Ep. 465: Help! We Need Book Therapy!

Happier in Hollywood

Lemonada Media

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Liz and Sarah talk to their thriller writing mentor and book therapist, best-selling author Greer Hendricks, about how to approach tense and point of view in their work-in-progress novel, Bad Trip. Their biggest takeaway? There’s no one right answer. This week’s Hollywood Hack will help with those high gas prices: the Gas Buddy app. Plus, Liz had a major celebrity sighting at the iconic Mexican restaurant Casa Vega — rock star John Mellencamp. Finally, Liz recommends the Oscar-winning short film, The Singers, on Netflix. Sign up for Liz & Sarah’s free weekly Substack newsletter at https://happierinhollywoodpod.substack.com. It’ll come right to your inbox! Sign up for Sarah’s free weekly Substack newsletter Chickening Out at https://happierinhollywood.substack.com. It’ll come right to your inbox! Get in touch on Instagram: @Sfain & @LizCraft Get in touch on Threads: @Sfain & @LizCra Visit our website: https://happierinhollywood.com Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/HappierinHollywood/ Happier in Hollywood is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! LINKS: Greer Hendricks: https://greerhendricks.com/ An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen: https://amzn.to/3PTPop8 Greer’s Substack — Sincerely, Greer: https://substack.com/@sincerelygreer?utm_source=top-search Gas Buddy: https://www.gasbuddy.com John Mellencamp’s Pink Houses video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfkpu6749w The Singers trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHkfy0GIwTE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Liz, what if the lifestyle you built online suddenly became a nightmare you couldn't escape?
0:07.0	That is the premise of yesteryear, the darkly funny gripping debut novel from Caro Claire Burke.
0:14.4	It follows Natalie, a picture-perfect tradwife influencer with millions of followers until one day she wakes up in 1855 and realizes
0:24.2	the reality of that life is nothing like the fantasy she's been selling. And from there, it
0:30.1	becomes this intense, twisty, turny story where her only goal is to escape by any means necessary.
0:38.1	Carol Claire Burke is also the co-host of the podcast Diabolical Lies,
0:42.4	and she built a huge following on TikTok talking about feminism and media literacy,
0:47.0	especially around the whole Tradwife conversation.
0:50.3	The book digs into big themes, motherhood, womanhood, religion, social media, and how performative
0:56.5	values can spiral into something much darker. Yesterday is available now in print, audio, and
1:02.5	e-book. Go check it out wherever you get your books. Liz, I had my door open this morning and, you know,
1:08.7	Bunny, my chicken, who likes to come in for a morning visit.
1:13.1	She saw that there was a dog on the bed in her spot.
1:17.3	So she, like, walked up the dog stairs, let it go to the bed, looked at the dog, kind of looked at me with disgust.
1:27.2	Went back down and left the room.
1:29.7	Oh my gosh.
1:30.8	Okay, next time something like that starts happening, please take a video.
1:37.6	Hi, and welcome to happier in Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,
1:46.0	saner, more creative, more successful, and more productive, and a backbiting, superficial,
1:51.0	chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.
1:55.0	I'm Liz Craft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and with me is my high school friend
2:00.0	and writing partner Sarah. On this podcast, we talk about being writers in L.A. And with me is my high school friend and writing partner, Sarah.
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