NO SPOILERS in this conversation with author Robin Wasserman!*** Robin talks Mother Daughter Widow Wife, a novel about a woman who wakes up on a bus with no memory and is diagnosed as being in a psychogenic fugue, which is a kind of amnesia. The protagonist is trying to build a new life from scratch with the help of various women circling around her. The novel questions what kinds of life a woman is allowed to have and what kind of roles and obligations make her the woman that she is. (01:50). *** Robin sees writing as a team effort. She shares how she connected with her talented and invaluable agent and how she “gets her” and her work (almost better than she does!). (03:47) *** Mother Daughter Widow Wife may not be about teenagers and is not set in a small town like Robin’s prior, Girls on Fire, but we loved hearing her draw parallels between the two in the way they both have a sense of claustrophobia and a narrative of obsession at their core. (08:19) *** Robin has lived many different lives, from YA author to adult commercial fiction author to television writer. Listen to what Robin considers her greatest professional leap of faith and how she ended up in sunny LA (again) writing for TV. (13:14)*** After declaring that every woman is complicated (yes!), Robin shares examples of the women who inspire her and what she has learned from watching female writers and producers making their way through the TV industry. (19:57)*** As always, we talk astrology. Robin reluctantly admits to being a Gemini, but her interest or acceptance of astrology stops there! This is shocking for a writer living in LA, but it may have something to do with a creepy experience with an overzealous psychic. (22:33) *** Robin explains why Mother Daughter Widow Wife was the hardest book she ever revised because she felt like an entirely different person in a deep, personal, existential way between the first and second drafts. Apparently that is a recipe for a better, more nuanced novel! (25:07)*** Find out what Robin has learned from the collaborative process of working in a writers' room for TV and what that has made her appreciate about novel writing. We also loved hearing what she thinks makes a great book to screen adaptation. (30:38)*** What’s next for Robin? Between TV, novels and non-fiction, it seems the answer is to keep all the fires burning! (37:12)Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @popfictionwomen and on Twitter @pop_women. Pitch us at cjadebarry @ gmail. To do a full deep dive, check out our website at www.popfictionwomen.com.Stay Complicated!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.