Podcast appearances and mentions of Robin Wasserman

Spock Amok (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S1 E5) was recommended by Lauren Rivers she/her, who said: Two words. Enterprise Bingo. I seriously hope that the writer of this episode got a bonus for that. Casually mentioned in an earlier episode, now we finally find out about this little game played by the junior officers, fully demonstrated by Una and La'an, the ships resident 'fun killers'.I love when Star Trek has fun with itself, and this episode does such a great job with it in every aspect. From giving Dr. M'Benga a hard time for his awesome hat to the awesome subplot with the Rongovians, this not only makes me laugh but gives every single member of the cast the chance to shine.I also love this episode for giving us 'The Scorch', a hull panel on the outside of the ship signed by the crew. It's a great episode all around and seeing Pike finally figure out what the Rongovians are after is supremely satisfying.While I love every episode of Strange New Worlds, this one just fills me with unbridled joy every time.Spock Amok first aired on June 2, 2022, written by Henry Alonso Myers & Robin Wasserman, and directed by Rachel LeitermanA personal visit causes a comedy of errors during Spock & Pike's crucial negotiations with an unusual alien species.The Joy of Trek is hosted by Khaki & Kay, with editing & production by Chief Engineer Greg and music by Fox Amoore (Bandcamp | Bluesky)Send us your recommendations, or support us on Patreon.Find us at joyoftrek.com · Twitter · Facebook

Meredith & Poppy chat about two stories from Ghosts of the Shadow Market: "The Land I Lost" and "Through Blood, Through Fire," written by Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman, and Sarah Rees Brennan. Check out our episode guide for more from The Parabatai Podcast. Credits Hosts: Meredith (@legallyblonde) & Poppy (@poppyashwright) Graphic Design: Justine (@Fickle_Muse) Music: Kristen (@itskeeks) This podcast is supported by our Patreon community! 

Meredith & Poppy chat about two stories from Ghosts of the Shadow Market: "The Wicked Ones" and "Son of the Dawn," written by Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman, and Sarah Rees Brennan. Check out our episode guide for more from The Parabatai Podcast. Credits Hosts: Meredith (@legallyblonde) & Poppy (@poppyashwright) Graphic Design: Justine (@Fickle_Muse) Music: Kristen (@itskeeks) This podcast is supported by our Patreon community! 

Meredith & Poppy introduce the next read-along book for the podcast: Ghosts of the Shadow Market, an anthology of short stories written by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Kelly Link, and Robin Wasserman. Check out our episode guide for more from The Parabatai Podcast. Links See Cassandra Clare's website for more information and buy links for Ghosts of the Shadow Market Credits This show is written and produced by us, Poppy (@poppyashwright) and Meredith (@legallyblonde). Our graphic designer is Justine (@Fickle_Muse) and our music editor is Kristen (@itskeeks).   This podcast is supported by our Patreon community! Join now for additional content from us each month.

Love can make you do crazy things, whether it's the love of your child or the love of your life. The latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach, explores said themes and much more. Join in as we unpack it all.

In the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Pike and April negotiate safe passage through an alien territory for the Federation, while Spock attempts to further his relationship with T'Pring via unconventional means. Join in as we review Spock Amok.

