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We're taking body diversity in books with Jennifer Weiner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nineteen books, including That Summer, Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, Good in Bed, and an essay collection, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing. Jennifer talks about her journey to becoming a best-selling author, what motivated her to feature women with different body types in her books, and the process of getting a visibly plus-size woman on book covers. We also ask Jennifer about how she decides what to write about, her newest book The Summer Place, and writing a book set in the time of COVID. Jennifer also shares her favorite Philly bookstores and her favorite recent reads. You can find Jennifer at @jenniferweinerwrites on Instagram, @jenweinerwrites on Tik Tok, Jennifer Weiner on Facebook, jenniferweiner.com, and get a signed copy of her books at Head House Books in Philadelphia Books Jennifer loves right now: When We Were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld Obsessions Becca: Anthropologie bracelet stack: Colorful Chicklet Bracelet, Pearly Heart Bracelet, and Colorful Tennis Bracelet Olivia: The Ghost Ship That Didn't Carry Us by Cheryl Strayed, Dear Sugar Column Some bonus things we talked about this week include Olivia's Mango Cucumber salad by What's Gaby Cooking and a Smashed Pickle Salad recipe from NYT cooking we both want to make ASAP. What we read this week! Becca: Killers of A Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (out Sept 6!) The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner Olivia: The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner, The Measure by Nikki Erlick This Month's Book Club Pick: You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi Sponsors: Better Help - get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/badonpaper Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

It's finally time for another Q&A! We answer some quick questions about how we found our voices as writers, advice for balancing creative projects and a day job, how we answer the question "so what do you do for work?" We also dive into lengthier questions about our favorite books of the year, the backlist books we love, the best & worst parts of hosting a podcast, and more! Our favorite books of the year Becca: Every Summer After by Carley Fortune, This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Olivia: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, and Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka. Backlist books we love Becca: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, The Selection Series by Kiera Cass, A Discovery of Witches series by Deborah E. Harkness, A Million Junes by Emily Henry, and Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering Olivia: The Push by Ashley Audrain, Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller, The One by John Marrs, The Whisper Man by Alex North, Good Girls' Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson, and Room by Emma Donoghue. Becca's seltzer influencer updates Nixie Peach Iced Tea Seltzer (caffeinated) Spindrift Pineapple Our Favorite Candles Hotel Lobby Signature Candle Hotel Lobby Miami Candle Hotel Lobby Pride Candle Obsessions Olivia: Airfly Pro for flying with wireless headphones Becca: Sticky Tabs on Amazon What we read this week! Becca: Nora Goes off Script by Annabel Monaghan You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi The Counselors by Jessica Goodman Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (out September 6!) Olivia: Notes on an Execution by Dana Kukafa August Book Club Pick: You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi Sponsors: Tradlands - Go to tradlands.com/badonpaper and use the code BADONPAPER20 for 20% off your order Prose - Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order at prose.com/bop Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

For the final episode of our series about how a book gets made, we're talking all things marketing and publicity with Cristina Arreola, the senior marketing manager at Sourcebooks Landmark, and Ashley Winstead, the author of In My Dreams I Hold A Knife, Fool Me Once, and the forthcoming The Last Housewife. Cristina and Ashley answer our questions about at what point marketing gets involved in the publishing process, how publishers decide how much marketing support a book gets, what the author is responsible for when it comes to marketing and publicity, and how much input authors get on book covers. We also discuss the different marketing playbooks for an author's first book vs their following books, the importance of pre-orders, and the impact of book clubs and social media buzz. Find Cristina at @sourcebooks and @tinamariposa on Instagram. Find Ashley at @ashleywinsteadbooks on Instagram. Obsessions Becca - The Bear on Hulu Olivia - her niece's obsession with dinosaurs What we read this week! Becca - Portrait of A Thief by Grace D. Li Olivia - Every Summer After by Carley Fortune and Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka This Month's Book Club Pick: You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi Sponsors: Better Help - get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/badonpaper Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

