We gave a man a microphone and the world didn't become a worse place because of it. Seasoned romance reader (he's read 2) Mr Shanireads joins us to chat about reading in general and makes a case for Bonnie to read Brandon Sanderson.
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SteamyLit special edition of Ali Hazelwood's Bride kicked up a lot of opinions and obviously we had to discuss! Don't worry we're also incapable of not talking about Magnolia Parks.
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Take a drink every time we say we hate BJ. This week we chitchat Magnolia Parks Universe now that Bonnie has also jumped in with both feet.
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SenLinYu's Manacled got a trad pickup and we speculate wildly on how the iconic Dramione gets transformed into a trad pub book. We've also been gluing ourselves to the TV watching true crime, True Detective season 4 and ... Heart? of? Dixie?
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Happy Valentine's Day! We have a special treat for all you loves: a dramatic reading of Chuck Tingle's classic Turned Gay by the Living Alpha Diner.
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Surprise, double episodes this week! We just had to get together for a roundup on authors doing things on the internet. Chuck Tingle remains our unproblematic king, though.
NOTE: During the episode we refer to author Xiran Jay Zhao by the incorrect pronouns and would like to apologize: they use they/them and it was an oversight on our part to not check before recording.
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Time to make it official: we are Nikki Sloan stans through and through. Guess which of her books is our favorite? It's not the one you think...!
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This week it's a sleepy gals catch up: Mary reports back on her audiobook adventure, Shani reads non-fiction and Bonnie got a great present from her husband!
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This week Shani & Mary get into reader etiquette in online spaces and we parse out the details behind the St. Martin's Press Marketing Boycott. Check out @readersforaccountability for all organizing info!
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Happy New Year! This week we talk about what's in and what's out for 2024 for us and the bookish community. The usual chaos of this pod is IN, just so we're setting listener expectations...
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Happy New Year besties! For this mini we give ourselves full-body cringe talking about reader Facebook groups and bookish thirst trappers with Krystal from @leelovesbooks_.
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It's the last episode of the year! We go through all the favorites from the longest year ever.
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Mary’s favorites
Bonnie’s favorites
Shani's favorites
Our first mini episode in breaking down yet more authors behaving badly: Cait Corrain, you're up. Del Rey debut fantasy author Corrain found herself in a pickle as it came to light that she is behind false Goodreads profiles slandering her peers' books. We break down the whole mess for you!
This week we're talking about book bans and Caitlin of @cbg_reads, a friend of the pod and high school teacher, joins us to chat about what is and isn't book banning. Of course we also spend lots of time meandering through what we're in the mood for, everything and anything from omegaverse to dark academia to Magnolia Parks.
Check out booklooks.org to learn why some books are under the fire, often completely unfairly.
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This week Krystal of @leelovesbooks_ joins us to chat about the two-year wait for Giana Darling's newest release Caution to the Wind and we try to figure out what happened with the original release date.
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This week the delightful Marie Maravilla joins us to discuss the TikTok Shop and all the things she's learned selling her books.
You can find her books on KU, and save the date for her third book, City of Salvation, coming out on January 18th, 2024!
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This week we are completely baffled by all things Tillie Cole and her Hades Hangmen series, not to mention people who have supported the series in the light of the recent controversy regarding the white supremacist elements of Darkness Embraced.
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Authors have been wilding on social media: we catch you up on the snowed-in why choose hubbub and Jodi Picoult giving her two cents on indie publishing.
Please note that we discuss Gothikana by RuNyX at the start of the episode. At the time of the recording, we were not aware that the book was acquired by Bramble, an imprint of Macmillan books. Macmillan also owns St. Martin's Press and Wednesday Books who still have not addressed the Islamophobic and racist comments made by their employee on social media. In the Mood For Podcast and us hosts unequivocally support the SMP Boycott and will not platform any Macmillan, St. Martin's or Wednesday Books products going forward until we receive an adequate response from St. Martin's Press.
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This week Bella @abookishbelle_ joins us for a two-parter on all things fanfic and book binding. In this part we talk about unhinged AO3 tags, Dramione in more depth and Bella makes an impassioned plea for everyone to read Measure of a Man even though it's 580,000 words.
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This week Bella @abookishbelle_ joins us for a two-parter on all things fanfic and book binding. We get into published authors who got their start as fanfic writers, the ethics of book binding and in part two, we really dig deep into Dramione.
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