Bad On Paper

This week, we're diving into Becca's Book, The Christmas Orphans Club! This is the ONLY time we'll be spoiling this book for a while, so if you haven't read the book yet and don't want to get spoiled, save this episode for when you finish the book!

We talk about what elements of the book were there since Becca's first draft, the highs and lows of their writing process, how she balanced the lighthearted tone with big emotions, and what book-related questions she wished she got asked more. Becca also answers listener questions about characters, story choices, and more!

Obsessions

Becca - Dorsey tennis necklace

Olivia - Flameless candles

What we read this week

Olivia - Talking at Night by Claire Daverley

Becca - Lovelight Farms by BK Borison

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Happy gift guide season! This week we're talking all things gifts with Sarah of @my.sister.made.me.buy.it, an account full of fashion, undergarment, blanket, travel, and pen recommendations. We share gift ideas for BFFs, Co-Workers, Significant Others, Tweens, People who have everything, and what we'd gift ourselves!

Our Picks:

BFF - Rainbow Splash Cups from Coming Soon, Fancy Friend Dates, Colorful/fancy matches + match strikers

Co-worker/casual acquaintance - 5 $1 scratch-off tickets + Le Pens, Kaweco pens, Inside Joke merch + DIY work kit.

Significant other/spouse - Concert/Comedy tickets, Framed objects from Framebridge, Flaviar Whiskey Advent Calendar

The Person Who Has Everything - Let's Eat by Grossy Pelosi or More is More by Molly Baz, Sweater Shaver, The Sleep Crown,

Stocking stuffer - Amazon hair clips, Tate's Bake Shop Cookie Bark, Microstitch, Identity protection stamps

Self - Missoma Jelly Heart Charm Bracelet, Bose Quiet Comfort Headphones, Dorsey Clemence Necklace

Tween Gifts - Drunk Elephant and Glow Recipe skincare, water bottles.

Bookish Gifts - Lechtrum 5-Year Journal, Papier Reading Journal, The Cock Mark

Olivia's High

Lauren Scott's CEOverthinker Substack post

Obsessions

Becca - Peppermint mocha creamer season

Olivia - J. Crew Cashmere Sweater

What we read this week!

Becca - Maybe Once, Maybe Twice by Allison Rose Greenberg

This Month's Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

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Lotion! Books! Earplugs! Dried-up contact lenses! This week, we're talking about our nightstand essentials from the things that improve our nighttime routine to the things that are just weird.

Olivia's Nightstand: Weleda Skin Food, Aquaphor stick, books (currently: Rooms of Our Own by Louise Pennington, Talking at Night by Claire Daverley, The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue), Necessaire Body Serum, a pile of dried contacts, glasses, claw clip graveyard, water bottle graveyard.

Becca's Nightstand: Gold Bond Crepe Corrector, Ring Dish from West Elm, Retainers, Tatcha Lip Mask, Laneige Lip Mask, Goop Night Cream (discontinued), Ear Plugs, Diptyque Rose Candle, Ahava baby eczema cream, Amazon Alarm Clock, Amazon sleep mask, Globe bedside sconce (old/unavailable), Princess flashlight.

Listener Nightstand essentials include reading lights, mouth tape, micellar water, Stanley water bottle, Lush Sleepy Lotion, Eye Bra Eye Masks, Tempur-Pedic Sleep Masks, Amazon Smart Plugs & Echo, Dr. Teals Foot Cream

Obsessions

Becca - @famouspplreading, Iron Flame TikTok

Olivia - Escaping Twin Flames Docuseries

What we read this week!

Becca - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Olivia - All Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby, My Murder by Katie Wiliams

This Month's Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

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Time for a fun batch of Things! Three from each of us, to be exact.

Olivia's Things

What are your holiday vibes for 2023?

Opinions on New Year's Eve as a Holiday

Is long hair cheugy now?

Becca's Things

Becca's new favorite kitchen tool - a garlic-chopper

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

What are your glimmers?

Obsessions

Olivia - Geneva!

Becca - Knitting

What we read this week!

Olivia: You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose

B: 1,000 Words by Jami Attenberg (out 1/9); The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

This Month's Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

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To celebrate the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) we're chatting with Carly Watters, SVP and Senior Literary Agent at P.S Literary and co-host of The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Podcast!

