Ep 421 - Avocados are Romantasy: How to Avoid Bad Book Marketing

Reading Glasses

Maximum Fun

Leisure, How To, Book, Books, Hobbies, Advice, Reading, Education, Author, Arts, Book Tech, Library, Audiobook, Writer

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory discuss problems with book marketing, plus they solve a book tech question about letting your friends borrow books, and recommend books about moms on adventures.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.
0:12.5	I'm author and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.
0:14.6	And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.
0:17.1	This episode, we're talking about problems with book marketing.
0:21.1	Y'all have been complaining about it, so we're going to get into it.
0:23.5	Plus, we still have a tech issue with letting your friends borrow books and recommend books about moms on adventures.
0:30.2	Moms deserve adventures.
0:31.4	They do.
0:31.9	But first, Brea, what are you reading?
0:33.0	I am reading a book that, do you know who Joe Firestone is?
0:37.2	The actor? Yeah, actor and comedian. She wrote a book that... Do you know who Joe Firestone is? The actor?
0:38.5	Yeah, actor and comedian.
0:40.7	She wrote a book.
0:42.2	Oh!
0:42.4	It's a fiction book called Murder on Sex Island.
0:45.7	What?
0:46.2	A Luella Van Horn mystery.
0:49.5	I can't call it a spoof because it is really good.
0:53.1	It's a really good mystery novel about a DeForsay social worker who in her spare time puts
0:59.5	on a blonde wig and fake teeth and pretends to be, or she doesn't pretend, she is a detective,
1:04.7	a PI.
1:05.0	Why does she need the fake teeth?
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