Brock Shelley

Love, Hate and Other Filters comes out on January 16th from Soho Teen. Hear the author Samira Ahmed talk about how she feels her YA debut “leans into hope.”

Episode Mentions

• Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Agatha Christie
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
• VC Andrews
• Interpreter of the Maladies
• The Namesake
• Love, Hate and Other Filters
• Iran Hostage Crisis
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• Huck Finn
• Twilight
• Harry Potter
• Born Confused
• Soho Teen
• editor – Daniel Ehrenhaft
• agent – Eric Smith
  • Eric Smith’s Episode
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• The Babysitters Club
• Exit West

Author Lianne Oelke‘s debut Nice Try, Jane Sinner comes out on January 9th from Clarion Books. Listen in as Lianne explains how her personal writing were transformed to create her new book.

Episode Mentions:

• The Hobbit
• Lord of the Rings
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• Tamora Pierce
• Nice Try, Jane Sinner
• Absolute Write
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Anna Karenina
• The Brothers Karamazov
• Agent Brooks Sherman
• Alice, I Think
• Game of Thrones
• Wheel of Time
• Brandon Sanderson
• Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
• Leigh Bardugo
• Grisha Verse
• No Country For Old Men
• A Wrinkle in Time

The new year brings a great debut novel by Rachel Lynn Solomon. Her contemporary YA book YOU’LL MISS ME WHEN I’M GONE come out on Jan 2nd from Simon Pulse. Listen in as Rachel talks about her debut and the books that inspired her.

Episode Mentions:

• The Princess Diaries
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Sarah Dessen
• Courtney Summers
• Lauren Oliver
• Fiction Press
• Even When You Lie To Me
• You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone
• Nirvana
• Divergent
• The Hunger Games
• The Midnights

Growing up with ADHD caused author Laura Creedle to face many hardships in life. However, these experiences have been invaluable even motivating and informing her debut THE LOVE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND LILY coming out on December 26th.

Episode Mentions:

• Nancy Drew
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• Jane Eyre
• The White Mountains
• The Shining
• Sideways
• Twilight
  • Mary Lindsey’s podcast episode
• The Love Letter of Abelard & Lily
• Letters of Abelard & Helosie
• Pitch Wars
• Marty Mayberry
• Jim McCarthy
• Toni Morrison
• Kat & Meg Conquer the World
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
• Harry Potter
• Chronicles of Narnia
• It’s Not Like It’s A Secret
• Miles Away From You

A conference panel led Natalie C. Parker to take up the project of the anthology THREE SIDES OF A HEART coming out on December 19th. Listen as Natalie discusses what went into the anthology, how she became a writer, and her new, up-coming trilogy.

Episode Mentions:

• The Book of Three
• Darkness Rising
• Juniper
• Wise Child
• Sweet Valley High
• RL Stine
• Christopher Pike
• Scary Stores To Tell in the Dark
• Beware the Wild
• Behold the Bones
• Three Sides of a Heart
  • Lamar Giles podcast episode
  • Brandy Colbert podcast episode
• Sabriel
• Seafire Trilogy
• Mad Max Fury Road
• Jurassic Park
• Beowulf
• Game of Thrones
• The Best of all Possible World