Unabridged: Bubbles with Tia Williams

For today’s Unabridged we’re joined by bestselling novelist Tia Williams to talk about her newest book Seven Days in June, in which two rendezvousing writers rekindle a 15 year-old flame. We discuss the inspiration behind the book, the rules of romance, and being Black in romantic fiction. We also hear how Tia’s writing skills as a magazine beauty editor translated to novel-writing.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Amazon.

• Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

• William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996)

• Claire Danes

• Leonardo DiCaprio

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

• The Ripped Bodice (Culver City, CA)

• “Ep. 97 A Little Romance with Leah Koch of The Ripped Bodice” (The Stacks)

• The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

• Terry McMillan

• E. Lynn Harris

• BeBe Moore Campbell

• The Accidental Diva by Tia Williams

• The New York Times Bestseller List

• Zane

• Beverly Jenkins

• “Black authors are on all the bestseller lists right now. But publishing doesn’t pay them enough.” (Constance Grady, Vox)

• Jesmyn Ward

• National Book Award

• Roxane Gay

• Elle

• Glamour

• Lucky

• Teen People

• Essence

• Grand Central Publishing

• Will Packer Productions

• Trevante Rhodes

• Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)

• Jurnee Smollett

• Eve’s Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997)

• Marsai Martin

• Black*ish (ABC)

• The Perfect Find by Tia Williams

• “‘The Perfect Find’ Netflix Movie: Filming Wraps & What We Know So Far” (Tigran Asatryan, What’sOnNetflix)

• Netflix

• Gabrielle Union

• Nutter Butter

• SodaStream

• Sprite

• The Real Housewives of New York City (Bravo)

• The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Bravo)

• The Real Housewives of Atlanta (Bravo)

• The Real Housewives of Dallas (Bravo)

• People Magazine

• Shine Bright by Danyel Smith

• “Ep. 215 It’s Kind of Wonderful, but it’s Kind of Awful with Danyel Smith” (The Stacks)

• “Ep. 216 Shine Bright by Danyel Smith – The Stacks Book Club (Novena Carmel)” (The Stacks)

• Brandy Melville

• Colleen Hoover

• Emily Henry

• Zoe Saldaña

• Sheryl Sandberg

• Center Stage (Nicholas Hytner, 2000)

• Beach Read by Emily Henry

• The Studio Museum in Harlem Gala

• Cipriani Downtown (NYC, NY)

• Diahann Carroll

• Aaron Spelling

• “…first Black bitch on television” – Diahann Carroll

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