And “throw in a sentence about how excited you are just in case the exclamation points don’t do it,” said Ms. Moss. The authors “always thought a book would be fun,” Ms. Markowitz said, but didn’t formally begin planning one until 2016, around the same time that The Toast was shutting down. “Writing a book was a good way to keep the ladies around,” she said. The characters vent, date and debrief, in addition to booking a destination bachelorette to South Portugal, which they inexplicably abbreviate as “SoPu.”For Ms. Moss and Ms. Markowitz, friendship is the whole point. “There’s a little bit of an inner struggle” when one receives a “hey ladies” email, Ms. Markowitz said.

Source: New York Times April 30, 2018 09:00 UTC