BONUS! Episode with author and librarian coordinator Caroline Akervik! Caroline shares about writing, under her real name and her pen name, the vital importance of libraries, writing across genres, and...
Shane is an enduring American classic, and for good reason. Even with it’s show of Wild West law, Jack Schaefer does a great job of portraying an ideal and how...
BONUS! Episode with writer and editor Rebecca Klempner! Rebecca shares about writing, all different kinds of editing, and drops quite a few gems of advice for writers to heed for...
My Heart and Other Black Holes has some things going for it; teens don’t sleep with each other and a suicidal teen chooses to live! However, it’s still a story...
BONUS! Episode with retired educator and author Russ Thompson! Russ shares about writing YA novels for Hi-Lo readers, teenage students who can’t necessarily read the stories they can understand and...
Somehow enduring whodunit murder mystery which isn’t really a murder and only somewhat a mystery. At least The Westing Game keeps the pearl clutching to a minimum, keeping it appropriate...
Never mind the critics, Hillbilly Elegy is well worth reading, and even the adaptation does a great job of simply telling the story of a family without blame or commentary,...
Capital T rhymes with P, but it also rhymes with E, which stands for Episode! Family-friendly, clean, enjoyable, joyous, and with a bit of a lesson, too, grab your pearls...
BONUS! Episode with author and bookseller Winter Lawrence! Winter talks about being a writer across multiple genres AND what it’s like to work in a bookstore, including some of the...
The true Beauty and the Beast tale that’s old as time is the amount of remakes and retellings fairy tales get. While we’re happy to see stories brought to life as...
BONUS! Episode with debut author Ashley Schumacher! Ashley addresses writing “darker issue” YA, her path to publication, the “fun” of writing a synopsis, and more! Find out more about Ashley...
To Kill a Kingdom is sort of a Little Mermaid retelling, although it’s also about sirens ripping out men’s hearts. So there’s that. More interestingly, the core of the story...
BONUS! Episode with horror writer Jessica Freeburg! Jessica talks about writing horror focused on ghosts and the paranormal, going on haunted walks to find inspiration, plus collaborating on a graphic...
Imagine living the same day over and over again but with the knowledge that, no matter how you live it, it’ll still be your last. How would you live it?...
SO MANY PEARLS CLUTCHED over Moulin Rouge–the film and the stage musical–and when that’s not happening we’re scratching our heads trying to figure out what’s the big fuss over Christian...
BONUS! Episode with debut author Nicole Kilpatrick! Nicole talks about her upcoming book “Clover,” including researching Irish fairy tales and magical creatures, plus finding a fresh approach to writing leprechauns!...
Overall, we’re big fans of the Dear America/Canada series published through Scholastic, not only because it’s great middle grade fiction, but also because of the times and places in history...
BONUS! Episode with debut author Cassie Gustafson! Cassie shares about her upcoming book and its journey publication, including the incident that finally allowed her to embrace writing as a career,...
SO MANY PEARLS CLUTCHED over Chemical Hearts, an Amazon Prime adaptation of the YA novel Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland. We’re also wondering at the focus on despair and...
BONUS! Episode with Tiffany Brannan, opera singer and co-founder of the Pure Entertainment Preservation Society (PEPS)! What is “pure entertainment”? Why preserve it? And just what is this mysterious “Code”?...
