<description>&lt;p class="p1"&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Christina Hobbs! Lauren Billings!! The writing juggernaut known as Christina Lauren* joins &lt;a href= "http://twitter.com/red_scott"&gt;Red Scott&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href= "https://twitter.com/emteehall"&gt;Maggie Tokuda-Hall&lt;/a&gt; in Hawaii to discuss the 1998 Outside Magazine article &lt;em&gt;Life’s Swell&lt;/em&gt; by Susan Orlean and its adaptation into the 2002 classic, &lt;em&gt;Blue Crush.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;*Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The #1 international bestselling coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced nineteen New York Times bestselling novels. Their third YA novel, Autoboyography was released in 2017 to critical acclaim, followed by Roomies, Love and Other Words, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, The Unhoneymooners, In a Holidaze, and The Soulmate Equation and Something Wilder.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;You can read &lt;em&gt;Life’s Swell&lt;/em&gt;, by Susan Orlean, &lt;a href= "https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/water-activities/lifes-swell/"&gt; here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Order Maggie’s newest book, &lt;a href= "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737601/the-siren-the-song-and-the-spy-by-maggie-tokuda-hall/"&gt; The Siren, the Song, and the Spy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="p1"&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;If you like us, you’ll also enjoy:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul class="ul1"&gt; &lt;li class="li1"&gt;Following the pod on instagram: &lt;a href= "https://www.instagram.com/failuretoadaptpodcast/"&gt;https://www.instagram.com/failuretoadaptpodcast/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="li1"&gt;Following the pod on X: &lt;a href= "https://twitter.com/FailureAdapt"&gt;https://x.com/FailureAdapt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="li1"&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: &lt;a href= "https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast"&gt;https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;</description>

Failure to Adapt

Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Red Scott

Christina Lauren, Blue Crush

FEB 7, 202447 MIN
Failure to Adapt

Christina Lauren, Blue Crush

FEB 7, 202447 MIN

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Christina Hobbs! Lauren Billings!! The writing juggernaut known as Christina Lauren* joins Red Scott and Maggie Tokuda-Hall in Hawaii to discuss the 1998 Outside Magazine article Life’s Swell by Susan Orlean and its adaptation into the 2002 classic, Blue Crush.

*Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The #1 international bestselling coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced nineteen New York Times bestselling novels. Their third YA novel, Autoboyography was released in 2017 to critical acclaim, followed by Roomies, Love and Other Words, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, The Unhoneymooners, In a Holidaze, and The Soulmate Equation and Something Wilder.

You can read Life’s Swell, by Susan Orlean, here.

Order Maggie’s newest book, The Siren, the Song, and the Spy

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