jessa hastings, author of the magnolia parks universe, doesn't follow the rules

So Into That

Caro Chambers

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

OMFG — Jessa freaking Hastings is on So Into That this week!!!!!

Jessa is the brilliant author of the Magnolia Parks book series, and whether or not you’ve read them, I know you’ll love getting to know her and hearing about her path to mega-book-fame.

I can’t stop thinking about the unwavering faith that Jessa had in herself that these books would someday be a success, despite so many people telling her no along the way. If you’ve ever wanted to put something out into the world but hit speed bumps along the way, I know her story will be as inspirational to you as it is to me.

Whether you’ve read Magnolia Parks or not, you’ll love getting to know Jessa and hearing her talk about “downloading” ideas out of thin air, blacking out while writing, what she reads and watches for inspiration, and navigating the wild world of “Bookstagram” and “BookTok” where everyone’s a critic.

Also – if you haven’t read the books; heed my spoiler alert about 15 minutes from the end!

We also get into:

* Where Jessa gets her ideas

* Trusting her instincts, self-publishing, and going viral

* The DMs she gets from her very invested fans

* Drawing on her personal experience with grief to write Magnolia’s book 5 experience

* Trying to get spoilers out of Jessa — “Will there be another wedding? Will someone die?!”

* The meaning of the last sentence of Book 5

* What Jessa’s so into (and out on) right now

Links:

* Jessa’s Instagram

* Buy the Magnolia Parks books here

* Pre-order my book here

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0:00.0	Hello, happy Wednesday. Welcome back to another episode of So into that the
0:06.9	podcast where we get to chat all about the things that we are really into right
0:11.4	now. This week's guest freaking rocks but we'll get into it in a minute
0:15.6	because what I first need to talk about with you guys is what a week it's been.
0:20.3	Last Wednesday I announced that my cookbook,
0:25.6	what to cook me, don't feel like cooking,
0:28.2	was available for pre-sale, and you guys showed the F up. I thought I know that presales are really important as an author. It's important
0:40.7	so that your publisher knows how many to order. It's important so that your publisher knows how many to order. It's important so that book accounts,
0:45.8	you know, Barnes and Noble can know like, you know, how much should we should we like host
0:51.3	Caroline for a book tour? like it's important for as you all know my
0:56.5	dream is to get on the today show on lunch day for this grew up with the today show
1:01.2	it's just what I want I'm dying to get on there share this book with the Today Show, it's just what I want, I'm dying to get on there, share this book with the world.
1:06.0	It's important so that I can go to them and be like, hey today's show, I know I've pitched myself seven times already but just want to let you know that
1:14.2	pre-sale is going really well. So it's important for so many reasons. I know that as
1:17.8	an author. I didn't know that you guys would know that. I don't even know if you guys do know that or if you just were like
1:25.0	Let's support this book and anyway we can
1:28.0	But you guys showed the F up it jumped I had podcast interviews all day last Wednesday when I announced this.
1:34.0	When I went into podcast interviews, it was like number 500 on the Amazon charts and my editor was like,
1:39.2	this is great news. Like all of Amazon, number 500. I was like sick 500 baby but him I got out of
1:46.9	my interviews at 4 p.m. It was like number 14 and she was like Caroline this is amazing and I was like whoa okay
1:54.8	amazing all of you guys were sending these screenshots of your pre-sale of your
1:59.2	orders and the nicest notes I was I mean I was amped by the time I got off my flight so I drove to LAX got off my flight in
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