Heart the Lover Book Club

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

We can't wait to discuss our October Book Club Pick, Heart The Lover by Lily King! We're talking about Lily King's favorite shape (the triangle!), the surprising crossover with Writers & Lovers, crying on airplanes, male friendship, and so much more.

Obsessions

Becca - The Diplomat Season Three

Olivia - Twinless

What we read this week

Olivia - Heart The Lover by Lily King, The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

Becca - Ready or Not by Cara Bastone, Kiss of the Baselisk by Lindsay Straub

This Month's Book Club Pick - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (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 and welcome to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor. And I'm Becca Freeman.
0:22.9	And today is our October Book Club episode, and we are going to be discussing Heart the Lover by Lily King.
0:29.2	I'm so excited to talk to you about this. We haven't talked offline, so I don't know what you thought of it.
0:35.3	So we're getting all the reactions live. But before we get to that,
0:39.3	this episode is sponsored by McMillan and the new memoir from Allison Stoner called semi-well-adjusted
0:45.0	despite literally everything. Everyone here knows I love a good celebrity memoir. And though this
0:51.0	wasn't initially on my radar, it was an instant New York Times and USA Today
0:55.5	bestseller and the reviews are excellent. Stay tuned because we'll be telling you more about
1:00.1	this juicy tell-all memoir later in the episode. Well, let's start with some highs and lows. Tell
1:05.4	me your high. My high is that the sales and marketing wheels are starting to move for book two. I submitted my
1:15.0	author questionnaire, which is this very long, probably 15 page questionnaire, all about my
1:22.6	background, all about the book, any inspiration. You have to put in kind of any connection that you have
1:29.6	that might be usable for marketing. So I filled that out a couple of weeks ago. The cover got
1:34.8	briefed earlier this month. I heard that the book got launched to the sales team. So it's starting
1:41.4	to feel very real in a very exciting way.
1:45.6	It's very exciting.
1:48.4	I feel like this is one of my favorite parts of the book process when everything feels possible and exciting.
1:52.4	And yeah, such good news.
1:55.0	Yeah, I think it's going to come out next fall.
1:57.4	So we both have 2026 books. Hopefully it's going to be a good year for us both. I hope so.
2:05.2	Fingers crossed. I hope so. What's your high? I got new pillows for my couches, which I'm excited
2:11.5	about because I've been searching for the right ones for a while. The couches are specific. They are
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