Brock Shelley

Debut author Phil Stamper talks through his long journey to publishing his first book THE GRAVITY OF US.

Episode Mentions:

• Animorphs
• Agatha Christie
• The Hunger Games
• Twilight
• Goosebumps
• Harry Potter
• John Grisham
• 1984
• The Gravity of Us
• Twister
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
• Jane Eyre
• Like A Love Story
  • Abdi Nazemian’s episode

You’ll want to listen as Scott Reintgen comes back on the podcast to talk about his 5th book ASHLORDS. We look over the past two and a half years of writing and school visits.

Episode Mentions:

• Scott’s 1st podcast appearance
• Nyxia
• Nyxia Unleashed
• Nyxia Uprising
• Saving Fable
• Ashlords
• Katherine Locke
  • Locke’s 1st visit
  • Locke’s 2nd visit
• Dragon Ball Z
• Wheel of Time
• Gardens of the Moon
• Robin Hobb
• The Bear and the Nightingale

The fantastic writer, Lamar Giles is back on the podcast to catch up and talk about this latest release NOT SO PURE AND SIMPLE.

Episode Mentions:

• Lamar’s 1st podcast visit
• Spin
• The Last Last Day of Summer
• Not So Pure and Simple
• The Usual Suspects
• Old Dominion MFA
• #MeToo
• Fake ID
• Endangered
• Overturned
• Stephen King
• The Hate U Give
• NCTE
• The Body
• Different Seasons
• Fresh Ink
• Skeleton Crew
• Nightmares & Dreamscapes
• Three Sides of a Heart
  • Natalie C. Parker’s episode
• Kwame Alexander’s imprint Versify
• We Need Diverse Books
• Clark Kent
• Blade
• The Catcher in the Rye
• His Hideous Heart
  • Dahlia Adler’s episode
• Ninth House

So happy to have Nic Stone back on the podcast as we catch up on her life since her debut DEAR MARTIN was released and talk about her new middle grade novel, CLEAN GETAWAY.

Episode Mentions:

• 1st podcast appearance
• Dear Martin
• Odd One Out
• Jackpot
• Clean Getaway
• jewel thief Doris Payne
• the Greenbook
• Dhonielle Clayton
• illustrator Dawud Anyabwile
• Shuri
• Dear Justyce
• Wilder Girls

This week author Sarah Henning joins us to talk about her newest book, THROW LIKE A GIRL. We talk about some of her favorite books, how her background in journalism plays into her writing, and moving between writing fantasy & contemporary stories.

Episode Mentions:

• Speaks the Nightbird
• Boy’s Life
• The Five
• Jack Reacher
• Lilian Jackson Braun
• Trouble
• Gillian Flynn
• Sea Witch
• Throw Like A Girl
• Sophie Kinsella
• Lovely Bones
• The Da Vinci Code
• One of Is is Lying
• The Princess Will Save You
• Ride With the Devil
• The Princess Bride
• All the President’s Men
• Sarah J. Maas
• Assassin’s Guide to Love & Treason
  • Virginia Boecker’s episode

Episode Mentions:

For the holiday season author James Brandon has a very fitting book that hooked him. We also discuss his time in theater and his debut release ZIGGY, STARDUST & ME.

• A Christmas Carol
• his friend & agent Barbara Poelle
• Ziggy, Stardust & Me
• play: Corpus Christi
• This American Life: 81 Words
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
• I’ll Give You the Sun
• Ziggy Stardust
• George C. Scott’s A Christmas Carol
• The Brothers Karamazov
• Pet

Author Hannah Moskowitz has been in publishing for a decade. We talk about growing with the industry, some of her inspirations, and Hannah’s newest book SICK KIDS IN LOVE.

Episode Mentions:

• Ruby Oliver Quartet
• The School Story
• Break
• Gone Gone Gone
• Sick Kids In Love
• Grey’s Anatomy
• PW 2019 Survey
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe

Author Christina June joins us this week to discuss her relationship with books over the years. writing fairy tale inspired stories, and her newest book, NO PLACE LIKE HERE.

Episode Mentions:

• Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
• The Hunger Games
• Christopher Pike
• R.L. Stine
• V.C. Andrews
• The Great Gatsby
• Beloved
• Marian Keyes
• Sophia Kinsella
• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• NaNoWriMo
• No Place Like Here
• It Started With Goodbye
• The Shadow and Bones Trilogy
• Six of Crows
• From the Desk of Zoe Washington
• Meet Me at Midnight
• Red, White & Royal Blue
• On the Come Up

Episode Mentions:

Ryan La Sala’s debut YA fantasy REVERIE on December 3rd from Sourcebooks Fire. It is a fantastic tale about blurred lines between dreams and reality. I talk with Ryan about growing up loving and creating different worlds and his inspirations for REVERIE.

After listening, if you’d like to hear more from Ryan La Sala and his debut, be sure to check out Ryan on the FIRST DRAFT podcast. His episode comes out on December 3rd and I think you’ll enjoy this and any other conversations host Sarah Enni has with creative guests.

• Jewel Kingdom
• Final Fantasy
• The Hobbit
• Jack Kirby
• Sailor Moon
• Spirit Away
• Gaia Online
• Reverie
• Doctor Who
• Kingdom Hearts
• LARPing
• Red Wall
• MySpace
• Jeffree Star
• Howl Moving Castle
• The Lord of the Rings
• Foundation Series
• The Brilliant Death
  • episode of Amy Rose Capetta with Cori McCarthy

In this week’s episode author Lance Rubin talks about his latest book CRYING LAUGHING. We talk about how acting experience has helped his story telling, writing comedy, and having to start over when writing his most recent book.

Episode Mentions:

• The Hunger Games
• Denton Little’s Deathdate
• On Writing
• Bird by Bird
• Freedom App
• The Stinky Cheese Man
• Back to the Future
• Crying Laughing
• Unbreakable
• Truth In Comedy
• Deep Thoughts
• Letters from a Nut
• Superstud
• David Sedaris
• Love, Simon
• His Dark Materials
• Unscripted
• Hello, Universe