August Guest Episode: Natalia Jaster

Today's episode includes graphic conversations that are absolutely not for all audiences- we are discussing smut- so please make sure if that's not your thing, you join back in in a couple weeks when we come back with a new episode.

Spoilers for today's episode include:

Vows and Ruins by Helen Schuerer (at the beginning- we announce it!)

ACOTAR and Throne of Glass series, both by Sarah J Maas.

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Author Corner: Our Author corner today is Emilia Jae, author of the Forbidden Heir Trilogy.

Book 3, A Throne of Wings and Embers releases in September.

You can find everything Emilia Jae here: https://linktr.ee/ems.bookish.realm

You asked, we answered- join us for a Q &A!

Our author corner this episode is Victoria Aveline!

You can find her at @victoriaavelineauthor or on her website at https://victoriaaveline.com/

Today, we are discussing the general etiquette of negative reviews, what we feel comfortable posting on our social media, and toxicity in the broader bookish community.

Today's Author Corner is Helen Scheuerer, author of the Legends of Thezmarr series. The final book,

Her website is helenscheuerer.com and she can be found on Instagram at @helenscheuerer

In this episode, we are further discussing our favorite and least favorite tropes, playing a name game with tropes, and some of the big tropes in fantasy.

There are some spoilers, particularly when we talk about our least favorite tropes: A Court of Thorns and Roses (full series), The Hunger Games trilogy, Divergent and Twilight (Breaking Dawn). We also discuss spoilers for the TV show Switched at Birth.

Today's author for our Author Corner is Katrina Cappelli:

You can find her at https://www.katrinacwrites.com/https://www.katrinacwrites.com/ or on Instagram as @katrinac.writes

May Guest Episode: V.B. Lacey

Spoiler notice: We keep the first section spoiler free, but we do have a spoiler portion for Forever Reign that we announce before we start.

Additionally, in the spoiler free portion, we do discuss minor plot spoilers for Long Live and major plot spoilers for the Harry Potter series, specifically from Goblet of Fire onwards.

You can find Vanessa here:

In this episode, we discuss what ARCs and Street Teams are, the difference between the two, and the authors who's street teams/ARC teams we're on!

Today's Author Corner: Alexis L. Menard:

You can find the authors we mentioned here:

V.B Lacey:

Penn Cole:

Tay Rose:

Kara Douglas:

Emilia Jae:

Sheila Masterson:

Nicole Platania:

Helen Scheuerer:

Allie Maddox:

H. E. Bauman:

Marae Good:

Sarah Pirtle:

Carissa Anne: