May 12, 2020

Sarah Archer’s Clever Protagonist Is a Robotics Engineer Who Builds Her Perfect Date in “the Plus One”

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In this episode 104, we visit with Sarah Archer, author of “the Plus One,” a novel about what happens when a female robotics engineer who can’t find a date to her sister’s wedding to pacify the unrelenting pressure by her mother to get a man, decides to build her own date, the perfect man for her.

Dating is hard, and apparently, being dateless at your perfect sister’s wedding is even harder, which is why, when Kelly couldn’t find Mr. Right, she built him. Renee Carlino, author of “Blind Kiss,” calls it “simply unputdownable,” a story full of laughter and tears.

Sarah starts the show with a reading from early in the book where the protagonist’s mother and her family are putting the heat on her to get a date for her sister’s wedding.

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About the Author

Straight out of college, Sarah Archer moved to Los Angeles to work in film and television. When bigwigs say “Have your people call my people?” she was the people. Since then, shifted to writing full-time and has been thrilled to enter the fiction world.

Sarah is a Black List Screenwriting Mini-Lab fellow who has had material produced for Comedy Central and published short stories and poetry in numerous literary magazines. After living in Los Angeles, where she worked in literary management and development on projects including House, Concussion, Roots, and Girls Trip, she spent time in St. Maarten, England, New York City and Miami, until she arrived back in her home state of North Carolina, where she lives with her husband and her pug. The Plus One is her first novel.

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