It's finally time to discuss our listener-picked Book Club selection: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus! We talk about our general feelings about the book, how we reacted to the moments of sexism in the 1960s setting, our thoughts on the main character, and the differing perspectives of the three key women in the book. We also discuss how we felt about the ending and since this book already has a TV adaptation in the works, we talk about our casting thoughts and hear from listeners about the characters they pictured. What the book reminds us of Where'd you go Bernadette by Maria Semple Radioactive Julia Child HBO Series Obsessions Becca - Trader Joe's Hold The Cone Mini Ice Cream Cones (also toffee bars) Olivia - Catfish (the documentary and TV Show) What we read this week! Becca: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Olivia: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine August's Book Club Pick: You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi Sponsors: Zocdoc - Go to Zocdoc.com/BOP to start your search for a top-rated doctor today Honeylove - Get 20% off your second item, plus an additional 10% off at Honeylove.com with code BOP. Tradlands - Go to tradlands.com/badonpaper and use code BADONPAPER20 for 20% off Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

We're BACK and continuing our series about how a book gets made! This week we're chatting with Amanda Bergeron, an executive editor at Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, and Carley Fortune, the author of Every Summer After. Amanda breaks down the acquisition & publication process from the editor's end, how many submissions she receives, and what leads her to choose a book to work on. Carley shares her writing process from conception to submission, how she felt when she got her initial edit letter, and how much her manuscript changed from acquisition to publishing. We also ask them about how many rounds of edits they worked through together, what happens when they disagree on a change, and what makes a successful author/editor relationship. Find Carley Fortune at @carleyfortune on Instagram, carleyfortune.com, and get a signed copy of Every Summer After via Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston Texas. Books Carley and Amanda are Excited about The No-Show by Beth O'Leary A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia (Out July 26) Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Obsessions Becca: Paris, Perfected Burgundy Wines! Digit for a rainy day fund Olivia: Pod Meets World Podcast What we read this week Olivia: Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors by Sarah Stodola The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark Becca: Vacationland by Meg Mitchell Moore The Cloisters by Katy Hays (Out November 1) The Work Wife by Alison B Hart This Month's Book Club Pick: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Sponsors: Better Help - Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/badonpaper True Bill - Start canceling unwanted subscriptions today at Truebill.com/BOP ReTold Recycling - Go to RetoldRecycling.com and get 10% off with code BOP10 on all Retold Bags and make recycling a part of your summer clean-up! Betches - Listen to @Betches on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

We're so excited to start our summer series about how a book gets made! This week we're talking all about book agents, from what they do to how authors find an agent in the first place. We brought on Taylor Haggerty, an agent at Root Literary representing commercial fiction for teens and adults, and Iman Hariri-Kia, writer and editor born and based in New York City whose debut novel A Hundred Others Girls will be published July 26th by Sourcebooks. We chat with Iman about her writing process for A Hundred Other Girls and how she found, queried, and picked out an agent to work with. Taylor explains an agent's role in the publishing process and shares her tips for choosing the right agent, how to regroup if you get passed on, and she gives us a sense of how much money an author can expect to make for a debut novel. You can find Iman at @imanharirikia on Instagram and @imanharirikia on Tik Tok You can find Taylor at @rootliterary on Instagram, rootliterary.com, and PublishersMarketplace.com Related to our conversation: Track Changes - First Draft with Sarah Enni Obsessions Becca: The Summer I Turned Pretty & The Time Traveler's Wife Olivia: My Sweet Dumb Brain email newsletter by Katie Hawkins-Gaar What we read this week! Olivia: Book Lovers by Emily Henry Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering Becca: Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand Counterfeit by Kristin Chen This Month's Book Club Pick: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Sponsors: Better Help - Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/badonpaper Hello Fresh - Go to HelloFresh.com/BOP16 and use code BOP16 for up to 16 free meals and 3 free gifts Prose - Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order today! Go to Prose.com/bop Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

It's FINALLY time to talk about Cover Story by Susan Rigetti! Also, we recommend reading this book spoiler-free, so if you haven't read it yet, read it then listen to this ep! This book was fun, juicy, and compulsively readable. We discuss our overall thoughts on the book, what we thought of the format, and of course, we have a much-needed discussion about the ending! Obsessions Becca: Fresh flowers - Peony season Olivia: The Deep End on Hulu My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang What we read this week! Olivia: Meant To Be Mine by Hannah Orenstein The It Girl by Ruth Ware This Is Not the Jess Show by Anna Carey Becca: A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia (Out July 26!) The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand This Month's Book Club Pick: Sponsors: Tradlands - go to tradlands.com/badonpaper to shop and use code BADONPAPER for 20% off your order. Olive & June: visit Oliveandjune.com/Paper for 20% off your first Mani System. Better Help: get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/badonpaper Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

