Oh My Word!

BONUS! Episode and first episode with an artist and illustrator Michael Stiles!

Michael talks about working in all different types of art, from lettering to galleries to conventions to illustration and more!

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Fablehaven by Brandon Mull is another middle grade winner for us with its appropriately low pearl-clutcher ratings. PLUS it includes all the good stuff for readers in this age range, like a magical creature haven, enchanted milk from a giant cow, and an annoying troublemaker younger brother!

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BONUS EPISODE! Host and author E. L. Tenenbaum takes us behind the scenes of her book Beautiful to Me to talk about the setting, characters, and some of the choices made in writing this novel! Beautiful to Me is a Little Mermaid retelling and third installment in the End of Ever After memoir-style, anti-faery tale series.

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"Understated" is an almost understatement for Shtisel, a character-driven drama about family, love, loss, hope, and resiliency experienced by an ultra-religious family in Israel. Most important, aside from a wonderful reliance on acting, character, and simple makeup is the proof that an engaging, relatable, emotional story can be told in a clean way.

(Side note, Season Three toes some of the boundaries the show set up for itself--married couples reach out to or hold each other in private settings--but no lines are crossed that would affect our ratings.)

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BONUS! Episode with audiobook narrator Cherish Vuyovich!

Cherish describes how she became a fan of audiobooks, what her recording process is like, and more! MOST important and MOST impressive, Cherish is the narrator of the Beautiful to Me: A Little Mermaid Retelling audio book!

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Sails up for an excellent, appropriately rated middle grade adventure with Herbie Lemon, Lost-and-Founder of the Grand Nautilus Hotel!

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BONUS! Episode with poet, writer, comedian, actor, director Matt Nagin!

Matt talks about his writing process, particularly for poetry, including the balance of good ideas vs good energy, drafting, and so much more!

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Revisit the world of the Grishverse (see Episode 18) created by Leigh Bardugo as we discuss the Netflix adaptation of a complex, imaginative world with morally gray characters.

PLUS, a rant about female/male nudity in film and true female empowerment.

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BONUS! Episode with Senior Executive Editor Wendy Loggia!

Wendy shares all about the acquisition and editing process, the myriad of things an editor must oversee, explains about imprints within larger publishing houses, and even addresses that burning, burning question of why do publishers change book covers in middle of a series? And that's not even all of it!

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A musical which inspired many others...and is getting a remake for some reason...to inspire again?

West Side Story might just seem like one more Shakespeare retelling, but the story is only one part of a musical which was innovative in many ways for its time.

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