Drew Afualo's book, "Loud: Nothing Less Than The Life You Deserve", was described as being full of funny stories about the author's life experiences and being mean to men.
You know, I'm such a fan of yours as like a follower of your work, but I took the deep dive of actually preparing for an interview because I really care about your book. Tell the kids about your book.
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Drew Afualo's book, "Loud: Nothing Less Than The Life You Deserve", was described as being full of funny stories about the author's life experiences and being mean to men.
You know, I'm such a fan of yours as like a follower of your work, but I took the deep dive of actually preparing for an interview because I really care about your book. Tell the kids about your book.
Thank you. Yeah, my book "Loud". I'm very excited about her. It's loud except nothing less than the life you deserve. That's the subtitle. My team was like, make sure you say the subtitle too, because I'm just going, yeah, loud. Anyways,
the viewers like, bitch, we know you're loud. They're like, are you just talking about yourself? Oh, nice. It's also ironic that this is the first piece of media you're making where they don't have to hear your voice and you're like, I'm still loud. Yeah, you're silently reading a written word and you're going to feel like I'm yelling.
As you fucking should. It's really exciting though. I'm very excited for it. I think people are going to love. I'm excited for it too, because I saw that you broke it up into some different sections.
Yeah, so it's like, it's more so it goes in waves. It almost like starts from like when I was younger and then builds to where I am now. And so that was kind of like the flow that we understood. But it was, it's, it's kind of in pieces. It's very anecdotal talks a pull for a lot from my life experiences and a lot of funny stories in there being me being fucking mean to men.
It's deceptively hard to write. They are. What was hard for you about writing a book?
Um, I think for my book in particular, the hardest part was like being vulnerable because there are certain stories, like there are a couple of stories in the book that I've never talked about publicly.
And when I first wrote them, I felt like I was giving a very like PR canned version of it. And one of my editors was like, Hey, I think, I think you could push a little more. I think you can open up a little bit more.
Um, just give me, give me more details. Like it's okay to open up a little, you might be surprised on how it comes out. So he was like, we can always go like wind it down if it's a little too much.
If it's a little, you don't talk about anything you don't want to, but I feel like you could give me just a little bit more. And so I was like, okay, like those two stories, honestly, I wrote about multiple times because I was struggling to be more vulnerable, but I've talked about how the book I feel like is very therapeutic in a lot of ways. And those two particular stories were very, very. Like helpful for me to be honest and more open about it.
And so I think I struck the right chord, but that was definitely the hardest part. I think other than the title, shockingly, the title was the hardest part to nail down and it took the longest.
I mean, other than the actual writing, but which is shocking because my original pitch was, it's actually the chapter. It's actually the name of a chapter in my book, but I wanted it to be the title of my book. And it was, I'd rather die alone.
That's what I wanted to title it. They said it was a little too, they said it was a little too negative. And like, I, I wrote, I wrote so hard. Somebody picks up your book and goes, I'll just take the dogs and get out of here. That bitch.
Okay. Wow. I'm like, well, your sister jumps off the tour bus. They're like, bye bitch. Have a nice day. Like everyone's like fine bitch. That was another reason why when we talked through it, we were like, I don't think this is as encompassing as we would like it to be.
Right. But I was thinking in the same vein as like Jeanette McCurdy's book, which is like, I'm glad my mom died. It's like, that's not necessarily true, but it's like catchy.
It's bitey and it's also applicable to what she's talking about. So that was my understanding of a title, but thankfully we picked a better title, I think. And now that gets to live as a chapter title, which is better for me, but I think it worked out for the best, but the title was pretty difficult to come up with. I'm just proud. I came up with it.
I like an inflammatory title and loud still kind of probes. Absolutely. It would have been crazy to be like, my eyes are up here.
The duo follow story. Like, it's like what? Or like, you know, I like the idea of like a catchy title, but I do get that. That was a little dark. That's what they told me. I was like, especially with after having written the whole thing and the manuscript and everything, even my editor was like, I think that this title works in better context after you read it.
Like after you read it, you're like, oh, that makes sense because it's like satirical in its very nature. And he's like, but that's not like what you want a title to be. And I was like, all right, I guess I'll trust you man who works in publishing for 20 years. Guess I'll trust you.
I'm excited to read it.
And I think other people are going to be excited to read it because I think people on the internet, they look at you and they look at the way you like process the world, deflect the right things, embrace the right things. Yeah.
You're like, you know, and you see through the bullshit and you just seem so strong. Thank you. And I feel like people are going to want to know in that section how you got there. Yeah.
That's I think the biggest, like the biggest thing that people are dying to understand is how I got to this point. That's why they'll ask me questions like did like just a million men fuck you over and that's why you're like this. No, no, no, not quite.
But I did. I have had many a bad experience with men, but that's just because I'm a human living in the world. Unfortunately, that experience is not exclusive to me. Believe it or not. Many people have had poor experiences. I'm going to tell you this.
Men are dogs and liars and that's on period. Men are dogs and liars. They surely are. Drew's book, men are dogs and liars. My eyes are up here as if they don't know where to find you. Can you tell the kids where to find you on the internet?
Oh my gosh. Yes. You can find me at Drew Offwallow on literally everything. And then if you're interested about my book, you can go to Drew-Offwallow.com and all the info's there. But that's in my bio too. So just go follow me.
