This episode is amazing! Andrea Bartz, one of my favorite thriller writers, joins me to discuss being childfree, coming out at age 34, how our culture/media tells women what lives to want, and how scary it is to upend that heteronormative status quo. We discuss her new thriller, The Spare Room, and how Andrea's life inspired the story. We also talk about how badly reviewers react to work that lets women not have children— everything from Sex and the City to Andrea's own work.

I LOVED the Spare Room, and fortunately, it's out TUESDAY JUNE 20th, which may well before after you read these show notes. Links to everything here:

• The Spare Room: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645864/the-spare-room-by-andrea-bartz/
• Andrea's other work: https://www.andreabartz.com/
• Sex and the City and Us by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (author of several books we mentioned): https://www.amazon.com/Sex-City-Us-Single-Changed/dp/1508264155
• You Should Have Told Me by Leah Konen: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709709/you-should-have-told-me-by-leah-konen/  
• The Nap Ministry: https://thenapministry.com/