USA Today and #1 Amazon Bestselling author Pippa Grant is joining us today to talk about unlikable heroines and why they need love too. Plus, we get to hear a little about her romantic comedies! (Fair warning: this talk is more PG-13 than some of our others so don’t listen with kiddos in the car.)

• Unlikable heroines need love too
• Not all things marketed as romantic comedy are true comedy
• Pippa’s got a new release coming called Irresistible Trouble
• Dawn and Roni have their RAD Reading After Dark voices going because when we recorded, we were both recovering from COVID
• Unlikable heroine does not mean a badly written heroine
• The double standard for heroines
• Types of unlikable heroines - the b**ch, the achiever, the sexually liberated heroine, the messy heroine, true female villains
• Why authors try not to read their own reviews
• Roni has feelings about Fatal Attraction
• “Cool motive. Still murder.” – Dawn
• Roni’s meanest heroine
• Our reading recs for books with unlikable heroines
• Our RAD recs of the week

• Our guest author: Pippa Grant
• RAD Reading on Instagram
• RAD Reading Facebook Page
• RAD Reading Website
• RAD Rec Master List
• Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram
• Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram

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