This week on Barely Famous, Kail talks with bestselling author Kathleen Glasgow about the transformative power of storytelling. Kathleen shares the inspiration behind her novels, including Girl in Pieces, and opens up about navigating mental health, grief, and addiction within her writing. They discuss the complexities of family dynamics, the resilience it takes to heal from trauma, and the journey from rejection to becoming a celebrated author. Kathleen's Socials: www.instagram.com/misskathleenglasgow www.tiktok.com/@kathleenglasgow Kathleen's Books: www.kathleenglasgowbooks.com Please support the show by checking out our sponsors! Posh Peanut: Go to PoshPeanut.com/FAMOUS, and use promo code FAMOUS for twenty percent off your first order. Quince: Go to Quince.com/famous for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! Rocket Money: Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to RocketMoney.com/FAMOUS today. To watch the full episode + other exclusive content, join my Patreon community! Patreon.com/kaillowry See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Welcome to the shit show. Things are going to get weird. It's your fave villain, Kale Lowry. And you're listening to Barely Famous. All right, everyone, today we have an author on the podcast, Miss Kathleen Glasgow. She's a New York Times and internationally bestselling author, renowned for her impactful young adult fiction. I actually started with Girl in Pieces, which was her debut novel.
In Kathleen's book, she talks about mental health, grief, self-discovery, and I absolutely love her storytelling. I've actually read three out of five books of hers, so I absolutely recommend going out and checking these books out. Before venturing into novel writing, she actually was a poet. And I think that's really cool because people sleep on poetry.
Anyway, welcome Kathleen Glasgow to Barely Famous Podcast.
Thank you for making time for me. I'm so excited. You're like my teen mom OG, my favorite one, like forever. And I can't tell you how happy I am for you that you are doing all this stuff and you're making it work. And also, I only have two kids and I feel like I don't know what I'm doing. And whenever I see you with your kids, I'm like, she's really got this together.
I think it's the highlights reel of social media because I also don't have it figured out. I literally was panicking today because my son had a little field trip that I was going on. And I was like, okay, first of all, what entrance do I go in? And then by the time I figured it out, I almost was like missing the start of it, but I thankfully made it. And I was like, I don't know.
Who, why there's no handbook for this, but there's just not?
There's not, there is not a manual. There are manuals for parenting and there are not manuals for parenting. And like all kids, all kids are different is the thing. Do you know what I mean? Like your one kid is not the same as like your other kid, like at all. So you have to have like 12 different types of parenting just for like, you know, your kids. And it's like, oh my God.
By the time I got to my fourth child, I was like, wait, he completely threw me for a loop with the not sleeping and all of that. And so I was like, oh, wow. Like I even though I had three kids before him, I was starting over. Right. Like you are starting from scratch. Yeah. But I have to tell you that when I got to my reading journey a couple of years ago, I started reading on planes.
And one of the books that I read was Girl in Pieces. That was the first book that I picked up. And I think I DM'd you on Instagram. And you did. I did. And I was like, this is everything to me because I also struggle with being the daughter of an addict. And so I think in that way, Girl in Pieces sort of tugged on my heartstrings a little bit.
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