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Hot takes? More like hot wings. Carmela Dutra stopped by to talked about HOT WINGS AND HOMICIDE the sequel to A MURDER MOST FOWL, a cozy murder mystery series centered around twins who run a hot wings food truck. We played SPACE EM OR EMBRACE EM and BRING YOUR OWN BOOK.

We volunteer as tribute--repeatedly. We're diving into the world of The Hunger Games: all 5 books, all 6 movies breaking down the world, the characters, the feelings, that weird thing with the pearl, our hatred for Gale, our love for Haymitch, & more. All leading up to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping this November. 

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Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook.

Edited by Jessica Mary and Rob Cook.

Hosted by Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Julia Johnston, and Magdalyn Ann

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April 11th was the 3rd annual South Jersey Children's Book Festival. We don't read much kidlit here at the pod anymore but it's all still Jess's favorite. Check the links below and show these authors and illustrators some love!

• Veronica Mang
• Tracey Baptiste
• Pooja Makhijani
• Jonathan Stutzman
• Artie Bennet
• Anne Lambelet

We volunteer as tribute--repeatedly. We're diving into the world of The Hunger Games: all 5 books, all 6 movies breaking down the world, the characters, the feelings, that weird thing with the pearl, our hatred for Gale, our love for Haymitch, & more. All leading up to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping this November. 

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Support the show

• Booked All Night+
• Support the pod with bookish merch from our Redbubble!
• Buy the book on BOOKSHOP.ORG
• Join THE PILLOW FORT, our FREE TO JOIN discord server where you can ask any of our upcoming guests a question:
• Take a look at BookedAllNight.CO to see a list of our upcoming guests and reading schedule. (This season we're doing a deep dive on The Hunger Games that will take us all the way to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping)
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Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook.

Edited by Jessica Mary and Rob Cook.

Hosted by Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Julia Johnston, and Magdalyn Ann

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We finished Katabasis. Tears were shed. Screams were uttered. Angsty text messages were exchanged. One could say that we had strong feelings about it.

Along the road to discussing a well-crafted ending, Jess and Maggie examine what it means to tackle the writing of grief and frustration, the normalization of immigrant culture, Jess's obsession with floppy hats, and just who R. F. Kuang might have intended her audience to be.  

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Hosts: Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Magdalyn Ann, and Julia, with special guest Sweet Pea.

Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook and edited by Rob Cook & Jessica Mary. 

Visit⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LNK.BIO/BookedAllNight⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to follow us everywhere and join our Discord community. 

Theme: Whistle Joyride by TopFlow

Game show music credits: Music by ⁠⁠Dvir Silver⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠Pixabay

We volunteer as tribute--repeatedly. We're diving into the world of The Hunger Games: all 5 books, all 6 movies breaking down the world, the characters, the feelings, that weird thing with the pearl, our hatred for Gale, our love for Haymitch, & more. All leading up to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping this November. 

Visit BookedAllNight.CO for more info.

Support the show

• Booked All Night+
• Support the pod with bookish merch from our Redbubble!
• Buy the book on BOOKSHOP.ORG
• Join THE PILLOW FORT, our FREE TO JOIN discord server where you can ask any of our upcoming guests a question:
• Take a look at BookedAllNight.CO to see a list of our upcoming guests and reading schedule. (This season we're doing a deep dive on The Hunger Games that will take us all the way to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping)
• Follow us on Instagram
• Follow us on Threads

Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook.

Edited by Jessica Mary and Rob Cook.

Hosted by Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Julia Johnston, and Magdalyn Ann

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Disaster strikes when Katy's bookmark gets put back in the wrong place, so Jess has to hardcore recap Part 2 of R. F. Kuang's Katabasis (with a snooty "ahhh" sound, we've learned). But in the process, they still discuss a ton of crafting notes, realistic communication of abuse and suicidal ideation, the lies we tell ourselves to get through bad situations, and the greatest paradox of all: whether or not academia boils down to our desire to be recognized.   

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Hosts: Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Magdalyn Ann, and Julia, with special guest Baron.

Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook and edited by Rob Cook & Jessica Mary. 

Visit⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LNK.BIO/BookedAllNight⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to follow us everywhere and join our Discord community. 

Theme: Whistle Joyride by TopFlow

Game show music credits: Music by ⁠⁠Dvir Silver⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠Pixabay

We volunteer as tribute--repeatedly. We're diving into the world of The Hunger Games: all 5 books, all 6 movies breaking down the world, the characters, the feelings, that weird thing with the pearl, our hatred for Gale, our love for Haymitch, & more. All leading up to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping this November. 

Visit BookedAllNight.CO for more info.

Support the show

• Booked All Night+
• Support the pod with bookish merch from our Redbubble!
• Buy the book on BOOKSHOP.ORG
• Join THE PILLOW FORT, our FREE TO JOIN discord server where you can ask any of our upcoming guests a question:
• Take a look at BookedAllNight.CO to see a list of our upcoming guests and reading schedule. (This season we're doing a deep dive on The Hunger Games that will take us all the way to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping)
• Follow us on Instagram
• Follow us on Threads

Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook.

