Episode 28: So High School (with Gabrielle Tozer)

Young Adult and coming of age stories

Thanks for listening to That Rom Com Pod, recorded on Gadigal land.

Our guest is Gabrielle Tozer, is an award-winning author, freelance writer and editor based in regional New South Wales with a weakness for hot chips, pop culture and wrangling words. She is the author of eight books, including The Unexpected Mess of it All, Before We Met, Can’t Say It Went to Plan, Remind Me How This Ends and The Intern. She is currently writing her next YA novel and two more picture books with Sophie Beer.  You can find Gabrielle on Instagram (@gabrielletozer), Facebook or her website.

Reminder of your Christmas ‘homework’: we plan to release our 2024 Christmas special on December 18 and we’ll be talking about two new Netflix Christmas movies if you want to watch them beforehand:

• The Merry Gentlemen (featuring Chad Michael Murray)

• Our Little Secret (with Lindsay Lohan, released Nov 27)

OK, here’s episode 28!

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Trending topics

• Riverina Readers Festival

• Before We Met, Gabrielle Tozer (2024, HarperCollins)

• To Stir With Love, Kate Mildenhall (2024, Simon & Schuster)

• Chicken Shop Date - Amelia Dimoldenberg & Andrew Garfield 

• Varuna The Writers House

• Toni Jordan

• Nobody Wants This (2024, Netflix)

• Hannah Ferguson 

• Fleabag: The Scriptures, Phoebe Waller Bridge (2021)

The Unexpected Mess of it All

• The Unexpected Mess Of It All, Gabrielle Tozer (2024, HarperCollins)

• Return To Sender, Lauren Draper (2024, Pan Macmillan)

• One Day, David Nicholls (2009, Hachette)

• Karina’s That Island Feeling cover reveal reel

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 So High School

• Can’t Say It Went To Plan, Gabrielle Tozer (2021, HarperCollins)

• Heartstopper, Alice Oseman (2019, Hachette) / Netflix

• Heartbreak High (2022-24, Netflix)

• Geek Girl, Holly Smales (2013, HarperCollins) / Netflix 

• The Text Prize 

• Beautiful Mess, Claire Christian (2017, Text Publishing)

• Dancing Barefoot, Alice Boyle (2022, Text Publishing)

• Sadie Starr’s Guide to Starting Over, Miranda Luby (2022, Text Publishing)

• It Sounded Better In My Head, Nina Kenwood (2022, Text Publishing)

• Lili Wilkinson

• Will Kostakis

• Looking for Alibrandi, Melina Marchetta (1992, Penguin)

• Dawson’s Creek (1998-2003, Stan)

• One Tree Hill (2003-12, Stan)

• The OC (2003-07, Stan)

• Clueless (1995, Binge)

• The Princess Diaries (2001, Disney+)

• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾, Sue Townsend (1982, Penguin)

• Penny Pollard’s Diary, Robin Klein (1983, Hachette)

• Morris Gleitzman

• Margaret Clarke

• Press Gang (1989-93, streaming exactly nowhere, but I love this piece about it by Tabitha Carvan in the SMH)

Shelf Love

• Gabrielle: Goosebumps: Be Careful What You Wish For, RL Stine; The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt, Mark Mupotsa-Russell (2024, Affirm Press) 

• Clare: The Wedding People, Alison Espach (2024, Hachette); Rapture, Emily Maguire (2024, Allen & Unwin)

• Karina: Things Will Calm Down Soon, Zoe Foster Blake (2024, Allen & Unwin); The Sitter, Angela O’Keefe (2022, UQP)

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