Off The Shelf with Morgann Book18 Sep 2025

#18: Everything We Know About Lauren Roberts' Next Book!

She’s back! Our first repeat guest, Lauren Roberts, joins Morgann on Off The Shelf to catch up on everything—from Fearful lore and behind-the-scenes author life to bookish AITA debates and what’s next for the Powerless TV adaptation. We talk Mara’s name, POVs that didn’t make the cut, burnout, shower thoughts for future books, and all the chaos in between—if you loved her first episode, this one’s even bigger.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Our FIRST repeat author

1:13 Lauren throws out the first pitch

3:38 Recent shower thoughts

4:22 What is Fearful all about?

7:25 Where Mara’s name came from

9:32 Fearful was almost…

13:20 Writing a novella vs a book

16:08 Tandem reading guide

17:25 Narrating Mara in the Fearful audiobook

23:50 What’s coming next

24:50 Bittersweet feelings

26:55 Tell me a time in your life when you felt ___

34:55 Curse of being a creative

38:50 Feeling fearless

39:39 AITA for not telling my family about being an author?

45: 08 AITA for reading romance novels when it makes my bf uncomfortable?

48:36 AITA for telling my GF that audiobooks don’t count as reading?

51:40 AITA for giving a book a 1-star rating?

57:29 Is the book always better?

1:00:39 Powerless adaptation

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