Booked All Night

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 What makes a good villain? More importantly, do the elements that make for a good villain translate into the elements that make for a compelling POV character? While we're at it, how do you pronounce all of these names? Corio-what? Se-Jonas Brothers? Can we get away with calling Clem-whatever-who-turns-into-a-lizard "Clizzard?" ("Yer a clizzard, Harry!") Join Jess, Katy, Julia, and Maggie as they tackle Part 1 of Suzanne Collins's A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes an...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 Have you ever wanted to learn the dark secrets of your favorite podcasters? Why is it that Julia has never read any of the books on her shelves at home? How many degrees does Jess really have? Why is Katy compelled to make constant Titanic references? How deep does Maggie's noodle obsession go? How do you pronounce "Schenectady"? Join us for the first half of a special Self-Interview session in which Jess, Julia, and Maggie tackle several of these questions, discuss...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 The wait is over! Okay, it's only been a week, but still, the Mockingjay, Part 2 watchalong has arrived! Join Jess, Katy, Julia, and Maggie as they let their hearts get broken again and again and again, discuss the power (and acceptability) of storytelling tropes, blame cows, and generally have a good, tired time while they bring this chapter of our Hunger Games series to a close. We volunteer as tribute--repeatedly. We're diving into the world of The Hunger Games: ...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 Get your pillow forts set up, Booklettes, it's time to hunker down for the first half of our marathon through the Mockingjay films! Join Jess, Julia, and Maggie as they sing their hearts out, swap stories about pets and phobias, jeer at Gale, and examine the pros and cons of a good book-to-film adaptation during this watchalong episode. And if you feel like waiting 'til next week so that you can do both parts back-to-back, we don't blame you. Just, y'know, mak...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 Can you believe this is one of the final interviews of the season? Because that's insane. This week, Sarah Everett stopped by to talk about THE ROMANCE REWIND. Jess and Sarah both have a love of The Flashlight Method, a writing craft tool to work in smaller segments of your work, some weird internet research history (as all writers do), and of course, their hatred for group projects. They played BRING YOUR OWN BOOK and SPACE 'EM OR EMBRACE 'EM. We volunteer as tribute--re...