Podcast appearances and mentions of Sara B Larson

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Sara B. Larson joins the Lit Service Crew to chat about romantic arcs in YA, why they're so prevalent, and how to balance them against your plot in your own work. Sara is the author of the Defy Series, the Dark Breaks the Dawn Duology, and the Sisters of Shadow and Light duology (the newest one just hit shelves!!) To learn more check out her website. If you'd like signed copies of her books, you can get them here (be sure to put in the special instructions that you'd like it signed and to whom). You can find the chapter we critiqued with all our notes here. If you'd like a first chapter critique from the podcast or an upcoming guest, check out our submission guidelines. Please consider supporting us on Patreon! We're going through some growing pains right now, and need some extra help around here (and want to pay that extra help!). We really appreciate your help and that you listen to our dodgy writing advice!!

This week, Brooke, Stacy, Shannon, Kristin, Sara, and Natalia discuss some of their most anticipated October releases. Books mentioned are: Tana French, The Searcher Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert Hazel Gaynor, When We Were Young and Brave Mara Fitzgerald, Beyond the Ruby Veil (Beyond the Ruby Veil #1) Sophie Kinsella, Love Your Life Lisa Jackson, You Betrayed Me (San Fransisco #3) Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl T Kingfisher, The Hollow Places Emily Carpenter, Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters Michelle Sagara, The Emperor's Wolves (Wolves of Elantra #1) Jenny Colgan, Christmas at the Island Hotel (Mure #4) Aimee Molloy, Goodnight Beautiful David Rosenfelt, Silent Bites (Andy Carpenter #22) Dean Koontz, Elsewhere Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, This Secret Thing Sara B. Larson, Warriors of Wing and Flame (Sisters of Shadow and Light #2) Kelley Armstrong, A Stitch In Time (A Stitch In Time #1) Alexa Martin, Snapped (Playbook #4) You can always contact the Book Bistro team by searching @BookBistroPodcast on facebook, or visiting: https://www.facebook.com/BookBistroPodcast/ You can also send an email to: TheBookBistroPodcast@gmail.com For more information on the podcast and the team behind it, please visit: http://anchor.fm/book-bistro.

Sara B. Larson is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of the YA fantasy Defy trilogy and the Dark Breaks the Dawn duology. She can't remember a time when she didn't write books—although she now uses a computer instead of a Little Mermaid notebook. Sara lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband, their four children, and their Maltese, Loki.* * *Warriors of Wing and FlameTor Teen, 2020

Sara B. Larson is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of the YA fantasy Defy trilogy and the Dark Breaks the Dawn duology. She can't remember a time when she didn't write books—although she now uses a computer instead of a Little Mermaid notebook. Sara lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband, their four children, and their Maltese, Loki.Warriors of Wing and FlameTor Teen, 2020A World Without Books was created to help writers connect with readers during the pandemic. This Micro-Podcast provides authors a platform to share stories about writing, discuss current projects, and consider life without books. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you podcast.Without Books®, a division of Heritage Future, is an author-centric book initiative. Our resources support authors. We also provide access to millions of books.

In this week's episode, Sara, Shannon, Stacy, and Kristin discuss some of the best things they've recently read. Books mentioned are: Rachel Awkes, 100 Days In Deadland (Deadland Saga #1) Yasmine Galenorn, Autumn Thorns (Whisper Hollow #1) Mandy Robotham, The German Midwife Hunter Blain, Deliverance (Preternatural Chronicles #0.5) Carian Cole, Tied (All Torn Up #2) Colleen Hoover, Verity Claire C Riley, Odium (Dead Saga #1) Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter (Psy/Changeling #13) S. Bennett, Atticus: a Womans Journey with the World's Worst Behaved Dog Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen (Crown of Shards #1) Cathy Lamb, All About Evie Sara B. Larson, Sisters of Shadow and Light (Sisters of Shadow and Light #1) You can always contact the Book Bistro team by searching @BookBistroPodcast on facebook, or visiting: https://www.facebook.com/BookBistroPodcast/ You can also send an email to: TheBookBistroPodcast@gmail.com For more information on the podcast and the team behind it, please visit: http://anchor.fm/book-bistro.

