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Join Mary Kay Andrews and Ron Block as they welcome award-winning screenwriter and bestselling novelist, Grady Hendrix. He is the author of of more than a dozen books including Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism (which is being adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios), and the NYT bestseller The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (currently being adapted into a TV series). Grady joins us to discuss his latest instant New York Times bestselling campy and darkly comic Gothic thriller, How to Sell a Haunted House, just released in paperback. Tune in to hear from this master of horror about what drew him to the genre, why puppets and dolls are so compelling, his roots in Southern storytelling, along with lots of self funny and deprecating insights into his road to publication and his writing process. 

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This Winter 2024 season premiere of the Friends & Fiction Show will get you in the spirit for all the new and exciting things we have ahead in 2024! On this special “Just Us” episode, you will hear from the Fab Four all about our new format for the new year, including a run-down of our guests for the entire Winter season, plus an impromptu chat amongst our four hosts and founders about how F&F has changed them, howwriting advice they've gleaned from our guests has impacted their own craft, what they’re looking forward to in the new year, and their vulnerabilities as writers.

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Today, on episode #109, I speak with young adult Kayvion Lewis, author of the recently published Thieves’ Gambit. We talk about her writing process and her adventurous spirit is so infectious!  

Book Recommended:

Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan 

Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison

Yellow Face by R.F. Kuang 

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus 

Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix 

Guest author Emily Brightwell, author of Mrs. Jeffries Aims to Win recommends Redshirts by John Scalzi

Other books:

Starter Villian by John Scalzi

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Giveaway: I am giving away TWO copies of Bittersweet in the Hollow by Kate Pearsall. This giveaway will close on publication day, October 10th, and I will announce the two winners on this post on October 11th. Open to U.S. mailing addresses only.
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Esquire article on Blurbs: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a44948120/book-publishing-broken-blurbs-system/

I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!

Okay, we were only podcast separated for a month but it felt like an eternity.  We were very excited to put a microphone between us.

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

Mermaids by Patty Dann
Zero Days by Ruth Ware
The Wife Upstairs by Frieda McFadden
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas

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This week the Nerdy Reads team reviews the book How to Sell a Haunted House, Calypso, and discusses mythical creatures. This is a fun episode that you will not want to miss. 

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When it comes to stress, they say selling a house is up there with divorce and death. Now imagine that house is haunted… by demonic puppets. 

Yeah – that’s the premise of Grady Hendrix’s brand-new horror novel, How to Sell a Haunted House. It combines Grady’s trademark humour, genre-knowledge and playfulness, with a genuinely frightening story about homes, and all the things they contain, both comforting and downright nasty.

Grady and I dive into the economics of haunting, the value of earnestness in a world of irony, and we discover the difference between marionettes and hand puppets … which is more frightening that you would expect.

It’s a fun conversation, about a joyfully creepy book.  

Enjoy!

How To Sell A Haunted House was published by Berkley on Jan 17th 2003. 

Other books mentioned in this episode: 

• The Final Girl Support Group (2020), by Grady Hendrix
• Horrorstör (2014), by Grady Hendrix
• We Sold Our Souls (2018), by Grady Hendrix
• My Heart is a Chainsaw (2020), by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Pallbearer’s Club (2022), by Paul Tremblay
• Moth Manor (1978), by Martha Sherman Bacon

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Links to things we talked about:

• It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
• Shudder
• Deadline: "Lorenzo Mieli Secures Rights To Italo Calvino’s Classic Novel ‘The Baron In The Trees’"
• The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
• Collider: "Damian Lewis to Star in Euros Lyn's Dark Comedy 'The Radleys'"
• The Radleys by Matt Haig
• Falcon Lake, directed by Charlotte Le Bon
• A Sister by Bastien Vivès
• The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
• My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
• My Best Friend's Exorcism, directed by Damon Thomas
• Bunnicula by James Howe & Deborah Howe, illustrated by Alan Daniel
• Fright Night, directed by Tom Holland
• Deadline: "‘The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires’ Adaptation Among First Projects On Producer Patrick Moran’s Amazon Development Slate"
• "Jo Walton Reads"

Our "Spooky Season" Plugs:

• Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono (and Kiki's Delivery Service, directed by Hayao Miyazaki)
• Dracula by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat (and Dracula by Bram Stoker)

Next Episode:

• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

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Books Mentioned - 

Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin

The Fervor by Alma Katsu

The Mermaid, The Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaňo

The Embodied Image by Juhani Pallasmaa

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

This week on What We’re Reading and Other Stuff

Jen Read:
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
The Ruin by Dervla McTeirnen
Paperbacks From Hell by Grady Hendrix

Shanna read:
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

Check out our lovely friend Jennelle's poetry page as well as Shayne Koyczan if you need your cold cold frozen heart thawed as well!

Our book club discussion for The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is starting today over on Instagram and Facebook!  If you are joining us for book club, head over there to join in on the conversation!

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Do think kids’ drawings are creepy? They are, right? All big smiles and suns with eyes and weird flowers the size of people… and the dead girls in the background.

Right? 

Our guest this week has built a whole horror story around these little paper nightmares.  Hidden Pictures is a novel that blends text and image in ways that I’ve never seen done before, or never as well. It’s a story of childhood imagination, suburban murder and summer terror. Think Gone Girl with Crayola ghosts.

Jason and I talk about lots of things – the rise of 1% horror; the relationship between image and text, and how to adapt an experimental book for audio. We get into the fairy tale details that I missed, and ask kid’s imaginary friends are just so damn freaky. 

