Brain Burps About Books Podcast #164

In This Week’s Episode You’ll Hear About:

• My new LIVE Lunch ‘n Learn Wednesdays at noon! Replays are available on my site every Wednesday or on my YouTube channel in a playlist here.
• Julie Falatko reviews Buddy and the Bunnies in: Don’t Play with Your Food! by Bob Shea.
• Sign up here to be a part of the new launch team for the new expanded second edition of How to Promote Your Children’s Book.
• Writing courses at different levels taught by New York Times Bestselling Author Emma Walton Hamilton. Find out more here:
  • KatieRecommends.com/EmmaPB
  • KatieRecommends.com/EmmaMG
  • KatieRecommends.com/EmmaYA
  • KatieRecommends.com/EmmaCombo

 

In The Interview You’ll Hear About

• Beth Fehlbaum, author of the upcoming YA novel Big Fat Disaster
• How Beth became the genius behind UncommonYA.com — find out why she created it and what it is.
• How our marketing group is structured and why.
• What Beth wishes she’d known as a teen.
• How writing helped get her through her trauma and eating disorder.
• The first time someone has chosen a book for the yard sale question by an author I know!

 
Insecure, shy, and way overweight, Colby hates the limelight as much as her pageant-pretty mom and sisters love it. It’s her life: Dad’s a superstar, running for office on a family values platform. Then suddenly, he ditches his marriage for a younger woman and gets caught stealing money from the campaign. Everyone hates Colby for finding out and blowing the whistle on him. From a mansion, they end up in a poor relative’s trailer, where her mom’s contempt swells right along with Colby’s supersized jeans. Then, a cruel video of Colby half-dressed, made by her cousin Ryan, finds its way onto the internet. Colby plans her own death. A tragic family accident intervenes, and Colby’s role in it seems to paint her as a hero, but she’s only a fraud. Finally, threatened with exposure, Colby must face facts about her selfish mother and her own shame. Harrowing and hopeful, proof that the truth that saves us can come with a fierce and terrible price, Big Fat Disaster is that rare thing, a story that is authentically new.
 
 
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