NO SPOILERS in this conversation with author Robin Wasserman! *** Robin talks Mother Daughter Widow Wife, a novel about a woman who wakes up on a bus with no memory and is diagnosed as being in a psychogenic fugue, which is a kind of amnesia. The protagonist is trying to build a new life from scratch with the help of various women circling around her. The novel questions what kinds of life a woman is allowed to have and what kind of roles and obligations make her the woman that she is. (01:50).  *** Robin sees writing as a team effort. She shares how she connected with her talented and invaluable agent and how she “gets her” and her work (almost better than she does!). (03:47)  *** Mother Daughter Widow Wife may not be about teenagers and is not set in a small town like Robin’s prior, Girls on Fire, but we loved hearing her draw parallels between the two in the way they both have a sense of claustrophobia and a narrative of obsession at their core. (08:19)  *** Robin has lived many different lives, from YA author to adult commercial fiction author to television writer. Listen to what Robin considers her greatest professional leap of faith and how she ended up in sunny LA (again) writing for TV. (13:14) *** After declaring that every woman is complicated (yes!), Robin shares examples of the women who inspire her and what she has learned from watching female writers and producers making their way through the TV industry. (19:57) *** As always, we talk astrology. Robin reluctantly admits to being a Gemini, but her interest or acceptance of astrology stops there! This is shocking for a writer living in LA, but it may have something to do with a creepy experience with an overzealous psychic. (22:33)  *** Robin explains why Mother Daughter Widow Wife was the hardest book she ever revised because she felt like an entirely different person in a deep, personal, existential way between the first and second drafts. Apparently that is a recipe for a better, more nuanced novel! (25:07) *** Find out what Robin has learned from the collaborative process of working in a writers' room for TV and what that has made her appreciate about novel writing. We also loved hearing what she thinks makes a great book to screen adaptation. (30:38) *** What’s next for Robin? Between TV, novels and non-fiction, it seems the answer is to keep all the fires burning! (37:12) Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @popfictionwomen and on Twitter @pop_women. Pitch us at cjadebarry @ gmail. To do a full deep dive, check out our website at www.popfictionwomen.com (http://www.popfictionwomen.com) . Stay Complicated!

Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota. This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series two-year anniversary event on November 15, 2016, with Elisa Albert (After Birth), Tanais (Bright Lines), and Robin Wasserman (Girls on Fire). Listen to the readings in the last episode! About the Readers: Elisa Albert is the author of After Birth (2015), The Book of Dahlia (2008), How This Night is Different (2006), and the editor of the anthology Freud’s Blind Spot (2010). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, The New York Times, Post Road, The Guardian, Gulf Coast, Commentary, Salon, Tablet, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, The Rumpus, Time Magazine, on NPR, and in many anthologies. Albert grew up in Los Angeles and received an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Lini Mazumdar Fellow. A recipient of the Moment magazine emerging writer award and a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize, she has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Djerassi, Vermont Studio Center, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Holland, the HWK in Germany, and the Amsterdam Writer's Residency. She has taught at Columbia's School of the Arts, The College of Saint Rose, and is currently Visiting Writer at Bennington College.  She lives in upstate New York with her family. Tanaïs (née Tanwi Nandini Islam) is the New York based author of the critically-acclaimed novel Bright Lines (Penguin 2015), which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, and was the inaugural selection of the First Lady of NYC's Gracie Book Club, as well as Bustle's American Woman Book Club. Their work is multi-disciplinary, dynamic, intersectional and feminist. Over the course of their career, they’ve worked as a community organizer, a domestic violence court advocate, a probations intake officer, and youth arts educator. While researching their debut novel, Bright Lines, Tanaïs studied perfumery, amassing a library of 500 fragrant raw materials, which led to the creation of Hi Wildflower, independent beauty & fragrance house. Currently, Tanaïs is working on In Sensorium, an essay collection exploring scent, sensuality, South Asian and Muslim perfume cultures, colonization and its aftermath: the environmental and border crises around the world, as well as a second novel, Stellar Smoke. Their podcast and perfume anthology project, MALA, features interviews with survivors of violence, who reimagine their memories as scents. Season 1, featured five formerly incarcerated women in the NYS Penal System. Robin Wasserman is a graduate of Harvard University and the author of several successful novels for young adults. A recent recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. Girls on Fire is her first novel for adults. * This event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota. This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series two-year anniversary event on November 15, 2016, with Elisa Albert (After Birth), Tanais (Bright Lines), and Robin Wasserman (Girls on Fire). Check back Thursday for the discussion! About the Readers: Elisa Albert is the author of After Birth (2015), The Book of Dahlia (2008), How This Night is Different (2006), and the editor of the anthology Freud’s Blind Spot (2010). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, The New York Times, Post Road, The Guardian, Gulf Coast, Commentary, Salon, Tablet, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, The Rumpus, Time Magazine, on NPR, and in many anthologies. Albert grew up in Los Angeles and received an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Lini Mazumdar Fellow. A recipient of the Moment magazine emerging writer award and a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize, she has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Djerassi, Vermont Studio Center, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Holland, the HWK in Germany, and the Amsterdam Writer's Residency. She has taught at Columbia's School of the Arts, The College of Saint Rose, and is currently Visiting Writer at Bennington College.  She lives in upstate New York with her family. Tanaïs (née Tanwi Nandini Islam) is the New York based author of the critically-acclaimed novel Bright Lines (Penguin 2015), which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, and was the inaugural selection of the First Lady of NYC's Gracie Book Club, as well as Bustle's American Woman Book Club. Their work is multi-disciplinary, dynamic, intersectional and feminist. Over the course of their career, they’ve worked as a community organizer, a domestic violence court advocate, a probations intake officer, and youth arts educator. While researching their debut novel, Bright Lines, Tanaïs studied perfumery, amassing a library of 500 fragrant raw materials, which led to the creation of Hi Wildflower, independent beauty & fragrance house. Currently, Tanaïs is working on In Sensorium, an essay collection exploring scent, sensuality, South Asian and Muslim perfume cultures, colonization and its aftermath: the environmental and border crises around the world, as well as a second novel, Stellar Smoke. Their podcast and perfume anthology project, MALA, features interviews with survivors of violence, who reimagine their memories as scents. Season 1, featured five formerly incarcerated women in the NYS Penal System. Robin Wasserman is a graduate of Harvard University and the author of several successful novels for young adults. A recent recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. Girls on Fire is her first novel for adults. * This event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft Episode #242: Cassandra Clare Cassandra Clare is #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shadowhunter Chronicles, the forthcoming Sword Catcher duology, and co-author of the Magisterium series. Her most recent Shadowhunter novel, Chain of Gold, kicks off the Last Hours trilogy. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode A Little Princess and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Noel Streatfeild wrote a prolific series of books for young readers, kicking off with Ballet Shoes and including Dancing Shoes, Theater Shoes, and Skating Shoes. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg Cassie went through a British obsession where she read all of the Brontë sister’s works (best typified by Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre) and all of Jane Austen (including Pride and Prejudice and Emma) Cassie’s interview on 88 Cups of Tea The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cruel Prince, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, and The Spiderwick Chronicles (listen to her First Draft episode here) J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy The Shannara books by Terry Brooks, which kicks off with The Sword of Shannara Tad Williams, author of the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, which kicks off with The Dragonbone Chair, and the Shadowmarch series Guy Gavriel Kay, author of Tigana and (my personal fav), Under Heaven and its sequel, River of Stars Annette Curtis Klause, author of Blood and Chocolate and The Silver Kiss Ellen Kushner, author of Thomas the Rhymer and Swordspoint. Terri Windling created the “Bordertown” shared world urban fantasy series. In 2011 she initiated a YA revival of the series Welcome to Bordertown co-edited with Holly Black. Robin Wasserman, author of Girls on Fire and the forthcoming Mother Daughter Widow Wife (listen to her First Draft episode here) Tamora Pierce, author of Alanna and Wild Magic Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden   I want to hear from you! Have a question about writing or creativity for Sarah Enni or her guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998. Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator of Everyone’s an Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too;  Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s free! Rate, Review, and Recommend How do you like the show? Please take a moment to rate and review First Draft with Sarah Enni in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your honest and positive review helps others discover the show -- so thank you! Is there someone you think would love this podcast as much as you do? Please share this episode on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or via carrier pigeon (maybe try a text or e-mail, come to think of it). Just click the Share button at the bottom of this post! Thanks again!

