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Hello again! This week I am SO thrilled to welcome Amber McBride to the show to dig into her upcoming (out tomorrow 10/14) YA novel-in-verse The Leaving Room ! Follow Amber Follow OTS OTS Substack Map of Indie Bookstores Get The Leaving Room (out 10/14!) The New Dominion Blue Bird Bookstore Baine's Books and Coffee Odyssey Books Quail Ridge Books

Happy Thursday! In this episode we take a trip through the multiverse with John Claude Bemis, digging into his new graphic novel (and the first in a new MG series) Rodeo Hawkins and the Daughters of Mayhem Follow John Follow OTS OTS Substack Map of Indie Bookstores Get Rodeo Hawkins and the Daughters of Mayhem Purple Crow Books Odyssey Books Quail Ridge Books

Happy Sunday! For this episode we sit down with debut author Laura Venita Green and dive right into her novel, Sister Creatures ahead of the release later this week! Follow Laura Follow OTS OTS Substack Map of Indie Bookstores Preorder Sister Creatures! (out 10/7!!) BookPeople First Light Books  P & T Knitwear  Books Are Magic Rough Draft Bar and Books Odyssey Books Quail Ridge Books

Happy October! We are in for a great month here at OTS and I’m simply honored to be kicking us off with a chat with Anne Mollova about the third book in her Trianid series, Seer of Strands . We dive into the series thus far, her inspirations and where she’s heading next. Follow Anne Follow OTS OTS Substack Map of Indie Bookstores Get Seer of Strands! Riverstone Books Odyssey Books Quail Ridge Book...

Hello and welcome to what will be our final episode of September 2025! We’d had a fantastic month and this last installment is no different. Today we welcome Lisa Gardner back to the show to chat all about her latest novel Kiss Her Goodbye , the fourth book in the Frankie Elkin series. I mention welcome back because we actually has Lisa on the show last year while she was on the road promoting boo...

For Brent Walker, Heading Home is the Least of His Problems - The List with Steve Berry Happy Thursday! I'm coming at you with another episode of On The Shelf, this time featuring author Steve Berry as you've never read him before! In his new book The List, Brent Walker returns to his small southern town to take care of his ailing mother and provide counsel for the local paper mill but the...

Happy Sunday! If you’ve kept up with the show, or me, in the past couple years at all you’d know that if Kamilah Cole writes something, I’ll read it, rave about it, and then have her on the show to talk alllll about it and her short story Second Class Magic , part of the recent anthology The Secret Romantic’s Book of Magic , is no different! Whether you’ve been staying up to date with her dragon f...

Happy Thursday! I’m so delighted to share this chat with Khadijah VanBrakle about her sophomore novel My Perfect Family , darling coming of age in which our protagonist Leena learns about a side of her family, and herself, that she never knew about. Follow Khadijah Follow OTS Map of Indie Bookstores OTS Substack Get My Perfect Family Page 1 Books  Bookworks Books on the Bosque  Third Place Books O...

You might know superstar author Abigail Hing Wen for her Loveboat Taipei series for young adults but with The Vale , Abigail brings her voice to a new and younger audience for the very first time. With her middle grade debut, she explores the nuances of AI, drawing on her tech background and bringing the conversation to the generation that right now, might need it the most. Follow Abigail: Website...

Happy Thursday! For this episode I'm happy to bring you an interview with Gordon Korman about his latest middle grade book "Snoop" in which a bedridden boy ends up entangled in neighborhood spy plots when he learns that he can access the security camera system around town. Follow Gordon Follow OTS Map of Indie Bookstores OTS Substack Get Snoop! Books of Wonder Joseph-Beth Carmichaels...

Happy Sunday! For this episode we dive head first into The Blood Phoenix an epic silkpunk fantasy sequel based on the Qing dynasty. In the book Amber Chen sets sail alongside her readers against pirate, dangerous storms, and other assorted chaos in this sparkling follow up to Of Jade and Dragons . Follow Amber Follow OTS Map of Indie Bookstores OTS Substack Get The Blood Phoenix! Book Bar - Singap...

Happy September! For the first episode of this new month I’m excited to bring you a chat with Susan Fletcher about her latest novel Sea Change! If you’re looking for a futuristic, sci-fi, YA love story that’s a remix of the Hans Christian Andersen tale we all know and love… look no further than Sea Change! Follow Susan Follow OTS Map of Indie Bookstores OTS Substack Get Sea Change! Hyperbole Books...