We ask Carly about trends in fiction, how to know when a manuscript is ready, how book deals are made, if it actually is harder than ever to sell a book right now, and more!

Books about writing Carly recommends

On Writing by Stephen King

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

Obsessions

Olivia - Tayvis (Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce)

Becca - A Thing or Two's October 9 Episode: Rats, Rain Clogs, and Romance, Birkenstock Boston Clogs

What we read this week

Olivia - The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

Becca - Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan (out 11/14)

This Month's Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

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This week we're talking about our October Book Club Pick, The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon! We talk about Becca's expectations of the book vs what her thoughts were reading, our thoughts on the second person narration, how the book centered the women in this story, if the ending surprised and satisfied us, and more!

Trigger warning for sexual assault in this book, so please skip it if you're not in a place to listen!

Obsessions

Becca - Jessica Yellin's newsletter; Under the Desk News

Olivia - Past Lives

What we read this week!

Becca - Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Throwback by Maurene Goo, The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon

November's Book Club Pick - The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

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This week we're diving into spooky season with a fellow fall fanatic, Ashley Winstead! We talk about her newest book Midnight Is the Darkest Hour, our enthusiasm for fall, 12-foot skeletons, and we all share some Halloween-season book recs!

Psychological Thriller Book Recs

Olivia - None Of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

Ashley - If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio, Bad Habits by Amy Gentry

Books Too scary to read with the lights out

Ashley - Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine

Olivia - Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam

Cozy but Still Autumnal Books

Ashley - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling, Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare, Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper, Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman, Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen,

Becca - A Million Junes by Emily Henry, The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Wildcard Fall Reads

Olivia - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Ashley - Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas, Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe

Becca - Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Playing the Witch Card by Kj Dell'antonia, A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Obsessions

Becca - Blake Rose's Album You'll Get it When You're Older

Olivia - New York Times White Chicken Chili

What we read this week!

Becca - The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella

This Month's Book Club Pick - The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

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This week, we're answering your questions about Q4 goals, fall checklists, Olivia's house updates, TCOC tiny tongs enthusiasts, writing advice, Starbucks orders and SO! MUCH! MORE!

Our favorite back catalog episodes

Our Goals episodes (check out our 2023 goals and our 2023 goals check-in!)

Summer Reading Roundups!

Olivia's First Episode

Pre Olivia: Elizabeth Gilbert Episode

Hidden Gem Books (With Listener Recs!)

Obsessions

Olivia: Hyperfixation lunch

Becca: Champers Social Club on Crosby St in SoHo

What we read this week!

Becca: Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle (out March 5)

Olivia: Go As A River by Shelly Read (learn more about her story on the Writers on Writing Podcast!)

This Month's Book Club Pick - The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Sponsors

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The Christmas Orphans Club - Pick up The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman wherever good books are sold!

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It's Three Things time! This week we're talking about the Instagram ads that haunt us, Lauren Groff's writing process, being a teenage girl, and more!

Becca's 3 Things

Instagram ads that haunt us

Olivia Rodrigo's Guts and the grown-up teen girl phenomenon

Retellings in fiction

Olivia's 3 Things

Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift

The New York Times's profile of Lauren Groff

The New York Times's article about being 13 today

Obsessions

Olivia: Shit That I Knit Crew Neck Sweater

Becca: Love at First Sight on Netflix (based on the book by Jennifer E. Smith)

What we read this week!

Becca: Meet the Benedettos by Katie Cotungo (out 12/5)

Olivia: Georgie, All Along: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Love Story

Kate Clayborn, The Only One Left by Riley Sager, Yellowface by RF Kuang, Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering (out March 2024)

This Month's Book Club Pick - The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Sponsors

Cozy Earth - Take 35% off sitewide at cozyearth.com when you use the code BOP

Prose - Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order at Prose.com/bop

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It's time for the September book club and we're discussing Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. We dive into our opinions on the writing, the mother/daughter dynamics, the reveals that surprised us, and the "Tom Lake" moments in our own lives.

Also, Becca's book is out NOW!!!

Obsessions

Olivia: Her playlist called 'Songs for Staring at the Ocean & Feeling emo'

Becca: @nymetroweather on IG

What we read this week!

Becca: The Nigerwife by Vanessa Walters

Olivia: The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon, The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman, Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

This Month's Book Club Pick - (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Sponsors

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Join our Geneva!

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