Welcome Alli and Bri from Offscript Podcast! In this crossover episode, we talk about some of our favorite book-to-film adaptations and some that really went off script. Just a few topics covered: Homeward Bound, Ella Enchanted, and Bridgerton!

Stay tuned as we tease our next big collab - The Fall of the House of Usher, March 2025!

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Krystle Hope and Emily Blackwood (HOUSE OF LIES AND SORROWS, WINGS SO WICKED) talk about going viral on BookTok and using manifestation techniques to get what you want!

We also play a bookish Would You Rather and talk about being a full-time indie author.

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Krystle Hope and Joelle Wellington (THEIR VISCIOUS GAMES, THE BLONDE DIES FIRST) discuss approaching common horror tropes in a new way, rooftop horror nights, crutch phrases that we can’t stop using, and how Jo used salmon to decide which publishing company to sign with!

We also talk about All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

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Writing is political and in this episode Krystle Hope and Bethany Baptiste dive into THE POISONS WE DRINK and how this fantasy tale about magic and morally gray marginalized witches presents relevant and relatable political commentary.

“Even simply existing is like a form of protest.” – Bethany Baptiste

This episode was recorded in May 2024 and discusses current political events at that time.

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Krystle Hope and independent author Elena Goudelias talk about the Oak Plains series, writing from experience to create relatable characters, and what she has learned since she started publishing.

Then Krystle and Elena play a little bookish Mad Libs and 54321!

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Krystle Hope and USA Today best-selling author Tarah DeWitt discuss perfectly imperfect love stories, flawed characters, and foggy small towns.

This episode also includes:

• Approaching common tropes in an authentic way

• From enneagrams to star signs: what to include in you character profiles

• Announcing upcoming releases

• Re-releasing The Co-Op with new content (11.12.2024)

• The Tarah DeWitt Literary Universe (TDLU)

• Playing a game of Round Robin – we just wrote a children’s book together!

TarahDeWitt.com

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TikTok: @ tdwittreadsandwrites

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Krystle Hope and Allie Samberts (COMMON GROUNDS, THE WRITE PLACE) discuss book covers, self-publishing, interconnected standalone novels, and ask do readers care how a book is published?

This episode also includes:

• Writing a book based on the cover

• Balancing writing with a career

• Publishing timelines: trad vs indie

• Reader support for indie authors

• How independent publishing is changing the industry

• Allie’s favorite tropes

AllieSamberts.com

Instagram: @alliesambertswrites

TikTok: @alliesamberts

Facebook Reader Group: Allie Samberts' Coffee Break

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Krystle Hope, Aster Vaughn, and Heather (cosplayer BluFlameChic) talk about Briarthorne University, cosplays and RPGs, streaming on Twitch, and the good ol’ days of TikTok.

This episode also includes:

• Cosplay as self-expression

• Roleplaying on Discord

• From roleplaying to writing

• “If you write, you are a writer”

• Adding banned books to our library

• Schools should read The Hunger Games instead of Mark Twain and Lord of the Flies

Aster Vaughn

astervaughn.com

Instagram: @astervaughn_ and @VenaRicoDesigns

TikTok: @ corvidwitxh

Twitch: CorvidWitxh

Heather “BluFlameChic”

Instagram: @bluflamechic

TikTok: @bluflamechic

Twitch: bluflamechic

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Krystle Hope and Margaret rose talk about rom-coms, indie versus trad publishing, and the importance of “no”.

Margaret Rose majored in English with an emphasis on creative writing, dabbled in philosophy, and has a concentration in theater. Before becoming an author, she worked as a personal stylist, secretly drafting novels and begging her friends to read them. Now, she enjoys wearing sweatpants just as much as sequins and watching her kids chase their dreams while she chases her own. You can find her online at Margaretrosebooks.com.

This episode also includes:

• Indie publishing trailblazers

• Writing as a “reformed pantser”

• Save the cat, the snowflake method, and Romancing the Beat

• The positive side of negative reviews

• Being vulnerable on the internet

• We love swag! Swag ideas coming soon?

MargaretRoseBooks.com

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Trigger warnings and content warnings: discussions of s*xual assault, r*pe, dubious consent, excrement, forced ab*rtion, and lots of explicit language

 Something Smutty Book Club is a monthly book club

This month’s book is Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby

• Reverse Harem BB shares her naughty adult

• We need some pirate book recs

• Next book: MATING WITH MALLOWS by Nora Noodle

• Followed by: MY KILLER VACATION by Tessa Bailey

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