First Draft Episode #232: Maureen Johnson Maureen Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of several YA novels, including 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Suite Scarlett, The Name of the Star, and Truly Devious: A Mystery. She has also done collaborative works, such as Let It Snow (with John Green and Lauren Myracle), and The Bane Chronicles (with Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan). Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Something Queer series, written by Elizabeth Levy and illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein, included Something Queer is Going On (A Mystery), Something Queer at the Library, Something Queer in Outer Space, and more The Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sobol One day Maureen plans to pursue writing non-fiction and humorous essays, like David Sedaris, author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames Maureen’s friend and agent is Kate Testerman with KT Literary Janklow & Nesbit Associates is the literary agency where Kate worked her way up before moving and forming her own agency Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashears and Sarah Dessen books, including Saint Anything, Once and For All, and her newest, The Rest of the Story  (hear Sarah Dessen’s episode of First Draft here) were the only YA books around when Maureen started watching After John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars was turned into a movie by the same name, his other books Paper Towns and Looking for Alaska were also optioned and turned into a movie and TV show. Then came Let It Snow with Lauren Myracle and Maureen Jonhson, now available on Netflix! Some of the crew of YA writers who wrote with Maureen in New York when they were beginning their careers included: John Green; Emily Jenkins a.k.a. E. Lockhart, author of The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks; We Were Liars, and the forthcoming Again Again; Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mortal Instruments series, The Dark Artifices series, and the forthcoming Chain of Gold, which kicks off the Last Hours series; Robin Wasserman, author of Girls on Fire, and the forthcoming Mother Daughter Widow Wife (listen to her First Draft episode here); Holly Black, author of The Cruel Prince series, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown and more (listen to her First Draft episode here); Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies and Leviathan; Justine Larbalestier, author of Liar. I can’t miss an opportunity to dig at the ending of Lost Knives Out is a great example of a mystery. Go watch Knives Out! I want to hear from you! Have a question about writing or creativity for Sarah Enni or her guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998. Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator of Everyone’s an Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too;  Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s free! Rate, Review, and Recommend How do you like the show? Please take a moment to rate and review First Draft with Sarah Enni in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your honest and positive review helps others discover the show -- so thank you! Is there someone you think would love this podcast as much as you do? Please share this episode on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or via carrier pigeon (maybe try a text or e-mail, come to think of it). Just click the Share button at the bottom of this post! Thanks again!

We're taking a week-long break from our usual "Bookreporter Talks To" interviews to bring you something different. The American Bookseller Association's Winter Institute brings hundreds of booksellers from around the country for networking, educating, and introducing upcoming books. ALA's Midwinter Meeting does the same for librarians. Carol takes a journey to both events and finds authors to share their new novels. Here we've got thirteen books you'll want to keep an eye out for in 2020! Books discussed in this episode: The Paris Hours by Alex George 1:47 ; Released May 5, 2020 Broken People by Sam Lansky 3:48 ; Released June 9, 2020 Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin 4:09 ; Released February 18, 2020 Filthy Beasts by Kirkland Hamill 4:46 ; Released July 14, 2020 The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles 6:35 ; Released June 2, 2020 Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Robin Wasserman 7:23 ; Released June 23, 2020 Tiny Imperfections by Alli Frank and Asha Youmans 8:40 ; Released May 5, 2020 The Book of V. by Anna Solomon 9:24 ; Released May 5, 2020 Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black 9:55 ; Released 2020 The Last Flight by Julie Clark 11:31 ; Released June 2, 2020 The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals by Becky Mandelbaum 12:07 ; Released August 4, 2020 Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman 13:33 ; Released March 3, 2020   This episode was produced by Austin Ruh

