Ep 201: Gaby Dunn

First Draft Episode #201: Gaby Dunn

Gaby Dunn, co-author of the New York Times bestselling young
adult novel I Hate Everyone But You with her writing partner
Alison Raskin. The sequel, Please Send Help, is out now! Gaby and
Alison also host the Just Between Us podcast and YouTube channel.
Gaby is also the host of the podcast Bad With Money and author of
the book Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your
Financial Sh*t Together.
LINKS AND TOPICS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE



Listen to Gaby’s first episode of First Draft with her
co-author and comedy partner Allison Raskin here




Gaby has a money book that came out in January called Bad
With Money based on her podcast of the same name.




Started the Bad With Money podcast because she is not a money
expert at all and wanted to ask basic finance questions like
“What is a stock?” or “What is a 401k?”.




CNBC is a business and finance-based TV network (which was
the launching pad for Suze Orman, financial adviser and TV
host, author of Women and Money and The Road to Wealth, who
has appeared on Gaby’s show)




Gerrymandering Case in which hard drives of a deceased
Republican strategist were discovered, and he was understood
to be encouraging a top census official to add a citizenship
question to the survey for political gain.




Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin’s YouTube Channel “Just Between
Us”, which is an LA based odd-couple comedy channel. It has
now shifted over to a podcast format.




Gaby went to school for journalism and when she had to
interview people and ask a tough question she would give a
story of her own first so people would feel like they were
talking to a real person. Gaby relates it to the 30 Rock bit
were Tracy Morgan feels like he’s lost touch with his
audience.




In her recent novel, Gaby talks about It’s Always Sunny in
Philadelphia (TV show) and feeling like the character Charlie
during the “There is no Carol in HR!” scene.




Gaby and Allison Raskin sold their first novel, I Hate
Everyone But You, in a bidding war between Macmillan and
Simon and Schuster. Simon and Schuster won the bid but Gaby
signed a deal for a solo book with Macmillan.




Broke Millennial and Broke Millennial Takes on Investing by
Erin Lowry




Gaby talked with Suze Orman off the record and agreed to
disagree on the importance of systemic issues.




Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TV show)




Please Send Help takes place four years after I Hate Everyone
But You to match the growth of the readers and becomes a
cross over between the Young Adult and Adult Genre.




Bury The Lede is a Crime Thriller and Gaby’s first graphic
novel. She wanted to move away from comedy and towards crime
procedurals. Gaby pitches Bury The Lede as Killing Eve (TV
show) or Lesbian Hannibal (TV show).




Gaby draws on her experience as an intern at The Boston Globe
where she would show up to work, get a police radio, and
drive around looking for stories.




Gaby worked at the Boston Globe while the case of Clark
Rockefeller was unfolding. Clark Rockefeller was the
pseudonym of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, convicted
murderer and imposter who posed as an American socialite, and
was eventually arrested for kidnapping his daughter following
a contentious divorce. “The Man in the Rockefeller Suit,”
written by Mark Seal for Vanity Fair, is a great piece on the
case, and the movie Gaby mentions is Who is Clark
Rockefeller? starring Eric McCormack of Will & Grace.




Boom Studios is publishing her graphic novel. They have also
published Lumberjanes, Heavy Vinyl, and The Avant-guards.
Gaby’s editor is Dafna Pleban.




Claire Roe and Miquel Muerto are the artists for Bury The
Lede.




Emily Heller (Stand-up Comedian), Jon Gabrus (Actor and
Comedian), and Dave Holmes (Author, TV host, and critic) are
a few of the guests that have been on the Just Between Us
podcast.




S1E2 of Bad With Money features Gaby’s session with Brad
Klontz, financial therapist and author of Mind over Money:
Overcoming the Money Disorders That Threaten Our Financial
Health



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