We're already halfway through the year and it's time for a 2022 goals check-in! Both Olivia and Becca share the personal and professional goals they set for this year, give an update on their progress, and discuss what they've learned along the way! Related to our convo: Check out the journal Olivia has been using here! Check out Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman Listen to Grace and Becca's previous Goals episode here! Obsessions Olivia: Supergoop Glowstick SPF 50 Becca: Hustle on Netflix What we read this week! Becca: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn Reunion by Meghan Quinn Olivia: The Night Swim by Megan Goldin Groupies by Sarah Priscus (out July 12) Finlay Donovan is Killing it by Elle Cosimano This Month's Book Club Pick: Cover Story by Susan Rigetti Sponsors: Night - take 20% off almost everything on their site at discovernight.com with code BADONPAPER ZocDoc - go to Zocdoc.com/BOP and download the Zocdoc app for FREE to start your search for a top-rated doctor today. Prose - Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order today at Prose.com/bop. — Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Sign up for Oliva's newsletter here! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

This week we're discussing a topic we always get requests to cover, imposter syndrome! To help break things down, we brought on Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin, a licensed psychologist, executive coach, organizational consultant, and speaker. She recently gave a Ted X Talk about The Imposter Syndrome Parado, and is the co-author of Own Your Greatness: Overcome Impostor Syndrome, Beat Self-Doubt, and Succeed in Life and the upcoming book, Your Unstoppable Greatness: Break Free From Imposter Syndrome, Cultivate Your Agency, and Achieve Your Ultimate Career Goals (out October 4)! We discuss how imposter syndrome became her area of focus, the imposter cycle, and how to deal with imposter syndrome throughout your career. Lisa also discusses why she's staunchly anti-'fake it til you make it.' You can find Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin on Linkedin at @drorbeaustin on Instagram and learn more about her course, masterclass, and more at dynamictransitionsllp.com. Obsessions Olivia: Vick's VapoCOOL Severe Cough Drops Becca: Boden Smocked Bodice Midi Dress Bonus: Becca's mini-high: Lava Nail Polish from Olive & June! What we read this week! Becca: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn The Reunion by Meghan Quinn Olivia: Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren Night Swim by Megan Goldin This Month's Book Club Pick: Cover Story by Susan Rigetti (share your thoughts on the book with us at (843)-405-3157 or send a voice memo to badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com) Sponsors: Daily Harvest - go to dailyharvest.com/BOP to get up to forty dollars off your first box! Honeylove - get 20% off your second item, plus an additional 10% off at Honeylove.com, with code BOP Better Help - get 10% off their first month at BetterHelp.com/badonpaper. Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

This week we're (figuratively) ripping our skin off and talking about the books we're writing! This is an appetizer to a series we're planning to do this summer all about how a book gets made. We give a mini preview about what our books are about, and break down what our book writing process was like, from what made us finally start writing to what we wish we knew before we wrote our books. We also share the resources that helped us along our process and talk about what's coming next for our books! We also recap our long weekend trips and our feelings about hot dogs 🌭 Resources that helped us in our process: Becca: Books: Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody, Story Genius by Lisa Cron, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott Podcasts: The Shit No One Tells You About Writing, First Draft with Sarah Enni Instagram Stories Highlights from Emily Henry; Hannah Orenstein; Jasmine Guillory Olivia: Newsletter: Agents & Books by Kate McKean Our Obsessions: Becca: Tretorn Nylite Original Sneakers in Leather Olivia: Darkness (AKA the sun going down) What we read this week: Becca: Every Summer After by Carley Fortune Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (out Aug 30, 2022!) Olivia: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren This Month's Book Club Pick: Cover Story by Susan Rigetti Sponsors: Retold Recycling - go to retoldrecycling.com and get 10% off with code BOP10 on all Retold Bags to make recycling a part of your summer clean up! Night - go to discovernight.com and use code BADONPAPER (All one word) for 20% off almost everything on the site. Prose - take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order at Prose.com/bop. Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.