Bad On Paper

Today, we have the pleasure of speaking with Elizabeth Acevedo, the author of our June book club pick, Clap When You Land. Elizabeth is a NYT best-selling author and we couldn't be more excited to talk to her about the book. We learn of her early start in writing as a rapper and poet, her first job as a middle school teacher, and the road to her first publishing deal. We explore the birth of Clap When You Land, the meaning behind the title, the unique way she developed the characters distinct voices, and the differences between writing in prose and verse. We touch on the #publishingpayme movement and the importance of building a strong online community to keep you motivated and excited about your work. Elizabeth also gives us her favorite YA recs, childhood favs, and gives a taste of what she is working on next! More Elizabeth Acevedo: @acevedowrites on Instagram @acevedowrites on Twitter acevedowrites.com Elizabeth Acevedo's Books: The Poet X With the Fire on High Clap When you Land Book Recs: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore The Rakess Scarlett Peckham House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisnaros Miracle's Boys by Jaqueline Woodson Book Stores Recs: Word Up: https://www.wordupbooks.com/ Lit Bar: http://www.thelitbar.com/ Donate to the Family of Breonna Taylor : https://www.gofundme.com/f/9v4q2-justice-for-breonna-taylor Donate to the Louisville Community Bail Fund: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/ Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace's blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

For this month's book club, we read Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo. We absolutely loved this book. It's prose, written in verse, which makes the story even more engaging (and the lines more powerful and poignant). This is the story of two 16 year old girls, Yahaira and Camino who lose their father in a plane crash. Both girls (growing up in New York City and the Dominican Republic, respectively) grow up loving their father and having a close relationship with him. But upon his death, they learn of each other. The book tells each of their stories and struggles. We absolutely loved this book and enjoyed discussing it! Join in the discussion on the Facebook Group. And tomorrow be on the lookout for a bonus episode with the author - Elizabeth Acevedo! Instagram: @shopbfreedom @designaddictmom Obsessions Sensual Candle Co Amika Perk Up Dry Shampoo What we're reading this week: How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibrim X Kendi Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman (comes out 7/14) The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Home Before Dark by Riley Sager The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett So You want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo Sponsors: Prose: Go to prose.com/bop to get 15% off your first order. Podcasts: Check out Bookable wherever you get your podcasts Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace's blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Ayana Lage is a freelance marketer and writer in Tampa. More recently, a few of her videos about Black Lives Matter went viral. (We highly recommend her as a resource for everything from virtue signaling to microaggressions, and her stance on Blackout Tuesday, and more to come!) She joins us today to talk about the intensity of the last few weeks, and her thoughts on it all. Everything from how it feels to go viral, what brands can do to be more inclusive (and who is doing it right!), and how growth on her platform is affecting her life personally and professionally. She answers your questions about how the regular person can use their social media presence to support Black Lives Matter and support anti-racist activism. Do yourself a favor and check out her videos and follow her for continued education and insight. Don't forget - tomorrow Grace's Amazon The Drop Collection goes on sale! Go to her instagram to sign up for text message alerts. More Ayana: @ayanagabriellelage @ayanalage on twitter Ayanalage.com Instagram: @simplycyn @moemotivate @tiffanyima @iamavoter @influencerpaygap @pullupforchange Obsessions Luv Scrub exfoliating mesh washcloth Klur Elements of Comfort Body Oil What we're reading this week: Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi June Book Club Pick: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo Sponsors: Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout. Sarah Flint: Go to sarahflint.com and use code SARAHFLINT-BOP to get $50 off your first order. Podcasts: Skimm This Podcast Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

