Tea in the Treetops Podcast

Welcome to the seventy-third episode of the Tea in the Treetops podcast hosted by Philippa and Anni.

In this episode, we discuss how our reading and watching habits have changed during 2020, the year of Covid-19, as well as catch up other things we’ve been reading. This episode was recorded on 18 October 2020.

We hope you enjoy listening and we would love to hear your feedback. Is there anything you would like us to talk about in particular? Just let us know!

You can listen to past episodes of the podcast, as well as the various ways to subscribe on the main podcast page. You can also record a voice message for us via the Speakpipe widget there.

Our title music is titled Sea of Dreams and has been used with the kind permission of the composer, Bart Stoop. You can hear more of Bart’s beautiful music at facebook.com/BartStoop.

 

Books and TV mentioned

The Witcher – Netflix

The Mandalorian – Disney Plus

Lord of the Rings – Amazon

Supernatural – The CW

The Boys – Amazon

Contagion (2011)

Merlin (BBC) – Netflix

Schitt’s Creek – Netflix

The Witches (2020)

His Dark Materials – HBO

Enola Holmes – Netflix

 

Welcome to the seventy-second episode of the Tea in the Treetops podcast hosted by Philippa and Anni.

In this episode, we discuss books being released during October and November, as well as catch up other things we’ve been reading. This episode was recorded on 20 March 2020.

We hope you enjoy listening and we would love to hear your feedback. Is there anything you would like us to talk about in particular? Just let us know!

You can listen to past episodes of the podcast, as well as the various ways to subscribe on the main podcast page. You can also record a voice message for us via the Speakpipe widget there.

Our title music is titled Sea of Dreams and has been used with the kind permission of the composer, Bart Stoop. You can hear more of Bart’s beautiful music at facebook.com/BartStoop.

 

Books and TV mentioned

The Witcher – Netflix

The Mandalorian – Disney Plus

Locke and Key – Netflix

From Time to Time – Netflix

All the Bright Places – Netflix

Flight of the Navigator – Netflix

My Neighbour Totoro

 

 

Welcome to the seventy-first episode of the Tea in the Treetops podcast hosted by Philippa and Anni.

In this episode, we discuss books being released during October and November, as well as catch up other things we’ve been reading. This episode was recorded on 19 October 2019.

We hope you enjoy listening and we would love to hear your feedback. Is there anything you would like us to talk about in particular? Just let us know!

You can listen to past episodes of the podcast, as well as the various ways to subscribe on the main podcast page. You can also record a voice message for us via the Speakpipe widget there.

Our title music is titled Sea of Dreams and has been used with the kind permission of the composer, Bart Stoop. You can hear more of Bart’s beautiful music at facebook.com/BartStoop.

 

Upcoming releases

October

* 15: The Never-Tilting World, Rin Chupeco

* 23: The Light Between Worlds, Laura E. Weymouth

November

* 5: A Constellation of Roses, Miranda Asebedo

* 5: Call Down the Hawk, Maggie Stiefvater

* 5: Sisters of Shadow and Light, Sara B. Larson

* 5: Winterwood, Shea Earnshaw

* 5: The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern

* 5: Supernova, Marissa Meyer (Renegades #3)

* 5: The Guinevere Deception, Kiersten White

* 5: Weapon, Lynette Noni (Whisper #2)

Other books mentioned

Supanova Adelaide – November 1-3

Supanova Brisbane – November 8-10

Genrecon is in Brisbane – Nov 22-24

Welcome to the seventieth episode of the Tea in the Treetops podcast hosted by Philippa and Anni.

In this episode, we discuss both book and TV series versions of Good Omens as well as catch up other things we’ve been reading and watching. This episode was recorded on 19 July 2019.

We hope you enjoy listening and we would love to hear your feedback. Is there anything you would like us to talk about in particular? Just let us know!

You can listen to past episodes of the podcast, as well as the various ways to subscribe on the main podcast page. You can also record a voice message for us via the Speakpipe widget there.

Our title music is titled Sea of Dreams and has been used with the kind permission of the composer, Bart Stoop. You can hear more of Bart’s beautiful music at facebook.com/BartStoop.

Brisbane Writers Festival 2019 – September 5-8

Word Play children’s program is September 3-5

Love YA day is Saturday Sept 7

For more information, check out the programme at bwf.org.au

Books and TV Shows mentioned​

* Good Omens – out now on Amazon Prime

* Fleabag – Amazon Prime

* The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – Amazon Prime

* Umbrella Academy – Netflix

* Big Little Lies – Foxtel

* Stranger Things – season 3 on Netflix

* Shadowhunters – Netflix

* The Handmaid’s Tale – season 3

* Piéra Forde‘s webseries of Jay Kristoff’s Nevernight series

Genrecon is in Brisbane – Nov 22-24

Welcome to the sixty-ninth episode of the Tea in the Treetops podcast hosted by Philippa and Anni.

In this episode, we discuss books coming out in the next few months, Philippa has a small rant about the end of Game of Thrones (spoilers) as well as catch up on what we’ve been reading and watching. This episode was recorded on 7 June 2019.