Edited by Jessica Mary and Rob Cook.

Hosted by Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Julia Johnston, and Magdalyn Ann

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It's official. Hell is a college campus.

Join Jess and Maggie on a descent to the underworld that keeps calling them out personally. Along the way, they visit the measure of unreliable narrators (or is it unreliable perception?), far too much Mellville, the benefit of writing friends over lovers, an incredible amount of philosophy, and our love of the Only One Bed trope. It's Katabasis by R. F. Kuang, and we're loving it. 

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Hosts: Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Magdalyn Ann, and Julia.

Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook and edited by Rob Cook & Jessica Mary. And Tiger did stop in at one point, the little ingrate. 

Visit⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LNK.BIO/BookedAllNight⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to follow us everywhere and join our Discord community. 

Theme: Whistle Joyride by TopFlow

Game show music credits: Music by ⁠⁠Dvir Silver⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠Pixabay⁠

We volunteer as tribute--repeatedly. We're diving into the world of The Hunger Games: all 5 books, all 6 movies breaking down the world, the characters, the feelings, that weird thing with the pearl, our hatred for Gale, our love for Haymitch, & more. All leading up to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping this November. 

Visit BookedAllNight.CO for more info.

Support the show

• Booked All Night+
• Support the pod with bookish merch from our Redbubble!
• Buy the book on BOOKSHOP.ORG
• Join THE PILLOW FORT, our FREE TO JOIN discord server where you can ask any of our upcoming guests a question:
• Take a look at BookedAllNight.CO to see a list of our upcoming guests and reading schedule. (This season we're doing a deep dive on The Hunger Games that will take us all the way to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping)
• Follow us on Instagram
• Follow us on Threads

Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook.

Edited by Jessica Mary and Rob Cook.

Hosted by Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Julia Johnston, and Magdalyn Ann

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What an amazing interview we had complete with technical issues and games that tortured our guest, Anastasia Arellano. BETWEEN THE SHADOWS doesn't come out until 2027 but you can pre-order it here.

Camp Wildflower is a summer camp for delinquent teens run by renowned psychologist Alistair Monk. And something is very amiss here.

Skylar Murphy and Olympia “Ollie” Hamilton are paired as reluctant bunkmates. Skylar, avoiding juvie after accidentally setting her ex-girlfriend’s garage on fire, and Ollie, sent by her conservative politician mother following a homophobic incident, must set aside their differences in order to navigate a camp filled with eerie occurrences and strange transformations among their fellow campers.

After witnessing bizarre and sinister activities, Skylar and Ollie’s bond deepens into something more. But that new romance is threatened when they uncover a dark secret that impends their very existence and that of the whole camp. Now, their summer romance is put to the ultimate test.

No one is coming to save them. They must do it themselves

We volunteer as tribute--repeatedly. We're diving into the world of The Hunger Games: all 5 books, all 6 movies breaking down the world, the characters, the feelings, that weird thing with the pearl, our hatred for Gale, our love for Haymitch, & more. All leading up to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping this November. 

Visit BookedAllNight.CO for more info.

Support the show

• Booked All Night+
• Support the pod with bookish merch from our Redbubble!
• Buy the book on BOOKSHOP.ORG
• Join THE PILLOW FORT, our FREE TO JOIN discord server where you can ask any of our upcoming guests a question:
• Take a look at BookedAllNight.CO to see a list of our upcoming guests and reading schedule. (This season we're doing a deep dive on The Hunger Games that will take us all the way to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping)
• Follow us on Instagram
• Follow us on Threads

Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook.

Edited by Jessica Mary and Rob Cook.

Hosted by Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Julia Johnston, and Magdalyn Ann

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This week, Julia interviewed Kelly Preston about her book DEMON TO YOUR RIGHT. Technical high jinx were had all around but we've done our best to clean it up. And of course, we tortured Kelly with a few games, and asked some outrageous questions.

We volunteer as tribute--repeatedly. We're diving into the world of The Hunger Games: all 5 books, all 6 movies breaking down the world, the characters, the feelings, that weird thing with the pearl, our hatred for Gale, our love for Haymitch, & more. All leading up to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping this November. 

Visit BookedAllNight.CO for more info.

Support the show

• Booked All Night+
• Support the pod with bookish merch from our Redbubble!
• Buy the book on BOOKSHOP.ORG
• Join THE PILLOW FORT, our FREE TO JOIN discord server where you can ask any of our upcoming guests a question:
• Take a look at BookedAllNight.CO to see a list of our upcoming guests and reading schedule. (This season we're doing a deep dive on The Hunger Games that will take us all the way to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping)
• Follow us on Instagram
• Follow us on Threads

Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook.

Edited by Jessica Mary and Rob Cook.

