Brock Shelley

Best-selling author Melissa de la Cruz has authored over thirty books in romance, YA, and MG. Her newest book 29 DATES has already been optioned by Disney’s future streaming service. Listen in as Melissa talks about coming up with her different projects.

Episode Mentions:

• Little Women
• Dr. Seuss
• The Carpetbaggers
• The Joy Luck Club
• Geoff Kloske
• Cat’s Meow
• 29 Dates
• optioned by Disney
• Crazy Rich Asians
• To All The Boys I Loved Before
• Descendants Books
• The Lord of the Rings
• Wuthering Heights
• Elena Ferrante
• Lake Success

Author Heather Demetrios has edited a new collection DEAR HEARTBREAK where a great line-up of YA writers answer letters from real teens about the topic of heartbreak.

Episode Mentions:

• The Diary of Anne Frank
• Bad Romance
• Emily of the New Moon
• Harry Potter
• Jacob Have I Loved
• The Sky Is Everywhere
• Tiger Lily
• Little Women
• Twilight
• Something Real
• Dear Heartbreak
• Dear Sugar – Rumpus
• Tiny Beautiful Things
• Mike Curato
• Libba Bray
• Gayle Forman
• Jasmine Warga
• Becky Albertalli
• A.S. King
• Zach Fehst
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• This Movie Changed Me podcast
• The Joy Luck Club
• Divergent
• Kingdom of Ash

Karen Rivers is the author of over 20 books. This week she comes on the podcast to talk about her latest YA novel YOU ARE THE EVERYTHING out now from Algonquin Young Readers.

Episode Mentions:

• A Wrinkle in Time
• When You Reach Me
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• Sweet Valley High
• Trixley Belden
• Nancy Drew
• Dream Water
• The Tree Tattoo
• You Are the Everything
• Tana French
• Jane Casey
• Ann Cleeves
• To All the Boy I’ve Loved Before
• What Girls Are Made Of
• Harry Potter

Writer Marcella Pixley is on the podcast this week to talk about her books Freak, Without Tess, & Ready to Fall.

Episode Mentions:

• Frederick
• Katherine Kurtz
• The Dark is Rising
• E. M. Forster
• Freak
• Ready to Fall
• Without Tess
• Lauren Wolk
• Nest
• A Wrinkle In Time
• Harry Potter
• Lincoln in the Bardo

Author Kevin Emerson‘s 18th novel ANY SECOND comes out on November 20th. Kevin comes on the podcast to talk about his journal to becoming a writer and what went into his latest book.

Episode Mentions:

• Catalyst
• The Hardy Boys
• Cujo
• Firestarter
• Dean Knootz
• Madame Bovary
• Kurt Vonnegunt
• Ernest Hemingway
• Douglas Adams
• David Foster Wallace
• The Poisonwood Bible
• Louis Sachar
• Harry Potter
• The Golden Compass
• Jerry Spinelli
• The Writer’s Market
• From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• Carlos Is Gonna Get It
• Any Second
• Columbine
• Chronicle of the Dark Star
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Annihilation
• Mockingjay
• The Hate U Give
• Bone Gap

Author Mary Crockett comes on this week’s podcast to talk about her love of language and her new book HOW SHE DIED HOW I LIVED.

Episode Mentions:

• Midquest
• The Ella Fannie Elephant Riddle Book
• Tom Angleberger
• Cece Bell
• Strange Case of Origami Yoda
• Madelyn Rosenberg
• Dream Boy
• Beloved
• Catch-22
• Anne Taylor
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
• How She Died How I Lived
• Forgiveness from Charleston church shooting
• Jane Austen
• Persuasion
• Divergent
• The Handsmaid’s Tale

Author Jill Baguchinsky is on the podcast this week to talk about her newest release MAMMOTH and the fun, hands-on research she got to do for the book.

Episode Mentions:

• Misery
• The Babysitter Club
• Sweet Valley High
• Beverly Cleary
• Judy Blume
• Christopher Pike
• R.L. Stine
• Anne Rice
• Spooky Girl
• Ghostbusters
• The Hunger Games
• Mammoth
• Waco Mammoth National Monument
• The Hate U Give
• The Summer of Jordi Perez
• The Little Mermaid
• Beauty & the Beast
• Frozen
• Moana
• Jurassic Park
• The Stand
• Hope Never Dies
• When the Truth Unravels

On the 100th EPISODE I’m happy to have author Kheryn Callender on the podcast. Kheryn is the author of HURRICANE CHILD and their newest book THIS IS KIND OF AN EPIC LOVE STORY comes out on October 30th from Balzer + Bray.

Episode Mentions:

• Animorphs
• Darius the Great Is Not Okay
  • Adib Khorram’s Episode
• Rainbow Boys
• fanfiction.net
• Sarah Lawrence College
• Boy Meets Boy
• This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story 
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
• Hurricane Child 
• The Hate U Give
• Sharp Objects
• Game of Thrones

Author Virginia Boecker‘s newest book AN ASSASSIN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND TREASON on October 23rd from Little Brown. Virginia joins me to talk about some of her favorite historical fiction books and what went into hers.

Episode Mentions:

• Gone with the Wind
• North and South
• The Quiet American
• Shelby Foote
• Alison Weir
• Jean Plaidy
• Elizabeth Chadwick
• The Other Boleyn Girl
• Maggie Stiefvater
• The Scorpio Races
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Tutors
• The Hunger Games
• The Witch Hunter
• The King Slayer
• An Assassin’s Guide To Love And Treason
• Twelfth Night
• Christopher Marlowe
• Jurassic Park
• The Nightingale
• Salt of the Sea
• The Martian
• Aaron Sorkin
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Jane Eyre