Brock Shelley

David Barclay Moore‘s middle grade debut The Stars Beneath Our Feet comes out on September 19th from Knopf.  Hear how David went from a kid really into comics, to a college experience where he organized a group for creative people, to a writer of books for kids.

Episode Mentions:

• A Wrinkle in Time
• Wind in the Door
• Paddington Bear
• Ivanhoe
• Mark Twain
• Huck Finn
• Richard Corben
• Heavy Metal
• John Byrne
• Frank Miller
• Bob Burden
• Paul Chadwick
• Jewels Vern
• Spike Lee
• Toni Morrison
• Haruki Murakami
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Iowa State University
• Howard University
• Universite de Montpellier
• Ossie Davis
• Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Yona Harvey
• Natasha Tarpley
• Kemp Powers
• Jelani Cobb
• Harlem Children’s Zone
• Agent Steven Malk
• The Stars Beneath Our Feet
• Kirkus
• Publisher’s Weekly
• A Room With A View
• Pride & Prejudice
• Bad Feminism
• Mark Twain’s Essays

The debut novel, Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh is a YA dystopian story set in a futuristic Seoul, Korea. Listen in as Axie discusses the journey of this novel and the books that she enjoyed throughout her life.

Episode Mentions:

• Beauty
• The Blue Sword
• The Hero and the Crown
• The Forestwife
• Redwall
• Dragonlance
• Unicorns of Balinor
• The Royal Diaries
• Babysitter’s Club
• Boxcar Children
• Goodreads
• Georgette Heyer
• Writers House
• The Hunger Games
• Divergent
• Miss Snark 1st Victim
• Rebel Seoul
• Diverse Energies
• Cindy Pon
• Tu Books
• New Visions Awards 2015
• Shade’s Children
• Howl’s Moving Castle
• Pride and Prejudice
• On the Road
• Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

Scott Reintgen‘s YA debut, Nyxia is a YA sci-fi thriller filled with a cast of diverse characters. Hear as Scott discusses his growth as a writer, the story behind his book Nyxia, and advice for becoming a published writer.

Episode Mentions:

• Red Rising
• Harry Potter
• Game of Thrones
• World of Warcraft
• The Hunger Games
• The Maze Runner
• Jason Reynolds
• Kwame Alexander
• Cory Doctorow
• Scott Westerfeld
• Dear Martin
• The Hate U Give
• 10,000 hours rule
• Nyxia
• Shawshank Redemption
• Charles Dickinson
• Great Expectations
• One of Us Is Lying
• Fool’s Assassin

host: Brock Shelley

Eric Smith has worn many hats in the book industry. We worked for a publisher, writes about YA for various media outlets, an author of three books, and currently an literary agent helping his clients towards publication. For this latest project Eric is the editor of a new short story anthology. WELCOME HOME, coming out September 5th from Flux, is a collection of fictional centered around the theme of adoption. Eric joins Brock to discuss his life in books and his inspiration behind his latest project.

Episode Mentions:

• Great Illustrated Classic: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Goosebumps
• High Fidelity
• Robin Black
• Susan Rich
• Christopher Durang
• H.G. Wells
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Jane Austen
• Quirk Books
• Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
• Ransom Riggs
• Across the Universe
• Something Strange & Deadly
• Hybrid Chronicles
• Of Triton
• The Geek’s Guide to Dating
• Agent Dawn Frederick
• Inked
• Geekadelphia
• Philly Geek Awards
• Branded
• Welcome Home
• Authors in the Anthology
• Book Tour
• Flux
• These Things I’ve Done
• The Temptation of Adam
• Love, Hate & Other Filters
• When the Beat Drops
• Eat Your Feelings
• Sideways
• Dubliners
• The Last One
• When I’m Through With You

host: Brock Shelley

Katherine Locke‘s debut YA release The Girl with the Red Balloon comes out on September 1st from Albert Whitman & Co. Listen in as Katherine and Brock talk about the many books that inspired her.

Episode Mentions:

• A Wrinkle In Time
• A Wind in the Door
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet
• An Acceptable Time
• Many Waters
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Nancy Drew
• A Bridge to Terabithia
• Song of the Lioness Quartet
• Heart of Darkness
• Wheel of Time
• Dune
• Absolute Write
• Divergent
• The Girl with the Red Balloon
• Second Position
• Under the Never Sky
• Brooklyn Burning
• Patrick Ness
• Harry Potter
• Guy in Real Life
• 99 Red Balloons
• Turning Pointe
• Finding Center
• Alex London
• Coraline
• Stardust
• Sense & Sensibility
• Jane Eyre
• Sam J. Miller
• Bronte Sisters
• Little & Lion

host: Brock Shelley

Author Meg Kassel‘s first attempt at novel length writing came during a rainy summer in Maine. From there dedicated herself to improving as a writer and after several attempts & obstacles she succeed with her debut Black Bird of the Gallows.

Episode Mentions:

• Beauty
• Christopher Pike
• Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Stephen King
• Dean Koontz
• Scary Stories You Tell In the Dark
• The Hobbit
• Neil Giaman
• RWA
• Egmont Publishing
• Entangled Teen
• Black Bird of the Gallows
• Mothman Myth
• The Mothman Prophecies
• The Keeper of Bees
• Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince
• Catcher in the Rye
• American Gods

host: Brock Shelley

UK Author Rebecca Barrow‘s debut YA novel You Don’t Know Me But I Know You is coming out in the US on August 29th from Harper Teen. In this episode Rebecca talks about the persistence she had in her journey as a writer.

Episode Mentions:

• Enid Blyton
• Jacqueline Wilson
• Malorie Blackman
• Naughts & Crosses
• Christopher Pike
• Point Horror
• Stravaganza
• Gossip Girl
• 1984
• You Don’t Know Me But I Know You
• Arrival
• Alias Grace
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone

host: Brock Shelley