Getting to know you...

Gwen and Danielle have known each other for a while but wanted to interview each other for the first podcast for listeners to get some insight into their personalities, likes/dislikes, and a bunch of random tangents. Our normal-ish format will start next time (we just want to keep you on your toes for now)! 

From our interviews...  

Gwen 

Fresh Fiction Book Club, currently meeting virtually – join us weekly!!  

RIP Walden Books 

Sad teens in love... by Lurlene McDaniel! 

FreshFiction.TV - our tv/movie review site 

Blown Away on Netflix 

Shows with Snark: Succession (HBO), Your Honor (Showtime), The Flight Attendant (HBO) 

Comfort TV: The Office, Little Women (1994, specifically), A League of Their Own, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, Little Mermaid, Law & Order SVU 

• Danielle: Also Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Tangled; every medical drama and This is Us (but network TV stresses her out with COVID storylines) 

Reading: The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon, Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev 

Danielle  

Re-reads: Born in Fire by Nora Roberts, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 

All the Little Women screen adaptations 

Podcast Recs (these can all be found on your favorite podcast app) 

• Bookish/Romance: Fated Mates, Learning the Tropes, Whoamance, Black Romance Podcast 

• Pop Culture/Current Events: NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour, Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!, Code Switch, Forever 35 

• Gwen’s recs: Who Weekly, Keep It, Why Won’t You Date Me, Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata, Watch What Crappens, The Daily, Bad Batch 

Woo-hoo! Danielle’s Book Deal!!! 

Danielle’s Fave Fresh Fiction Author Interviews: Eloisa James, Julia Quinn, Talia Hibbert, Sylvia Day 

Our Goals... 

Gwen: writing every day 

Danielle: more reading and writing/less scrolling; also, a new creative outlet 

Our comforts this week...  

Danielle: The Bridgerton Soundtrack (instrumental pop songs) on Spotify, Keurig K-Café, Harlequin Desire novels (Scandal in the VIP Suite by Nadine Gonzalez, Back in the Texan’s Bed by Naima Simone) 

Gwen: Call My Agent! on Netflix, Enchilada Bake from Costco 

Find us on the Socials! 

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Danielle 

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