Welcome to Our Life In Books where we talk about our lives, books and everything in between!  This week we’re answering more of the 50 Bookish Questions! We could definitely talk books all day, but before we get to the questions we chat about lots of bookish news! Grab your favorite cup of tea and join us. And don’t forget to jump over to the Facebook group and tell us your answers!   Our Life in Books Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/ourlifeinbooks Our Life In Books Tea- https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/list.html?userId=696813O Our Life In Books Society- https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourlifeinbookssociety Our Life In Books Book Club- https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourlifeinbookssociety   Follow Our Life In Books- https://linktr.ee/ourlifeinbooks_ Follow Elizabeth- https://linktr.ee/bookishconnoisseur Follow Samantha- https://linktr.ee/bookishstateofmind   Items we mention: Cookie Dough Tea from Tea Cellar- https://www.teacellartea.com/shop/ Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls by Lynn Weingarten- https://amzn.to/32KIowp Failed Future by Elise Kova- https://amzn.to/33VjaNu The Tyrant Tomb by Rick Riordan- https://amzn.to/3515eS3 The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare & Wesley Chu- https://amzn.to/2XkrKmb Supernova by Marissa Meyer- https://amzn.to/2OdBp9Z Sisters of Shadow and Light by Sara B. Larson- https://amzn.to/2QmzhiW The Upside of Falling Down by Rebekah Crane- https://amzn.to/37b6wfk The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan- https://amzn.to/2XfCAKh Samantha’s Bookstagram- https://www.instagram.com/bookishstateofmind/ October NetGalley Book Haul- https://bookishstateofmind.com/bookish-life/2019/10/18/october-netgalley-books November Books | Book of the Month Club- https://bookishstateofmind.com/bookish-life/2019/11/5/november-books-book-of-the-month-club-ya Book Review of Ten by Gretchen McNeil- https://bookishstateofmind.com/book-reviews/2019/10/25/review-ten Blog Tour: Wicked Reads with Penguin Teen- https://bookishconnoisseur.com/2019/10/30/blog-tour-wicked-reads-with-penguin-teen/ New Mugs at Adagio- https://www.adagio.com/teaware/double_wall_bones.html Goodreads Choice Awards 2019- https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2019 Netflix Wants to Do All The Adaptations!-  https://deadline.com/2019/10/netflix-heads-frankfurt-book-fair-kelly-luegenbiehl-1202755182/ 2020 YA Books to Movies- https://bookriot.com/2019/10/10/2020-ya-books-to-movies/ Best Ya Authors- https://bookriot.com/2019/10/07/best-young-adult-authors/ Co Written YA Books- https://bookriot.com/2019/10/03/co-written-ya-books/ Update to Macmillain vs Library- https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/81475-this-major-public-library-system-will-boycott-macmillan-e-books-will-others-follow.html Ninth House is Being Adapted- https://deadline.com/2019/10/grishaverse-authorleigh-bardugo-ninth-house-amazon-studios-tv-series-development-1202756743/ Fiction Podcasts with Queer Characters- https://www.tor.com/2019/10/16/8-sweet-funny-and-thrilling-queer-fiction-podcasts/ Steal the Stars Podcast- https://tor-labs.com/steal-the-stars/ Books to Give You Hope-  https://www.epicreads.com/blog/inspirational-books/ Vanity in Dust by Cheryl Low- https://amzn.to/2rHoghP Children Shouldn’t play with Dead things by Martina Mctee- https://amzn.to/32NcteM Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan- https://amzn.to/2Ogp1pM The Maze Runner by James Dashner- https://amzn.to/2qXSfSd Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee- https://amzn.to/2QkVApm Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza- https://amzn.to/2Od7jng The Weregirl series by C.D. Bell- https://amzn.to/37092om Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Lani Taylor- https://amzn.to/2KoAoei Labyrinth: The Ultimate Visual History- https://amzn.to/354t9jE The Art of Rick & Morty- https://amzn.to/373gYoR The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi  & Holly Black- https://amzn.to/2Kr6p5w Rockett’s World Series by Lauren Day- https://amzn.to/2OcKQXf Sovereign Sacrifice by Elise Kova- https://amzn.to/2Oj5Qvs Consumed by J.R. Ward- https://amzn.to/35dLniP Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver- https://amzn.to/32MliWf The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco- https://amzn.to/2KoV3Pe Scared Little Rabbits by A.V. Geiger- https://amzn.to/2rMBMkr The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien- https://amzn.to/2NMbvv9 Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo- https://amzn.to/2CI9rOo Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo- https://amzn.to/32Q1rW4 City of Bones by Cassandra Claire- https://amzn.to/33P64kz

