Put A Blurb On It

This episode was recorded at the end of May after an eventful month! The audio quality is not the best but hopefully, you'll still enjoy it. Ardo and Yash attended Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) and then Yash flew to Vancouver for Vancouver Comic Arts Festival (VanCAF). They discuss the comics they picked up, the panels Ardo moderated at TCAF and then end the episode with the non-comics/festival books they've read so far (not many!).

The logo was designed by Nick Hanover. The theme song and break music is from Haris Qureshi's song Give AF. You can find his album here. Everything mention in the episode can be found on Goodreads. You can also find the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at @PutABlurbOnIt.

This episode was intended for the first week of May but thanks to TCAF, VANcaf and the start of Ramadan, Ardo and Yash were swamped! Have no fear! They're releasing both May episodes before the month ends starting with this one!

It's their first host only episode in a while. They discuss book related news which includes brief thoughts on Infinity War and HarperCollins Canada's Frenzy Presents event. Then they chat about what they're reading, this year's Canada Reads and the re-reading experience.

Episode Timecodes

• News (0 - 10:35)
• Books we've read, currently reading and will read (10:35 and onwards)
  • Conversation on re-reading (13:09 - 17:31)
  • The Marrow Thieves and Canada Reads 2018 (24:08 - 34:58)

The logo was designed by Nick Hanover. The theme song and break music is from Haris Qureshi's song Give AF. You can find his album here. Everything mention in the episode can be found on Goodreads. You can also find the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at @PutABlurbOnIt.

Ardo and Yash had the privilege of interviewing Justina Ireland who is a young adult author and an executive co-editor of FIYAH magazine. They spoke to her about her brand new novel, Dread Nation, as well as the impact that editing a black speculative and science fiction magazine has on her views of representation in the publishing industry. It was a blast. They discussed jokes, advice to writers and where zombies came from.

The logo was designed by Nick Hanover. The theme song and break music is from Haris Qureshi's song Give AF. You can find his album here. Everything mentioned in the episode can be found on Goodreads. You can also find the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at @PutABlurbOnIt.

Ardo and Yash interviewed Zareen Jaffery who is the executive editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers and founder of the Salaam Reads imprint. Ardo had interviewed Zareen for Teen Vogue when the first two books from the new imprint (Amina's Voice and The Gauntlet) were being published and a year later, Ardo and Yash have followed up! We discuss next steps for representation, the reception the books are getting and Zareen offers a blurb.

• Interview starts at 8:00

The logo was designed by Nick Hanover. The theme song and break music is from Haris Qureshi's song Give AF. You can find his album here. Everything mention in the episode can be found on Goodreads. You can also find the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at @PutABlurbOnIt.

In this episode, Ardo and Yash discuss projects they're involved in and the #MeToo movement finding itself in the Children's Lit community. They start talking about what they've read at the 33:45 mark which includes some March releases.

Some corrections in the episode: They said Tomi Adeyemi was 23 years old but she's actually 24 and they speculated that her debut book, Children of Blood and Bone, would be a success and it was! It found itself on the New York Times Bestsellers List.

The logo was designed by Nick Hanover. The theme song and break music is from Haris Qureshi's song Give AF. You can find his album here. Everything mention in the episode can be found on Goodreads. You can also find the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at @PutABlurbOnIt.

Ardo and Yash are back with a regular ole episode. They discuss Black Panther in all of its spoiler-y glory from 3:28 to 24:45 and then they get into what they've been reading.

The logo was designed by Nick Hanover. The theme song and break music is from Haris Qureshi's song Give AF. You can find his album here. Everything mention in the episode can be found on Goodreads. You can also find the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at @PutABlurbOnIt.

Ardo and Yash interviewed bestselling and award-winning children's author Jason Reynolds! They discussed writing, comics, young people and literacy, and questioning literally canon. It was VERY exciting.

The logo was designed by Nick Hanover. The theme song and break music is from Haris Qureshi's song Give AF. You can find his album here. Everything mention in the episode can be found on Goodreads. You can also find the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at @PutABlurbOnIt.

We'll be resting up in January to plan and scheme but will return in February with new content! But for now, enjoy this episode we did with our special guest, Angel Cruz, as we discuss our reading resolutions and the 2018 books we're excited to read. Our logo is by the talented Nick Hanover. Our theme song and break music is from Haris Qureshi's song "Give AF". You can find his album here: haris.bandcamp.com/album/chips-salsa. Everything we've mention in the episode can be found at facebook.com/putablurbonit. You can also find us on Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram at Put A Blurb On It.

2017 is ending! Ardo and Yash have a guest joining them in the remembering: Angel Cruz. She's a freelance writer (Book Riot, Women Write About Comics, Ms En Scene, Bookmarked etc) and friend they constantly mention on the podcast. All three of them looked at the book/comic news stories that they still think about, what they've read and their top book picks of the year! It's a fun (and giggly) episode.

The logo was designed by Nick Hanover. The theme song and break music is from Haris Qureshi's song Give AF. You can find his album here. Everything mention in the episode can be found on Goodreads and the films mentioned are below. You can also find the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at @PutABlurbOnIt.

In this episode, Ardo and Yash discuss Entertainment Weekly's November cover story, cheaper comics from Chapterhouse, a publisher who doesn't like agents, Rupi Kaur and the firing of a long-time DC Comics editor.

The logo was designed by Nick Hanover. The theme song and break music is from Haris Qureshi's song Give AF. You can find his album here. Everything mention in the episode can be found on Goodreads and the films mentioned are below. You can also find the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at @PutABlurbOnIt.