Bookish Flights: Books, Author Interviews & Must-Read Recommendations - A Literary Feast: Sweet Foodie Rom-Coms & Flash Fiction with Jordan Millsaps (E132)

A Literary Feast: Sweet Foodie Rom-Coms & Flash Fiction with Jordan Millsaps (E132)

02/19/25 • 45 min

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Bookish Flights: Books, Author Interviews & Must-Read Recommendations

In today’s episode, I am chatting with Jordan Millsaps. Jordan is a wife and mama of two little girls living in East Tennessee. When she’s not writing romance, she enjoys reading, baking, working 1000-piece puzzles, and traveling with her family. She never gets tired of talking about books and connecting with other readers and writers.

Key Highlights:

Food & Fiction – From baking bread to making pasta, Jordan shares her love for food and how it inspires her writing.
Book Flight: Foodie Romance Novels – If you love books with delicious descriptions and swoon-worthy romance, this one’s for you! All of Jordan’s books and book flight are sweet, clean closed door rom-coms.
Flash Fiction 101 – Writing stories in 1,000 words or less? Jordan explains how this helped her discover her favorite genres.
Thrillers That Won’t Keep You Up at Night – Love suspense but need your sleep? We’ve got recommendations!
Indie Publishing Insights – Jordan talks about the journey of self-publishing and what it really takes to be an indie author.

Why listen?
✔️ Get delicious book recommendations
✔️ Learn how to start writing flash fiction
✔️ Find thrillers that balance suspense with sleep
✔️ Discover the indie author journey

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Books and authors mentioned:

The Wedding Date Deal by Jordan Millsaps
The Gratitude Guarantee by Jordan Millsaps
The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza
Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos

Book Flight

Hadley Beckett’s Next Dish by Bethany Turner
How to Kiss Your Enemy by Jenny Proctor
The Saturday Night Supper Club by Carla Laureano

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Key Highlights:

Food & Fiction – From baking bread to making pasta, Jordan shares her love for food and how it inspires her writing.
Book Flight: Foodie Romance Novels – If you love books with delicious descriptions and swoon-worthy romance, this one’s for you! All of Jordan’s books and book flight are sweet, clean closed door rom-coms.
Flash Fiction 101 – Writing stories in 1,000 words or less? Jordan explains how this helped her discover her favorite genres.
Thrillers That Won’t Keep You Up at Night – Love suspense but need your sleep? We’ve got recommendations!
Indie Publishing Insights – Jordan talks about the journey of self-publishing and what it really takes to be an indie author.

Connect with Jordan Millsaps:

Books and authors mentioned:

The Wedding Date Deal by Jordan Millsaps
The Gratitude Guarantee by Jordan Millsaps
The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza
Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos

Book Flight

Hadley Beckett’s Next Dish by Bethany Turner
How to Kiss Your Enemy by Jenny Proctor
The Saturday Night Supper Club by Carla Laureano

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Be sure to join the Bookish Flights community on social media. Happy listening!

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Fake Dating & Full-Cast Audiobooks: Creating Know Your Newlywed with Heather Taylor and Hillary Nussbaum (E131)

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In today’s episode, we have not only one guest but two! I am chatting with HEATHER TAYLOR and HILLARY NUSSBAUM. Together they wrote Know Your Newlywed, a full-cast audio production starring Mary Mouser of Cobra Kai and Tyler Posey of Teen Wolf. Know Your Newlywed is set between Boston and Chicago, and the female main character is an anthrozoologist—how cool is that? Heather writes and directs TV, film, and audio projects about complicated family relationships. She strives to destigmatize mental illness, disabilities, and poverty in her work. Hillary is a writer, director, and producer with a background in television development.

Episode Highlights:

Writing Exclusively for Audio – The challenges of storytelling without visual descriptions.
Creating Connection Through Sound – How to portray emotions & chemistry using audio.
Sound Environments – Using sound design to transport listeners between settings.
Casting & Voice Acting – The fascinating process of selecting voice actors and how they create authentic relationships despite recording separately.
Collaboration in Audiobook Production
Book Flight: Rom-Coms with the Fake Dating trope.

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Books and authors mentioned in the episode:

Ann Patchett books
L.M. Montgomery books
The Shennara Series by Terry Brooks
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Kitchen Science
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
Population: 485 - Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry
The Night Shift by Dr. Brian Goldman
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Aknar

Book Flight

The Spanish Love Decepetion by Elena Armas
Funny Story by Emily Henry

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From Lawyer to Novelist: James Arnett’s Path to Historical Fiction (E133)

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In today’s episode, I am chatting with James Arnett. James was born and raised in Winnipeg in Canada and graduated in Arts and Law at the University of Manitoba and Harvard Law School. He has been a senior partner of a major Canadian law firm, CEO of a prominent Canadian public company and Chair of an Ontario utility. Along the way, he wrote articles for law review journals, newspapers and magazines, but recently has turned to writing historical fiction. He enjoys trekking, Kayaking, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. He lives with his wife, Alix, in Toronto and has 4 children and 5 grandsons. His latest novel, The Monmouth Manifest, was published in September last year.

In this episode, we chatted about the high percentage of author guest who have been lawyers and then have turned to writing. The importance of good writing while practicing law. His path to getting into writing that started with writing a treatment for a movie. It did not get picked up but then it was suggested he turn it into a novel. He realized he enjoyed and was actually good at writing dialogue. One thing he loves about writing is you get a piece or nugget of history and then you build the plot around it.

Key Highlights:

The high percentage of former lawyers who transition into writing careers
The role of writing in law and how it helps develop storytelling skills
James’s journey from legal writing to historical fiction
The experience of writing a movie treatment and transitioning it into a novel
The joy of discovering historical nuggets and weaving them into engaging narratives
How James realized he enjoyed and was good at writing dialogue
The thrill of taking a historical event and building a plot around it

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