The summer is officially coming to an end and fall is creeping in making it the perfect time to dive into Bill Wood’s Let’s Split Up , a YA mystery-thriller pitched as Scream meets Scooby-Doo , out in the US this Tuesday!! (September 2nd!) Follow Bill Follow OTS Map of Indie Bookstores OTS Substack Preorder Let's Split Up! (out September 2nd!) The Heath Bookshop Gays The Word   Odyssey Books Q...

While the summer may be coming to a close, I still incredibly excited to bring you an interview with Tiffany D. Jackson about her thrilling middle grade debut, Blood In The Water . If you, like me, spent long hours of the night tearing through Monday’s Not Coming , Allegedly, or The Weight of Blood , you’re not going to want to miss out on the book pitched as “like Jaws for the next generation” Fo...

Happy Sunday! I am so delighted to share this week’s interview where I chat with Logan Karlie about her YA fantasy book, Dream By The Shadows which will be out THIS Tuesday, August 26th. Logan had quite an interesting road to publication and then there is the story itself in which our lead, Esmer Havenfall must descend into the dream realm to save her sister while discovering the depths of her bon...

Happy Wednesday! For this episode, I chat with Brooks Whitney Phillips about The Grove , a coming-of-age set in a Florida orange grove that charts the tumultuous relationship between two sisters in the 1960s. We dive into why and how Brooks chose this place and period for the setting, how she developed our central sisters Pip and Sissy and what has lead her to write YA. Follow Brooks Follow OTS Ma...

Happy Sunday! This week on OTS I chat with YA author and psychologist Jodie Benveniste about her first novel, Never, Not Ever. In the book we join 16-year-old Tilly as she ventures into her worst birthday yet, grieving her grandmother and longing for the father she’s never known while attempting to figure our her feelings for the boy-next-door, Zack. Jodie and I dive into the novel, how and what h...

Happy Wednesday! For this edition we dive into the new YA novel-in-verse I Am The Swarm with author Hayley Chewins. At the age of 15, every woman in Nell’s family has received a magical gift. The magic finds Nell in the form of her emotions manifesting as insects, from ladybugs landing on the piano to a swarm of wasps threatening to burst out of her throat. Nell’s life is more complicated now but...

Welcome back to OTS! For this Sunday installment we’re chatting with Julia Drake who is returning to our shelves with yet another Shakespeare retelling, Lovesick Falls . In this queer, YA take on the original play we find a coming of age story following Celia, Ros, and Touchstone a trio of childhood best friends. As with the original chaos and adventure quickly descend upon our characters, crushes...

Welcome back to On The Shelf! For this Wednesday edition we dive into Time After Time the first solo novel by Mikki Daughtry. Told across two storylines and four protagonists, this novel is a century spanning sapphic love story set within an Old Victorian house under reconstruction. Mikki and I dive into the learning curve of switching to writing prose after year writing for the screen, the journe...

Happy August! We are starting the month off strong with an interview with Hannah Nicole Maehrer author of the NYT Bestselling Assistant and the Villain series. Book 3, Accomplice to the Villain is out this Tuesday (August 5th!!) and whether you’ve been following along with this series back when it was just a creative concept on TikTok or just happened to stumble across this interview you’re not go...

Will Kleman Wrote The Epic Fantasy... and The Soundtrack To Accompany It Happy Wednesday! I’m happy to share this interview with Will Kleman, author of Bygones vol. 1 Jome’s Secret, an epic fantasy journey with soundtrack also crafted by Kleman to accompany the adventure. Follow Will/Bygones Follow OTS  Map of Indie Bookstores Get Bygones Odyssey Books Quail Ridge Books

The End of The World Was Just The Beginning... Happy Sunday!  I am SO delighted to share this interview with debut author Kalla Harris. The Ground That Devours Us is a YA dystopian/fantasy following Ruby, a vampire slayer in training who is forced to team up with X, one of the deadliest vampires of all. We dove into the fascinating lore of this book (what other monster the vampires were initially...

Happy Sunday! I’m so excited to share this interview with debut author E.L. Starling about Bound By Stars. It’s a space set, sci-fi spin on Titanic complete with the drama and heartbreak. We had a blast so I really hope you enjoy.  Follow E.L. Follow OTS Map of Indie Bookstores Get Bound By Stars Grand Gesture  Annie Blooms White Oak Books Powell’s City of Books Odyssey Books Quail Ridge Books

The Past and Present Collide In Sara Winokur’s Ivory Bones: The Lewis Chessmen Murders Happy Wednesday! For this installment I got to chat with genetics researcher turned thriller novelist Sara Winokur about her sophomore novel, Ivory Bones: The Lewis Chessmen Murders. Within the pages and this interview we explore the dual timelines, one following a present day forensic geneticist and in the othe...