Becca Mann is an author, screenwriter, and former Team USA swimmer. A two-time national champion, she was the youngest to place Top 10 in four events at a single Olympic Trials and competed in four World Championships. She later worked in writers rooms on shows like Cruel Summer, The Wilds, and The Morning Show. Her memoir Outside the Lanes and novel Unruly drop the first week of April.
Today, we dive into how Becca landed her first writers' room job with 500+ cold emails; how she turned a spontaneous book pitch into a deal; and why embracing boldness, loving the process, and facing failure head-on leads to success.
BREAKDOWN:
3:00 - “Outside the Lanes” - memoir from an alumnae swimmer of Team USA
15:00 - First job in Hollywood by guessing showrunners’ emails and cold emailing
17:18 - First writers’ room job as a writers’ PA on “Cruel Summer”
22:00 - Being show runner’s assistant on “The Wilds”
23:50 - Becoming script coordinator on “The Morning Show”
25:40 - Back to sending emails for the next job!
28:00 - How Becca got her book deal + failure isn’t real
33:00 - Huge week for Becca in April! Books, races, shows!
34:00 - Becca announces her YA book premise, coming out this April!
37:30 - USC swim career + early swim career
44:50 - Advice!
54:07 - TIME CAPSULE
KEEP UP WITH BECCA:
IG: @becca__mann
TikTok: @beccawmann
Buy Becca's Memoir:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774496/outside-the-lanes-by-becca-mann/
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