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BONUS! Episode with YA author SJ Kincaid!

SJ speaks about her journey to publishing, writing for YA, and her experiences crafting the "Insignia" trilogy and NYT Bestselling "The Diabolic" series! And those are just the highlights!

Find out more about SJ Kincaid at https://sjkincaid.com

Like most fans, we'll usually choose the book over the adaptation, but we're still open to seeing what the studio's come up with. However, we're not as eager when a delightful, enduring classic like Anne of Green Gables is turned into whatever Netflix did with Anne with an E. Straying from the source material is to be expected, but straying from the source material to unnecessarily superimpose 21st century values...not so much. Ratings are appropriately low, but we were clutching our pearls plenty. At least for the parts we could make it through.

Duologee? Duology? How is it pronounced? As that debate rages, we take a look at some great urban fantasy--This Savage Song and Our Dark Duet--by Victoria Schwab. Many pearls were clutched during this reading, but not as tightly as might be expected, because these books got us thinking about monsters and evil and darkness, and we're almost always partial to any book that gets the mind thinking.

This Episode: Mamma Mia! (Film & Musical)

Mamma Mia! a show loved by many for fun, upbeat, familiar music, but has anyone actually taken a closer look at the story? Suffice it to say, ALL our scales are broken, with pearls scattered hither and tither from clutching them in such horror. Also, please stop bringing your kids to see this.

BONUS! Episode with Stacia Deutsch, author of hundreds of books for kids, and even some for older readers, too!

Listen in as Stacia describes her first stumbling steps into writing and publishing, before she found her footing as a high-output author writing licensed content...and that's not even half the story!

Find out more about Stacia at https://staciadeutsch.com

This episode: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

Lady Jane Grey was queen of England for only nine days, but that's only true if you follow the history books!

Three authors didn't, and they imagined quite an alternative take on what really went down, magic included.

This isn't the first time we're debating the correct pronunciation of "dystology," nor is it the first we're discussing a series by the incomparable Neal Shusterman. Even though we're clutching bunches of pearls for this series, we're still glad to give bunches of credit to Shusterman and his knack for writing books that make us think. One of the biggest things reading is all about!

The Greatest Showman got a lot of things right, especially for a movie musical. Bright colors, flashy dance numbers, catchy songs, except, we're looking past all the colored lights to figure out what the story's about, if there even is one...

Please read the episode title in the appropriate tune. Thank you. We may proceed.

Something Rotten is the honored nominee of ten Tony Awards and celebrated loser of nine! But don't let such numbers fool you, this musical is in many ways a tongue-in-cheek ode to musicals, and certainly deserved every standing ovation it got!

BONUS! Episode with (paranormal YA) author Marlene Perez!

Marlene has a bundle of awesome information to share, including, but not limited to, her thoughts on creative fields, tips about writing, publishing experiences, YA & paranormal, and more!

Find out more about Marlene at https://www.marleneperez.com