivating book shines a light on the lives of incarcerated black and |
| 1:27.7 | brown teen girls. |
| 1:29.3 | It tells the story of a family torn apart by tragedy and loss in their attempt to reconnect |
| 1:33.6 | as they test the limits of forgiveness. |
| 1:36.6 | Jennifer and I talk today about the world she created for her characters, how hope plays |
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