Such Sheltered Lives: Alyssa Sheinmel on Celebrity Secrets, Dead Bodies, and Her Adult Fiction Debut

What happens when three celebrities land in the same ultra-exclusive rehab — and someone ends up dead? That's the opening of Such Sheltered Lives, the electric adult debut from New York Times bestselling author Alyssa Sheinmel. Host Samantha Tennant sits down with Alyssa for a wide-ranging conversation about the leap from YA to adult fiction, the joys and challenges of writing multiple narrators, and how she crafts twists that feel both surprising and inevitable on the second read. They also dig into Alyssa's fascinating work as a collaborative and ghost writer — including her official novels for Umbrella Academy, Outer Banks, and The Haunting of Sunshine Girl — and what it means to inhabit characters you didn't create. Plus: Fresh Fiction Facts, dream casting, and a very strong case for Birkenstock clogs.