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Starless Sea, Know My Name, The Revisioners, and more great books. This episode was sponsored Book Riot's TBR subscription service; Ritual; and Sips by RGH. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity by Liz Plank The Revisioners: A Novel by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan Wake, Siren by Nina MacLaughlin What we're reading: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones Acid for the Children: A Memoir by Flea Kingdomtide by Rye Curtis More books out this week: Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Journey to Justice by Debbie Levy and Whitney Gardner What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt and Nancy Pelosi You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane Swimming in Darkness by Lucas Harari and David Homel Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel by Bernardine Evaristo A Thousand Fires by Shannon Price All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy by Phil Keith, Tom Clavin Four White Horses and a Brass Band: True Confessions from the World of Medicine Shows, Pitchmen, Chumps, Suckers, Fixers, and Shills by Violet McNeal The Last to Die by Kelly Garrett Songs from the Deep by Kelly Powell The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer by Meryle Secrest Sisters of Shadow and Light by Sara B. Larson I Have No Secrets by Penny Joelson The Rib Joint: A Memoir In Essays by Julia Koets Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Roger Crowley Find Me Their Bones by Sara Wolf This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg The How & the Why by Cynthia Hand This Is Pleasure: A Story by Mary Gaitskill A Constellation of Roses by Miranda Asebedo Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall and A. D'Amico Shine of the Ever by Claire Foster She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown Skein Island by Aliya Whiteley The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle by Kent Alexander, Kevin Salwen Disaster's Children: A Novel by Emma Sloley Most of the Better Natural Things in the World by Dave Eggers and Angel Chang Making Comics by Lynda Barry The Bishop's Bedroom by Piero Chiara, Jill Foulston (translator) The Fowl Twins (Artemis Fowl) by Eoin Colfer Life and Limb by Jennifer Roberson Space Struck by Paige Lewis Anything for You: A Novel by Saul Black The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts by Karen Armstrong Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law by Jeffrey Rosen Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness by Philip Goff Fate of the Fallen by Kel Kade Aviva-No by Shimon Adaf, translated from the Hebrew by Yael Segalovitz The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo Moulton The Princess Who Flew with Dragons by Stephanie Burgis The Little Blue Kite by Mark Z. Danielewski The New Voices of Science Fiction by Nino Cipri, Little Badger, Darcie, et al. Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright by Charles Wright The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo Girls of Storm and Shadow (Girls of Paper and Fire) by Natasha Ngan The Family Upstairs: A Novel by Lisa Jewell Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 14) by Jeff Kinney The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team by Matthew Goodman Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity by Priya Basil Quillifer the Knight (2) by Walter Jon Williams Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights by Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe Return to the Enchanted Island: A Novel by Johary Ravaloson, Allison M. Charette (translator) Living in a World that Can't Be Fixed: Reimagining Counterculture Today by Curtis White The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears by Johannes Anyuru, Saskia Vogel (translator) The Toll (Arc of a Scythe) by Neal Shusterman Fortuna (The Nova Vita Protocol) by Kristyn Merbeth The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw On Swift Horses: A Novel by Shannon Pufahl The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Princess Margaret, Royal Rebel by Georgie Blalock Made Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America by Sherrod Brown Space Invaders: A Novel by Nona Fernández, Natasha Wimmer (translator) Jakarta by Rodrigo Márquez Tizano, Thomas Bunstead (translator) The Poppy Wife: A Novel of the Great War by Caroline Scott Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season by Bernd Brunner Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State by Nick Neely Tell Me No Lies: A Lady Dunbridge Novel by Shelley Noble Parade: A Folktale by Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell (translator) The Deep by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, et al. Up in the Main House: and Other Stories by Nadeem Zaman The Crying Book by Heather Christie The Ninja Daughter (Lily Wong) by Tori Eldridge Humiliation: Stories by Paulina Flores, Megan McDowell (translator) A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits - Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More by Paul Hirsch Song of the Crimson Flower by Julie C. Dao Heed the Hollow: Poems by Malcolm Tariq Feed by Tommy Pico Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving by Mo Rocca We Met in December: A Novel by Rosie Curtis Supernova by Marissa Meyer The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White Little Weirds by Jenny Slate Get a Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel by Talia Hibbert The Accomplice by Joseph Kanon The Worst Kind of Want: A Novel by Liska Jacobs Unnatural Magic by C. M. Waggoner Ghost Train by Stephen Laws Death and the Seaside by Alison Moore The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump by Stanley Fish The Returns by Philip Salom Voyage of the Frostheart by Jamie Littler The Age of Anxiety by Pete Townshend Resistance Reborn (Star Wars): Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker by Rebecca Roanhorse Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay Pain: A Novel by Zeruya Shalev and Sondra Silverston Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge by Ethan Sacks and Will Sliney The Colonel's Wife: A Novel by Rosa Liksom and Lola Rogers (Translator) And Go Like This: Stories by John Crowley Vernon Subutex 1: A Novel by Virginie Despentes, Frank Wynne (Translator) Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives - and Save Theirs by Richard Louv Cryptozoology for Beginners (Codex Arcanum) by Matt Harry and Juliane Crump Shadowscent by P. M. Freestone

