Peter Sagal

It's like, what if you took one of these trad wife influencers who always praises the old way of living, and you actually made her do that?

against her will.

And then it was the title yesteryear.

And then I was kind of off to the races.

Right.

And were you, as you came up with that, I know you've been in media and writing about these people, but were you like a fan of these people, the real trad wife influencers?

I feel I should ask this.

Uh, I hope for other people of like mind, what is a honeybee oven?

But it's beautiful.

It's great.

You have to have one.

Now, speaking of your life improving, this is an extraordinary story of how your first novel became the subject of a bidding war between publishers and then a bidding war in Hollywood producers, even before it was published, which is pretty cool, I have to admit.

But I understand you had your share of rejection before that?

Not this particular book, but by other ideas and other book ideas, and people are like, yeah, no.

And have you had your limo driver take you around to all those offices and you laugh at them?

Oh yeah, I saw that.

You were showing on TV some of the rejections you got.

Because I imagine, there was like, we don't want you here at HarperCollins where I am the editor.

But I mean, it must have been a little weird because this is every writer's dream.

You know, you're sitting there, you're working in this novel and you say, oh my God, the Hollywood's going to go nuts for this.