First Draft Episode #199: Robin Wasserman Robin Wasserman, New York Times bestselling author of adult novel Girls on Fire, as well as young adult novels The Waking Dark, The Book of Blood and Shadow, Hacking Harvard, The Cold Awakening series, the Seven Deadly Sins series. Her next novel, to come out with Scribner, is Mother Daughter Widow Wife. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode Robin loved Diane Wynne Jones and Stephen King as a kid, particularly Salem’s Lot, The Stand, and It. (Robin wrote for The Atlantic about, “How Stephen King Saved My Life”) Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer, about whom Robin would gladly talk about forever. (And I would listen!) Robin wrote her senior thesis about Dr. Timothy Leary, who co-conducted studies known as the Psilocybin Project, which sought to test whether psychedelics could cure the emotional pain of Western man. Leary was fired from Harvard when the ethics of his studies came into question, and went on to continue promoting the use of psychedelics as a thought leader in the 60s counter-cultural movement. Leary has written extensively about his philosophy, including in books like The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, his book with his partner in the experiments, Richard Alpert* (now known as Ram Dass); his autobiography, Flashbacks; and Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out. Many have written about him, including The Timothy Leary Project: Inside the Great Counterculture Experiment, compiled by the archivist Jennifer Ulrich; and Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In by Robert Forte. *Of interest to me is that the TV show LOST paid homage to Ram Dass by naming a character Richard Alpert David Levithan, who has and does host a regular drinks night for New York authors of young adult fiction. Robin went to one of these gatherings and met John Green before Looking for Alaska won the Printz. Kurt Cobain was the lead singer of Nirvana, the band that broke open grunge. Cobain died by suicide in 1994. If you’re interested in Cobain, or Nirvana, or the grunge scene generally, I personally recommend Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm, and the documentary Montage of Heck by Brett Morgen (about which Robin wrote, “The Art of Resurrection: Montage of Heck,” in the Los Angeles Times Review of Books). The Satanic Panic was a phenomenon in the 1980s, wherein millions of Americans feared that an underground cult of Satan worshipers were practicing rituals and committing crimes. Robin particularly recommends Richard Beck’s We Believe the Children, which covers the phenomenon of, specifically, day care workers being charged with horrible accusations of child abuse. I’m obsessed with this phenomenon, and there are a ton of other podcasts that do a great job explaining it: For a broad overview, the Stuff You Should Know podcast released an episode about The Satanic Panic The Satanic Panic is a multi-part, deep dive into the phenomenon and many of the cases that came to define it (and their resources page isn’t to be missed) The McMartin Child Abuse trial was one of the most massive and egregious examples of the Satanic Panic as a community-seizing exercise of hysteria. Both WNYC’s The Takeaway and Generation Why have devoted episodes to exploring the case. Documentary filmmaker Penny Lane (whose most recent film, Hail Satan?, is awesome) went on KCRW’s The Document to discuss the case, and the phenomenon. Robin was inspired, in part, by an event of mass hysteria that afflicted dozens (of mostly high school cheerleaders) in LeRoy, New York, a phenomenon covered in the New York Times and Slate. Robin wrote about the phenomenon for the Los Angeles Times Review of Books (“Girl Trouble”), which is a non-fiction piece on the history of hysteria and a review of The Fever by Megan Abbott. Another book written about that phenomenon is The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas (listen to Kara’s episodes of First Draft here and here). The West Memphis Three was another case of hysteria leading to false convictions, in which three men in West Memphis, Arkansas were held responsible for the deaths of three young boys. The trial was controversial, and the three convicted men were released after serving more than 18 years in prison. The case is covered in a modern classic of documentary filmmaking, a trio of docs that begins with Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. The concept of “kindred spirits” put forth by Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery led Robin to some dysfunctional concepts of female friendship as a young woman Holly Black, who Robin calls “the queen of life modeling exercises” (listen to Holly Black’s First Draft episode here), asked her to write out what author she’d like to be. Robert Cormier and Neil Gaiman were among the many different answers to that question. Robin threw out that she’d like to be a cross between Michael Chabon and Joss Whedon. What/If, the TV show that Robin wrote for, is now available to watch on Netflix! Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator of Everyone’s an Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too;  Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s free! Rate, Review, and Recommend How do you like the show? Please take a moment to rate and review First Draft with Sarah Enni in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 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Brea and Mallory talk about game books and interview Travis McElroy! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Reading Glasses Merch   Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group   Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List     Travis McElroy Buy The Adventure Zone here! Books Mentioned - It by Stephen King Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman   The Good People by Hannah Kent The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi In the Woods by Tana French   Kill the Next One by Federico Axat, translated by David Frye   Mass Effect: Initiation by N.K. Jemisin and Mac Walters Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony Midshipman’s Hope by David Feintuch Dreadnought by April Daniels Lexicon by Max Barry  

