Brock Shelley

Karen Rivers is the author of over 20 books. This week she comes on the podcast to talk about her latest YA novel YOU ARE THE EVERYTHING out now from Algonquin Young Readers.

Episode Mentions:

• A Wrinkle in Time
• When You Reach Me
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• Sweet Valley High
• Trixley Belden
• Nancy Drew
• Dream Water
• The Tree Tattoo
• You Are the Everything
• Tana French
• Jane Casey
• Ann Cleeves
• To All the Boy I’ve Loved Before
• What Girls Are Made Of
• Harry Potter

Writer Marcella Pixley is on the podcast this week to talk about her books Freak, Without Tess, & Ready to Fall.

Episode Mentions:

• Frederick
• Katherine Kurtz
• The Dark is Rising
• E. M. Forster
• Freak
• Ready to Fall
• Without Tess
• Lauren Wolk
• Nest
• A Wrinkle In Time
• Harry Potter
• Lincoln in the Bardo

Author Kevin Emerson‘s 18th novel ANY SECOND comes out on November 20th. Kevin comes on the podcast to talk about his journal to becoming a writer and what went into his latest book.

Episode Mentions:

• Catalyst
• The Hardy Boys
• Cujo
• Firestarter
• Dean Knootz
• Madame Bovary
• Kurt Vonnegunt
• Ernest Hemingway
• Douglas Adams
• David Foster Wallace
• The Poisonwood Bible
• Louis Sachar
• Harry Potter
• The Golden Compass
• Jerry Spinelli
• The Writer’s Market
• From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• Carlos Is Gonna Get It
• Any Second
• Columbine
• Chronicle of the Dark Star
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Annihilation
• Mockingjay
• The Hate U Give
• Bone Gap

Author Mary Crockett comes on this week’s podcast to talk about her love of language and her new book HOW SHE DIED HOW I LIVED.

Episode Mentions:

• Midquest
• The Ella Fannie Elephant Riddle Book
• Tom Angleberger
• Cece Bell
• Strange Case of Origami Yoda
• Madelyn Rosenberg
• Dream Boy
• Beloved
• Catch-22
• Anne Taylor
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
• How She Died How I Lived
• Forgiveness from Charleston church shooting
• Jane Austen
• Persuasion
• Divergent
• The Handsmaid’s Tale

Author Jill Baguchinsky is on the podcast this week to talk about her newest release MAMMOTH and the fun, hands-on research she got to do for the book.

Episode Mentions:

• Misery
• The Babysitter Club
• Sweet Valley High
• Beverly Cleary
• Judy Blume
• Christopher Pike
• R.L. Stine
• Anne Rice
• Spooky Girl
• Ghostbusters
• The Hunger Games
• Mammoth
• Waco Mammoth National Monument
• The Hate U Give
• The Summer of Jordi Perez
• The Little Mermaid
• Beauty & the Beast
• Frozen
• Moana
• Jurassic Park
• The Stand
• Hope Never Dies
• When the Truth Unravels

NOTE: Recorded in Oct 2018, Kacen was going by a different name and thus it is used in this interview.

On the 100th EPISODE I’m happy to have author Kacen Callender on the podcast. Kacen is the author of HURRICANE CHILD and their newest book THIS IS KIND OF AN EPIC LOVE STORY comes out on October 30th from Balzer + Bray.

Episode Mentions:

• Animorphs
• Darius the Great Is Not Okay
  • Adib Khorram’s Episode
• Rainbow Boys
• fanfiction.net
• Sarah Lawrence College
• Boy Meets Boy
• This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story 
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
• Hurricane Child 
• The Hate U Give
• Sharp Objects
• Game of Thrones

Author Virginia Boecker‘s newest book AN ASSASSIN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND TREASON on October 23rd from Little Brown. Virginia joins me to talk about some of her favorite historical fiction books and what went into hers.

Episode Mentions:

• Gone with the Wind
• North and South
• The Quiet American
• Shelby Foote
• Alison Weir
• Jean Plaidy
• Elizabeth Chadwick
• The Other Boleyn Girl
• Maggie Stiefvater
• The Scorpio Races
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Tutors
• The Hunger Games
• The Witch Hunter
• The King Slayer
• An Assassin’s Guide To Love And Treason
• Twelfth Night
• Christopher Marlowe
• Jurassic Park
• The Nightingale
• Salt of the Sea
• The Martian
• Aaron Sorkin
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Jane Eyre

Debut author Candice Montgomery comes on the podcast to talk to Brock about the first book she saw herself in and her novel HOME AND AWAY.

Episode Mentions

• Pointe
  • Brady Colbert’s Episode
• Home and Away
• photo of girl football player and cheerleader
• Page Street’s Ashley Hearn
• Dahlia Adler
• Kasie West
• Corey Ann Haydu
• To All the Boys I Loved Before
• Love, Simon
• Harry Potter
• Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now
  • Dana L. Davis’s Episode

Legendary author Scott Westerfeld is on the podcast this week to talk about his return to the Uglies Universe with his brand new, NYT bestseller IMPOSTORS.

Episode Mentions:

• Charlotte’s Web
• The Hobbit
• NASA’s Apollo Program
• Uglies
• Extras
• Impostors
• LeakyCon
• YouTuber Matt Lees Article
• Ballad of Black Tom

Katherine Locke visits the podcast again to talk about her sophomore YA release The Spy with the Red Balloon and all that went into her newest book.

Episode Mentions:

• Katherine’s 1st Visit to the Podcast
• Code Name Verity
• Station Eleven
• The Girl with the Red Balloon
• Wendy McClure at Albert Whitman
• The Manhattan Project
• The Spy with the Red Balloon
• Oak Ridge, Tennessee
• Paul Krueger
• Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge
• The Emotional Craft of Fiction
• The Dragon Prince
• Lord of the Flies
• The Great Gatsby
• Watership Down
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Poet X
• Survivor Cafe