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How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books
William Morrow/HarperCollins
A humorous and insightful look into what advice works, what doesn’t, and what it means to transform yourself, by the co-hosts of the popular By the Book podcast. In How to Be Fine, Jolenta and Kristen synthesize the lessons and insights they’ve learned and share their experiences with everyone.
“They are honest about the lessons they learned as well as the ones they just couldn’t fit into their lives. Even newbies to the genre will enjoy their humorous, clear-eyed views.”
Audible #1 Bestseller, August 2021
Winner of the 2020 Audie Award for Best Business/ Personal Development Audiobook
So You Want to Start a Podcast: Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story, and Building a Community that Will Listen
William Morrow/HarperCollins
An inspiring, comprehensive, step-by-step guide to creating a hit show, So You Want to Start a Podcast covers everything from hosting and guest booking to editing and marketing - while offering plenty of encouragement and insider stories along the way. Kristen believes that we each have a unique voice that deserves to be heard. But many of us need some help transforming our ideas into reality. And she's here to help.
“Those serious about mastering podcasting will find Meinzer’s insights invaluable.”
Return to Intercourse: An Amish Romance
Self Published
Amish teen Sarah Yoder is enjoying her Rumspringa romance with aspiring NASCAR driver Tanner Chace when she's called back to her hometown of Intercourse to help her ailing father and struggling family after a tragic barn raising accident. While she loves her family and eagerly pitches in back home, Sarah also misses the speed and abandon of life with Tanner. But when a strange new farmhand comes to help in the family stables, Sarah realizes there may be satisfaction in a slower, less reckless path. Kristen wrote this book in under two weeks as an assignment for "By The Book."
2017 Amazon Bestseller
Books I’ve Been Quoted In
The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America
by Jeff Yang published by Black Dog & Leventhal
From a New York Times bestselling author, this groundbreaking book celebrates and examines the history of Asian Americans on the big screen, exploring how iconic films have shaped Hollywood, representation, and American culture.
Filmed in Brooklyn
by Margo Donohue published by The History Press
Discover the iconic films, legendary personalities, and the locations for timeless big screen moments that took place in Brooklyn. From Saturday Night Fever to numerous Spike Lee Joints, readers can learn about Brooklyn's cinematic past or discover locations to visit today.
Raising Body Positive Teens: A Parent's Guide to Diet-Free Living, Exercise, and Body Image
by Signe Darpinian, Wendy Sterling, and Shelley Aggarwal published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers
A down-to-earth guide by a therapist, a dietician, and an adolescent medicine physician that gently encourages parents and teens to have a healthy relationship with food and exercise by centralizing joy and health.
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
by Rebecca Traister published by Simon & Schuster
With eloquence and fervor, Traister tracks the history of female anger as political fuel—from suffragettes marching at the White House to the nationwide protests that ensued after the 2016 presidential election.