We hope you enjoy listening and we would love to hear your feedback. Is there anything you would like us to talk about in particular? Just let us know!

You can listen to past episodes of the podcast, as well as the various ways to subscribe on the main podcast page. You can also record a voice message for us via the Speakpipe widget there.

Our title music is titled Sea of Dreams and has been used with the kind permission of the composer, Bart Stoop. You can hear more of Bart’s beautiful music at facebook.com/BartStoop.

Books coming out in Q3 2019

June

25 – Dev1at3, Jay Kristoff (sequel to Lifelike)

25 – The Evil Queen, Gena Showalter (The Forest of Good and Evil #1)

July

* 9 – Spin the Dawn, Elizabeth Lim

August

* 6 – House of Salt and Sorrows, Erin A. Craig

September

3 – Darkdawn, Jay Kristoff (Nevernight #3)

3 – Five Dark Fates, Kendare Blake (Three Dark Crowns #4)

10 – The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow

* 17 – The Babysitters Coven, Kate Williams

 

Other books and TV Shows mentioned​

* Good Omens – out now on Amazon Prime

* His Dark Materials BBC TV production- watch the trailer

* The Dark Crystal on Netflix – August 2019

* Big Little Lies – Foxtel June 10

* The Handmaid’s Tale – season 3 first few episodes out now on SBS

What’s your role in the Aurora Squad?

Anni was on Rhianna Patrick’s show on ABC Radio on June 2. You can listen to the recording here.

Julie Kagawa is visiting Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth on her Australian tour! You can find more info on the HarperCollins site

Welcome to the sixty-eighth episode of the Tea in the Treetops podcast hosted by Philippa and Anni.

In this episode, we discuss the first two episodes of Game of Thrones season 8, as well as catch up on what we’ve been reading and watching. This episode was recorded on 26 April 2019.

We hope you enjoy listening and we would love to hear your feedback. Is there anything you would like us to talk about in particular? Just let us know!

You can listen to past episodes of the podcast, as well as the various ways to subscribe on the main podcast page. You can also record a voice message for us via the Speakpipe widget there.

Our title music is titled Sea of Dreams and has been used with the kind permission of the composer, Bart Stoop. You can hear more of Bart’s beautiful music at facebook.com/BartStoop.

 

Game of Thrones – Season 8 [starts at 36:00]

Here be spoilers! Enter at your own risk.

* The 21 episodes to watch before you start season 8

* Alt Shift X recap before season 8 – in case you need to catch up

* Maria Lewis’ article on Junkee – Episode 1 details you might have missed

* Maria Lewis’ article on Junkee – Episode 2 details you might have missed

* Emergency Awesome – Episode 2 top ten wtf and easter eggs

 

Other books and TV Shows mentioned​

* Roswell – renewed for season two

* Sabrina

* Supernatural – season 14 just finished, season 15 will be the last.

* The Magicians – season 4 just finished

* Good Omens – releasing May 31 on Amazon Prime

* Piéra Forde‘s webseries of Jay Kristoff’s Nevernight series

* Wheel of Time – starting production in September

* His Dark Materials BBC TV production- watch the trailer

* The Witcher – on Netflix in late 2019. Article from Gamers Radar

* Throne of Glass – no news 🙁

Welcome to the sixty-seventh episode of the Tea in the Treetops podcast hosted by Philippa and Anni.

In this episode, we give a joint review of The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell, as well as catch up on what we’ve been reading. This episode was recorded on 15 March 2019.

We hope you enjoy listening and we would love to hear your feedback. Is there anything you would like us to talk about in particular? Just let us know!

You can listen to past episodes of the podcast, as well as the various ways to subscribe on the main podcast page. You can also record a voice message for us via the Speakpipe widget there.

Our title music is titled Sea of Dreams and has been used with the kind permission of the composer, Bart Stoop. You can hear more of Bart’s beautiful music at facebook.com/BartStoop.

 

The Wizards of Once, Cressida Cowell [starts at 26:00]

Once there was Magic, and the Magic lived in the dark forests.

Wizard boy, Xar, should have come in to his magic by now, but he hasn’t, so he wants to find a witch and steal its magic for himself. But if he’s got any chance of finding one, he will have to travel into the forbidden Badwoods.

Xar doesn’t realise he is about to capture an entirely different kind of enemy. A Warrior girl called Wish.

And inside this book, at this very moment, two worlds collide and the fate of the land is changed forever.

But something that has been sleeping for hundreds of years is stirring …

 

Other books and events mentioned​

Jessica Townsend and Lynette Noni in Conversation at Immanuel Lutheran College, Sunshine Coast, on Saturday March 23.

Sydney Writers Festival program has been released – All Day YA is on Saturday May 4

Rhianna Patrick’s show on ABC Radio – Listen to the show from March 3 ft Anni 🙂

 

Welcome to the sixty-sixth episode of the Tea in the Treetops podcast hosted by Philippa and Anni.