Recorded on June 14, 2017 Book Talk Starts at 33:30 Tracie has a published novel available through Amazon on Kindle:  Regret & Return: A Novel Inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion by Tracie Kluver Bezerra.  It is available for $2.99, or free as part of Kindle Unlimited.  Check it out!   2KLC Swap is almost over!  JUNE 15th: Mail-By Date.  When you get your swap package, please take pictures and post in the "THANK YOU" thread.   Framework: Ten Architectural Knits by Norah Gaughan!  The winner will be announced at the end of this podcast.   We hope you are participating in our Mother Bear KAL/CAL!  Things to know: 1.  The KAL will run from now - August 31, 2017 2.  Any bears knit or crocheted in 2017 are eligible for entry into the Mother Bear FO thread.  3.  Please go to the Mother Bear Pattern Page to order your pattern - they have patterns in "knit flat", "knit in the round" and "crochet".  4.  After July 1, post a separate picture of each bear in a separate post in the FO thread.   We need prizes for our Mother Bear KAL!  If you have a prize or prizes to donate, please contact either Tracie or Barb.   Listen to the end of the podcast to hear the 3 winners of the Peer Pressure by Celia McAdam Cahill!  This contest ended on June 15, 2017.     KNITTING Tracie has finished: Mother Bears #106 & #107 Her second Fiddly Bits Cowl by Jana Pihota from a fingering weight "Magic Cake"   Barb has finished: *  her Edin Cardigan by Bonne Marie Burns, using Raven Frog Sheepless in the Captain’s Blue Colorway. *  Noro Woven Stitch Shawl by Zapasi, using a Caron Cake in the Blueberry Cheesecake colorway. *  Mother Bears #106 & #107   Tracie has cast on: *  Her 3rd Fiddly Bits Cowl by Jane Pihota, again using a "Magic Cake" of fingering scraps.   Tracie continues to work on: *  Scalloped Shell Shawl by Kimberly Gintar in Tosh Merino Light in Copper Penny and (Vi)laine Malicieuses (Malicious Wool) in the A La Peche Aux Coquillages (Shell-picking) *  (Ho'onenea) Around the Island by Cindy Garland, using Stunning Strings Studio in Serenity in the Reflecting Pool colorway *  Arena by Norah Gaughan in Juniper Moon Farms Zooey DK  *  Iðunn by Ragga Eiríksdóttir in Istex Lettlopi   Barb has cast on: *  Her 2nd Fiddly Bits Cowl by Jana Pihota  *  A 2nd Hitofude cardigan by Hiroku Fukatso, using Madelinetosh Feather in the Odyssey colorway   Barb Continues to work on: *  Vanilla Socks for Will’s birthday using Knit Picks Chroma Twist in the Fog Bank colorway. *  Jungle Vines socks by Becky Greene (CraftBuzz) using Invictus Master of my Feet in the Storm Chaser colorway.   *  Beagle pullover sweater by Norah Gaughan, using Berroco Vintage in the Forest Floor colorway. *  Wing Span by maylin Tri-Coterie Designs using Crystal Palace Mini Mochi in a green/blue/purple colorway. *  Peer Pressure by Celia McAdam Cahill in Abstract Fiber O’Keefe in the Huckleberry colorway *  Nuvem by Martina Behm, using Wollmeise Lace-Garn in the 13 A1 colorway. *  Fiddly Bits cowl by Jana Pihota, using fingering scraps.   BOOKS     Tracie has finished: *  Murder of Innocence: The Tragic Life & Final Rampage of Laurie Dann by Joel Kaplan *  Lily & the Octopus by Steven Rowley   Barb has finished: *  What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan *  Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith   Tracie is currently reading Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman   Barb is currently reading: *  A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold *  The Green Road by Anne Enright

