Professional Book Nerds

Emma catches up with Penny Reid to discuss the ways Penny innovates in self-publishing/indie publishing, her amazing Kickstarter campaign, the Smarty Pants Romance imprint, what happens when you add reality to romance tropes, and the Charles Dickens retelling you didn't know you needed. Plus, hear some scoop on what books you can expect next, news about the Winston Brothers tv show, and which characters still speak to Penny the loudest, even after their books are "done." Books mentioned in this episode: Truth or Beard Prom King (coming soon) Drama King Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend Marriage and Murder Beard Science Beard in Hiding Totally Folked Folk Around and Find Out Marriage of Inconvenience All Folked Up (coming July 2024) Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today's episode onOverDrive.comor in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace. We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok @ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emma and Joe's favorite episode of the month is here with a roundup of November book releases!Grab a warm beverage and your TBR list! Author Interviews this month: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros The Future by Naomi Alderman Emma’s Picks Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood Betting on You by Lynn Painter Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan Powerless by Lauren Roberts Good Girls Don’t Die by Christina Henry Enchanted Hill by Emily Bain Murphy Endgame by Omid Scobie Welcome to the O.C. by Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Alan Sepinwall Wish of the Wicked by Danielle Paige Joe’s Picks The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor The Core of an Onion by Mark Kurlansky Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree The Manor House by Gilly Macmillan Only She Came Back by Margot Harrison No One Left But You by Tash McAdam Wren Martin Ruins it All by Amanda DeWitt Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng Dolls of Our Lives by Mary Mahoney (audio only currently) Data Baby by Susannah Breslin Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today's episode onOverDrive.comor in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace. Looking for more bookish content? Check out theLibby Life Blog! We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe onApple Podcasts,Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds onInstagram,Twitter, andTikTok@ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Halloween is fast-approaching, so what better way to get into the spirit 👻 than with some Haunted House reads! Grab your flashlights and EMF detectors and join the Nerds as they give you a guide to books about haunted houses. Titles mentioned in this episode: Emma’s Titles: Starling House by Alix E Harrow Home Before Dark by Riley Sager The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe Charnel House by Graham Masterton Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw Joe’s Titles White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher The Grownup by Gillian Flynn The Night House by Jo Nesbo The Broken Girls by Simone St. James Let Him In by William Friend The Handyman Method by Nick Cutter Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today’s episode onOverDrive.comor in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace. Looking for more bookish content? Check out theLibby Life Blog! We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe onApple Podcasts,Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds onInstagram,Twitter, andTikTok@ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email [email protected]. We’ve got merch! Check out ourtwoshirtsinThe OverDrive Shop(all profits are donated to the ALA Literacy Clearinghouse). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emma is joined by Sydney and Tiffany to talk about what makes an author an "always buy."They also discuss the different ways they interact with an author or their titles, including placing holds at the library, using Libby tags, reading in print versus digital versus audiobook, personal connections to books, and go on a slight tangent to recommend some horror reads. It's a grab bag book-ish chat with a very long list of recommended authors and titles! Books mentioned: The Korean Vegan Cookbookby Joanne Lee Molinaro Joshua Weissman Molly Wizenberg Happy Place by Emily Henry Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison The Return by Rachel Harrison Yellowface by RF Kuang Babel by RF Kuang The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Americanahby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sunby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feministsby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Laura Vanderkam Jenny Odell Cackle by Rachel Harrison 11/22/63 by Stephen King The Outsider by Stephen King Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King The Shiningby Stephen King The Institute by Stephen King audiobook Fairy Taleby Stephen King The Silent Companionsby Lauren Purcell Jackal by Erin E Adams The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today's episode onOverDrive.comor in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace. We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok @ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emma unbelievably chats with Cassandra Clare about her stunning new adult fantasy book, Sword Catcher. Emma and Cassandra also discuss nobles behaving badly, the surprising inspiration behind this story and the characters, romance, found family, and what we can expect next in Castellane. Listen to the end to hear the title of Book 2 in this series and Cassandra's preferred method of organizing her book collection at home. Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today's episode onOverDrive.comor in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace. We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok @ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After Joe Read a Big Romance, everyone wanted Emma to do the same - so today, Emma Reads a Horror! Emma read Jackal by Erin E. Adams - one of Joe's favorite reads of 2022. The Nerds get into a spoilery discussion of the book, talking about folklore, horror, and dive in deep in the book's topics. Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today’s episode onOverDrive.comor in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace. Looking for more bookish content? Check out theLibby Life Blog! We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe onApple Podcasts,Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds onInstagram,Twitter, andTikTok@ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email [email protected]. We’ve got merch! Check out ourtwoshirtsinThe OverDrive Shop(all profits are donated to the ALA Literacy Clearinghouse). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, Joe is joined by return guest Adam Sass to talk about his new book, Your Lonely Nights are Over. They talk about building and investing in a community, dual POV writing, beautiful, dreamy pondering, and Adam answers the question - what's your favorite scary movie? Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today’s episode onOverDrive.comor in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace. Looking for more bookish content? Check out theLibby Life Blog! We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe onApple Podcasts,Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds onInstagram,Twitter, andTikTok@ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email [email protected]. We’ve got merch! Check out ourtwoshirtsinThe OverDrive Shop(all profits are donated to the ALA Literacy Clearinghouse). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe and Emma share what books released in October 2023 that they're MOST excited for. Get your TBRs ready! Emma’s Picks: Lucky Me by Rich Paul The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young Wildfire by Hannah Grace A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone (Snow Place Like LA) Midnight is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead The Sun Sets in Singapore by Kehinde Fadipe Making It So by Patrick Stewart Joe’s Picks: The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward Brooms by Jasmine Walls The List by Yomi Adegoke The Woman in Me by Britney Spears Family Meal by Bryan Washington Mary and the Birth of Frankestein by Anne Eekhout The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub Author interviews upcoming: Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare Your Lonely Nights are Over by Adam Sass Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today's episode onOverDrive.comor in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace. We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok @ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today Joe is freaking out because he gets to talk to TJ Klune and Daniel Henning. TJ wrote one of Joe's all-time favorite books, The House in the Cerulean Sea, and his newest book, In the Lives of Puppets, released in April 2023. Daniel has been the voice for both of these audiobooks and over 200 others (The House in the Cerulean Sea (audio), In the Lives of Puppets(audio)). They talk about writing, narrating audiobooks, what advice they'd give to their younger selves, post-apocalyptic queer puppets, and gas station beef jerky. Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today’s episode onOverDrive.comor in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace. Looking for more bookish content? Check out theLibby Life Blog! We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe onApple Podcasts,Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds onInstagram,Twitter, andTikTok@ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email [email protected]. We’ve got merch! Check out ourtwoshirtsinThe OverDrive Shop(all profits are donated to the ALA Literacy Clearinghouse). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emma is joined by her friendly OverDrive librarians to chat about all things book hype. They explore questions like " Is it worth the hype?" and "Do you pay attention to hype?" and how it impacts personal reading tastes or not! They also have a respectful conversation about books that did not quite live up to their expectations and then share some books they're REALLY looking forward to for the fall. Books mentioned in this episode: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldry (Bookshops & Bonedust coming soon) Emily Henry A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Death Valley by Melissa Broder Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison System Collapse by Martha Wells Unreliable Narrator by Aparna Nancherla What About Men? By Caitlin Moran Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today's episode onOverDrive.comor in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace. We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok @ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices