The Write and Wrong Podcast | Writing Tips, Book Publishing and Literary Agents
Aug 17, 2026 · 31 min · 15 segments
**Contemporary fiction author, Elizabeth Richardson is here, chatting about serialising her debut novel **Trad** on Substack. We discuss the trad wife subculture, dealing with rejections, and…
Elizabeth RichardsonGuestJamieHostGoing back a little bit there, so did you, other than kind of watching this bizarre internet drama unfold, on twitter did you know much about the kind of trad wife internet um phenomena or did or did like whilst writing this have you had to sort of immerse yourself in research that whole kind of thing
so i did know a lot about it so something that has always been interesting to me and like a question that also kind of sparked this is there's been a lot of talk of like And a lot of books about the children of these influencers.
books now about the children of influencers not just in the trad wife sphere sphere but in the influencer sphere like these kids are growing up and they're like this is what my life was like and it was kind of insane um because i was made to perform x y and z for my mom while she was you know making all these videos or taking all these pictures and i was content um But what I was interested in is what about the children who grew up as the children of the actual trad wives, the ones that aren't on social media, the ones who are actually living in offline.
And I grew up in a conservative Christian environment, not in like very trad wife, not like trad wife at all.
It wasn't that extreme, but there were people in my church growing up who I would say did probably live that lifestyle.
And so my question when writing this book was what happens to the kids who maybe saw this, lived it growing up, left it, and now this lifestyle is an aesthetic.
And now this lifestyle is something that people are glamorizing or romanticizing and they have complicated feelings about that one way or another.
Oh, I see.
Yes.
The people who sort of had this upbringing or this experience, this before it was like a fashionable thing before it became.
Yeah.
And so that was kind of what I was looking to explore because my thing is always like the real trad wives are not.
They're
Going back a little bit there, so did you, other than kind of watching this bizarre internet drama unfold, on twitter did you know much about the kind of trad wife internet um phenomena or did or did like whilst writing this have you had to sort of immerse yourself in research that whole kind of thing
so i did know a lot about it so something that has always been interesting to me and like a question that also kind of sparked this is there's been a lot of talk of like And a lot of books about the children of these influencers.
books now about the children of influencers not just in the trad wife sphere sphere but in the influencer sphere like these kids are growing up and they're like this is what my life was like and it was kind of insane um because i was made to perform x y and z for my mom while she was you know making all these videos or taking all these pictures and i was content um But what I was interested in is what about the children who grew up as the children of the actual trad wives, the ones that aren't on social media, the ones who are actually living in offline.
And I grew up in a conservative Christian environment, not in like very trad wife, not like trad wife at all.
It wasn't that extreme, but there were people in my church growing up who I would say did probably live that lifestyle.
And so my question when writing this book was what happens to the kids who maybe saw this, lived it growing up, left it, and now this lifestyle is an aesthetic.
And now this lifestyle is something that people are glamorizing or romanticizing and they have complicated feelings about that one way or another.
Oh, I see.
Yes.
The people who sort of had this upbringing or this experience, this before it was like a fashionable thing before it became.
Yeah.
And so that was kind of what I was looking to explore because my thing is always like the real trad wives are not.
They're
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