This week our friend Rachael King joins us! Rachael is the co creator of RomComPods, Founder and CEO of PodPeople, a podcast producer, and host of TWO podcasts - The Escape List and Tape Club. We turn the tables a little and Grace interviews Becca and Rachael about the inspiration for and making of RomComPods from the script writing process to casting to ideas for future seasons, and what it's like working with your best friend. We also ask Rachael all of your podcast and travel questions! Be sure to like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. More Rachael: @rachaelgking @romcompods @tapeclub @theescapelistpod Favorite Rom Coms: Rachael's Top 3: While You Were Sleeping Forget Paris Last Holiday Becca's Top 3ish: The Wedding Date Friends With Kids Sleeping with Other People Notting Hill That Thing you Do Grace's Top 3: Something's Gotta Give How to Lose a guy in Ten Days Home Again Instagram: @ayanagabriellelage @mister_michelle @hayet.ridia @taymocha @iamrachelricketts Obsessions True and Co - True Body Scoop Bra Briogeo Avocado and Kiwi Mega Moisture Superfood Mask Briogeo Don't Despair Repair Deep Conditioning Mask What we're reading this week: Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo June Book Club Pick: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo Sponsors: Hello Fresh: Go to hellofresh.com/60bop and use code 60BOP to get $60 off your first box. Podcasts: Skimm This Podcast Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

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This week we are using our platform to spotlight the incredible Black authors that we love. We have gathered some of our favorite books and also invited our past podcast guests 'drop by' to give their recs, too! We know that many people (including us!) are looking for ways to learn more about anti-racism, things that we can do, and ways to support the Black community in an active way. So we encourage you to pick up a book, share with your friends, buy from Black-owned bookstores, and continue to learn and grow. We look forward to discussing these books with you in the facebook group! Here is a link to a google doc with anti-racism resources that we mentioned. This was created by Tatum Dorrell, Matthew Herndon, and Jourdan Dorrell. Here is a link to Black-Owned Bookstores too! Books (all links are through The Lit Bar via bookshop.org): An American Marriage by Tayari Jones American Spy by Lauren Wilkerson Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett The Idea of You by Robinne Lee Anything by Jasmine Guillory Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert Wow No Thank You by Samantha Irby What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey Such a Fun Age by Kiley Read Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie From the Chiffon Trenches by Andre Leon Talley Becoming by Michelle Obama Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes Nikki Giovanni - Poet Langston Hughes - Poet On The Come Up by Angie Thomas What we're reading this week: Reputation by Sarah Shepard Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein Rodham by Curtis Sinfeld The Art of Showing Up by Rachel Wilkerson Miller Buying from Black-owned bookstores (can buy through Bookshop.org digitally): The Lit bar in The Bronx Sisters Uptown in Manhattan Semicolon in Chicago Afri Ware in Chicago Mahogany Books in DC Harriet's bookshop in Philly Uncle Bobbies in Philly Hakim's Bookstore in Philly For Keeps Books in Atlanta Marcus Books in Oakland The Dock Bookshop in Fort Worth ESO Won in LA June Book Club Pick: Clap While You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo Sponsors: Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout. Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP10 and get any book for $10 Care of: 50% your first order at takecareof.com/bop50 with offer code BOP50 at checkout. Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

For this month's book club we're discussing The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendricks. This book came highly recommended by Grace's mom and it definitely sparked some fun conversation. While this is not the type of book either of us typically pick up, we wanted something more fun to take some pressure off during quarantine. The story follows Patricia Campbell, a southern housewife, who joins a true crime book club where she forms a tight knit group of female friends. When they discover that their neighbor, James Harris, is actually a vampire who is terrorizing the town and feeding on children, the women of the book club stand up to take matters into their own hands. Who ever thought a book club would end in cold-blooded murder?! As always, we can't wait to hear what you think in the Facebook group - let us know! Instagram: @karensgoingwild @sophiafranklin @alexandracooper Obsessions: Homemade Popcorn Asics Gel Nimbus Sneakers Worthy Threads Tie Dye Sweatsuits Books: Happy and You Know it by Laura Hankin Writers and Lovers by Lily King The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd My Best Friends Exorcism by Grady Hendricks A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) by Deborah Harkness The Betrothed by Kiera Cass A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas Perfectly Famous By Emily Liebert The Lies We Told by Camilla Way The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochan The Art of Showing Up by Rachel Wilkerson Miller June Club: Coming Soon! Check instagram. Podcast to Check Out! Skimm This: A weekly podcast unpacking the most complex news stories of the week. Tune in every Friday at 7a ET. Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

