Brock Shelley

Author of the debut YA novel THE SILENCE OF BONES, June Hur is here to talk Pride & Prejudice fan fiction, her journey in publishing, and researching her new book.

Episode Mention:

• Pride and Prejudice
• Jane Eyre
• The Silence of Bones
• Anne of Green Gables
• We Need Diverse Books
• Confucianism
• Stalking Jack the Ripper
• Spin the Dawn
• Wicked Fox
• Little Fires Everywhere

Author Liz Lawson shares her debut THE LUCKY ONES, out now from Delacorte Press. We talk about the 3 books that she loved as a young person and what influenced her to write YA.

Episode Mentions:

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• The Princess Bride
• The Westing Game
• Megan Crane
• Elizabeth Little
• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• John Green
• Andrew Smith
• Sara Zarr
• Story of a Girl
• Courtney Summers
• E. Lockard
• We Were Liars
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
• The Baby-Sitters Club
• Sweet Valley High
• The Lucky Ones
• In Silent Seas We Drown
• If These Wings Could Fly

So happy to have Claribel A. Ortega back on the podcast. We catch-up talking about Scholastic, her debut being adapted into a movie, her podcast, & the release of GHOST SQUAD.

Episode Mentions:

• Claribel’s 1st visit to the podcast
• unboxing video of Ghost Squad
• ‘shooting stars’ meme
• Ghost Squad
• Scholastic Book Fairs
• the movie announcement
• Write Or Die podcast
• Kat Cho
• My Favorite Murder
• Write Or Die’s Patreon
• Stardew Valley
• her graphic novel
• The Circle Brazil
• Animal Crossing
• Howl’s Moving Castle
• Magic For Liars

NOTE: Recorded in March 2020, Naomi was going by a different name and thus it is used in this interview.

Naomi Kanakia shares her newest YA novel WE ARE TOTALLY NORMAL. We also discuss her influences, MFA experience, and her journey into writing.

Episode Mentions:

• Revolutionary Road
• Orson Scott Card
• Isaac Asimov
• Mercedes Lackey
• Goosebumps
• Foundation
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Dragon Magazine
• The New Lifetime Reading Plan
• Emma
• Enter Title Here
• We Are Totally Normal
• Samuel Delaney
• Legally Blonde
• Wheel of Time
• The Cadaver King & the Country Dentist

Author Samantha Mabry joins us this week to talk about her inspirations, magical realism, and her newest book TIGERS, NOT DAUGHTERS.

Episode Mentions:

• The House of the Spirits
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Pearl Jam
• Annie Dillard
• The Woman in White
• Edith Wharton
• A Fierce and Subtle Poison
• Magical Realism
• One Hundred Year of Solitude
• All the Wind in the World
• Tigers, Not Daughters
• King Lear
• The Virgin Suicides
• My Cousin Rachel
• Little Women
• The Song of Achilles

Andrea Tang’s debut YA novel REBELWING is out now from Razorbill books. Hear as she discusses the books that influenced her and her journey in publishing.

Episode Mentions:

• The Wrinkle In Time Quintet
• Wheel of Time
• Diana Wynne Jones
• Secret History
• Sarah Rees Brennan
• Rebelwing
• Pacific Rim
• The Expanse
• His Dark Materials
• The Queen’s Thief

THE WINTER DUKE is the newest YA fantasy novel from author Claire Eliza Bartlett. Hear as Claire talks about her love of fantasy and her inspiration for her latest book.

Episode Mentions:

• Neverwhere
• Good Omens
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Winter Duke
• We Rule the Night
• Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen
• Name of the Wind
• Loveboat Taipei

Author of the best selling Middle Grade novel GHOST BOYS, Jewell Parker Rhodes is on the podcast to tell us all about her latest book BLACK BROTHER, BLACK BROTHER.

Episode Mentions:

• Illustrated Classics Prince Valiant
• Black Beauty
• Ninth Ward
• Black Brother Black Brother
• Voodoo Dreams
• Towers Falling
• Ghost Boys
• Bayou Magic
• Alexandre Dumas
• Peter Westbrook Foundation
• The Princess Bride
• Ben Bratton
• We Need Diverse Books
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• Just Mercy
• Harriet

We’re joined this week by author Juleah del Rosario who discusses writing in verse and her newest novel TURTLE UNDER ICE.

Episode Mentions:

• Brown Girl Dreaming
• 500 Words Or Less
• Jacqueline Woodson
• Looking for Alaska
• agent Brent Taylor
• Turtle Under Ice
• Crazy Rich Asians
• The Cheerleaders

Happy to have author Addie Thorley on the podcast to talk about her influences, journey to becoming a writer, and her newest fantasy novel NIGHT SPINNER, out February 11th from Page Street Books.

Episode Mentions:

• Dear America series
• Alice in Wonderland
• Twilight
• The Hunger Games
• An Affair of Poisons
• Pitch Wars
• Night Spinner
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• song Out There
• Affair of the Poisons
• A Criminal Magic