For our last episode of February 2026, we got to chat with Grace K. Shim about her third book THE OKS ARE NOT OK, a book that mixes the humor of Schitt's Creek and Minari. We had a blast so I hope you enjoy!

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Hello and happy Sunday!

Anyone that hangs around me in real life knows I love comics, particularly that of the superhero variety, and if we were going to go way back to the beginning of my love of these stories we’d find another Kelly Thompson-penned series, that being her run on Hawkeye.

All this being said, it’s a dream come true to have Kelly on the show and to be diving into one of my favorite superheroes all at the same time.

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If you’ve been keeping up at all with On The Shelf, the name Katie Siegel may ring a bell, or at least it should. It’s almost a yearly routine at this point, whether or not Katie has a new book coming around the corner, to sit down, catch up and talk some mystery business. In preparation for Out of the Loop, Katie joined me once more for a conversation that is, in short, thought-provoking, sapphic, and fun.

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Come for the premise of sapphic witches pit against each other in a duel that could make or break either of their careers and stay for everything else.

Ahead of it’s February 10th release I got to chat with Andrea Tang about all this and more and I can’t think of a better way to start off the month…

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The queer author and screenwriter joins OTS ahead of the release of her YA debut, Lost Girls of Hollow Lake which releases later this week.

Our final episode of the month has been in the works for quite a while! My conversation with Rebekah was actually the final installment I recorded in 2025, a whole month before the book’s publication, but it’s more than worth the wait and the perfect way to cap of this first chapter of the new year.

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This Book Will Keep You Up At Night (And You Wouldn't Want It Any Other Way)

Happy Monday!

L.S. Stratton’s YA debut Sundown Girls is the first book that’s kept me up reading past a reasonable hour in a long, long time and I’m honored that after reading I got to sit down and chat with the author herself and pick her brain about the horrors of Sparksburg.

Our third release of 2026 is not one to miss so sit back and get ready!

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Happy Sunday!

Our second interview of 2026 is also highlighting a 2025 book release I think deserves some more love and attention. Brittany Johnson’s Deadly Ever After is the story of two princesses, Amala and Kha’dasia, who after their respective deaths find themselves brought together by the gods and given an initially simple task: kiss their one true love by the end of the week. Of course the excitement and drama only starts there! I LOVED this book and getting to pick Brittany's brain about it a bit so I think you'll enjoy!

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Lyndsay Ely was the second author ever to be featured on On The Shelf all the way back in 2021 during our second year of programming. A lot was different back then, for starters I wasn’t the sole voice or producer behind the show, there was a group of us working with our local indie bookstore. But I was the one to bring her to the show. We’d met at that same bookstore years before that when Ely’s debut novel Gunslinger Girl came out in 2018 . Ely was the first author I had ever met in the flesh and ever since I had been waiting for her literary return. The Lost Reliquary is that return.

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Last year, I got to interview Alex Segura about the 2024 companion novel to 2022’s Secret Identity, Alter Ego. It was a release day chat, riddled with some technology issues that left it brief and to the point but the fan in me both of comics and their history still had many questions left unanswered about the world of Triumph Comics and Carmen Valdez.

Listen to our previous convo!

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Happy Friday! As mentioned in the intro this is our penultimate episode of 2025 with our final coming out this Sunday. But before all of that and the fun that I have in store for 2026, I’m delighted to present you with the conversation I had with T.C. Kraven about book one in her Dark Fates series, Of Prophecies & Pomegranates which came out in October and ahead of the release for book 2 which comes out in January!

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