Episodes

  • Announcing: FALL WRITING CAMP! Nov 7 - 11 in New Hampshire!
    Aug 26 2024

    Tessa and Annie talk the details of Fall Writing camp -- 5 days and 4 nights of writing time, campfires, readings, craft talks, agent chats... but probably no karaoke. Nov 7-11 at Purity Springs Resort in NH.

    More details here: https://www.accountabilityworkshops.com/writing-camp

    We also talk hot writers and Annie says "anxiety" 400 times.

    Happy almost fall!!!

    xo
    The Good Moms

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    29 mins
  • Ellen and Annie reunite to shoot the s&^%
    May 8 2024

    Ellen and Annie reunite after many months and we talk about the cutest baby and Ellen reveals a secret we've kept from listeners. We talk disciplining children, and why Drew isn't starting a home daycare any time soon.

    We love you, you're doing a good job.

    xx
    Annie Ellen and Tessa

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    39 mins
  • FREE* upcoming novel/memoir classes & How to write with a newborn
    Apr 13 2024

    We're back! Hoping to start more regular programming...

    For free admission to the Novel & Memoir classes, preorder Tessa's novel The Red Grove from any bookstore and email receipt to goodmomsonpaper@gmail.com

    Novel Class, April 23 at 8 pm est on zoom
    Memoir class, April 30 at 8 pm est on zoom

    One place to preorder: https://riffraffpvd.com/the-red-grove-a-novel/

    Also mentioned: Lucas Mann's Attachments and Clare Beams's The Garden

    Speechify code: https://share.speechify.com/mzuRNGP

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    59 mins
  • Good Moms with LUCAS MANN, quadruple threat: author, bookstore owner, professor, dad
    Nov 8 2023

    Annie and Tessa got to hang with Lucas Mann, the author of the forthcoming essay collection ATTACHMENTS (May, 2024) and the new co-owner of the bookstore/bar Riff Raff in Providence with his wife, Ottavia De Luca. He is also the author of Captive Audience: On Love and Reality Television, Lord Fear: A Memoir, and Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere.

    Here is Lucas's website: https://www.lucasmann.com/
    His bookstore: https://riffraffpvd.com/

    No preorder link for Attachments as of Nov 8, but I'll update when there is one!

    xx
    The Good Moms

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Season 3! Tessa and Annie talk traveling with a toddler, THE RED GROVE, and getting YOUR NAME tattooed
    Sep 20 2023

    We're back! We missed you! In this casual return episode, we talked about Tessa's great adventures spending a few months in Portugal with a toddler, about Tessa's upcoming book THE RED GROVE (preorder now!), about our writing contracts and our accountability group -- and new website!!! Oh, and Annie cries at the end.

    The Red Grove preorder!

    New website: https://www.accountabilityworkshops.com/

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    54 mins
  • Sara Peterson, author of MOMFLUENCED: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
    Jul 10 2023

    Ellen & Annie got to talk with Sara Peterson, author of Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture. We have been waiting for this episode and Sara didn't disappoint!

    About her work, Sara says: "I want to understand why our culture idealizes motherhood (online and off) but fails again and again to give moms what they need to thrive (like universal preschool, paid family leave, subsidized childcare)."

    Buy Momfluenced here

    Subscribe to Sara's newsletter here

    This is the Brandon Taylor "review" we referenced

    This is our final episode until the fall -- have a great summer, you're doing a great job!

    xx
    The Good Moms

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    57 mins
  • Yael Goldstein-Love, author of The Possibilities, on writing as Meaning Making
    Jul 10 2023

    Tessa and Annie got the chance to talk to Yael Goldstein-Love, author of The Possibilities, about postpartum anxiety and writing as a meaning making practice. Yael is on tour now -- try to see her!

    Buy The Possibilities here


    xx
    The Good Moms

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    53 mins
  • Szilvia Molnar, author of THE NURSERY, on uncomfortable literature and rethinking what happens after birth
    Jun 26 2023

    Hi friends --

    Tessa and Ellen chatted with Szilvia Molnar and she had wonderful things to say about her new book, The Nursery, literature that makes you uncomfortable, mental health, and about the urgency to "stitch yourself back together after birth" and what she learned between her first and second pregnancies.

    Buy The Nursery here

    Read Ellen's Fleishman essay

    xx
    The Good Moms

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    59 mins