Books & Martinis Podcast

There were so many good tidbits in our interview with author, Gretchen Shreiber. Listen to meet her and learn about her amazing book, Ellie Haycock is Totally Normal! About Ellie Haycock is Totally Normal: The Breakfast Club meets Five Feet Apart in this big-hearted novel from debut author Gretchen Schreiber. Ellie Haycock has always separated her life into sections: Ellie at home and Ellie at the...

Join us for the first Books & Martinis Book Club of 2025!

The Madness, with Coleman Domingo, was so good. Listen to find out how many martinis we gave it!

Was the 83rd Annual Golden Globes a hit of miss? Or was it Hollywood elite at it again?

Grave Secrets is a dark urban fantasy, with a strong FMC in the biggest fight for her life! Written by author Casandra Aston, the first book in the Prophecies of Angels & Demons, Allie Graves strikes a bargain with angels to cheat death. Will she survive? About Grave Secrets: Allie Graves is a lone demon hunter fighting for humanity’s souls. The price for her life was steep, leaving her isolated f...

Happy New Year podcast fam! It's our first OPEN BAR of 2025 and we have a nice juicy list of movies and shows to look out for in January. Mercy even squeezed in some for February!

Harper Glenn has us on the edge of seats with her haunting dystopian tale, Monarch Rising! It's the perfect way for us to end 2024, with our very last Books & Martinis interview of the year, in the crazy world we live in, what would you do if you were in Jo's situation? About Monarch Rising: In a chilling near-future New United States of America, Jo Monarch has grown up in the impoverished borderl...

2024 comes to a close and we're wrapping the Books & Martinis Book Club with a a short and sweet book review recap.

Our latest Books & Martinis Indie Author Pop-Up takes us on a journey of healing in a world of sci-fi and fantasy. Listen to learn more about Silver Strings, written by author Phoebe Brinkley. About Silver Strings: Popi has a gift to be able to see “strings”. It's the ability to see the effects of trauma & abuse trailing behind people in cursive sparkly strings that read like: "I'm not enough....

This Bowl of Stars is beautiful and heartfelt. Listen to find out more about the author, Tamaya Cruz and why she wrote it! This Bowl of Stars Blurb Anthropologist Ali Moreno has spent her career talking about love, but real life is messy outside the lecture hall. One complicated relationship with her possessive boss barely behind her, Ali focuses on her career and finding the Southwest's biggest s...

Have you watched both Wicked & Gladiator? Well, we have and we're jumping onboard the GLICKED train!

December is a yummy mix of sci-fi monster flicks and mystery. Listen to the December Open Bar and find out what we're watching and what's coming out!

When the Mask Slips by Iris Kayan is OUT NOW! Check out this beautiful book, available online. About When the Mask Slips: Lynx Wu can wind back time with a touch. Restoring fractured arms and broken cars is simple. Restoring his missing brother is not. Detective Lynx Wu needs coffee and a week off in the Bahamas—if only his conscience would let him abandon the Magic Thief case. In techo-future Lon...

What a perfect way to celebrate family! What We Kept to Ourselves is a novel written by Nancy Jooyoun Kim about a mother who goes missing and the impact her disappearance has on her family. About What We Kept to Ourselves: 1999: At the end of the millennium, the Kim family is struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago. Sixty-one-year-old John Kim feels more isolated from...

We love a good badass FMC and Stephanie's book delivers! Check out S.D. Paine's Daemons & Lumens book series, Retaliation, Daemon's Secret & Resurrection, on our latest Books & Martinis Indie Author Pop-up! Retaliation Synopsis: For nearly a decade, Seraphina Valdis has plotted and planned, stalked and killed. After her mother and elder sister were murdered, her father and younger sister left Sera...

Mercy saw Wicked and rated it 5 martinis! Did you see it? How many martinis would you give WICKED?

We read weird stuff but also the fun, normal things like affairs lol. Listen to find out what we're reading this month for the Books & Martinis Book Club & our personal TBRs!

So excited to feature Goddess Good, our first Books & Martinis Indie Author Pop-Up, by Chris Walters! Listen to our take of this beautiful book! Goddess Good is an enemies-to-lovers paranormal romance/urban fantasy set in modern day Portland, OR. It follows Inanna, an ancient Mesopotamian Goddess who starts working at a bikini coffee cart, and Sean a man who works for an organization which hunts a...

We've been under a rock and can't believe we missed the release of the Substance! The trailer is bonkers and demi moore does not disappoint! It's about a fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

We love a cozy November Open Bar with what we're watching and what's coming out! What are you looking forward to this month?

We're at it again, with how different we are! Listen to find out what our top 13 Halloween movie picks are. Guess who had the cutesy movies! lol

Book club & martinis are always a fun time! Check out our reactions to the Book of Doors, the Wedding People & more on our latest special episode of the Books & Martinis Book Club!

We had so much fun reading the epic adventure, Nanagin, & interviewing Author HC "Haley" Kilgour! Listen to our latest episode of Books & Martinis! Purchase her book: https://owltalynpress.com/products/nanagin https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nanagin-h-c-kilgour/1136962927 Follow Margarita on IG: https://www.instagram.com/by_hckilgour About Nanagin: Twenty fingers from their birth we must count un...

Trending and we still haven't watched the entire show, but had to tell you all about Nobody Wants This and that viral kiss on TikTok!

Listen to our mashup pop up review of Joker: Folie A Deux! Was it a joke?? The reviews are out and we share our take on it!