Little One Book Club

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

🚨 Spoilers ahead! 🚨 We're so pumped to dive deep into Olivia's novel, Little One! Becca asks Olivia all about the book, including the seed of the idea, how real world cults (and other cult novels!) influenced the book, how the book evolved across crafts, her thoughts on her main character's likability, how she perceives the ending, and So! Much! More!

Listen to Little One's companion podcast Little Pod for more on Olivia's writing process!

Obsession

Becca - Exploring her new neighborhood

Olivia - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

What we read this week

Olivia - The Death of Us by Abigail Dean, Helpless by Jessica Knoll (July 7)

Becca - Family Drama by Rebecca Fallon

March's Book Club Pick - So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder

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.
0:23.6	And today is our February Book Club episode, and we are going to be discussing Little One by Yours Truly.
0:30.7	Olivia, I can't tell you how excited I've been for this episode to be able to talk about spoilers. Because there were so many things I wanted to ask you
0:41.3	when we did our event together at the Strand, but I obviously couldn't because it was, you know,
0:46.7	an inclusive event for people who had not read the book yet. But now this is book club. We can talk
0:53.0	about everything. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.
0:56.8	I hope I give everyone the answers that they're looking for, or at least answers.
1:01.3	Well, before we get into that, tell me what your high is. My high is that I am so deeply happy to be home.
1:08.4	I'm so happy to be back in the routine, back in my own bed,
1:12.4	back in my office, back listening to my music, like, just back to my writing, back to silence.
1:20.6	Like, it feels so nice to just be back. And yeah, as great as Torres, I like love this just as much. And so I'm really
1:30.1	glad for the balance. And it's just been great to just sleep a lot and relax. Oh, I'm so happy for
1:37.5	you. Have you taken that day we discussed on last week's three things, your solo restorative day?
1:43.9	No. I kind of have plans to do it today, but I have some work to do.
1:49.2	I've basically just been working normal days, but they've felt so leisurely compared to the
1:54.2	month leading up to pub where it's like, oh, I have a to-do list and I will get everything
1:59.0	done and be cooking dinner by 5.30. That is great. But I will at some point. I've been getting in bed really early and sleeping in a bit. So it has felt restorative even if it hasn't been like time off. Oh, good. You do deserve that day. I think you deserve a couple of them.
2:15.5	Thank you. Thank you. I'll get there. Tell me about your
2:18.4	high. I went to the coolest book event this week. A few weeks ago, I got an email from somebody and it said
2:27.4	invitation from Jenna Bush Hager. And my immediate instinct was that this was one of those phishing scams that they always
2:36.9	mourn authors about. You know, I was like, what do you mean? I did get an email from Sally Rooney
2:42.6	this morning telling me how much she loved little one. Not real. Just let you know. Anyway,
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