In this episode of Bibliophiles Anonymous, Denise and Jess fangirl about all the latest Cassandra Clare news that has come out over the past week. And oh boy, were there a lot of them! First up, they have announced that the Mortal Instruments film franchise will be rebooted into a TV show. Details are slim right now, but we are cautiously optimistic that they might actually do things right this time. You can read about it here. Can we please have something better than this? Please? The next bit of news - there will be a new Shadowhunter e-series. Just like the Bane Chronicles, this new series will be launched as a series of e-book short stories/novellas. It is called Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy and will follow Simon as he trains to become Shadowhunter, but will have appearances from other beloved characters as well. Maureen Johnson and Sarah Rees Brennan are back on board, as is Robin Wasserman. Details can be found here. Thanks for listening! Please rate, review and subscribe!

Coming up… Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis 03:00 Introduction to “The End is Nigh” – Vol. 1 of “The Apocalypse Triptych” Edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey 16:20 Main Fiction: “The Balm and the Wound” by Robin Wasserman 22:00 Robin Wasserman is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Waking Dark, The Book of Blood and Shadow, the Cold Awakening Trilogy, Hacking Harvard, and the Seven Deadly Sins series, which was adapted into a popular television miniseries. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in several anthologies as well as The... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

SEPTEMBER please just take my money. Take it all! There is a crazy amount of amazing books coming out this month and to celebrate we have an absolute chocka episode for you! With special guests: Trish Dollar, Sarah Ayoub and Ellie Marney!Books Mentioned:September releases:Every Breath - Ellie MarneyDream Thieves - Maggie SWhere the stars still shine - Trish DollerMore than this - Patrick NessThis song will save your life - Leila SalesVicious  - Victoria SchwabNot a drop to drink - Mindy McGinnisAll the truth that's in me - Julie BerryA wounded name - Dot HutchinsonFangirl - Rainbow RowellAll our yesterdays - Cristin TerrillThe waking dark - Robin WassermanIsla and the happily ever after - Stephanie PerkinsFallout - Todd Strasser Pick of the month:Hate is Such a Strong Word by Sarah AyoubBuy it now at BookworldCurrently Reading:Mandee: Almost English by Charlotte MendlesonRey: The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd Trin: Just Between UsSpecial Guest Ladies:Sarah Ayoub author of Hate is Such a Strong WordSarah is a Sydney Journalist/Feature Writer who has written for Sunday, Marie-Claire, Madison, Cosmo, Girlfriend and more. Hate is Such a Strong Word is her debut novel. The story focuses on Sophie: a Lebanese teenager navigating her way through life with Dictator Dad, narrow minded classmates and first love. Connect with Sarah: Facebook TwitterEllie Marney author of Every BreathEllie Marney was born in Brisbane, and has lived in Indonesia,Singapore and India. Now she writes, teaches, talks about kid’s literature at libraries and schools, and gardens when she can, while living in a country idyll (actually a very messy wooden house on ten acres with a dog and lots of chickens) near Castlemaine, in north-central Victoria. Her partner and four sons still love her, even though she often forgets things and lets the housework go.Connect with Ellie: Website TwitterTrish Doller author of Where The Stars Still ShineTrish has worked as a morning radio personality, a newspaper reporter, and spent all her summers in college working at an amusement park. Her debut novel Something Like Normal made readers sit up and take notice with the story of Travis: a US Marine coming home from Afghanistan. Her second novel Where The Stars still Shine focuses on a girl coming back to her family after being abducted by her birth mom and living life on the run for 12 years.Connect with Trish: Website TwitterListener Question:What are you looking forward to this month? Listen NowOn iTunes

In podcast episode #29, Cove members Millenia & Roberta discuss the April 2013 pick, SKINNED by Robin Wasserman! (Also republished under the new title, FROZEN.) For more info about our book club, visit us on the web: http://www.thereadingcove.com!