{"podcast":{"title":"Happier in Hollywood","slug":"happier-in-hollywood-57013","podcast_index_feed_id":57013,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LEME3032179732","website_url":"http://www.happierinhollywood.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/275a03d8-34f3-11f1-b229-3b9dfbb95918/image/001507c5b398194d4569c172a7b90925.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Lemonada Media","episode_count":481,"summary":"Veteran TV writers Liz Craft and Sarah Fain demystify Hollywood by making career and personal struggles universal. Friends since high school and writing partners for over 20 years, Liz and Sarah have survived and thrived in Tinseltown’s male-dominated entertainment industry, guided by blind optimism and a Midwestern work ethic. Along the way they've learned a lot about kicking ass, kissing ass, and office yoga. Sales and Distribution by Lemonada Media https://lemonadamedia.com/","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happier-in-hollywood-57013"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 465: Help! We Need Book Therapy!","slug":"ep-465-help-we-need-book-therapy","published_at":"2026-04-09T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happier-in-hollywood-57013/ep-465-help-we-need-book-therapy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happier-in-hollywood-57013","url":"https://omny.fm/shows/happier-in-hollywood/ep-465-help-we-need-book-therapy","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/claritaspod.com/measure/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/491/traffic.megaphone.fm/LEME8688654296.mp3?updated=1776090241","summary":"Liz and Sarah talk to their thriller writing mentor and book therapist, best-selling author Greer Hendricks, about how to approach tense and point of view in their work-in-progress novel, Bad Trip. Their biggest takeaway? There’s no one right answer. This week’s Hollywood Hack will help with those high gas prices: the Gas Buddy app. Plus, Liz had a major celebrity sighting at the iconic Mexican restaurant Casa Vega — rock star John Mellencamp. Finally, Liz recommends the Oscar-winning short film, The Singers, on Netflix. Sign up for Liz & Sarah’s free weekly Substack newsletter at https://happierinhollywoodpod.substack.com. It’ll come right to your inbox! Sign up for Sarah’s free weekly Substack newsletter Chickening Out at https://happierinhollywood.substack.com. It’ll come right to your inbox! Get in touch on Instagram: @Sfain & @LizCraft Get in touch on Threads: @Sfain & @LizCra Visit our website: https://happierinhollywood.com Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/HappierinHollywood/ Happier in Hollywood is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! LINKS: Greer Hendricks: https://greerhendricks.com/ An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen: https://amzn.to/3PTPop8 Greer’s Substack — Sincerely, Greer: https://substack.com/@sincerelygreer?utm_source=top-search Gas Buddy: https://www.gasbuddy.com John Mellencamp’s Pink Houses video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfkpu6749w The Singers trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHkfy0GIwTE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.","meta_description":"Liz and Sarah talk to their thriller writing mentor and book therapist, best-selling author Greer Hendricks, about how to approach tense and point of view…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1761,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/happier-in-hollywood-57013/episodes/ep-465-help-we-need-book-therapy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happier-in-hollywood-57013/ep-465-help-we-need-book-therapy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}