Jennette McCurdy, Shock Value & Second Book Syndrome ('Half His Age' & 'I’m Glad My Mom Died')

Does depicting taboo relationships automatically mean endorsing them? Does having an interesting personal story automatically make you a good storyteller? And further, how does an author follow up a seminal debut? These are the central questions that Sunny Adcock and Allie Daisy King set out to answer in today's episode of Booksmart, using writer and former child actor Jennette McCurdy's fiction debut, 'Half His Age', and her best-selling memoir, 'I'm Glad My Mom Died', as their case studies.You can buy 'Half His Age' at the following link: https://bit.ly/4u5sL0v