After a tumultuous second half of 2025, Talk Story to Me is finally returned--now with new episode cover art by the same artist who did our podcast cover, Dliok!

This episode, we talk with author Rosiee Thor about her publication journey and MANY incredible books, including Tarnished Are the Stars, Fire Becomes Her, Dead & Breakfast, as well as tie-in novels for the series Life is Strange AND Firefly!

Today we talk with the incredibly brilliant and thoughtful Lio Min, poet and author of Beating Heart Baby and the upcoming The L.O.V.E. Club!

Links to Lio's soundtracks discussed in the episode:

• Beating Heart Baby track-by track: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4w0bYbL6aYVixe75yrkESZ
• BHB Santi's POV: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20zlebabpjznlQTzxnVMkA
• BHB Suwa's POV: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4stG8gBgnPcezEImbaJM9z
  

On today's episode, we talk with the incredibly funny, talented, and insightful Steven Salvatore, author of the YA novels And They Lived, When Love Gives You Lemons, and many more!

Join us today as we interview Macmillan editor Holly West to hear all the ins and outs of the other side of the process of publishing a book!

On today's episode, I fangirl--I mean, have a very educated conversation with Margaret Rogerson, the New York Times best-selling author of An Enchantment of Ravens, Sorcery of Thorns (plus it's follow-up novella), and Vespertine!

You can check out the short story we discuss, featuring Silas in the Sorcery of Thorns universe, that Margaret wrote and uploaded to AO3 here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61518385/chapters/157270132.

We talk all things writing with the absolutely BRILLIANT Brenda Peynado, author of the short story collection The Rock Eaters and the novella Time's Agent!

Today we chat with Katy Upperman, author of the YA contemporary romance books Kissing Max Holden, The Impossibility of Us, How the Light Gets In, and the upcoming Everything I Promised You!

Today we talk to Shana Silver, author of the Young Adult novels Mind Games and The Con Code!

We interview New York Times best-selling author Aiden Thomas, writer of Cemetery Boys, Lost in the Never Woods, and The Sunbearer Trials duology!

Live stream discussion with author and anthology editor, Prerna Pickett!