Trust me, you’ll never look at your little cherub’s artistic offerings the same way ever again.

Enjoy

Hidden Pictures is published on May 10th by Flatiron Books and Sphere.

Other books mentioned in this episode include:

• The Impossible Fortress (2017), by Jason Rekulak 
• A Kiss Before Dying (1953), Ira Levin
• Horrorstör (2014), by Grady Hendrix
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009), by Seth Grahame-Smith
• Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children (2011), by Ransom Rigg

My article in Esquire on ‘The 50 Best Horror Novels of All Time’

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This week on What We’re Reading and Other Stuff we both read something new to us by TJ Klune and we were quite surprised to say the least.

Warning: This episode contains some adult words

We are reading The Lighthouse Witches by CJ Cooke for book club this month, so pick up a copy and read along with us!!

Books mentioned in this episode:

The Lightening Struck Heart by TJ Klune
Sylvanas by Christie Golden
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

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Plain Bad Heroines by emily m. danforth

Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline

Miami Blues by Charles Willeford

Mallory and Brea’s Best Books List

The Cutting Season by Attica Locke

Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke

This week, on episode 61, author Darrin Doyle and I discuss his latest  novel, The Beast in Aisle 34 and other great books including, The Auctioneer by Joan Sampson and An Elderly Lady Can Do No Wrong by Ellen Tursdon.

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Books Discussed:

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

The Auctioneer by Joan Samson

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

Tales the Devil Told me by Jen Fawkes

An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed  by Ellen Tursdon

Other Books Discussed:

Washington Black Esi Edugyan

An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Ellen Tursdon

The Southern Lady’s Book club guide to slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

 

What we're reading next: 

The Rumphulus by  Joseph Peterson

I Love you but I’ve chosen Darkness  Calire Vaye Watkins

Where to find Darrin on Social Media

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Website Darrindoyle.com
 

BOOK GIVEAWAY: The Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman

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Giveaway open to US mailing addresses only and closes on. October 25th, 2021. 

I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!

Welcome to the Wrath of the iOtians Labor Day Special! No rest for the iOtians! Jake and Ron chat about The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix, My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones, the forthcoming Dark City TV series, Brand New Chery Flavor on Netflix, and David Cronenberg and David Lynch. Get your favorite case of beer, rent or stream your favorite 80s horror movie, and listen to the podcast! Have a fun and safe Labor Day weekend!

Jake and Ron chat about the following:

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/658406/the-final-girl-support-group-by-grady-hendrix/

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/My-Heart-Is-a-Chainsaw/Stephen-Graham-Jones/9781982137632

Men, Women, and Chain Saws by Carol Clover
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691166292/men-women-and-chain-saws

Dark City TV Series (In development)
https://collider.com/dark-city-tv-series-alex-proyas/

Brand New Cherry Flavor (Netflix TV Series)
https://www.netflix.com/title/80233374

David Cronenberg, Actor, Director, Writer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Naked Lunch (1991)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

The Fly (1986)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091064/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Videodrome (1983)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Scanners (1981)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081455/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

David Lynch Writer, Director, Producer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Twin Peaks The Return
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4093826/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_9

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Hello fellow horror-fiends. This week we’re going retro, to the heyday of horror, when men wore masks and women checked basements in their negligee. 

Our guest is Grady Hendrix, a writer perpetually interested in taking tropes, only to stab them, kill them, and resurrect them as something new. He’s done it with exorcisms, vampires, the devil and … erm .. IKEA.

Now he’s taking on the slasher and his counterpart, in The Final Girl Support Group. A novel that takes the bloody, weary body of the female heroine, and gives her the chance to kick the hell out of the monster chasing her. It’s meta, funny, wry and ironic – but it’s also a story with heart. I enjoyed it immensely.

Grady and I talk about our favourite slashers (and final girls), why we’re obsessed with nostalgia, what it means that we enjoy films about killing women, and I – once again ­– give away too much of my own psychological frailty. This time it’s my all-consuming terror of Freddy Kruger.

This is a book and conversation that will REALLY please the true horror lovers.

Enjoy! 

The Final Girl Support Group is published July 13th by Berkley in North American and Titan in the UK.

Books mentioned in this episode include:

• Paperbacks From Hell (2017), by Grady Hendrix
• We Sold Our Souls (2018), by Grady Hendrix
• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (2020), by Grady Hendrix
• Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (1992), by Carol J. Clover
• The Last Final Girl (2012), by Stephen Graham Jones
• Final Girls (2017), by Riley Sager
• The Tribe (1981), by Bari Wood
• When Darkness Loves Us (1985), by Elizabeth Engstrom

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Thanks to Adrian Flounders for graphic design.

What began in blood must also end in blood. It's been an emotional roller coaster getting to this point, but the boys are proud to present the final episode in their series on Grady Hendrix's "The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires."

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The horrors continue as Ben and Nate drink deep of all that Grady Hendrix has to offer in his surprisingly brutal book about middle aged women fighting vampires.  As the story progresses though, even Ben begins to wonder if they haven't bitten off more than they can chew. 

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Ben and Nate check out one of last year's most talked about horror novels. It turns out to be a bit more intense than either of them were bargaining for. Get ready for things to get dark! 

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Episode 4 of BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book.

In this episode, we discuss Grady Hendrix's "The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires". This episode's drink is a Relaxed Alabama Slamma'!

Drink recipe:
Your (southern) comfort level of Southern Comfort, orange juice, and strawberry for garnish

"The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires" by Grady Hendrix: https://tinyurl.com/4p5vnlts

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