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Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Daniel Habib. Daniel Habib is an American-Lebanese author, teacher, and acclaimed filmmaker. A student of King, Barker and Ito, his prolific screenwriting career has...

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story. In this episode of Season 4 Part 2: Ghabiba introduces the topic of today’s discussion, “space,” with a pun (please clap) The duo pulls apart concepts of scene setting, feelings in spaces, and connect it to the last G&C episode on “time.” The beasts discuss the press...

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing Legendary Eva Des Lauriers. Eva Des Lauriers is the author of the Young Adult romance, I WISH YOU WOULD, out with Henry Holt & Co (BYR) May 21, 2024. When she isn’t writin...

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story. In this episode of Season 4 Part 2, the Beasts: discuss various ways time is used in stories how time done well is often unnoticeable, but executed poorly can ruin a story give examples of how time is used in Six of Crows, the Way of Kings, Arcane, and New Moon. use ever...

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Ruth McKell have the pleasure of interviewing Legendary Taylor Grothe. Taylor Grothe is an autistic, nonbinary queer writer passionate about voice-driven narratives centering on strong, compelling femmes and enbies. A 2024 N...

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story. In this episode of Season 4 Part 2, the Beasts: discuss some amazing achievements give revision tips for pantsers get real about embracing "the suck" of hard tasks and balancing that with real life talk about some amazing snacks (like usual, but also, these really are go...

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing Legendary Maddie Martinez. Maddie Martinez was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where her love of stories began with desert plumes and watermelon sunsets. She has a...

Welcome to a special FANGIRLING episode, in which your Beasts (Courtney and Ghabiba) discuss Season 1 of Arcane with the incredible ⁠⁠Ruth Mckell⁠⁠ . In this episode, you'll hear: Major fangirling!! And spoilers!!! Don't say we didn't warn you! Different corruption arcs in Arcane and how we view them Jinx apologists defending her Theories for season 2 Thank you for joining us on this m...

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Alix E. Harrow. Alix E. Harrow is the NYT-bestselling author of  The Ten Thousand Doors of January ,  The Once and Future Witches ,  Starling House , and various sho...

Welcome to a special FANGIRLING episode, in which your Beasts (Courtney and Ghabiba) discuss Season 1 of Arcane with the incredible ⁠Ruth Mckell⁠ . In this episode, you'll hear: Major fangirling!! And spoilers!!! Don't say we didn't warn you! What makes a strong female character A discussion of various characters and if they qualify as "strong" Different types of strength Joi...

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston has the pleasure of interviewing legendary Gabriella Buba. Gabriella Buba is a mixed Filipina-Czech writer and chemical engineer based in Texas who likes to keep explosive pyrophoric materials safely contained in pressure vessel...

Welcome to a special FANGIRLING episode, in which your Beasts (Courtney and Ghabiba) discuss Season 1 of Arcane with the incredible Ruth Mckell . In this episode, you'll hear: Major fangirling!! And spoilers!!! Don't say we didn't warn you! Character foils Relationship foils Storytelling strategies and how these relate to theme Join us for the next FANGRILING OVER ARCANE episode to dis...

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Katherine Arden. Katherine Arden is the New York Times Bestselling author of books for adults and children, including The Winternight Trilogy, The Small Spaces Quart...

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story. In this episode of Season 4 Part 2, the Beasts: get real chatty about things they love, but insist they are not sponsored (really, they are not) talk about goals and themes for 2025 Courtney says numbers and Ghabiba does the math (it's book related, promise!) Discuss bur...

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story. In this final episode of Season 4 Part 1, the Beasts: recount the highlights of the Storybeast virtual conference, 'Romantasy Summit 2024' share some of their takeaways (one of those may or may not be how to scoop out an eyeball) share resources non-attendees can access...

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Thea Guanzon. Thea Guanzon is a New York Times, USA Today, Indie List, Sunday Times, and global bestselling author from the Philippines. She holds a Bachelor of Arts...

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story. In this episode: Courtney shares her take on essential Romantasy ingredients. you'll hear about what to expect from Romantasy Summit's sword yoga guided break Ghabiba shares a fun sword fact you'll hear about a gift from ⁠WeaponUp ⁠ from Romantasy Summit attendees the Be...

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Emily Varga. In this episode, you'll hear about: Emily's publication journey Feminine Rage Tropes and characters in For She is Wrath Advice on managing life as an au...

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story. In this episode Ghabiba has feelings (who would've guessed) the beasts discuss facing challenges in your pj's the world is on fire: the outside challenge how do I create in times like this? the inside challenge you'll hear about craft challenges that can help you step o...

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Clare Sager. Clare Sager writes fantasy stories with adventure, intrigue, darkness, and a heaping spoonful of steamy romance. Her favourite tropes include enemies-to...

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story. In this episode: Ghabiba flies solo and says nice things about Courtney It's Courtney's birthday and she has a gift for you! you get a reminder of the Lit for Lebanon auction and some Very Cool Things you can bid on until 2 November. Ghabiba answers the top three questi...

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Cecy Robson. Cecy Robson is an international and award-winning author who is published with Penguin, Random House, and now Entangled Publishing’s new imprint, Red To...

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story. In this episode, you'll hear about: Courtney's reading streak and the duo's love for City of Brass by Shannon Chakraborty Myths, fairytales, and history to give story a grounded element, as well as favorite retellings Courtney talks out loud about her worldbuilding spid...

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary K.A. Linde. K.A. Linde is the  New York Times,   USA Today,  and #1  Sunday Times  bestselling author of  The Wren in the Holly Library.  She is prolific in both rom...

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story. In this episode, you'll hear about: How Ghabiba met Sarah A. Parker in person Phantasma by Kaylie Smith Long chats about historical romance novels Reading slumps and the challenges of keeping focus while reading Stories by Alix E. Harrow we recommend Why Six Scorched Ro...