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In our new series, Debut Discussions, we're asking debut authors to tell us their story -- not only the story in the novel they wrote -- but the journey they took to hold that book in their hands. On today's episode we welcome Jessica Saunders to discuss her debut, Love, Me, an honest examination of love, marriage, and the fantasy of a second-chance romance with the one that got away.

Like us, Jessica is a lawyer, who, after years of writing scintillating legal briefs, was finally able to fulfill her lifelong dream of writing fiction. In our chat, she shares her early love of reading (hellllo, she picked books as her bat mitzvah theme in 1994 - amazing!), the unthinkable loss that served as the inciting incident to pursuing her novelist dreams, her writing process and path to publication, from writing classes to landing an agent and what she’s learned along the way. We had so much fun chatting with Jessica!

Listen now to @jessicasaundersbooks’s story wherever you get your podcasts. Love, Me is out now -- buy it, read it, and share it (in other words, make a debut author’s dreams come true!).

In our new series, Debut Discussions, we're asking debut authors to tell us their story -- not only the story in the novel they wrote -- but the journey they took to hold that book in their hands. On today's episode we welcome Jessica Saunders to discuss her debut, Love, Me, an honest examination of love, marriage, and the fantasy of a second-chance romance with the one that got away.
Like us, Jessica is a lawyer, who, after years of writing scintillating legal briefs, was finally able to fulfill her lifelong dream of writing fiction. In our chat, she shares her early love of reading (hellllo, she picked books as her bat mitzvah theme in 1994 - amazing!), the unthinkable loss that served as the inciting incident to pursuing her novelist dreams, her writing process and path to publication, from writing classes to landing an agent and what she’s learned along the way. We had so much fun chatting with Jessica!
Listen now to @jessicasaundersbooks’s story wherever you get your podcasts. Love, Me is out now -- buy it, read it, and share it (in other words, make a debut author’s dreams come true!).

In Pop Fiction Women we deep-dive into the complicated women of books, movies and TV shows, along with the women that bring them to life behind the scenes. Think Fleabag and Phoebe Waller Bridge, Normal People and Sally Rooney, and so much more.

In each episode you can expect us to:

* Break down the protagonist as we ask what makes her complicated?
* Identify the best scenes, which can mean sweetest, funniest, or most badass. Anything we love.
* Recount the cringiest scenes. The ones that make you squirm. Sometimes it’s self-sabotage, sometimes it’s growth, but it’s always part of the process of becoming our complicated selves.
* Play arm-chair therapist in What’s Your Damage, Heather? An homage to the iconic line in Winona Rider’s Heathers, we discuss how these characters got to be the way they are.
* “What She Said” - the segment where we scour every essay and interview with the women behind the scenes and share some of our favorite first person quotes. Real life is as interesting as fiction here.
* Look into our crystal ball and ponder where these characters are six months later and five years later. Typically, Kate gets very real and Carinn gets buck wild.
* Provide a takeaway, aka that part in the podcast where we try to sound deep. We leave you with some parting wisdom, challenge each other with thought-provoking questions inspired by the work, and urge you to “stay complicated.”

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