And what happens in the time between shooting the pilot and shooting the actual show is her star loses 30 pounds and becomes unrecognizable and just another Hollywood beauty and breaks Ruth heart. She's sort of a size 12, 14, which makes her on the larger side of normal definitely for Hollywood. She casts this woman who is allegedly very comfortable in her own skin. And this is sort of one piece of my Georgia life that I used. She can't find a scarred actress, and so she decides that she's going to cast a plus-size woman. And she realizes that her kind of disfigurement isn't going to play well. She wants to go out there and have this heroine who isn't a beauty, who isn't the a babe, but who gets the guy, who gets the job, who wears the great clothes, who makes the great jokes. WEINER: Well, what happens is she wants to write a show about an imperfect woman who gets great things. I mean, how much of her idea becomes a little bit watered down?
GREENE: I guess I don't want to spoil the book too, too much, but Ruth's experience in writing this series, it's good and it's bad. And what happens is Ruth sells this show, gets the green light, gets the call that every writer wants and then things start going wrong. So, it's a coming of age story where the women are of very different ages. The girl wants to become a chef, and the grandmother, who has sort of had many, many husbands, wants to sort of see if she can stand on her own two feet. It's about a girl and her grandmother who move to Miami. of course, and she wants to write a show that's loosely based on her own life. Well, like many of us, she was deeply influenced by "The Golden Girls," and she wants to. She moves to Los Angeles to pursue this dream of writing a television series. She's lived with her grandma since her parents died in a car accident, and that left her face scarred. GREENE: So, the new novel, "Next Best Thing," it follows the heroine, Ruth Saunders. JENNIFER WEINER: Thank you very much for having me.
Jennifer Weiner joins me from our studios in New York. and creates her own sitcom - with mixed results. It's about a young woman who moves to L.A. She also created and ran the ABC Family television series "State of Georgia." In her free time, she live tweets the "Bachelorette." Her latest novel, "The Next Best Thing," draws on her TV experience. Weiner's written a bunch of hits, like "Good in Bed," and "In Her Shoes," which became a hit movie starring Cameron Diaz. And so, we'll just refer to her as the author of multiple best-sellers. But that term is imperfect for a lot of reasons. Jennifer Weiner writes what is often referred to as women's fiction.
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