What Book Hooked You?

The one and only Dahlia Adler visits the podcast this week. We talk how she got into YA books, her work on LGBTQ Reads, and the anthology she is the editor of, HIS HIDEOUS HEART, out September 10th from Flatiron Books.

Episode Mentions:

* Cracked Up To Be* Sweet Valley High* Sloppy Firsts* Looking For Alaska* The Catcher in the Rye* A Tree Grows In Brooklyn* Gone With the Wind* Song of Solomon* Jane Green* The Baby-Sitters Club* BSC audio book episode* LGBTQ Reads* Once & Future* Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy’s episode* B&N Teen Blog* His Hideous Heart* Lily Anderson* A Darkly Beating Heart* Anna-Marie McLemore* Peter Darling* LA Confidential* To All the Boys I Loved Before*

The one and only Dahlia Adler visits the podcast this week. We talk how she got into YA books, her work on LGBTQ Reads, and the anthology she is the editor of, HIS HIDEOUS HEART, out September 10th from Flatiron Books.

Episode Mentions:

* Cracked Up To Be* Sweet Valley High* Sloppy Firsts* Looking For Alaska* The Catcher in the Rye* A Tree Grows In Brooklyn* Gone With the Wind* Song of Solomon* Jane Green* The Baby-Sitters Club* BSC audio book episode* LGBTQ Reads* Once & Future* Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy's episode* B&N Teen Blog* His Hideous Heart* Lily Anderson* A Darkly Beating Heart* Anna-Marie McLemore* Peter Darling* LA Confidential* To All the Boys I Loved Before*

This week author Lauren Spieller is on the podcast to talk about her sophomore release, SHE’S THE WORST. We also talk about the books that got her interested in writing YA and her literary agent origin story

Episode Mentions:

* The Hunger Games* Twilight* The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks* Ulysses* City of Bones* LitReactor* Terrible Minds* SCBWI* She’s the Worst* Ferris Bueller’s Day Off* Your Destination Is on the Left* 10 Things I Hate About You* Six of Crows* Wilder Girls

This week author Lauren Spieller is on the podcast to talk about her sophomore release, SHE'S THE WORST. We also talk about the books that got her interested in writing YA and her literary agent origin story

Episode Mentions:

* The Hunger Games* Twilight* The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks* Ulysses* City of Bones* LitReactor* Terrible Minds* SCBWI* She's the Worst* Ferris Bueller's Day Off* Your Destination Is on the Left* 10 Things I Hate About You* Six of Crows* Wilder Girls

Author Sarvenaz Tash’s latest release VIRTUALLY YOURS is out not now. Sarvenaz talks about the idea behind her new release as well as giving us an insight to her other books and writing process.

Episode Mentions:

* Ramona* The Westing Game* The Witches* Matilda* The Mapmaker and the Ghost* Agatha Christie* Three Day Summer* Virtually Yours* Fangirl* The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love* Ghosting: A Love Story* Keep This to Yourself

Author Sarvenaz Tash's latest release VIRTUALLY YOURS is out not now. Sarvenaz talks about the idea behind her new release as well as giving us an insight to her other books and writing process.

Episode Mentions:

* Ramona* The Westing Game* The Witches* Matilda* The Mapmaker and the Ghost* Agatha Christie* Three Day Summer* Virtually Yours* Fangirl* The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love* Ghosting: A Love Story* Keep This to Yourself

Happy to have Brandy Colbert back on the podcast. Brandy tells us all about her writing life and her newest release THE REVOLUTION OF BIRDIE RANDOLPH.

Episode Mentions:

* Brandy’s Previous Episode* Drinking Coffee Elsewhere* The Revolution of Birdie Randolph* Little & Lion* Finding Yvonne* artist Erin Robinson* designer Marcie Lawerence* her book covers* Voting Booth* Calling My Name* Liara Tamani’s episode* The Nickel Boys* The Underground Railroad

Happy to have Brandy Colbert back on the podcast. Brandy tells us all about her writing life and her newest release THE REVOLUTION OF BIRDIE RANDOLPH.

Episode Mentions:

* Brandy's Previous Episode* Drinking Coffee Elsewhere* The Revolution of Birdie Randolph* Little & Lion* Finding Yvonne* artist Erin Robinson* designer Marcie Lawerence* her book covers* Voting Booth* Calling My Name* Liara Tamani's episode* The Nickel Boys* The Underground Railroad

Many past guests on this podcast have mentioned growing up reading The Baby-Sitters Club series. All 131 books of the series are coming exclusively to Audible on August 13th. The series is read by a talent line-up of talented narrators, many of which have work on audiobooks of YA favorites. For this episode I talk to two of the narrators, Brittany Pressley and Lauren Fortgang, about working on the series and the job of being a narrator.

Episode Mentions:

* The Baby-Sitters Club on Audible* Ann M. Martin* Brittany Pressley* Lauren Fortgang* Fated* Sweet Valley High* This Darkness Mind* Mindy McGinnis episode* All the Lives We Ever Lived* Sweet Valley Twins* Roald Dahl* Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle* Bossy Pants* The God of Small Things* Mating* Leigh Bardugo* Ninth House

Many past guests on this podcast have mentioned growing up reading The Baby-Sitters Club series. All 131 books of the series are coming exclusively to Audible on August 13th. The series is read by a talent line-up of talented narrators, many of which have work on audiobooks of YA favorites. For this episode I talk to two of the narrators, Brittany Pressley and Lauren Fortgang, about working on the series and the job of being a narrator.

Episode Mentions:

* The Baby-Sitters Club on Audible* Ann M. Martin* Brittany Pressley* Lauren Fortgang* Fated* Sweet Valley High* This Darkness Mind* Mindy McGinnis episode* All the Lives We Ever Lived* Sweet Valley Twins* Roald Dahl* Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle* Bossy Pants* The God of Small Things* Mating* Leigh Bardugo* Ninth House