Minisode: An Interview with "Unscripted" Author Claire Handscombe
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Today's minisode give you the opportunity to "meet" Claire Handscombe, the author of newly-released "Unscripted". It's a perfect read for your beach vacation!
In this "minisode", Claire and I discuss what fangirling to the max truly is, we talk a bit about the publishing industry, cast her book, and talk about what the process is like for an author to get published for the first time.
And, as always, we'll end with a book she wants to press into your hands, readers!
Minisode shownotes are not timestamped, but linked titles are below for you to peruse.
Unscripted by Claire Handscombe
Love, Factually (UK) or Love Understood (US) by Laura Mucha
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Come To The Edge by Christina Haag
The Editor by Steven Rowley
Claire's website (with links to all her social media!)
Transcript
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| 0:15.9 | Hi readers this is another fun minisode of the currently reading podcast. I'm Katie Cobb and I'm here today with Claire Hansko who is celebrating the release |
| 0:20.0 | of her first novel this week. Claire is a fortnightly podcaster for the Americans in |
| 0:25.4 | our audience that's every two weeks on the Britlet podcast. She currently lives |
| 0:29.8 | in the States but I know you're going to love her accent. Her first novel, Unscripted, came out yesterday, |
| 0:35.9 | so you can get it right now if you're a Kindle Reader. It's all about a young woman named Libby |
| 0:40.2 | with big fan girl dreams. It'll be the perfect read for your pool side lounge this summer. |
| 0:45.0 | So grab it now and then put your Kindle in a zip block for waterproof reading. |
| 0:49.0 | That's a pro tip. |
| 0:50.0 | I can't wait to share our conversation about this fun book. |
| 0:54.0 | Claire, welcome to currently reading. |
| 0:56.0 | Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm excited to have you. You are one of the few authors that reached out to us and said, |
| 1:03.3 | hey, you guys might be interested in my novel. |
| 1:05.2 | And I was like, yep, I'm grabbing that one right away. |
| 1:08.2 | Great. |
| 1:09.0 | This is a super exciting week. |
| 1:11.0 | By the time this episode drops drops you will have released your debut novel out into the world |
| 1:17.2 | and I this is actually new to me I did not know that UK novels release on Thursdays |
| 1:22.4 | because the US market publishes on Tuesdays. |
| 1:25.0 | Any idea why it's different? |
| 1:28.0 | I have no idea what it's different and I'm very impressed that you noticed. |
| 1:32.0 | Well I was like, you know know as I look at publishing release |
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