• Unlikable Heroines with (Likable) Guest Author Pippa Grant

  • Sep 16 2022
  • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Unlikable Heroines with (Likable) Guest Author Pippa Grant

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  • 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.)


    Highlights: 
    • 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


    Click here to get the full show notes, including links to all of our recommendations and anything else we mentioned in the show.
    Find us online:
    • 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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