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They also had expensive juicers and made killer kale smoothies.

So in a sense, Kerrygold is your lard and savior?

Right?! Tequila rejuvenates me, and you don't see me slappin a trademark on it, calling it 'organic' and selling it to impressionable white people with disposable incomes.

So Neanderthals figured out how to roast, grind, and pour hot water through the coffee bean, then add churned butter?

1 to 2 tbsp of unsalted grass-fed butter

Mmmmm....diarrhea.

Neither butter nor coffee are paleo, never mind the MCT oil. Paleo diet people are so ridiculous. YES I'M JUDGING.

He was "literally rejuvenated"... Are you sure we aren't talking about Chris Traeger here?

I'm calling bullshit. I'm talking Dr. Oz-level of bullshit too. It's especially bullshitty if Shailene Woodley is all for it.

Your publisher is probably going to suggest-slash-insist that you have some kind of social media presence. Nobody knows for sure whether it actually helps, but the conventional wisdom is that it doesn't hurt...and it's something publishers can get authors to do (for free) to boost their books' profile. So I'd at least…

The entire megillah is online on my website (jenniferweiner.com). Short answer — I think it's possible to make contacts in journalism that could lead to a publishing deal, but I did not. I didn't want agents reading my book because I was a friend or colleague of so-and-so. I wanted it to be PURE. Because I was young…

Computer! And a rough draft of a novel takes about nine months. Books, babies...after nine months, something's coming out.

No question just wanted to thank you for your books. I read Good In Bed when I was new to Philly and fell in love with you and the city.

How has the publishing process changed, if at all, in recent years? Particularly in light of the mounting popularity of self-publishing, predominantly via e-books. Though these days Amazon also aids self-published authors in printing paperback and hardcover books. Has traditional publishing shifted to accommodate…

Hee. Okay, I don't *hate* Jonathan Franzen. What I hate is the way the New York Times transforms itself into his personal PR machine when he has a book out, to the exclusion of the books people are actually reading, so he's sort of a symbol for a whole binary hierarchical....oh, fuck it, I hate that smug motherfucker,…

Thanks! As I said above, I sort of split the difference between "rigid outline" and "Jesus take the wheel."

I am neither a plotter nor a pants-er, but an in-between-er. I do have an outline, and, generally, some idea of what's going to happen in a book and where the characters are going to wind up...but what always happens is the characters start to surprise me, and go their own way, and things happen that I never saw…

Ooh, great question. When I started writing, I was a newspaper reporter. This was in the 1990's, back when you could be a newspaper reporter. So that's how I paid the bills. I did journalism by day, fiction by night.

Thanks for being here. I love your books.... As one in the muddled throes of writing a novel, and who has replotted like 42 different times.... do you plot/outline the entire book before you start writing, chapter by chapter, or do you start and see where the muse leads you.... or something in between?