Earsay on Better Offline

Hey everyone, it's Cal Penn, host of Earsay, the Audible and iHeart audiobook club. This week on the podcast. I'm sitting down with Divergent author Veronica Roth to talk about her sprawling new novel Seek the Traitor's Son. It's a sci-fi fantasy epic about two protagonists on opposite sides of a war and a prophecy neither of them wanted. My first book was Divergent and when that came out like because it was so popular I think it attracted like mostly positivity but the negativity I sucked in like a sponge and I think it was like critiques of things I liked when I was like, you know, I was 23 and I wrote this book and it had all my like dorky little cheesy or maybe unrealistic loves in it. And I started to feel a lot of shame about those things. And so for the rest of my career, I steered away from those little things that like make you feel pleasure when you read. But I also was like saying no to these parts of myself that I then was like, screw it yeah so that's this book listen to earsay the audible and iheart audiobook club on the iheart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts