Truer Words

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter@truerwordspod and on Instagram@truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website,truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

Ally Condie Mar 11, 2019

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Ally is the author of the MATCHED trilogy, ATLANTIA, the Edgar-nominated SUMMERLOST, and the DARKDEEP series (with Brendan Reichs).

Find Ally on Twitter: @allycondie and Instagram: @ally.condie. Her website is AllyCondie.com. THE LAST VOYAGE OF POE BLYTHE comes out March 26th from Penguin Random House.

Show Notes:

Books, authors, movies, TV, specials, and other media or institutions mentioned include:

Ally Carter's A Letter to Baby Author Me (circa 2004)

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert's TED Talk about following up Eat, Pray, Love

Cynthia Leitich-Smith

Cynsations Survivor Series

Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

On women writers using grants for childcare: Financial Windfalls: 15 Stories of the Money That Changed Everything

Edgar Awards

Brendan Reichs

YAllWest

VCFA Writing for Children and Young Adults

Martine Leavitt

Soman Chainani

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, by Daniel H. Pink

About Truer Words:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter@truerwordspod and on Instagram@truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website,truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

Jasmine Guillory Feb 25, 2019

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Jasmine is the author of the wildly popular romance novels, The Wedding Date and The Proposal, along with the upcoming The Wedding Party and future novels yet to be written.

Find Jasmine on Twitter: @thebestjasmine and Instagram: @jasminepics. Her website is JasmineGuillory.com.

Show Notes:

The Worst Bestsellers Podcast / @worstbestseller

Kathryn's episodes of The Worst Bestsellers:

Episode 117: Year One

Episode 28: Black Hills

The Sauce Podcast / @saucepodcast

Melissa's All I Wanna Do essay

Jasmine on the Today Show!

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Rachel Fershleiser

Tessa Dare quote that Kathryn mentions

The Ripped Bodice store

The Ripped Bodice Diversity Report

Thinking About Jewish Children's Literature in a Time of Rising Antisemitism - Katherine Locke

NaNoWriMo

Holly Root, Jasmine's agent

Holly's interview on 88 Cups of Tea

The Kiss Quotient, by Helen Hoang

Intercepted, by Alexa Martin

Ballet Shoes, by Noel Streatfield

Betsy-Tacy, by Maud Hart Lovelace

Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery

Little House on the Prairie series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Girls of Canby Hall, by Emily Chase

Magpie Murders, by Anthony Horowitz

Sherry Thomas

The Hollow of Fear (third book in Lady Sherlock series), by Sherry Thomas

@ThatEricAlper tweet about waking up in 1918

The Agency series, by Y.S. Lee

All You Can Never Know, by Nicole Chung

Unmarriageable, by Soniah Kamal

Pride, by Ibi Zoboi

Judy Blume

Back to the Future series

About Truer Words:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

J. Albert Mann Feb 11, 2019

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Jen is the author of the new YA biographical historical fiction WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW, about the early life of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. She is also the author of the Sunny Sweet middle grade series and another historical novel, Scar.

Find Jen on Twitter: @jenannmann and Instagram: @jenniferannmann. Her website is JAlbertMann.com.

Show Notes:

Books, movies, TV, specials, and other media or institutions mentioned include:

Scar by J. Albert Mann

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell

The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

My Fight for Birth Control by Margaret Sanger

Woman of Valor by Eleanor Chesler

Other books by Margaret Sanger

Planned Parenthood

Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights by Angela Davis

Surprise! The ERA is back!

Jennifer K. Mann

People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann

Highlights Magazine

Kerry Sparks, literary agent

Kirby Larson

Unpresidented by Martha Brockenbrough

Eugene V. Debs

Heartland by Sarah Smarsh

Just As I Thought by Grace Paley

Monica Hesse

Ruta Sepetys

Amanda West Lewis

Rachel Syme on Twitter

Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly

Eloquent Rage by Dr. Brittney Cooper

Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister

My Life As a Goddess by Guy Branum

We Need Diverse Books

Ellen Oh

About Truer Words:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter@truerwordspod and on Instagram@truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website,truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

Special Episode: Our 2019 Goals Feb 04, 2019

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Media referenced in the episode includes:

Better Than Before, by Gretchen Rubin

David Rakoff on Rent / transcript

More David Rakoff

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff

"No More Little White Gloves": Sarah Kernochan's 'All I Wanna Do' by Melissa

You Have to Fail A Little by Melissa

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Apocalypse Now

Goodreads

Book Riot Read Harder challenge

Dear Heartbreak, edited by Heather Demetrios

ALA Awards

The Season of Styx Malone, by Kekla Magoon

Coretta Scott King awards

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

About Truer Words:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter@truerwordspod and on Instagram@truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website,truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

Nova Ren Suma Jan 28, 2019

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Find Nova on Twitter: @novaren and Instagram: @novaren. Her website is novaren.com. She is also the co-founder of the Foreshadow YA anthology, which is on Twitter @foreshadowYA and online at ForeshadowYA.

Show Notes:

Books, movies, TV, specials, and other media or institutions mentioned include:

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work edited by Mason Currey

Distraction 99 - Nova's blog

Vermont College of Fine Arts

A Room Away from the Wolves - Nova's latest book

The Walls Around Us - Nova's previous book

The Writers Room

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Feathered by Laura Kasischke

Boy Heaven by Laura Kasischke

Winter Institute

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado

About Truer Words:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

May Yang Jan 21, 2019

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Find May online at MayYang.net or Flashfloodprint.com and Instagram: @electrofervor and @flashfloodprints.

Show Notes:

Books, movies, comedy specials, and other media or institutions mentioned include:

Danielle Steel's desk (believe us, you want to see it)

Nora Roberts

Amy Tan, misandrist hero

Small Business Development Center of Tulsa

MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art)

Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque

Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition

Time Blocking

Jessica Hische

Podcast: Song Exploder

The Gathering Place Tulsa

And here's the mural May painted!

Philbrook Museum of Art

About Truer Words:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Matt Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

Erin Foley Chan Jan 14, 2019

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Find Erin on Twitter @erinrosechan and Instagram: Erinrosechan. And find Erin's dog, Thor, on Instagram: @Thebiteythor. She's also on the How to Watch Movies the Right Way podcast.

Subscribe to Truer Words on Apple Podcasts.

Show Notes:

Books, movies, comedy specials, and other media mentioned include:

Nanette by Hannah Gadsby

My Life as a Goddess by Guy Branum

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Forever Princess by Meg Cabot

Cash Cab

Samantha Bee's This Is Not A Game The Game

Jantsen's Gift by Pamela Cope / The COPE Foundation

Bubble Guppies

Brooklyn 99

Get Out

Inside You by Heather Fink

Game Night

About Truer Words:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

Adrienne Kisner Jan 01, 2019

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Find Adrienne on Twitter @adriennekisner and visit her website, adriennekisner.com. Her debut novel is Dear Rachel Maddow, and her upcoming June 2019 release is The Confusion of Laurel Graham.

Show Notes:

We reference our MFA program, Vermont College of Fine Arts' MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and the PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award.

Books and other media mentioned include:

Sadie by Courtney Summers

Sawkill Girls and Furyborn by Claire Legrand

Murphy Brown

The Good Place

Veronica Mars

About Truer Words:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

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