Brock Shelley

This week on the podcast author Mindee Arnett talks about some of her favorite books and her new release Onyx and Ivory.

Episode Mentions:

• The Hero and the Crown
• The Black Stallion
• The Island Stallion
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Jennifer Robinson
• Chronicles of the Cheysuli
• Stephen King
• The Nightmare Affair
• Story
• Maggie Stiefvater
• Twilight
• The Hunger Games
• Onyx & Ivory
• WriteOnCon
• Dark Angel
• Gillian Flynn
• Dark Places
• Gone Girl
• Dennis Lehane
• Tami Hoag
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Hobbit
• Wonder Boys
• Mistborn
• The Hazel Wood
  • Melissa Albert episode
• The Goonies

Author Stacey Filak‘s debut THE QUEEN UNDERNEATH comes out on May 8th. Listen in as Stacey talks about the books that she loves and the journey to writing her first novel.

Episode Mentions:

• The Thorn Birds
• The Baby Sitters Club
• Sweet Valley High
• Robin Cook
• Back to the Future
• Gone With the Wind
• Scarlett
• Michael Crichton
• John Grisham
• Jurassic Park
• Ernest Hemingway
• The Winter of Our Discontent
• The Last Picture Show
• Flowers in the Attic
• Harry Potter
• The Wheel of Time
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Mists of Avalon
• The Queen Underneath
• Stephen King
• Scrivener
• Shawshank Redemption
• The Green Mile
• The Time Traveler’s Wife
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• Children of Blood and Bone
• An Enchantment of Ravens

Author Dana L. Davis talks about the her early influences and her debut novel TIFFANY SLY LIVES HERE NOW.

Episode Mentions:

• Flowers in the Attic
• V.C. Andrews
• Langston Hughes
• Maya Angelou
• Shel Silverstein
• Bye Bye Birdie
• Damn Yankees
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• TriadaUS
• Dr. Uwe Stender
• Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now
• John Green
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Outlander
• Conversations with God
• Chicken Soup for the Soul

This week best selling author Brendan Kiely joins the podcast to talk about some of the books he has loved, his interactions with young people at school visits, and his new novel TRADITION

Episode Mentions:

• The Hobbit
• Frankenstein
• The Adventures of TinTin
• Tom Swift
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Catcher in the Rye
• Henry IV
• Revolutionary Road
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• Beloved
• Ceremony
• Salvage the Bones
• Where Things Come Back
• When I Was the Greatest
• Fault Line
• All American Boys
• Last True Love Story
• The Gospel of Winter
• Tradition
• Emma Sulkowicz & Columbia University
• In the Bedroom
• The Golden Compass
• Florence In Ecstasy
• Station Eleven
• Astonishing Color of After
  • Emily X. R. Pan’s Episode
• What Girls Are Made Of
• Piecing Me Together

In this episode, writer and entrepreneur Claribel Ortega joins Brock to talks about some of her favorite books, her writing journey, and her new podcast, WRITE OR DIE.

Episode Mentions:

• The House On Mango Street
• Goosebumps
• Baby Sitters Club
• Super Mario Bros.
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Hobbit
• Harry Potter
• The Hunger Games
• DVpit
• Suzie Townsend
• New Leaf Literary
• Witches, Punks & Cursed Things
• Jeffrey West editor
• GIFGRRL
• Pitch Wars
• Write Or Die Podcast
• Holly Black
• The Cruel Prince
• Modern Girls
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Percy Jackson
• The Belles

Author Caleb Roehrig has always loved reading suspenseful thrillers. Listen as Caleb talks about some of his favorites and his new book White Rabbit.

Episode Mentions:

• And Then There Were None
• All Around the Town
• A is for Alibi
• Sue Grafton
• Alice in Wonderland
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Phantom Tollbooth
• Mary Higgins Clark
• Patricia Cornwell
• N is for Noose
• Pretty Little Liars
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson
• Last Seen Leaving
• White Rabbit
• Psycho
• Game of Thrones
• The Looking Glass

Hear all about what went into author Kim Savage‘s newest release IN HER SKIN, and the books that have inspired her over the years.

Episode Mentions:

• We’ve Always Lived in the Castle
• Shirley Jackson
• In Her Skin
• After the Woods
• Beautiful Broken Girls
• The Imposer
• Judy Blume
• Secret History
• Fates and Furies
• In Cold Blood
• Separate Peace
• The Outsiders
• Richard III
• Sunburn
• The Vegetarian
• The English Patient
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Manhattan Beach
• A Visit from the Goon Squad
• A Little Life

It was a life-long love of books that lead Makiia Lucier to want to write stories of her own. Listen as Makiia discusses her process and her latest release, Isle of Blood and Stone.

Episode Mentions:

• Anne of Green Gables
• Anne of Green Gables PBS series
• Prince Edward Island
• The Baby Sitter Club
• Sweet Valley High
• It
• Jane Austen
• Jane Eyre
• Flowers in the Attic
• Reader’s Digest
• 1918 Spanish Influenza
• A Death-Struck Year
• Suzie Townsend
• A Northern Light
• Isle of Blood and Stone
• Indiana Jones
• Guam
• Map for Isle of Blood and Stone
• The Hollow Kingdom
• The Graveyard Book
• His Majesty’s Dragon
• My Name is Mary Sutter
• Pride & Prejudice
• Master and Commander
• Shakespeare

Author Kelly Loy Gilbert‘s new release PICTURE US IN THE LIGHT comes out on April 10th from Disney-Hyperion. Listen in as Kelly discusses the books that have inspired her and the struggle to write something after her debut CONVICTION.

Episode Mentions:

• Amelia Bedelia
• The Face on the Milk Carton
• The Things They Carried
• Bel Canto
• Prep
• An Artist of the Floating World
• Conviction
• Picture Us in the Light
• Station Eleven
• State of Wonder
• A River Runs Through It
• Harry Potter
• The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

Justina Ireland, author of the highly anticipated novel DREAD NATION, takes us through some of the many books that she has enjoyed and been influenced by throughout her life.

Episode Mentions:

• My Brother Sam Is Dead
• Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark
• Stephen King
• Christopher Pike
• Dean Koontz
• Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea?
• Sounder
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• D.A.R.E.
• Borders
• The Black Jewels Trilogy
• Kushiel’s Dart
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
• Twilight
• The Hunger Games
• Vengeance Bound
• Promise of Shadows
• Dread Nation
• John Green
• Cassandra Clare
• The Belles
• Children of Blood and Bone
• Black Panther
• The Princess Bride
• Nothing Lasts Forever (Die Hard)
• Harry Potter