We loved all of your listener questions! We had so many that we split them into two episodes and today we are back with a part 2! We saved the most fun ones for this episode. We're covering everything from AIM screennames and celebrity crushes (Grace and Paul Rudd are going backpacking together? Becca stalks Scott Foley's wife for updates?) to home decor inspo, how we found (and decorated our apartments), our favorite artists, and go-to gifts to give. And it wouldn't be an episode of Bad on Paper if we didn't share our best beauty and book recs! Small Businesses Mentioned: Books are Magic MegaBabe Small Packages Nicely Noted Henning Holt + Lee Candy Shop Vintage Hart Hagerty St. Frank Rebecca Atwood Cece Dupraz Kondi Hampden Clothing Products mentioned: Bala bangles Augustus Bader The Rich Cream Acwell toner Farmacy cleansing balm Olay retinol Eye cream Tarte Sea Curl Mascara Weleda Skin Food Vintner's Daughter Serum Bioderma Micellar water Bite agave lip mask Olaplex no. 3 Goop night cream Instagram: @emmaberyl @marc.ange @caracara_nyc Obsessions: Codenames Books: Happy and You Know it by Laura Hankin The Idea of You by Robinne Lee On the Island by Tracy Garvis Graves Writers and Lovers by Lily King The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd May Book Club: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendricks Sponsors: Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout. Podcast to Check Out! Natch Beaut Podcast hosted by Jackie Johnson Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

After a highly requested (micro) deep-dive into Normal People (we loved the show maybe even more than the book!), we chat with Jules Von Hep! Jules is a celebrity tanning expert and the founder of the (clean! vegan!) line Isle of Paradise. We chat with him about how quarantine is going in the UK and then move along to his career and how he founded Isle of Paradise. He walks us through his career path and how he got to where he is today (he's tanned everyone from Kate Moss to Kendall Jenner!),how + why he started Isle of Paradise, and of course all his best self-tanning advice - answering all of your self tanning questions and providing helpful tips for first timers. But the best part of the interview was all of the incredible life advice. Jules talks about saying no (his advice here is so good), navigating negativity, and how to be more body confident! More Jules! @julesvonhep @theisleofparadise E-book: Get Body Posi by Jules Von Hep Podcast: Jules and Sarah Products mentioned: Isle of Paradise line at Sephora and Sephora.com Link to the LA times article about Normal People Instagram: @thebirdspapaya @meganroselane @tess.daily @heartsandbonesrescue @hannahcandleny Obsessions: Lazy Susan for fridge Bissell Steam Mop Sleep Cycle App Books: Untamed by Glennon Doyle The Last Flight by Julie Clark Happy and You Know it by Laura Hankin Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes May Book Club: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendricks Sponsors: Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP10 and get any book for $10 Podcast to Check Out! Gee Thanks Just Bought it Podcast Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

In today's episode, we polled you to come up with a big grab bag of questions. We cover a wide range of topics from college life to cooking (Becca's carbonara!). We also talk about how we maintain our privacy (spoiler alert: we're in charge!) and all sorts of other things. Will Becca ever get a dog? Has Grace always been a cat person? Does she walk Tyrion? How did we meet? We got a ton of podcast related questions so we also give a behind the scenes look at the process of creating Bad on Paper. This is a fun episode - pour a glass of wine and come hang out with us! Products mentioned: Plush Knit Joggers Old Navy Obsessions: Outerbanks TV series Daily Harvest Never Have I Ever on Netflix Books: Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan Untamed by Glennon Doyle The Guest List by Lucy Foley Don't You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane Who's That Girl? by Mhairi McFarlane You Had Me at Hello by Mhairi McFarlane May Book Club: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendricks Sponsors: Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout. Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP10 and get any book for $10 Podcast to Check Out! Skimm This Podcast Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.