In this episode, we give a joint, spoiler-free review of the Medoran Chronicles series, since the final book, Vardaesia was just released. We list some other magical school books for varying age groups, as well as catch up on what we’ve been reading. This episode was recorded on 22 February 2019.

We hope you enjoy listening and we would love to hear your feedback. Is there anything you would like us to talk about in particular? Just let us know!

You can listen to past episodes of the podcast, as well as the various ways to subscribe on the main podcast page. You can also record a voice message for us via the Speakpipe widget there.

Our title music is titled Sea of Dreams and has been used with the kind permission of the composer, Bart Stoop. You can hear more of Bart’s beautiful music at facebook.com/BartStoop.

 

The Medoran Chronicles by Lynette Noni [starts at 13:40]

Congratulations, Lynette! We loved all six books in this series – Anni over the last few years and Philippa in the last few weeks. We both gave the final book five stars.

Here’s the blurb for book 1, Akarnae:

With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings’s world changes—literally.

Dreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities. Desperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her… but he’s missing.

While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora’s boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can’t ignore her fear that something unexpected… something sinister… is looming.

An unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex’s shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race’s survival. Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home?

Will Alex risk her entire world—and maybe even her life—to save Medora?

Magic School Books [20:40]

Middle Grade

* Harry Potter series, JK Rowling

Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis (not school-related, but parallel words)

Magisterium series, Cassandra Clare/Holly Black

Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordan

Nevermoor, Jessica Townsend

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransome Riggs

A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula le Guin

Schools – YA

Carry On, Rainbow Rowell

Vampire Academy,

Welcome to the sixty-fifth episode of the Tea in the Treetops podcast hosted by Philippa and Anni.

In this episode, we share some fantasy and sci-fi books that we’re excited for in the first few months of 2019, we give a spoilery (and rather rambling) review on Kingdom of Ash, as well as catch up on where we’ve been and what we’ve been reading. This episode was recorded on 1 February 2019.

We hope you enjoy listening and we would love to hear your feedback. Is there anything you would like us to talk about in particular? Just let us know!

You can listen to past episodes of the podcast, as well as the various ways to subscribe on the main podcast page. You can also record a voice message for us via the Speakpipe widget there.

Our title music is titled Sea of Dreams and has been used with the kind permission of the composer, Bart Stoop. You can hear more of Bart’s beautiful music at facebook.com/BartStoop.

 

Books for Publication in Q1 2019 (starts at 17:20)

January

* 8 – The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2) by Holly Black

* 22 – Circle of Shadows (Circle of Shadows, #1) by Evelyn Skye

February

* 5 – Lady Smoke (Ash Princess #2) by Laura Sebastian

5 – The Cerulean (Untitled Duology #1) by Amy Ewing

5 – The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons #1) by Jenn Lyons

5 – Dark of the West (Glass Alliance #1) by Joanna Hathaway

5 – Stolen Time (Dark Stars #1) by Danielle Rollins

12 – Bloodwitch (The Witchlands, #3) by Susan Dennard

26 – Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte

26 – The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

26 – Vardaesia (Medoran Chronicles #5) by Lynette Noni

26 – The Dysasters by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

March

* 5 – The Everlasting Rose (The Belles, #2) by Dhonielle Clayton

* 5 – The Queen’s Resistance (The Queen’s Rising, #2) by Rebecca Ross

7 – Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orïsha #2) by Tomi Adeyemi

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Welcome to the sixty-fourth episode of the Tea in the Treetops podcast hosted by Philippa and Anni.

In this episode, we’re very pleased to welcome Aussie author Steven Lochran to the podcast, we chat about meeting Victoria Roth at the Brisbane Writers Festival, give our opinions on one-star reviews, as well as catch up on where we’ve been and what we’ve been reading. This episode was recorded on 17 October 2018.

We hope you enjoy listening and we would love to hear your feedback. Is there anything you would like us to talk about in particular? Just let us know!

You can listen to past episodes of the podcast, as well as the various ways to subscribe on the main podcast page. You can also record a voice message for us via the Speakpipe widget there.

Our title music is titled Sea of Dreams and has been used with the kind permission of the composer, Bart Stoop. You can hear more of Bart’s beautiful music at facebook.com/BartStoop.

 

Steven Lochran

Steven Lochran spent his childhood writing stories and now he does it for a living. He graduated from Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing, and has worked as a film critic, projectionist and DJ. He’s spent the last decade in the publishing industry surrounded by books, as well as writing the VANGUARD PRIME and PALADERO series. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and two spoilt cats.

The Knights of Thunder Realm is the first in an epic fantasy series about hope, betrayal, and trying to make a better life for yourself when you’ve come from nothing. It’s also about dinosaurs, which is awesome.

(Bio and blurb from Goodreads)

 

Upcoming events

Supanova Convention – Brisbane Convention Centre – November 9-11

Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend – Launch in Brisbane at St Rita’s School, November 8 (see link for events in other cities!)

The Witch Who Courted Death by Maria Lewis – Launch at Netherworld Bar, November 13 (see link for other events!)

 

Other books mentioned​