Hosted by Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Julia Johnston, and Magdalyn Ann

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖

We're joined this week by Michael J Brooks, author of the WARS OF THE NEW HUMANITY series. We talked about the importance of the theme of UNlearning and where dystopia fits in today's literary and political landscape. 

We volunteer as tribute--repeatedly. We're diving into the world of The Hunger Games: all 5 books, all 6 movies breaking down the world, the characters, the feelings, that weird thing with the pearl, our hatred for Gale, our love for Haymitch, & more. All leading up to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping this November. 

Visit BookedAllNight.CO for more info.

Support the show

• Booked All Night+
• Support the pod with bookish merch from our Redbubble!
• Buy the book on BOOKSHOP.ORG
• Join THE PILLOW FORT, our FREE TO JOIN discord server where you can ask any of our upcoming guests a question:
• Take a look at BookedAllNight.CO to see a list of our upcoming guests and reading schedule. (This season we're doing a deep dive on The Hunger Games that will take us all the way to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping)
• Follow us on Instagram
• Follow us on Threads

Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook.

Edited by Jessica Mary and Rob Cook.

Hosted by Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Julia Johnston, and Magdalyn Ann

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖

This week we're joined by Kim Barden who just finished her Finding Ever After Series joins us for a talk about the bittersweet moment of finishing her sweeping fantasy, Bring Your Own Book, and Space Em or Embrace Em. And yes, we tortured her with the options. 

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Once Upon a Time meets Grimms dark fairytales in this tale about vengeance, curses and love. Eveline Rafter has a gift. Not only can she hit every target with her twin golden knives, but she can find lost things. When Princess Snowfall of Bellatorre goes missing, Eveline is hired by the mysterious Huntsman to find her. With enough medallions to ransom a king, she knows she can't resist. But when she's thrust into a power game with old and terrifying magic, Eveline can't ignore the brewing unrest, or the shadows, or the secrets fighting to break free. When her dark past begins to catch up with her, Eveline begins to question the one thing she trusted most: Herself. Confused by her desires for the Huntsman, Eveline tries to navigate her curse, her fate and her friendships. But with a bloodthirsty Queen out to eat their hearts, Eveline and her companions soon find that not all stories have a happily ever after. Set against the dark forests of old fairy tales, in a kingdom ruled by an evil queen who consumes hearts for their youth and power, The Gilded Mirror is a YA dark retelling of the original Grimm's fairytales. GoodReads reviews:
'This was a wonderful fairytale rendition of epic proportions.'
'The Gilded Mirror was an action packed, super fun read, full of adventure.'
'This fantasy elegantly blends a story based in fairytales seamlessly with an effortless flow.'
'The Gilded Mirror is an epic YA Fantasy read that I thoroughly enjoyed. I laughed out loud, feared for the hero and her motley crew and even rooted for the amazingly in-depth villain.'
'This is the most glorious ride through the familiar land of fairytales.'

We volunteer as tribute--repeatedly. We're diving into the world of The Hunger Games: all 5 books, all 6 movies breaking down the world, the characters, the feelings, that weird thing with the pearl, our hatred for Gale, our love for Haymitch, & more. All leading up to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping this November. 

Visit BookedAllNight.CO for more info.

Support the show

• Booked All Night+
• Support the pod with bookish merch from our Redbubble!
• Buy the book on BOOKSHOP.ORG
• Join THE PILLOW FORT, our FREE TO JOIN discord server where you can ask any of our upcoming guests a question:
• Take a look at BookedAllNight.CO to see a list of our upcoming guests and reading schedule. (This season we're doing a deep dive on The Hunger Games that will take us all the way to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping)
• Follow us on Instagram
• Follow us on Threads

Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook.

Edited by Jessica Mary and Rob Cook.

Hosted by Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Julia Johnston, and Magdalyn Ann

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖

Joining us this week is Ashley Peters, author of the dystopian novel IN STASIS. We played Never Have I Ever Spoiled My Own Book and Literary Would You Rather--plus we totally geeked out over quote books and the sheer trauma of academia.

IN STASIS (BUY IT ON BOOKSHOP)

We volunteer as tribute--repeatedly. We're diving into the world of The Hunger Games: all 5 books, all 6 movies breaking down the world, the characters, the feelings, that weird thing with the pearl, our hatred for Gale, our love for Haymitch, & more. All leading up to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping this November. 

Visit BookedAllNight.CO for more info.

Support the show

• Booked All Night+
• Support the pod with bookish merch from our Redbubble!
• Buy the book on BOOKSHOP.ORG
• Join THE PILLOW FORT, our FREE TO JOIN discord server where you can ask any of our upcoming guests a question:
• Take a look at BookedAllNight.CO to see a list of our upcoming guests and reading schedule. (This season we're doing a deep dive on The Hunger Games that will take us all the way to the theatrical release of Sunrise On The Reaping)
• Follow us on Instagram
• Follow us on Threads

Booked All Night is produced by Rob Cook.

Edited by Jessica Mary and Rob Cook.

Hosted by Jessica Mary, K. Leigh, Julia Johnston, and Magdalyn Ann