Halloween has come and gone and so now turn our gaze to the books we plan on reading all November long. Books mentioned in this episode The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern The Witches are Coming by Lindy West The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White Little Weirds by Jenny Slate Beard Necessities by Penny Reid All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney Sisters of Shadow and Light by Sara B. Larson The Innocents by Michael Crummey The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell It's Garry Shandling's Book by Judd Apatow The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Mary Toft; or, the Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer

The Lit Service crew recorded live at FanX Salt Lake City ComiCon with Sara B. Larson and Kathryn Purdie. Sara B. Larson is the author of the acclaimed YA fantasy DEFY trilogy (DEFY, IGNITE, and ENDURE) and the DARK BREAKS THE DAWN duology (DARK BREAKS THE DAWN and BRIGHT BURNS THE NIGHT). She can’t remember a time when she didn’t write books—although she now uses a computer instead of a Little Mermaid notebook. Kathryn Purdie is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Burning Glass series and the forthcoming Bone Crier’s Moon duology. If you'd like a first chapter critique from the Lit Service Crew, check out our submission guidelines here: https://litservicepodcast.wixsite.com/litnation/submissions Check our website to read the full text of the chapter we read along with all our notes and notes on the different books we mention througout the podcast.

The Cedar Mill Teen Library Council has a new batch of recent or about-to-be published books to talk about.  They met in January and recorded this new book roundup to give you the inside scoop on these new titles.  Give it a listen and enjoy!  Books discussed are as follows: Inhuman by Kat Falls The Hit by Melvin Burgess Neverwas by Kelly Moore, Larkin Reed and Tucker Reed Manor of Secrets by Katherine Longshore Save the Enemy by Arin Greenwood Defy by Sara B. Larson Landry Park by Bethany Hagen