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Good Moms with LUCAS MANN, quadruple threat: author, bookstore owner, professor, dad Nov 08, 2023

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Annie and Tessa got to hang with Lucas Mann, the author of the forthcoming essay collection ATTACHMENTS (May, 2024) and the new co-owner of the bookstore/bar Riff Raff in Providence with his wife, Ottavia De Luca. He is also the author of Captive Audience: On Love and Reality Television, Lord Fear: A Memoir, and Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere.
Here is Lucas's website: https://www.lucasmann.com/
His bookstore: https://riffraffpvd.com/
No preorder link for Attachments as of Nov 8, but I'll update when there is one!
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Season 3! Tessa and Annie talk traveling with a toddler, THE RED GROVE, and getting YOUR NAME tattooed Sep 20, 2023

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We're back! We missed you! In this casual return episode, we talked about Tessa's great adventures spending a few months in Portugal with a toddler, about Tessa's upcoming book THE RED GROVE (preorder now!), about our writing contracts and our accountability group -- and new website!!! Oh, and Annie cries at the end.
The Red Grove preorder!
New website: https://www.accountabilityworkshops.com/

Sara Peterson, author of MOMFLUENCED: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture Jul 10, 2023

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Ellen & Annie got to talk with Sara Peterson, author of Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture. We have been waiting for this episode and Sara didn't disappoint!
About her work, Sara says: "I want to understand why our culture idealizes motherhood (online and off) but fails again and again to give moms what they need to thrive (like universal preschool, paid family leave, subsidized childcare)."
Buy Momfluenced here
Subscribe to Sara's newsletter here
This is the Brandon Taylor "review" we referenced
This is our final episode until the fall -- have a great summer, you're doing a great job!
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Yael Goldstein-Love, author of The Possibilities, on writing as Meaning Making Jul 10, 2023

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Tessa and Annie got the chance to talk to Yael Goldstein-Love, author of The Possibilities, about postpartum anxiety and writing as a meaning making practice. Yael is on tour now -- try to see her!
Buy The Possibilities here
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Szilvia Molnar, author of THE NURSERY, on uncomfortable literature and rethinking what happens after birth Jun 26, 2023

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Hi friends --
Tessa and Ellen chatted with Szilvia Molnar and she had wonderful things to say about her new book, The Nursery, literature that makes you uncomfortable, mental health, and about the urgency to "stitch yourself back together after birth" and what she learned between her first and second pregnancies.
Buy The Nursery here
Read Ellen's Fleishman essay
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Disha Bose, author of GMA pick DIRTY LAUNDRY on ambition, potential, and writing in the dark Jun 26, 2023

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Hi friends --
Tessa and Annie connected with Disha Bose, author of the April Good Morning America Bookclub pick Dirty Laundry. She talks about writing after having a kid, writing during the pandemic, the man who said her career was over after kids and: how she showed him!!!
Get Disha Bose's book here:
DIRTY LAUNDRY
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Julia Fine, author of Maddalena and the Dark, on writing gothic fairy tales & teenage girls Jun 20, 2023

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Tessa and Ellen caught up with our friend Julia Fine -- we talked writing schedules, her new novel Maddalena and the Dark, finding a book that fits your interests, and her super supportive husband.
Get Julia's new book now!
Maddalena and the Dark

and her other books!
The Upstairs House
What Should Be Wild
xox
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Accountability Workshops with Annie and Tessa -- A Deep Dive! Jun 01, 2023

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Hi friends --
We've gotten so many great members for the accountability groups who are listeners of the podcast, but when people join they always say: this community is so much more than we expected! So we wanted to take a deep dive to explain everything the accountability workshop community offers. Even if you don't join us, there are great tips in this episode for how to keep your writing on track, so feel free to use as your own.
A quick rundown of what we offer:
a writing contract to keep your writing on track
bi-weekly group zoom meetings to share and get support
monthly speakers
zoom writing sessions
a slack group
and one-on-one coaching and brainstorming sessions.
Oh, and a book club!
Price: $150 a month, with a secret code for a discount on your first month. The discount is in the episode :) You pay as you go, and can drop out at any time.
Here's the Aimee Bender essay where it all came from:
https://www.oprah.com/spirit/writing-every-day-writers-rules-aimee-bender
Meeting times (every other week):
Mondays:
1-2:30 pm est
8-9:30 pm est
Weds:
1-2:30 pm est
8-9:30 pm est
anniehartnett.com/workshop
tessafontaine.com/accountability-workshop
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The Good Moms

M.M. de Voe, author of Book & Baby and Founder of Pen Parentis May 18, 2023

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Hi friends!
In this episode, Ellen and Tessa interviewed M.M. de Voe, author of A Flash of Darkness, Book & Baby, and Founder of Pen Parentis, a literary non-profit designed to help parents get their work done.
MM de Voe's books:
Book & Baby
A Flash of Darkness
Also mentioned:
7 Writer Residencies that Are Family Friendly
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Krys Malcom Belc, transmasculine essayist/dad/teacher/baker and author of The Natural Mother of the Child May 12, 2023

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Hi pals!
In this episode, Annie and Ellen talk about being together IN REAL LIFE at the Boston marathon and how fast (and kissable! and heroic!) Ellen's husband is. Then Ellen and Tessa interview Krys Malcom Belc, a transmasculine essayist/dad/teacher/baker and the author ofThe Natural Mother of the Child.
Get Krys's book here:
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Non-Binary Parenthood
If you missed it last episode, we are running a sale for podcast listeners to try out accountability workshop, charging half off for the month of June. Find out more: http://www.anniehartnett.com/workshop
Until next time, you're doing a good job.
xo
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