*If you listen closely, you can hear Ava screaming in the background*

We had the opportunity to interview one of Fandomtastic's all-time favorite authors, Danielle L Jensen; ICYMI, Danielle is the author of the Bridge Kingdom series, the Dark Shores series, and the Malediction trilogy, all of which we endorse big time. In this interview, we learned all about Danielle's writing process (including the music that hypes her up for some of the badass fight scenes), a few insights about the Viking-esque book we can hopefully expect from her in the coming years, and which of her characters is the most similar to her!

We hope you enjoy this interview!

Happy Friday, Fandomtastic Fam!

Due to some brain shenanigans, this episode is late; sorry about that! But there's still enough time to listen before HOSAB comes out, and that's what we're focusing on this episode! We'll talk theories about everything from:

Happy Friday, Fandomtastic fam!

This episode dives into everything we read during January - including the books selected for our reading challenge, including what we liked... and what we didn't. We'll also be chatting about the February reading challenge, so stay tuned!

Books Ava mentioned:

Everything here

Books Steph mentioned: 

Books by author Devney Perry (specifically Tattered and Juniper Hill)

This episode is wholly dedicated to talking about our OTPs (and threes...and more!). Steph and Ava dive into the delights of shipping fictional characters (and some of the non-delights). Tune in to catch our OTPS, our NO-TPs, the ones we dream about and the ones that will never be (even though we wish they were...)

If you've been a listener for a while, you might recall that Steph runs several bookish events and Ava...has been to a few.

Whether you're wanting to learn more about how bookish events are organized and structured, or just hoping to snag a few tips about how to make the most out of your bookish adventure, this is the episode for you! We're diving deep into bookish events, from those that are no longer around, to some that we're excited to attend this year! 

Although we took this episode to explain what a reading challenge is, here's the quick and dirty:

We're super excited to celebrate this year with Steph's recommendations, and we hope that you enjoy the prompts!

Happy Friday, Fandomtastic Fam!

Today we're chatting about our bookish manifestations for 2022 - the books we want to read, the books we're going to start reading, the books we want to fall into our laps in 2022, the shows we're going to watch, the music we're going to listen to - ALL OF IT!

What are YOU looking forward to in 2022?

Happy Friday, Fandomtastic Fam!

Today we're bringing our audio transcript of our JLA chat to you! Please keep in mind that this episode is coming to you after the release of A SHADOW IN THE EMBER, so there will be spoilers for both the Flesh and Fire series and all of the current releases within the Blood and Ash series - there are also some exciting reveals and surprises regarding THE WAR OF TWO QUEENS! 

If you want to join our Patreon to access the live events with our author guests, check out Patreon.com/fandomtastic 

Today Steph and Ava are rounding up all of the books we read this year, the fictional characters we lusted over, the Marvel content we devoured, the books we didn't quite make it to, and more - this is our "year in the life" of Fandomtastic. 

Happy Friday, Fandomtastic Fam! 

In October, we had the delight of hosting Lynette Noni, author of The Prison Healer trilogy (and much more!), for a Patreon-exclusive Zoom! Lynette was amazing to chat with, and we had the opportunity to ask some burning questions about her past and future works! Please note this chat does contain some spoilers for The Gilded Cage. This episode features: