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So we're gonna jump into the
Pride Book month recommendations.
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I am gonna let Francesca go
first and kick myself off.
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Okay.
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It's been, it's been a day everyone.
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So Francesca gonna share her pride month
recommendations, and then we'll get into
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some more books and new releases soon.
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So I'm excited today to talk about
fantasy and paranormal recommendations
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and didn't plan it, but they're
all male, male gay romances.
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So the first one is an urban fantasy.
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It's one of my absolute favorite series.
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In the first book in that series is a
Fairy of Bones and Gold by Haley Turner.
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So this one is very heavy on the
action, um, heavy on the angst as well.
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It is so good.
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And basically our main character, Patrick,
he is a spatial, a special not spatial,
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special agent with lots of trauma.
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Um, he is haunted basically by a
supernatural war that he barely
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survived and it's left a whim.
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Left him with some stuff to deal
with and he's got the gods base.
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The series does deal a lot with
mythology and different kinds
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of gods, and he has a sold it.
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To the gods and people are now turning
up debt and basically he's kind of
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like an FBI think of an FBI agent.
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And he is now sent in to investigate
what's happening with these people,
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turning up debt and kind of help
unravel the whole situation.
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And there he meets this werewolf who
is supposed to be his enemy, but you
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know, things are never so simple.
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There's fate, of course, um,
kind of FD made situation and
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lots of found family in this.
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Lots of danger.
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The mythology in this series is amazing.
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Every single book deals with a different
type of mythology, which is really fun.
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And it does have, um, the
faded maid trope, but also the
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kind of government agencies.
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There's cult in some of them.
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It's just such a good series.
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Highly recommend.
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And in fact, Hailey Turner also has
another series that I do recommend as
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well, which is more of a fantasy series.
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This one is more urban fantasy,
but she also has a fantasy series,
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which I really also recommend.
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Now, the second book is more of the
cozy side, so this is a spell for
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Heartsickness by Alistair Reeves.
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And.
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It's not necessarily like a full cozy,
like low stakes because the stakes are
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quite high, but it has a cozy fantasy
vibe to it, if that makes sense.
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So a little bit higher stakes,
but still has the vibe.
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So we have our main character, Breyer,
who is a, uh, magical fashion student,
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and he is wasting away because of
a curse, and basically he's dying.
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He's the, the curse is kind of like a
chronic illness and he's dying and there's
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a prophecy that points him to go to this.
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Remote town and his soulmate is
going to be there and once he finds
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his soulmate, he's going to be cured
because that person is the one that's
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gonna help him unravel that curse.
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So he's shipped off to this gloomy
little town to find set soulmate, and
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he is also supposed to be there to kind
of like open a business or like that.
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It's part of his magical
training or whatever.
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So he opens a store to sell his fashion.
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And when he gets there, he actually needs
two different magical men and he can't
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figure out which one is his soulmate.
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So that is part of the storyline, is
figuring out which one is his soulmate.
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And that is kind of like
the stakes are high.
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'cause him finding the right one
will mean being cured from the curse.
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So in this town there's also a,
um, kind of like a magical forest
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that is very eerie and creepy and
is doing crazy things to the town.
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The place where he's staying has
a ghost, so there's a bit of a.
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Investigation of what really happened
to this ghost 'cause that is also
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tied to the mystery of the town.
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And our two love interests
couldn't be more different.
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One is a kind of like a
celebrity, also fashion designer,
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magical fashion designer.
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And the other one is very grumpy, recluse,
um, kind of like the town sheriff.
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So really love this one.
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Um, I really, really love the main
character in this one as well.
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And I'm really looking forward
to the second book, which I
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think is coming out this month
if I don't, if I'm not mistaken.
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So the, the third one is Hell
and High Water by Charlie Chet.
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Now this one is more of
a paranormal romance.
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It does have a military vibe,
and it is a full series as well.
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Um, it, I kind of consider
it paranormal romance.
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You could maybe also say a bit
of, uh, urban fantasy, but I lean
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more on the paranormal romance.
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This is kind of like a, a cop
show, but except just regular cops.
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They're shifters, so there's
lots of banter, lots of tension.
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Our main character in this one, Dex is
bisexual, and he just lost his job and
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boyfriend all in one, in one thing,
and he's thrown into this paranormal
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task force, and he immediately gets
partnered with Sloan, who is a Jaguar.
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Shifter and hates them on site.
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So enemies to lovers, but they
are also obviously soulmates.
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So they have to solve this murder
together and with the whole task force.
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So within the task force itself,
it's at a very found family
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vibe, which I absolutely love.
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But we do have that enemies
to lovers situation, their
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reluctant partners, um, kind of a.
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Good grumpy situation here as well.
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And I personally really love the shifter
squad situation happening with the cops.
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So I absolutely love the series,
cannot recommend it enough.
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And then I'm gonna close things out with
a fantasy standalone, and it's a taste
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of gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowan.
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So this one is perfect if you
want like a slow simmering chord.
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Politics, fantasy, romance.
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We have Kadu who is a soft spoken
prince, and he gets assigned a new
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bodyguard after scandal, threatens
his reputation, and ER is kind of like
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all rules and they don't get along, of
course, until they start to get along.
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So this one has a bit of financial
conspiracy, which starts to unfold, and
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the two of them have to work together
and trust each other basically with
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their lives and that loyalty they have to
work together to solve the whole thing.
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So lots of court intrigue,
bodyguard romance.
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Slow burn romance.
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Um, the magic of course.
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And it, it's got a lot of like
softness to it, which I absolutely
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appreciated and really loved.
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And it's a standalone, so it's, you
know, just read one and you're done.
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So those are my recommendations.
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I always enjoy really reading fantasy
romance, uh, queer fantasy, romance.
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So I have more on the blog too,
so you can check those out too.
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Yes, be sure to check the link
in the videos description.
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Um, I'm always excited for queer
romance, uh, fantasy as well.
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And now I'm gonna share
some queer romance.
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Okay, we're gonna share some new releases.
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Um, so these are new books that if
you haven't read them already, I'm
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really excited to share them with
you because, hey, it's pride month.
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We should be smiling, we should be
blushing, but we also should be chairing.
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For love.
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So the first book I want to share
with you is a historical Romance.
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It's a Sure Thing by Joanna Lowell.
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This one is a very delightful
queer Victorian love story.
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So we have a trans hero and we see
the botanist who captures his heart.
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This is all set by the British
seaside, so I love a gorgeous
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Victorian seaside setting.
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So if you're into that,
this one is for you.
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We also have lots of bicycle racing,
selling secret gardens illustrating,
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and just lots of cute, fun things.
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So it's a very soft, warm romance that
I feel will wrap you in the sunshine.
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So we have one of our main
characters who has reinvented
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himself in Cornwall after leaving
a life behind that just didn't fit.
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And then we have this botanist who is
from New York, who, you know, is kind
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of a bit more brash, um, has a lot
going on, but decides to commission
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kits to illustrate British seaweeds.
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So they strike a deal, he'll help her
prove to, um, this cycling club, which at
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the time was men only, that women belong,
you know, on bicycles, on two wheels.
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And she'll, um, help him too.
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So this one is very charming, low
stakes adventure, but of course
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a trans hero who owns his joy.
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So.
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If you're looking for Victorian romance,
uh, that one is, um, a great one.
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Then I want to get into the
next chapter by Camille Kellogg.
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Now this one is, it, it kind of gives
Notting Hill vibes, so think of it like
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as, um, a Notting Hill retelling ish, but
of course, um, set in the West Village.
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So we have a former child actress
who meets a bookseller in the
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West Village, and we kind of
see sparks flying between them.
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So our former Child Star has, you
know, a huge platform, lots of
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followers, uh, who kind of also need
some publicity and a publicity reboot
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more specifically as a queer icon.
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Then we have a bookseller who hates
change, wants nothing to do with it.
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So even though like the
celebrities like game for a
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reboot and, you know, rebranding
and publicity, the books seller.
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Wants nothing to do with it.
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The bookseller also hasn't,
you know, dated in a while.
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But anyway, they have a meet cute
situation going on and they feel like
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them getting together would be the perfect
kind of PR stunt and move for each other.
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But of course, you know, even when you
fake dates and it's a romance feelings
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have a way of kind of sneaking in.
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It also doesn't help that the
headlines are also kind of
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promoting this relationship anyway.
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So this is kind of a media whirlwind
kind of thing, and we see both of them
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having to decide, hey, is this genuine?
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Is this staged?
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You know, and what are we
gonna do moving forward?
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So expect witty banter in this one.
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Great tension crushes and just,
you know, your carefully crafted
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plans just falling to the side.
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And the last one I wanna share with
you is a new book by Susie Dimond.
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It's Bed and Breakup.
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Now, in this one we have a power
couple, and the whole bed and breakup
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thing is because they had a bed and
breakfast business that they had running.
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You know, it's very cozy, art
filled and all the things.
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However, their marriage and their dreams
of running this establishment crumbles.
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It falls apart.
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But we see them coming back together.
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Seven years later they return.
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Um, not necessarily in
a reuniting kind of way.
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It's more of, I have something
to prove to the other.
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So one is trying to be
a up and coming artist.
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The other one is a celebrity chef, you
know, kind of working in that world.
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So we see them coming back
to their home turf ish.
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Uh, of course there's lots of prangs.
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They're also forced now to
renovate the inn and get it sold.
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And of course, it's like
coming back together in a way.
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Coming back to the scene
of the crime, it feels, um.
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Like, obviously feelings are
getting reignited as we're
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working together on this project.
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You know, old memories are coming
through the surface, that kind of thing.
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So this is a second chance romance.
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Um, great food scenes.
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I feel always chosen Family vibes.
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I feel Susie Dimond has that
one thread through all her work
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so far is that chosen family.
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And I think you'll be chairing
for, uh, both of these characters.
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So those are my queer romance books.
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They're all new books, so if
you're looking for something new
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and fresh to add to your reading
list, I think these books are good.
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What do you think, Fran?
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I have that bed and
breakup already on my tv.
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Som excited to read it.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I, I just read Susie Deman.
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She's kind of like an autobi auto read.
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Not everything is.
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But I know what I'm getting,
especially, uh, chosen family themes.
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But let us know your
thoughts in the comments.
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I mean, share your queer recommendations.
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Um, any books you've been reading for
Pride Month, you know, regardless of
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the representation, we'd love to get
some recommendations in the comments.
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So be sure to share replay crew,
we'd love to hear from you as well.
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So share them in the comments.
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Alright, so if you are just
joining us, welcome to Novel Hour.
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This is our live show we host
every Thursday at 12 noon Eastern.
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We always have a theme this
month it was Pride month book.
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So we share those book recommendations.
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We're gonna get into what we're watching.
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We're also gonna share some new
releases for this week that we think
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are worth adding to your reading
list, or at least on the calendar.
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And.
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On our radar, maybe you'll
find them interesting.
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We're also gonna get into some
news, uh, bookish news, but
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we also have some gossip too.
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So, um, be sure to hang around, share
your thoughts and comments as we go.
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But right now we're gonna get
into what we are watching.
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So last week I had nothing on my
what I am watching list, which
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is really rare because I love
watching things as well as reading.
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And I watch and I wanna talk to
y'all about the life of Chuck.
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I have a review up on my channel.
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So there's a link in the video's
description if you've watched this, but
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also if you've read the Stephen King
story, I actually have the book here.
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So the story, the Life of Chalk, can be
found in this Stephen King collection.
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If it bleeds, actually you
think I have it bookmarked?
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Yeah.
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So anyways.
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I love the story.
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I really love the story, and I felt
it really translated on screen well.
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The only thing I will say to you that is
kind of not a spoiler, well no, it's not a
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spoiler, is that this is the most faithful
Stephen King adaptation I've seen.
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Period.
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Right?
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Like this is to the book in a
way where I was like, okay, wow.
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Now, did the movie person add some themes?
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Absolutely did add some new elements.
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I think it enhanced the story.
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We can debate it in my review video again.
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I did that one already,
but just in case you're not
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familiar with the life of chalk.
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Essentially it is Stephen King's
version of warm and fuzzy, but of
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course it has dark undercurrents.
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We see the world ending, but we also
see a man dying, AKA, the life of chalk.
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I don't wanna say more than it is
a reverse chronology storytelling.
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So we start at the end.
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It's in three acts.
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We start with the world ending.
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Okay.
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We also start with Chuck dying.
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Then we get to the middle part when he's
in his prime and what is happening in
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the world at the time and how he's doing.
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Then we go back to the
beginning, um, of his childhood.
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And if you know Stephen King,
Stephen King, and children and car
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accidents and things, again, there's
certain hallmarks with this man that
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you're gonna see coming through.
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So we go back to part one.
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So we do it's Act three,
act two, and act one.
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He has it divided in that way.
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And again, we start at the
end and we go to the bing.
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But here's the thing, the starting
from the end and moving towards
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the beginning is not a gimmick.
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You know how sometimes it's like offers
will play with time travel in a way.
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This is not a play,
this is like essential.
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To the whole story.
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I've never seen a story, hang on the
reverse timeline chronology so heavy.
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It's like you're putting a
puzzle together in, you know,
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but every piece falls into place.
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It's really hard to talk about
if you haven't watched it.
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But I will.
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Or read the story without spoilers.
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Because the one thing you're
gonna wanna talk about with folks
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after the fact is the spoilers.
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Mm-hmm.
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Like, did you see this?
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Did you catch the Easter eggs?
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And if you've been watching
the live or the replays.
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'cause we love our replay crew
and I share something and I would
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often say, yeah, I'm more nice to
like films and stories and stuff.
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My husband isn't, and I always
tell you, if I tell you, my
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husband said, Ron, don't walk.
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The man is telling you Ron, don't walk.
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Okay.
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And I don't think I've said that all
year with all the stuff I've been saying.
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He'll be like, oh, this is okay.
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Yeah, it's all right.
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It's all right.
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This one is run.
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So he is saying, go watch it
in the cinema, and then when it
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comes back on streaming, watch it.
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Now, if life is ing and you
can't go to the cinema, you're
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gonna have to watch it two times.
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I have to watch it two times and
I'm gonna read the story again,
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and then I'm gonna watch it again
because yeah, it really blew my mind.
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It was this close to perfect.
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It's not a perfect thing.
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Um, but it's close to being a blockbuster.
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I'm surprised more people
aren't talking about it.
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But anyway, shameless plug.
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I have my explainer video over on
my channel, so, um, you can tune in.
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But Fran, what have you been watching?
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So I have basically been deep
diving, the Animal Kingdom TV series
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that I talked about last week.
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So I'm already finishing season four.
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There's only six.
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Um, sad.
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Um, but after I talked to
you last, I kept watching it.
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So that was like somewhere in the
middle of me being on season one and I
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kept thinking there is something about
the series that is so familiar to me.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I'm watching this with my husband and.
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All of a sudden the light bulb went
on and I was like, that's what it is.
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And I turned to my husband and
I said, this is Sons of Anarchy.
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And he looks at me and he's
like, yeah, I can see that.
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Um, and then like the day after
I went online and apparently
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it's, it's been a thing, okay.
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The Reddit forums happened, seeing
the comparison, which I mean,
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I'm like, I ha I have a whole
post about my thoughts on that.
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Um, on mystery Landia.
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So you can go and check that out.
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Yeah.
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But it is, it is just so fun.
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Um, because, well, I mean, where
the other one is biker and like a
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little bit more gang and selling
arms and things like that.
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This one is about FETs, so they're always
doing some kind of stealing, but it's just
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so like the family dynamic, toxic family
manipulation, like all of those things.
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It is so much like the other one that
I think that if you liked tons of
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anarchy, you'd really enjoy this one.
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So.
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I mean the, there's just more surfing
to make it a little bit lighter,
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but it's really the same thing,
which I could really appreciate.
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'cause I love that show.
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Um, so I was like, okay, this is good.
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I can, I can hang with this.
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There's always some
horrendous thing happening.
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Um, lots of gore.
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Lots of killing
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these people.
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It's good.
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There's lots of drama, lots
of like horrible things that
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family's doing to each other.
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Oh my gosh.
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Ah.
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But it's messy and I just,
I'm really enjoying it.
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So I expect to feel sad when it's over.
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See, I know you're gonna be
sad, but I expect a full report.
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I mean, folks watching, don't we
expect a full report next week?
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Yeah.
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Like when she kind of wraps
this up because I, I, I kind of
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wanna know where this is going.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Um, but yeah, animal Kingdom.
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Everyone let us know your
thoughts in the comments.
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If you are watching or have watched
Animal Kingdom, if you've read Stephen
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King's The Life of Chuck, if you're
planning to watch it or wait till he
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hits streaming, it doesn't matter.
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Let us know your thoughts and comments,
but we also wanna hear from you,
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like, what are you watching right now?
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Or is there something you're looking
forward to watching, like it hasn't hit
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yet, but you're looking forward to it.
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Um, yeah.
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Share your thoughts in the comment.
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Okay, we're gonna jump
into our new releases.
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So we have some new releases
to share with you this week.
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Mm-hmm.
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So we are covering new releases for the
week of June 12th through to the 21st.
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We have five fresh new releases each.
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I think you're gonna wanna grab some of
these books, so, you know, hang tight.
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Let's get into it.
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I'm gonna go first and the first
one I'm gonna share with you, it
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sounds like Love by Ashley Postin.
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In this one we have a songwriter who's
lost her muse, and then we see a former
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boy band, bad boy, who might just
kind of be the spark that she needs.
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00:20:58
Um, she has a penda lyric
in a really long time.
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00:21:01
She's also heartbroken to kind of
watch her family's business, which
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is tied to music also go under, she
has some family things going on.
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00:21:08
There's lots of things, but then, you
know, she hears, um, this guy's voice in
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her head, and then when she looks okay.
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Yep.
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And they end up linked in
a magically kind of way.
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So there's like a little bit
of magic in this one as well.
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Um, but anyway, it's funny you see the
heartache of two people kind of coming
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together, finding inspiration each in
each other when they least expect it.
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So that's your romance.
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00:21:31
However, we have a mystery and a thriller.
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This one is definitely heavy on the
mystery, but I absolutely love it.
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It's Murder Takes a
Vacation by Laura Lipman.
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I love Laura Lipman.
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I will again also buy
or read author for me.
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Do does her books always hit?
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No, but again, we don't abandon all
authors when, you know, they don't hit.
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But I'm happy to report this is a hit.
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Okay, this one hits.
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So a murder Takes a vacation.
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We meet a woman who won the lottery.
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Okay.
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Um, a, a ticket to that she
wasn't even paying attention to.
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But anyway, her dreams are opening up.
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She gets this cruise where she
goes through France and she ends
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up in a real life, hoone it.
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I know you're thinking
this sounds familiar.
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You know, she's on a cruise.
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Of course it's gonna give Agatha
Christie vibes because again,
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Agatha Christie is queen icon.
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Legend.
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You know, we are humbled in Agatha's
presence, but Laura Lipman did
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a really great job with this.
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So we kind of see this widow,
you know, treating herself.
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00:22:25
She has a friend there along the
way, forgot to mention that there's
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also someone who, you know, is
charming over dinner time, uh,
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but then drops there the next day.
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00:22:35
So we kind of see them kind of
going down that rabbit hole.
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You're the last person to have, you know,
dinner with him and that kinds of thing.
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00:22:41
So it gives murder on the
Orient express vibes, you know,
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that that locked room mystery.
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00:22:47
There is a cameo from a pi
from previous books as well.
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It's just witty, fun,
globetrotting, all the things.
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Um, yes, meta takes a vacation.
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I'm coming at you with a wild ball
'cause this one is, it's called How
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to Dodge a Cannon Ball by Deon Dale.
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I read this one.
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00:23:04
It is special.
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00:23:05
It's for the literary folks who love a bit
of history and we're gonna take a serious
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matter, but we're gonna make it funny.
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00:23:13
It is focusing on the civil war.
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00:23:15
And I know when you think civil
war, you're thinking dark.
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But in this one, the civil
war becomes hilarious.
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00:23:21
So we meet some people, um, teenagers who
are very idealistic as most folks are.
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00:23:27
When they're young, they enlist, then
re-enlist, trying to kind of pin down
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exactly, you know, what America really
means, what patriotism really means.
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00:23:36
He starts off as a union flag.
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00:23:38
Twila finds himself in the
confederate calvary, listen, b
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bouncing all over the place and then
even sneaks into a union regiment.
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00:23:48
Um, kind of claiming he's
something that he's not.
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So they can let him stay.
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00:23:52
He squares off with all kinds of people.
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Okay?
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Arms dealer, um, people from
history, like real history and myth.
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We see him kind of clashing along the way.
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Um, it's very interesting.
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It delivers laugh out loud moments.
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At the same time, surprisingly, profound
moments too on, you know, identity,
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loyalty, and everything about the nation.
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Look, I know the world is heavy
right now, but this is history you
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need in a funny way again, funny,
funny, funny, highly recommend.
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00:24:18
Another one I wanna share with you is
Hazel says, no, I hope this book becomes
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a big book this summer, because it is a
coming of age story that blew me away.
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00:24:27
It's a coming of age
story, like none other.
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00:24:29
It's very powerful, very empowering.
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00:24:31
We have a young girl who, her and her
family moved to this new small town.
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00:24:36
She's going to school, and her high
school principal propositions her.
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00:24:41
That's the best way I can say it
without saying words on YouTube.
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00:24:43
That will get me kicked off.
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00:24:44
Okay?
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00:24:45
This man propositions her on day
one saying he chooses one student
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00:24:49
every year, and she is it, oh,
it is disgusting in that way.
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00:24:54
But our, our main character, Hazel.
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Mm.
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00:24:58
First of all, she's very,
you know, ick buy it, but she
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refuses flat out on her face.
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00:25:03
She does not crumble to pressure.
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00:25:05
And, you know, she, she, it obviously has
changed her life forever in a different
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way because now she is the center of a
whole bunch of rumors in this small town.
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00:25:16
And to give you context, her
family left Brooklyn and went
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to a small town in Maine.
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00:25:20
We love Maine, but not this
man and the whole thing.
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00:25:23
I love the Maine setting,
but the man is trash.
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00:25:26
Um, so anyway, so now she's the
center of rumors, her family as well.
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00:25:30
And because they're outsiders, kind of,
you know, coming into this small town.
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00:25:34
So there's rumors, investigations,
gut-wrenching, mockery, just everything.
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She is a beacon of courage.
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Okay?
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So just understand that that
is a positive portion of this.
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However, it's kind of seeing
how she deals with it.
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00:25:46
In this small town and how her family
deals with it, and then how the community,
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so you're reading to see if the community
is gonna come around them, if our family
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can hold it together and stuff like that.
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00:25:57
But there is joy, there is
family bonds, but you know,
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it reminds us of our strength.
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00:26:01
And again, we, we, we love Hazel.
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00:26:02
We are Team Hazel here, and the
last book is Ecstasy by Ivy pda.
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00:26:08
I love Ivy Pitroda.
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00:26:09
Okay, this wasn't my favorite,
but it might be for some people.
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00:26:12
This is a Greek tragedy, kind
of meets a gothic horror.
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00:26:16
It's set on a stunning, you know, sunset
Greek island and all the things we
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see on main character who's inherited
a luxury villa on, you know, this
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island after her husband's death.
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00:26:27
But there's a controlling son in the mix.
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00:26:30
Um, you know, kind of, you
know, there, there's children,
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um, wife and all the things.
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00:26:35
It's, it's a lot going on, but it leads
into ancient gods coming in the mix.
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00:26:40
Um, women on the island and the sand.
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00:26:43
And you just kind of find, find
yourself drawn into this whole thing.
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00:26:46
There is some social critique,
sharp critique, and just the
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roles women are willing to play.
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00:26:51
So, uh, yeah, that's Ivy's
latest and my five releases.
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00:26:54
Francesca, what do you have?
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So I'm gonna start with something fun.
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00:27:01
The first one that I have is, I think
I'm in love with an alien by Anna Re.
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00:27:05
So this one is about a lonely
alien who is stranded on earth.
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00:27:10
Um, and he, like the tech
broke down, whatever.
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00:27:13
So he's supposed to be laying low.
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00:27:15
And what does he do?
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00:27:15
He joins an online fandom
community and he gets invited to.
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00:27:20
Space con.
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00:27:21
So naturally, bit of cosplay.
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00:27:24
And he had met in the online community,
our heroine, Jeanette, who is the literal
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00:27:29
queen of all the nerdy alien merch.
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00:27:31
And she's obsessed with aliens.
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00:27:34
And basically he was her online
crush and they get to meet at
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00:27:37
Space Con and she has no idea.
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:
00:27:39
He's an alien, like a real alien.
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00:27:41
So it's kind of a campy cinnamon roll,
alien, hero, nerdy heroin, um, cosplay,
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00:27:48
which I mean, all the good stuff.
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00:27:50
And how can you say no to that cover?
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00:27:52
So can't say no.
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00:27:54
'cause I'm already like adding.
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00:27:57
Uh, the next one is Ride
The Wave by Katherine Riley.
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00:28:00
This is a contemporary romance, especially
for like the fans of Icebreaker.
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00:28:05
It is set in Portugal.
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00:28:07
The hero is a retired surfer, kind
of a golden boy of surf, and the
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00:28:11
heroine is a sports journalist.
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00:28:13
She's very ambitious and she is working
for his mother who owns a magazine
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00:28:19
and she has to go there to, um, do
an interview with him in Portugal.
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00:28:25
So they're, you know, the forced
proximity, they're in the same house.
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00:28:29
Um, all of that in.
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00:28:31
It's, it's a forbidden romance.
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00:28:33
She's not supposed to get involved,
but you also get the coastal
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00:28:36
Europe setting and all that.
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00:28:37
So it's a perfect beach treat, I think.
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00:28:40
And, um, yes, usually Catherine
Riley is spicy, so, you know.
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00:28:44
Yeah.
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00:28:45
Mm-hmm.
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00:28:45
That's, that's gonna be a good one.
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00:28:47
Then I have coming in
hot by Josie Juniper.
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00:28:50
So this one is the F1.
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00:28:53
Of the bunch.
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00:28:54
So if you're into sports from,
it's like actively in the sport.
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00:28:58
Our hero is not a driver,
which I was pleased with.
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00:29:01
'cause that's usually what you get.
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00:29:03
Uh, he's more of the, you know, the,
the owner of the team kind of situation.
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00:29:09
He's the top dog.
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00:29:11
He's Austrian and our
heroine is a journalist.
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00:29:17
And she is trying to get into,
she's starting to get into the,
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00:29:21
the business 'cause she was doing
something else and they start dating.
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00:29:25
They actually meet before
they know who they are.
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00:29:27
And they have a one night stand and
then they find out who they are and
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00:29:31
they're like, oh shit, we should mm-hmm.
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00:29:33
Be doing that.
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00:29:34
Um, so then they're trying to figure out
how to have a relationship, but she's
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00:29:38
supposed to be digging stuff into what's
going on with the sport and trying to get,
579
:
00:29:42
you know, get some kind of a big story.
580
:
00:29:44
And he is being very quiet 'cause
he knows, obviously he's got all
581
:
00:29:48
the experience with dealing with
journalism and he can't open up to her.
582
:
00:29:51
No.
583
:
00:29:52
Um.
584
:
00:29:52
He also is dealing still with
the grief of losing his wife.
585
:
00:29:56
So the book does deal with some of that.
586
:
00:29:58
Mm-hmm.
587
:
00:29:58
The grief of the loss and his
wife was sick and all of that.
588
:
00:30:02
So there's a lot that he's dealing with,
with how to open up because he thought he
589
:
00:30:06
would never be in a relationship against.
590
:
00:30:08
So it's kind of a cute story.
591
:
00:30:10
Um, I was expecting a
little bit more from it.
592
:
00:30:13
Right.
593
:
00:30:13
But it's still a cutesy kind of,
uh, story, so, you know, kind of
594
:
00:30:18
forbidden workplace romance in a way.
595
:
00:30:20
So I would still recommend it.
596
:
00:30:22
Okay.
597
:
00:30:22
Then we have someone knows by VI Keelen.
598
:
00:30:24
So this one is for the
thriller mystery lovers.
599
:
00:30:28
Uh, Elizabeth is a professor, but
back in high school, her and her best
600
:
00:30:32
friend were involved in something
a little murdery, and they thought
601
:
00:30:36
that, you know, no one knows.
602
:
00:30:37
And now apparently someone does.
603
:
00:30:39
So a student submits a story for her
class and it's very much, pretty much
604
:
00:30:44
textbook what had happened back then.
605
:
00:30:46
And she has to go back to
her hometown to find out.
606
:
00:30:50
How does someone know what's going on?
607
:
00:30:52
Kind of a revenge plot story here.
608
:
00:30:54
Dual timelines, which is really fun.
609
:
00:30:57
Mm-hmm.
610
:
00:30:57
And the last one is
the historical romance.
611
:
00:30:59
It's to Catch a Lord by Emma Orchard.
612
:
00:31:02
This is a fake relationship,
Regency Romance, which I can't
613
:
00:31:06
say that I've read a ton of those.
614
:
00:31:08
Okay.
615
:
00:31:08
Um, so Amelia is, so her family has
a certain reputation and she has
616
:
00:31:13
all these creepy men that are always
coming up to her 'cause they feel like
617
:
00:31:18
she's a little bit loose, but mostly
because of her family's reputation.
618
:
00:31:21
Mm-hmm.
619
:
00:31:22
So she wants to put an end to that
and she proposes to Lord Thorn
620
:
00:31:27
that they have a fake engagement.
621
:
00:31:28
Now he also has his own
issues with society because.
622
:
00:31:33
It was rumored.
623
:
00:31:34
I mean, it was rumored and it was
real that he was in love with his, uh,
624
:
00:31:38
brother's wife and his brother died.
625
:
00:31:42
And so now the widow is
living in the family house.
626
:
00:31:45
No, he's there and he's got the title.
627
:
00:31:47
And so there's all these rumors that
he's gonna, you know, end up with her.
628
:
00:31:52
And of course, that's not seen well
and technically he doesn't want that.
629
:
00:31:55
So as much as he's got his, um,
sister-in-law throwing herself at him,
630
:
00:32:01
he's like, no, that's not what I want.
631
:
00:32:02
So it works out in his favor also to
have some kind of a fake engagement.
632
:
00:32:06
'cause he is like, well, I can
put an end to the rumors and I can
633
:
00:32:09
also get rid of my sister-in-law.
634
:
00:32:12
Nice sister.
635
:
00:32:13
So yeah, it was, it was interesting
'cause I'm not used to reading historical
636
:
00:32:18
romance with fake dating, but you know,
it was kind of, kind of a different take.
637
:
00:32:22
Mm-hmm.
638
:
00:32:22
It is a slow burn.
639
:
00:32:23
Um, yeah.
640
:
00:32:25
Lot, lots of scandal in this one.
641
:
00:32:27
So it was fun.
642
:
00:32:28
I'm team scandal, so sign me up.
643
:
00:32:30
Me too.
644
:
00:32:31
Yes.
645
:
00:32:32
So some exciting new releases.
646
:
00:32:33
Let us know in the comments which ones
you'll be adding to your reading list.
647
:
00:32:37
I know I will be adding some, but also
if there's some books we didn't cover
648
:
00:32:41
today as well, share them in the comments
so we can share the new releases.
649
:
00:32:44
Love.
650
:
00:32:45
Alright, so if you're just joining
us, welcome to our live show.
651
:
00:32:48
We host here every Thursday
at 12 noon Eastern time.
652
:
00:32:51
We shared some books for Pride Month.
653
:
00:32:52
That was our theme for the week,
because every week we have a theme.
654
:
00:32:55
We also got into some
new releases as well.
655
:
00:32:58
We also shared what we're watching.
656
:
00:33:00
Okay.
657
:
00:33:00
Because we don't just read books,
we watch things on television too.
658
:
00:33:04
Now we're gonna get into the news.
659
:
00:33:06
We're gonna get into some gossip as well.
660
:
00:33:09
I think the first thing that I do
wanna share is the announcement
661
:
00:33:13
that ever earned has acquired the
online book club platform Fable.
662
:
00:33:19
Now the screenshot you're seeing
on screen is from ever earned
663
:
00:33:22
directly the making the announcement.
664
:
00:33:25
But personally, I got the news
straight from Publishers Weekly.
665
:
00:33:29
So that is where, um, you know, uh,
my reporting is coming from today.
666
:
00:33:33
So you can check out the video's
description for links on what is going on.
667
:
00:33:38
So just in case you're not familiar
and you're like, what is going on?
668
:
00:33:42
ENT is the online ebook and
audiobook subscription service.
669
:
00:33:45
It is a subsidiary of Scribd.
670
:
00:33:48
Some of you might be familiar with
Scribd and they have acquired Fable.
671
:
00:33:53
Now, you might not know what
Fable is either, and that is fine.
672
:
00:33:55
Fable is a social reading
and book club app.
673
:
00:34:00
So, um, folks would just go online, sign
up on Fable, they can, you know, track
674
:
00:34:04
some of their reading to some degree,
sign up to book clubs, um, you know,
675
:
00:34:08
discuss books and all that good stuff.
676
:
00:34:10
Now, according to Publishers Weekly,
all Fable employees will join scr, okay?
677
:
00:34:16
With the CEO of Scribd, taking over as
fables, CEO and Fables, founder is set
678
:
00:34:23
to transition into a more advisory role.
679
:
00:34:27
So it goes on to talk about
the whole different things.
680
:
00:34:29
Again, you can click the link
in the video's description,
681
:
00:34:31
but Fable has a lot of users.
682
:
00:34:33
They host a lot of book clubs on the apps.
683
:
00:34:35
Um, a lot of big book talk influencers.
684
:
00:34:38
They share also, um, run book
clubs over there as well.
685
:
00:34:43
And you know, the company also
has an online bookstore that they
686
:
00:34:47
donate 20% to the World Literacy
Foundation and lots of other stuff.
687
:
00:34:52
And they're saying Fable
isn't afraid to experiment.
688
:
00:34:54
They're very excited for obviously, um,
this acquisition and this collaboration.
689
:
00:35:00
Um, they do say they will maintain.
690
:
00:35:03
Separate business models, they will
operate independently for the time being.
691
:
00:35:08
Though they do say collaborations,
um, also will occur.
692
:
00:35:12
Now if you're thinking about Fable,
you might also say, well, I heard
693
:
00:35:15
some really crazy stuff about Fable.
694
:
00:35:17
Yes, there was, um, there was, uh,
discourse online about some very
695
:
00:35:24
offensive and racially insensitive
content that was created for users.
696
:
00:35:29
They did mention it was AI powered
when it was sharing your end
697
:
00:35:33
of your year reading summary.
698
:
00:35:35
So there was lots of things
happening during that time as well.
699
:
00:35:38
They addressed it, they gave their
apology, they remove the AI feature and
700
:
00:35:44
the, the forum to address the issue.
701
:
00:35:46
But anyways, that's a whole mouthful.
702
:
00:35:48
But long story short is the company
Evran, who also runs script, has
703
:
00:35:53
been, um, has acquired Fable.
704
:
00:35:56
Fran, what are your thoughts?
705
:
00:35:59
I am kind of, I have mixed feelings
about this because I already have mixed
706
:
00:36:04
feelings about script slash ever and
because I want to say, and I can't
707
:
00:36:09
remember dates right now, but I wanna
say not that long ago they were, I.
708
:
00:36:15
Bought by some kind of investor
or some big guy, and I think
709
:
00:36:21
a, a tech guy actually.
710
:
00:36:23
And they recently changed also the
pricing of the subscription service.
711
:
00:36:29
'cause I've had my script subscription
service for years and I used to read
712
:
00:36:34
a ton and they had, you know, it,
they had, its, its good and it's bad,
713
:
00:36:39
where, you know, there was no rhyme or
reason for how you would get locked out
714
:
00:36:43
of listening to certain audio books.
715
:
00:36:45
But then it would tell you, okay,
after this date you can listen to that,
716
:
00:36:48
but you can listen to something else.
717
:
00:36:49
Now the, the good thing about this service
before is that it was kind of like Kindle
718
:
00:36:54
Unlimited for, in my opinion, I was using
it for audiobooks, but you could also.
719
:
00:36:59
Get eBooks and they have other things
on the platform, but basically it was
720
:
00:37:03
like a Kindle Unlimited subscription.
721
:
00:37:05
You could borrow things and have
kind of unlimited supply of that.
722
:
00:37:11
And they recently, with the new
owner changed that to where you
723
:
00:37:15
are basically unlocking, like
you're buying your subscription,
724
:
00:37:19
buys you, uh, points, let's say.
725
:
00:37:22
Okay.
726
:
00:37:22
And you're using that to unlock titles.
727
:
00:37:25
So they tell you that it's an unlimited
subscription, meaning like you can have
728
:
00:37:30
access to a whole bunch of their database.
729
:
00:37:33
Most of the books that you wanna
read are not on online and they're
730
:
00:37:37
all things you have to unlock.
731
:
00:37:39
Mm-hmm.
732
:
00:37:40
So your one credit that you're
getting will unlock one book or
733
:
00:37:44
two books, depending what you pay,
but then you don't own that title.
734
:
00:37:48
You are borrowing that title for
that amount of money, which is the
735
:
00:37:52
same amount of money that you would
pay Audible or libro for a credit.
736
:
00:37:56
Mm-hmm.
737
:
00:37:56
But there, you own the book.
738
:
00:37:59
So here you're paying that kind
of money to unlock a rental,
739
:
00:38:04
and then you gotta return that.
740
:
00:38:06
So what is the real incentive?
741
:
00:38:08
I have no idea.
742
:
00:38:09
But, so I've, I've seen so many
people that were loyal script ever
743
:
00:38:14
and whatever subscribers who have
left because like, what's the point?
744
:
00:38:19
I mean, they tell you
that there is a, a huge.
745
:
00:38:21
Library of things that you can access for
free in the same way, but I, I have yet to
746
:
00:38:26
find a book that it's not in the unlock.
747
:
00:38:29
Yeah.
748
:
00:38:30
And I'm talking even older titles,
not just like new releases.
749
:
00:38:33
I get it for the new releases.
750
:
00:38:34
Like I wouldn't mind if I have access to
a whole bunch of backlist things and then
751
:
00:38:39
for new releases, I have to unlock it,
but at the same time, if I have to unlock
752
:
00:38:43
it for the same amount of money that I
would pay to buy it, I'm gonna go buy it.
753
:
00:38:48
I'm gonna go buy it.
754
:
00:38:49
I see.
755
:
00:38:50
I'm not a SCR user, so I don't
have any experience, which is
756
:
00:38:53
why I'm not chiming in folks.
757
:
00:38:55
But if I'm paying the same amount
of money to rent something that
758
:
00:38:59
I can buy, I'm just gonna buy.
759
:
00:39:01
I'm just gonna go buy it.
760
:
00:39:02
So I, that's where my concern comes in,
because I feel like this new owner at.
761
:
00:39:08
Which is the one that is gonna
be like, heading both now?
762
:
00:39:13
Um, I don't think he understands
the mar like the community.
763
:
00:39:18
Okay.
764
:
00:39:18
And I think he's coming in with that,
you know, tech bro mentality of like
765
:
00:39:22
how I'm gonna get mo the most money.
766
:
00:39:24
So I don't know where that's gonna
fit in with incorporating Fable.
767
:
00:39:29
And I also don't know how you would
collaborate the two platforms.
768
:
00:39:33
'cause to me, like they're two
completely different things.
769
:
00:39:36
Yeah.
770
:
00:39:36
So I don't know what they're, where
they're going with that, uh, merger.
771
:
00:39:41
Yeah, it's a very interesting merger.
772
:
00:39:43
We will be paying attention.
773
:
00:39:44
I think I am going to go down
the rabbit hole of who is the CEO
774
:
00:39:49
behind ever who owns Majority State.
775
:
00:39:52
Because if you are not a book person and
you don't understand the community, yeah,
776
:
00:39:56
it's gonna be a rough and wild ride.
777
:
00:39:58
It might also be an expensive mistake.
778
:
00:40:01
I mean, I don't know how much
it was acquired for, but alls I
779
:
00:40:03
would say is, yeah, we're just
gonna have to wait and see.
780
:
00:40:06
Yeah.
781
:
00:40:06
But if you have any opinions, I
mean, share them in comments with us.
782
:
00:40:10
We'd love to hear from you, replay crew.
783
:
00:40:11
Let us know your thoughts.
784
:
00:40:13
Yeah.
785
:
00:40:13
On the fact that Ever End
has acquired Fable, they've
786
:
00:40:17
put out this, uh, statement.
787
:
00:40:18
They've put out several statements across
different presses, and again, we'll
788
:
00:40:22
include, well there are links right now
in the videos description, so you can
789
:
00:40:27
click read more and tell us your thoughts.
790
:
00:40:31
Okay.
791
:
00:40:32
We have a busy Newsweek.
792
:
00:40:33
Okay.
793
:
00:40:34
It is a busy Newsweek.
794
:
00:40:35
And the next topic that
we're gonna get into is.
795
:
00:40:39
Book Con is back now again, book
Con advertised on their platform.
796
:
00:40:45
So people who have been on book con book
Expo, comic Con, just anything, um, by
797
:
00:40:52
Read pop, you probably have received an
email to say, yes, the rumors are true.
798
:
00:40:56
Book Con is back.
799
:
00:40:58
They also did a presser
with Publishers Weekly.
800
:
00:41:01
I got an email through them as well
to say, yep, the Rumors are True.
801
:
00:41:05
Book Con will return in 2026.
802
:
00:41:09
So five years after Book Con and Book
Expo by Read pop announced that, hey.
803
:
00:41:16
We are retiring this, we are
now getting news that they are
804
:
00:41:20
reviving it and BookCon is back.
805
:
00:41:22
The new iteration is slated for
th:
2026
806
:
00:41:29
I've included links in the video
description, so you can read
807
:
00:41:32
more directly from the Book Con
website, but you can also read the
808
:
00:41:35
presser from Publishers Weekly.
809
:
00:41:38
It also said that it will be
returning to its former home in
810
:
00:41:43
New York City's Javits Center.
811
:
00:41:45
So the person who headed up the
earlier iteration of BookCon, as
812
:
00:41:48
well as Book Expo, is serving as
an event director of the new show.
813
:
00:41:53
Now, the one thing I noticed
that they said in the presser
814
:
00:41:56
everywhere that I've read about
this is that the revived events.
815
:
00:42:01
Will bear no resemblance to book Expo
Now Book expo, which even Francesca
816
:
00:42:06
had to educate me on this earlier
book expo is the industry trade show,
817
:
00:42:12
the BookCon team and the BookCon
vent that we're gonna have in:
2026
818
:
00:42:17
This is what they said, and
I quote is focused totally on
819
:
00:42:22
delivering a consumer event.
820
:
00:42:25
They also go on to then mention at the
end of the quote saying that it will
821
:
00:42:29
be catering to its original audience,
which is a younger genre readers.
822
:
00:42:34
They said the upcoming BookCon will
also feature book signings, panel
823
:
00:42:38
discussions, book club, meet tops,
sprayed edges, workshops, book swaps,
824
:
00:42:44
and a fantasy ball and lots more.
825
:
00:42:47
So there's, um, again,
link, a video description.
826
:
00:42:49
You can sign up to their email
newsletter so you'll be the
827
:
00:42:52
first to know all the details.
828
:
00:42:54
But right now they're announcing it.
829
:
00:42:56
They wanna get you excited to
say again, BookCon is back.
830
:
00:42:59
I heard about it from them directly
through Publishers Weekly, through
831
:
00:43:03
our friends DMing us all the things.
832
:
00:43:07
Fran, how are you feeling
that BookCon is back?
833
:
00:43:09
I know you have experience,
um, attending the event.
834
:
00:43:13
Many folks attended before 2020,
which is when they put it on pause.
835
:
00:43:18
But now that one you
hear they're coming back.
836
:
00:43:21
How do you feel about it?
837
:
00:43:22
Coming back in 2026?
838
:
00:43:23
They're coming back to the Javits.
839
:
00:43:25
But I found it interesting and as someone
who's been to this event, I found it
840
:
00:43:30
very interesting them stressing how
basically, listen book expo, that is
841
:
00:43:35
one thing we're not doing that again.
842
:
00:43:36
We're staying far from that.
843
:
00:43:37
They're really focusing on the
consumer side of it because that,
844
:
00:43:41
that was my biggest takeaway.
845
:
00:43:44
I actually think that it's, it's really
good news because first of all, there's
846
:
00:43:50
a lot of book signings right now.
847
:
00:43:52
Yes.
848
:
00:43:52
There's also a lot of crappy book
signings and a lot of people that
849
:
00:43:56
don't know how to run events.
850
:
00:43:58
So with all that being said, I think
there is a need for a big event that
851
:
00:44:05
can pull also the big name authors, um,
that is able to coordinate the kind of.
852
:
00:44:12
Draw that that's gonna
bring in and to be able to.
853
:
00:44:16
Pay for a location like the Javit
Center, where you can have something
854
:
00:44:20
really massive and really immersive.
855
:
00:44:23
So I think the need was there.
856
:
00:44:25
I think that after 2020, because
so many signings and things started
857
:
00:44:29
popping up, they felt like maybe that
was taking away from what they were
858
:
00:44:33
doing before, which I think that's
probably why they were pulling back.
859
:
00:44:37
Also, I mean, cost, it's, well,
that's what I was gonna say.
860
:
00:44:40
Cost I heard was the biggest thing.
861
:
00:44:42
Yeah.
862
:
00:44:42
Because at the time, in 2020 when they
did have an event planned because of
863
:
00:44:46
the pandemic, they were unable to have
in-person events and because of course,
864
:
00:44:51
publishers and advertisers and everyone
was pulling the funding, you know, and no
865
:
00:44:56
one wanted to do anything in 20 because
again, we, we just couldn't, it was a
866
:
00:44:59
time of, you know, uh, a great unknown.
867
:
00:45:02
Yeah.
868
:
00:45:02
They didn't have the funds to keep
that segment of the business alive
869
:
00:45:07
until we could get back outside.
870
:
00:45:10
Yeah, and I think that they probably
didn't bring it back sooner 'cause they
871
:
00:45:13
felt maybe these signings are enough.
872
:
00:45:17
But I feel especially this year,
there's been so much drama and mess
873
:
00:45:20
around book signings that it's proven
that we do need one solid event, at
874
:
00:45:27
least at a bare minimum, where readers
can go and they know that they're
875
:
00:45:31
gonna get a decent experience now.
876
:
00:45:34
That being said, I hope that they learn
from all the mistakes of Book Cons past
877
:
00:45:42
and uh, because it was something for
readers, the pricing was accessible.
878
:
00:45:48
There were a lot of people inside that
Janet Center, and I think that you can
879
:
00:45:53
have all the good intentions, but you
also need to be able to plan properly now.
880
:
00:45:58
Again, I have also gone to ComicCon at
the same javit center by the same people,
881
:
00:46:04
and that is run much, much better.
882
:
00:46:07
So if they could take the organization
that they have for ComicCon and
883
:
00:46:12
then translate that into how this
BookCon is going to be, I think
884
:
00:46:16
that's going, you're gonna be golden.
885
:
00:46:18
And I think it's gonna
be a great experience.
886
:
00:46:21
And I hope that it's a more immersive
experience where kind of like you have
887
:
00:46:25
the comic cons, you have the cosplay,
you can go into panels, you can learn
888
:
00:46:29
things, you can see the artists.
889
:
00:46:31
'cause I mean, right now with books,
you have a lot of illustrators, you
890
:
00:46:35
have a lot of other things that are
not just the authors in the books.
891
:
00:46:39
So I think that if they make it a very
immersive experience for the readers,
892
:
00:46:44
I think this could be really big.
893
:
00:46:45
And if they do well in 2026, I
think this could be something that's
894
:
00:46:49
really exciting for people to go.
895
:
00:46:51
Every year I will give them
a shot and I will go to it.
896
:
00:46:55
Listen, Francesca said she's going
and my only thing is if she's going,
897
:
00:46:59
I'm going, I'm not going without her.
898
:
00:47:01
Um, I'm also just gonna add in real quick.
899
:
00:47:04
I do think it's necessary
for us to have an event.
900
:
00:47:08
And again, no offense to folks, okay?
901
:
00:47:10
We are content creators.
902
:
00:47:11
You know, we're out here trying to
run a little small business too.
903
:
00:47:14
I like the fact that these are
professional event planners.
904
:
00:47:17
Yeah.
905
:
00:47:17
This is what they do.
906
:
00:47:18
This is their business.
907
:
00:47:20
You also gave a positive, um.
908
:
00:47:23
Uh, Fe feeling for ComicCon.
909
:
00:47:25
Mm-hmm.
910
:
00:47:26
And I also found it very interesting
because they also email their
911
:
00:47:29
ComicCon folks too and say, oh hey,
we are bringing this back and we're
912
:
00:47:34
bringing it back in this kind of way.
913
:
00:47:36
So I think they're gonna
lean in on ComicCon mm-hmm.
914
:
00:47:38
And the experiences that ComicCon
focuses on and bring it to BookCon.
915
:
00:47:44
And by them also emphasizing we
want nothing to do with book expert.
916
:
00:47:48
I think they're realizing if you make
it more about the readers and less
917
:
00:47:52
about the industry, because there enough
other industry events out there, if we
918
:
00:47:56
remove the industry section and make
it all about the reader experience and
919
:
00:48:01
focusing on the reader experience, then
I think, um, they'll do a good job.
920
:
00:48:05
And.
921
:
00:48:06
Let me just tentatively say, we hope
we will see you at BookCon in:
2026
922
:
00:48:13
So mark your calendars, folks, because
they're coming back and it's gonna be
923
:
00:48:17
April 18th through to the 19th, 2026.
924
:
00:48:22
Let us know your thoughts and
comments if you are planning to go, if
925
:
00:48:24
you're like, yes, I'm already there.
926
:
00:48:27
Okay, the tickets are purchased
even though they're not on sale
927
:
00:48:29
yet, but you know what I'm saying?
928
:
00:48:30
If, if you know that you're
gonna be there, let us know
929
:
00:48:32
your thoughts and comments.
930
:
00:48:34
How do you feel about it?
931
:
00:48:35
If not, we also wanna hear from you too.
932
:
00:48:37
So share your thoughts in the comments.
933
:
00:48:38
Replay crew, we wanna
hear from you as well.
934
:
00:48:40
So share your thoughts.
935
:
00:48:42
Okay?
936
:
00:48:43
Like I said, busy Newsweek,
we're gonna really kind of fly
937
:
00:48:45
through the rest of the stuff.
938
:
00:48:47
Lots of things happening now.
939
:
00:48:48
We're getting into the gossipy territory.
940
:
00:48:50
We gave you news, but that was facts.
941
:
00:48:52
Now we are getting heavy,
heavy, heavy into the feelings.
942
:
00:48:55
And the first thing I wanna
talk about is Ali Hazelwood.
943
:
00:48:59
Yeah.
944
:
00:48:59
Okay.
945
:
00:48:59
I really wanna talk about Ali
Hazelwood because I don't understand
946
:
00:49:02
what is wrong with the internet.
947
:
00:49:03
What did you say the other day, Francesca?
948
:
00:49:05
Like, these people need home training.
949
:
00:49:07
Yeah.
950
:
00:49:08
Was that what we were saying?
951
:
00:49:08
Like Yeah, they need house training book.
952
:
00:49:11
People need home training.
953
:
00:49:14
So just in case you haven't heard,
Ali Hazelwood has deactivated
954
:
00:49:18
her social media accounts.
955
:
00:49:19
Okay.
956
:
00:49:19
Yeah.
957
:
00:49:19
Specifically Instagram, I think
threads and all the things,
958
:
00:49:23
Ali is off social media.
959
:
00:49:25
She has left and it is because of people
online who have zero house training.
960
:
00:49:33
Okay.
961
:
00:49:34
Zero house training.
962
:
00:49:35
Now I will admit the things with
Ali kind of have been piling up.
963
:
00:49:39
Um, people had things to say
when she released her book.
964
:
00:49:42
Um, deep was it Deep end.
965
:
00:49:44
Deep end.
966
:
00:49:44
Mm-hmm.
967
:
00:49:45
Yeah.
968
:
00:49:45
People had thoughts when
she released Deep End.
969
:
00:49:47
People had thoughts when she
canceled her European, uh, tour.
970
:
00:49:52
And I'm just gonna go on a limb and
stay I understand why she did it.
971
:
00:49:56
Yep.
972
:
00:49:56
Okay.
973
:
00:49:56
Same.
974
:
00:49:57
I am not leaving.
975
:
00:49:59
Okay.
976
:
00:49:59
Because it is a scary world out there and
unless you've been through it yourself.
977
:
00:50:03
Okay.
978
:
00:50:04
Um, you know what, let me just say it.
979
:
00:50:05
Unless you've been held at an
airport, I have multiple times.
980
:
00:50:09
Unless you've been, unless you've had to.
981
:
00:50:12
Your humanity and your reasoning question.
982
:
00:50:15
Okay.
983
:
00:50:16
You don't understand.
984
:
00:50:17
You don't understand what it's like
when you have to go to interview after
985
:
00:50:20
interview every year, every two years,
depending, whatever your time is, and you
986
:
00:50:25
have to justify your humanity to these
people in order for you to live and stay
987
:
00:50:30
and work in the us You don't understand.
988
:
00:50:32
And even after you get your papers
and you feel like, oh, I have a green
989
:
00:50:36
card, or, oh, I'm a US citizen, if
you still don't understand, okay.
990
:
00:50:40
How you're treated when you're coming
back in, if you don't understand what
991
:
00:50:44
it's like to be separated from your
family because one person is a citizen
992
:
00:50:47
and another person is not only have
kids over here and all over the place.
993
:
00:50:49
Mm-hmm.
994
:
00:50:50
You don't understand why this
woman chose not to go back home.
995
:
00:50:53
I told my mother, I ain't coming
anywhere unless legit someone is dying.
996
:
00:50:57
Okay.
997
:
00:50:58
So I understood her reasoning.
998
:
00:50:59
But people on the internet, like
even if you don't understand,
999
:
00:51:02
just respect her decision.
:
1000
00:51:04,140 --> 00:51:04,259
Yeah.
:
1001
00:51:04,259 --> 00:51:04,860
Period.
:
1002
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,070
But now we're bringing it up again.
:
1003
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:13,560
Because she was at an event recently
and she said she was Team Gail over team
:
1004
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,720
Peter when it came to the Hunger Games.
:
1005
00:51:15,720 --> 00:51:17,069
Now, context is important.
:
1006
00:51:17,069 --> 00:51:20,250
Context matters, and they
were basically riffing.
:
1007
00:51:20,460 --> 00:51:24,810
But even if she was serious about it,
why are you all going onto this woman's
:
1008
00:51:24,810 --> 00:51:27,629
account and harassing her and when
she's trying to promote other authors?
:
1009
00:51:27,629 --> 00:51:31,560
Because here's the thing, Ali Hazelwood
does not need publicity to sell books.
:
1010
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:32,759
This is already gonna sell books.
:
1011
00:51:32,759 --> 00:51:36,299
And as a person who considers
herself content creator media,
:
1012
00:51:36,299 --> 00:51:37,410
I get a lot of free books.
:
1013
00:51:37,740 --> 00:51:43,020
Ali didn't need any of that with her new
book, which I actually have right here.
:
1014
00:51:43,725 --> 00:51:44,235
Okay.
:
1015
00:51:44,415 --> 00:51:46,575
I legit purchased this
when I went on holiday.
:
1016
00:51:46,575 --> 00:51:48,015
That's why I was alive last week.
:
1017
00:51:48,405 --> 00:51:48,915
Okay.
:
1018
00:51:49,335 --> 00:51:50,445
It's a read.
:
1019
00:51:50,685 --> 00:51:51,315
It's a good read.
:
1020
00:51:51,315 --> 00:51:52,425
She doesn't need to do all of that.
:
1021
00:51:52,425 --> 00:51:53,955
She has another book coming out.
:
1022
00:51:54,015 --> 00:51:58,155
She has something else coming up, which
we'll talk about, but for the cancellation
:
1023
00:51:58,155 --> 00:52:02,205
and all the, and her having to leave
for her mental health, there's another
:
1024
00:52:02,205 --> 00:52:06,645
author we're gonna talk about today who
did a post also about her mental health.
:
1025
00:52:06,705 --> 00:52:09,135
Francesca, why do these people
don't have house training?
:
1026
00:52:09,405 --> 00:52:10,245
I don't understand.
:
1027
00:52:10,245 --> 00:52:14,175
I really don't know what to even
say because I would never think
:
1028
00:52:14,535 --> 00:52:16,905
that whether you agree with her.
:
1029
00:52:16,905 --> 00:52:22,395
Take on Team Gail or Team Peter,
first of all, that is so long ago.
:
1030
00:52:22,455 --> 00:52:23,595
Who cares?
:
1031
00:52:24,075 --> 00:52:24,765
And second.
:
1032
00:52:25,799 --> 00:52:26,759
It's her opinion.
:
1033
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:30,180
You can just think, oh,
that's, that's a bad take.
:
1034
00:52:30,180 --> 00:52:31,140
I don't agree with it.
:
1035
00:52:31,140 --> 00:52:32,759
And move on with your life.
:
1036
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:38,460
You don't need to go on her social
media and express your opinion about it.
:
1037
00:52:38,910 --> 00:52:42,359
You don't, she wasn't even
talking about it on social media.
:
1038
00:52:42,359 --> 00:52:46,560
It's like something that happened
on tour and you guys brought it onto
:
1039
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:50,490
her social media on a post where
she was promoting another author.
:
1040
00:52:50,759 --> 00:52:52,350
Like, I just don't understand it.
:
1041
00:52:52,589 --> 00:52:56,400
Um, and even with what we're gonna
talk about after, like with, with
:
1042
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:01,319
the other author, why do, why does
everybody feel like their opinion
:
1043
00:53:01,319 --> 00:53:07,170
needs to be vomited onto the comment
section of an author's social media?
:
1044
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:09,540
I really just don't understand that.
:
1045
00:53:09,629 --> 00:53:10,799
I will never understand that.
:
1046
00:53:10,799 --> 00:53:12,000
I've never done that.
:
1047
00:53:12,270 --> 00:53:16,589
If you have something nice to say, you
can go and say that, but other than that.
:
1048
00:53:17,069 --> 00:53:22,230
Just keep it to yourself or, or you can
share it in your own platform without
:
1049
00:53:22,230 --> 00:53:26,490
tagging the author and just talk about
it with your, with your group chat.
:
1050
00:53:26,730 --> 00:53:29,819
Or if you have an audience, you can
talk about it with your audience.
:
1051
00:53:29,910 --> 00:53:30,690
And that's it.
:
1052
00:53:30,690 --> 00:53:34,589
Like, you don't need to be in
something like this with her
:
1053
00:53:34,589 --> 00:53:36,839
saying she's team, uh, Gail.
:
1054
00:53:37,020 --> 00:53:39,990
Like that's not even something
to even talk, talk, talk about.
:
1055
00:53:41,580 --> 00:53:43,500
It's not something to talk
about it with your group chat.
:
1056
00:53:43,500 --> 00:53:47,790
If you have a group chat, if you guys
were like, really big Hunger Games fans.
:
1057
00:53:47,819 --> 00:53:52,680
'cause listen, even when I read the
Hunger Games, you start out in the
:
1058
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:57,480
first book at bare minimum being
kind of like, team Gale, we listen,
:
1059
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,520
if you, we all were there, we were.
:
1060
00:53:59,525 --> 00:54:00,630
And then we're like, oh shit.
:
1061
00:54:03,509 --> 00:54:04,259
Here's a thing.
:
1062
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:05,640
We all started out liking him.
:
1063
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:09,150
If you are watching this right now,
and you are, be honest with yourselves
:
1064
00:54:09,300 --> 00:54:13,350
If you can't be honest and say your
facts at, in the beginning Yeah.
:
1065
00:54:13,410 --> 00:54:17,520
We, we were kind of, you know, it's
kind of like going back to again, the
:
1066
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:19,620
fandom of it all and everything again.
:
1067
00:54:19,620 --> 00:54:21,150
It's not that serious No.
:
1068
00:54:21,150 --> 00:54:22,410
That you're gonna attack a person.
:
1069
00:54:22,410 --> 00:54:25,080
Like I, I, listen, we're
riffing about it right now.
:
1070
00:54:25,140 --> 00:54:25,290
Yeah.
:
1071
00:54:25,350 --> 00:54:26,610
Like, you can do that.
:
1072
00:54:26,610 --> 00:54:30,240
But to go on the author's page
and essentially harass them.
:
1073
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:30,540
Yeah.
:
1074
00:54:30,570 --> 00:54:31,020
Right.
:
1075
00:54:31,259 --> 00:54:33,694
Again, just driving them
it's wild off a wall.
:
1076
00:54:33,699 --> 00:54:33,915
Wild.
:
1077
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:34,800
That part is wild.
:
1078
00:54:34,830 --> 00:54:37,590
And I do wanna say, um, or friend Laura.
:
1079
00:54:38,130 --> 00:54:38,460
Okay.
:
1080
00:54:38,460 --> 00:54:43,470
Who's busy at work right now, but Laura
said, and, and I'm, and, and, and I agree.
:
1081
00:54:43,470 --> 00:54:47,910
We need to go back to the days of
sending author fan mail to the PO box.
:
1082
00:54:47,940 --> 00:54:48,090
Mm-hmm.
:
1083
00:54:48,330 --> 00:54:52,710
Period dot I actually think
because of reader behavior Yeah.
:
1084
00:54:52,710 --> 00:54:53,670
And it's not all readers.
:
1085
00:54:53,700 --> 00:54:54,180
Okay.
:
1086
00:54:54,330 --> 00:54:57,845
I would, I would like to believe people
in our community have common sense.
:
1087
00:54:57,990 --> 00:54:59,910
The fact that you
subscribe and you listen.
:
1088
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:01,259
I'm gonna, I'm gonna go on a limb.
:
1089
00:55:01,259 --> 00:55:01,320
Yeah.
:
1090
00:55:01,380 --> 00:55:05,340
You, you get us, you, you, your
reasonable thinking person.
:
1091
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,520
You might not have to agree
with everything but reasonable.
:
1092
00:55:08,550 --> 00:55:12,509
'cause I don't want people who agree with
me all the time, but you're reasonable.
:
1093
00:55:15,030 --> 00:55:17,759
You don't need to go on a person's
page directly and attack them.
:
1094
00:55:17,759 --> 00:55:20,460
And furthermore, by doing so,
we're gonna get to a space.
:
1095
00:55:21,345 --> 00:55:24,045
Where authors are gonna remove
themselves from social media.
:
1096
00:55:24,045 --> 00:55:27,645
I remember Sally Rooney getting lots
of heat for not being on social, for
:
1097
00:55:27,645 --> 00:55:32,055
not doing interviews and her removing
herself well, not removing, just not
:
1098
00:55:32,055 --> 00:55:34,694
putting herself on the internet because
she just doesn't want all of that.
:
1099
00:55:34,694 --> 00:55:38,595
I actually think, you know what, maybe,
maybe she saw us right the future and
:
1100
00:55:38,595 --> 00:55:41,115
she was smart and she's like, listen,
I'm not gonna put myself out here
:
1101
00:55:41,115 --> 00:55:43,725
because people are gonna tear me apart
because there are people out there who
:
1102
00:55:43,725 --> 00:55:45,884
don't like her books and that is okay.
:
1103
00:55:45,884 --> 00:55:50,654
Yeah, but you need to go on their
page, tag them, say crazy things, just
:
1104
00:55:50,654 --> 00:55:53,654
do it in the group chat, or come over
here and we can do it in our chat.
:
1105
00:55:54,045 --> 00:55:54,194
Yeah.
:
1106
00:55:54,194 --> 00:55:57,765
Feel free to say whatever it
is once it's not hurtful and
:
1107
00:55:57,765 --> 00:55:59,265
offensive, but you know what I mean.
:
1108
00:55:59,265 --> 00:56:01,485
We can talk about it,
but don't go over there.
:
1109
00:56:01,515 --> 00:56:02,654
We're not gonna tag her.
:
1110
00:56:02,745 --> 00:56:02,924
No.
:
1111
00:56:03,194 --> 00:56:03,404
Yeah.
:
1112
00:56:04,424 --> 00:56:04,995
Wild.
:
1113
00:56:05,145 --> 00:56:06,285
Just wild behavior.
:
1114
00:56:07,290 --> 00:56:10,590
Continuing the Ali News, I do
wanna announce some positive news.
:
1115
00:56:10,620 --> 00:56:11,190
Okay.
:
1116
00:56:11,220 --> 00:56:14,430
Ali Hazelwood is launching
soon after the end.
:
1117
00:56:14,820 --> 00:56:17,640
This is gonna be a dystopian
romance collection.
:
1118
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:22,380
There's gonna be eight original stories
by different authors, and they're gonna be
:
1119
00:56:22,380 --> 00:56:25,830
exploring love after the end of the world.
:
1120
00:56:26,010 --> 00:56:29,970
So their whole premise, their, their
whole pitch is that, you know what,
:
1121
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:34,560
even in the end when we get to that
point, um, there is gonna be love.
:
1122
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:37,230
So I have included a link
in the video's description.
:
1123
00:56:37,230 --> 00:56:39,840
It's after the end romance.com,
:
1124
00:56:40,110 --> 00:56:42,840
because again, we have no idea what
it's gonna be over there, but in
:
1125
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:45,690
the end, but they're saying we're
gonna have happily ever afters.
:
1126
00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:47,970
This is a collaborative project and I.
:
1127
00:56:49,380 --> 00:56:52,529
The thing about Ali Hazelwood, I
dunno, this woman, but it's just
:
1128
00:56:52,529 --> 00:56:54,779
the energy I've been seeing online.
:
1129
00:56:54,900 --> 00:56:57,450
She seems to be a very
collaborative person.
:
1130
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,870
She's successful in her own right,
but she's always taking time
:
1131
00:57:00,870 --> 00:57:04,500
to promote other authors, other
things and put other people on.
:
1132
00:57:04,980 --> 00:57:08,910
And I love a collaborative project
and what she's doing with this.
:
1133
00:57:09,645 --> 00:57:12,555
Is she is working with other authors.
:
1134
00:57:12,855 --> 00:57:16,305
There is a link to a Kickstarter
that they're doing, and here's
:
1135
00:57:16,305 --> 00:57:19,845
some of the stories we're gonna
have Bait by Adriana Herrera.
:
1136
00:57:20,174 --> 00:57:22,515
First by Ali Haywood herself.
:
1137
00:57:22,605 --> 00:57:25,814
We're gonna have Nina Saxena
with a book called Maya.
:
1138
00:57:25,845 --> 00:57:27,855
Nikki Payne is writing skin.
:
1139
00:57:28,125 --> 00:57:31,274
Elizabeth Stevens is writing, uh, taken.
:
1140
00:57:31,484 --> 00:57:33,585
Claire Kent is writing brood.
:
1141
00:57:33,794 --> 00:57:40,214
Sherry Thomas is doing, um, a book called
Prima and Kate c Wells is doing Trade.
:
1142
00:57:40,365 --> 00:57:43,725
So again, all original
stories all by these authors.
:
1143
00:57:43,725 --> 00:57:46,035
You might hear some names
that you are familiar with.
:
1144
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:46,060
Mm-hmm.
:
1145
00:57:46,665 --> 00:57:49,335
I mean, I was really excited
about this collaborative project.
:
1146
00:57:49,335 --> 00:57:51,524
Again, Francesca and I
talk about this a lot.
:
1147
00:57:51,524 --> 00:57:55,665
We miss the days of
collabs and communities.
:
1148
00:57:55,694 --> 00:58:00,285
I think we're in a culture right
now of too much solo and individual
:
1149
00:58:00,285 --> 00:58:03,314
and we like working together
and people working together.
:
1150
00:58:04,095 --> 00:58:05,024
Yep, absolutely.
:
1151
00:58:05,024 --> 00:58:05,595
Completely agree.
:
1152
00:58:05,595 --> 00:58:06,794
I'm excited for this one.
:
1153
00:58:06,794 --> 00:58:07,725
I cannot wait.
:
1154
00:58:08,370 --> 00:58:09,509
Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
:
1155
00:58:09,810 --> 00:58:09,959
Mm-hmm.
:
1156
00:58:10,029 --> 00:58:10,950
It's gonna be fun.
:
1157
00:58:11,459 --> 00:58:11,819
All right.
:
1158
00:58:11,819 --> 00:58:13,439
So mark, your, mark
your calendars for that.
:
1159
00:58:13,439 --> 00:58:15,180
Click the links and go
check out the Kickstarter.
:
1160
00:58:15,270 --> 00:58:15,540
Okay.
:
1161
00:58:15,540 --> 00:58:16,500
We have more news.
:
1162
00:58:16,500 --> 00:58:18,000
We have some Nevisa Allen News.
:
1163
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:19,799
So remember we're talking
about the author, right?
:
1164
00:58:20,339 --> 00:58:22,080
The author that people
are giving a hard time.
:
1165
00:58:22,259 --> 00:58:26,279
So in case you're not familiar, NEVISA
Allen is the author of Lights Out.
:
1166
00:58:26,279 --> 00:58:28,560
Lights Out was a pretty big deal.
:
1167
00:58:28,589 --> 00:58:30,990
Um, pretty big deal last year.
:
1168
00:58:31,500 --> 00:58:32,850
Um, everyone was talking about it.
:
1169
00:58:32,850 --> 00:58:34,109
Francesca talked about it.
:
1170
00:58:34,140 --> 00:58:35,640
Um, even I was sold on it.
:
1171
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:36,870
I was like, oh yeah, that sounds good.
:
1172
00:58:37,169 --> 00:58:39,330
Um, I will be honest, I didn't
get around to reading it.
:
1173
00:58:39,734 --> 00:58:40,024
Okay.
:
1174
00:58:40,410 --> 00:58:43,649
Um, but yes, was very
excited to hear about it.
:
1175
00:58:43,649 --> 00:58:46,080
Now the new book is caught up.
:
1176
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,149
Francesca has a review of Caught Up.
:
1177
00:58:48,149 --> 00:58:51,509
You can find a link in the video's
description, but basically people were
:
1178
00:58:51,660 --> 00:58:55,649
kind of upset about it all, um, saying
it did not live up to expectations.
:
1179
00:58:55,649 --> 00:58:58,890
And I know, Fran, you have some
thoughts and they were going off on her.
:
1180
00:58:59,265 --> 00:58:59,805
As well.
:
1181
00:58:59,805 --> 00:59:02,654
I'm gonna get that
screenshot on her comments.
:
1182
00:59:02,835 --> 00:59:03,225
I know.
:
1183
00:59:03,285 --> 00:59:04,005
What did you think?
:
1184
00:59:05,025 --> 00:59:09,105
Okay, so I mean, I can, I can see
where people are coming from and
:
1185
00:59:09,105 --> 00:59:13,455
I did talk about that in my review
because I don't think this book
:
1186
00:59:13,455 --> 00:59:16,634
lives up to the hype of Lights Out.
:
1187
00:59:16,965 --> 00:59:18,674
It's a very different kind of book.
:
1188
00:59:18,705 --> 00:59:21,435
I think some of that could also be on us.
:
1189
00:59:21,435 --> 00:59:26,685
The readers were expecting something that
maybe the series was just not meant to be.
:
1190
00:59:27,165 --> 00:59:28,575
Um, which I don't know.
:
1191
00:59:28,575 --> 00:59:32,654
But again, like you always say,
we, we support our authors here,
:
1192
00:59:32,654 --> 00:59:36,435
even if they have a book that is
not as good as we're expecting.
:
1193
00:59:36,435 --> 00:59:38,745
So we're still supportive of our authors.
:
1194
00:59:38,924 --> 00:59:41,895
We can acknowledge when they
don't have their best book.
:
1195
00:59:42,195 --> 00:59:47,924
But to, first of all, to go on any
author's comments while they're
:
1196
00:59:47,924 --> 00:59:51,255
celebrating their release, so
you know that they're actively on
:
1197
00:59:51,255 --> 00:59:56,835
social media and to talk crap about
how much you hated their book.
:
1198
00:59:56,835 --> 00:59:57,705
That is just.
:
1199
00:59:58,770 --> 01:00:00,090
Horrible behavior.
:
1200
01:00:00,450 --> 01:00:01,500
Horrible behavior.
:
1201
01:00:01,500 --> 01:00:06,240
It's so entitled, if you have a platform,
go and post your review on your platform.
:
1202
01:00:06,390 --> 01:00:11,160
If you want to post a review on Amazon, go
and do that, or on Good Reads or whatever.
:
1203
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:17,250
But do not go and tag the author or
expose your bad opinion to the author.
:
1204
01:00:17,250 --> 01:00:22,050
And they just did that recently, few
weeks ago, a month ago, whatever it was,
:
1205
01:00:22,230 --> 01:00:25,590
when she announced who the narrator was,
which by the way, listen to the audiobook.
:
1206
01:00:25,620 --> 01:00:26,250
It's amazing.
:
1207
01:00:26,460 --> 01:00:28,350
It's a great audiobook, great narration.
:
1208
01:00:28,350 --> 01:00:34,170
Teddy Hamilton Chef's Kiss, but she
already got so much heat that time and
:
1209
01:00:34,170 --> 01:00:39,630
now people are being just absolutely
nasty and she has to again, limit
:
1210
01:00:39,630 --> 01:00:43,805
her social media, which I'm at this
point, I fully support authors to.
:
1211
01:00:45,149 --> 01:00:47,910
Take themselves off of social
media 'cause people can't behave.
:
1212
01:00:48,540 --> 01:00:55,620
They can behave, they can behave up on
screen is Navis Allen's, um, last thread
:
1213
01:00:55,620 --> 01:00:59,520
actually, and this is dated, um, May 22nd.
:
1214
01:00:59,879 --> 01:01:03,779
And she basically says, FYI, I plan
to start limiting access to myself.
:
1215
01:01:03,779 --> 01:01:07,410
I'm not backing outta my current
commitments, but going forward, I'm
:
1216
01:01:07,410 --> 01:01:12,359
taking like one or two interviews a
year, comments turned off on certain
:
1217
01:01:12,359 --> 01:01:18,000
announcement posts, signings by mail
only zero engagements in the comment
:
1218
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:19,830
sections on my social media accounts.
:
1219
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:23,850
And this will probably be my last
post on here for a long time, which
:
1220
01:01:23,850 --> 01:01:25,290
by the way, she hasn't posted since.
:
1221
01:01:25,649 --> 01:01:30,149
And yes, she goes on to say it's
because I've been pushed to this
:
1222
01:01:30,149 --> 01:01:35,100
point and I'm choosing my mental
health over the entitlement of others.
:
1223
01:01:35,100 --> 01:01:36,390
Again, the thread goes on.
:
1224
01:01:36,390 --> 01:01:39,720
There's a link in the video description,
you can read it, but essentially.
:
1225
01:01:40,305 --> 01:01:43,335
It's all the backlash the
author has been receiving.
:
1226
01:01:43,335 --> 01:01:45,975
And again, people, you need
to have some house training.
:
1227
01:01:45,975 --> 01:01:48,615
You can have your feelings,
you can feel the way you feel.
:
1228
01:01:48,735 --> 01:01:51,015
I'm not invalidating your feelings.
:
1229
01:01:51,225 --> 01:01:52,965
That is what your group chat is for.
:
1230
01:01:52,965 --> 01:01:54,495
That is what your friends is for.
:
1231
01:01:55,125 --> 01:01:59,025
Don't go on social media because that the
other thing I had to think about it too.
:
1232
01:01:59,025 --> 01:02:03,645
I know we often say don't tag the author
in like negative reviews and stuff like
:
1233
01:02:03,645 --> 01:02:09,975
that, but the way algorithms work nowadays
is that you can open your phone and bloop.
:
1234
01:02:10,065 --> 01:02:10,155
Mm-hmm.
:
1235
01:02:10,395 --> 01:02:11,685
This is in your face.
:
1236
01:02:11,715 --> 01:02:12,015
Yeah.
:
1237
01:02:12,105 --> 01:02:16,785
So I understand you have reader space,
author space and stuff like that.
:
1238
01:02:17,565 --> 01:02:18,945
I think you can post your reviews.
:
1239
01:02:20,115 --> 01:02:23,384
But I think we should refrain
from personal attacks.
:
1240
01:02:23,535 --> 01:02:23,625
Mm-hmm.
:
1241
01:02:24,734 --> 01:02:27,254
You should have always
refrain from personal attacks,
:
1242
01:02:27,254 --> 01:02:28,754
even in a negative review.
:
1243
01:02:28,785 --> 01:02:32,955
'cause you can, you can explain your
feelings on why you don't like a
:
1244
01:02:32,955 --> 01:02:38,355
book without attacking personally
the author or saying that whatever
:
1245
01:02:38,355 --> 01:02:42,615
she's trying to do is wrong on a
personal level because of X, Y, Z.
:
1246
01:02:42,975 --> 01:02:48,015
So you can state facts in your
opinion, on those facts without
:
1247
01:02:48,015 --> 01:02:49,935
getting involved in personal feelings.
:
1248
01:02:49,935 --> 01:02:53,595
I, I've been writing negative
reviews for, since we started the
:
1249
01:02:53,595 --> 01:02:58,904
blog for over 14 years, and that is
the one thing that I always try to
:
1250
01:02:58,904 --> 01:03:03,105
maintain is that even on a negative
review, you have to be respectful.
:
1251
01:03:04,020 --> 01:03:08,070
You can't, you can't be putting
personal attacks on, on people.
:
1252
01:03:08,310 --> 01:03:12,630
So, but again, I think this is
gonna open up, it will slowly
:
1253
01:03:12,630 --> 01:03:16,800
start opening up a conversation of
reader spaces and author spaces.
:
1254
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:20,940
And I think what that's gonna do
is it's gonna close in those author
:
1255
01:03:20,940 --> 01:03:25,170
spaces to where they're gonna have,
we're gonna have less access to them.
:
1256
01:03:25,410 --> 01:03:25,500
Mm-hmm.
:
1257
01:03:25,740 --> 01:03:29,250
And in a weird way, I feel that's
gonna be a good thing for us.
:
1258
01:03:29,310 --> 01:03:30,630
I'm actually okay with that.
:
1259
01:03:30,635 --> 01:03:30,645
Yeah.
:
1260
01:03:30,650 --> 01:03:32,370
I endorse that a hundred percent.
:
1261
01:03:32,430 --> 01:03:32,490
Yeah.
:
1262
01:03:32,550 --> 01:03:35,940
If you wanna see your authors, talk to
your authors, stuff like that, I think
:
1263
01:03:35,940 --> 01:03:38,070
authors should have DMS turned off.
:
1264
01:03:38,070 --> 01:03:38,805
Tags turned off.
:
1265
01:03:38,805 --> 01:03:39,005
Mm-hmm.
:
1266
01:03:39,085 --> 01:03:39,485
Mm-hmm.
:
1267
01:03:39,805 --> 01:03:40,725
Comments turned off.
:
1268
01:03:41,130 --> 01:03:43,380
I know it sounds cold.
:
1269
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:46,290
You have to protect yourself
out here in these streets.
:
1270
01:03:46,350 --> 01:03:46,410
Yeah.
:
1271
01:03:46,410 --> 01:03:49,020
So I'm sending positive
energy to both these authors.
:
1272
01:03:49,020 --> 01:03:49,110
Mm-hmm.
:
1273
01:03:49,350 --> 01:03:50,565
Coincidentally, who we are talking about.
:
1274
01:03:51,105 --> 01:03:53,835
Who have removed themselves
from social media.
:
1275
01:03:53,835 --> 01:03:53,895
Yeah.
:
1276
01:03:53,895 --> 01:03:55,365
Again, people who need
some house training.
:
1277
01:03:55,395 --> 01:03:55,725
Okay.
:
1278
01:03:55,755 --> 01:03:55,935
Yeah.
:
1279
01:03:56,025 --> 01:03:58,875
But share your thoughts and
comments about the Navis Allen book.
:
1280
01:03:59,085 --> 01:04:03,105
Um, lights Out and Your Thoughts
aren't caught up, but also, um,
:
1281
01:04:03,105 --> 01:04:05,745
about her having to remove herself
from social media because again,
:
1282
01:04:05,745 --> 01:04:06,855
people have no House training.
:
1283
01:04:06,855 --> 01:04:08,175
Let us know your thoughts
and the comments.
:
1284
01:04:08,655 --> 01:04:13,005
Last thing, and it's only gonna be a
quick mention because again, time, people
:
1285
01:04:13,005 --> 01:04:15,255
time, but we've had plagiarism claims.
:
1286
01:04:15,255 --> 01:04:16,725
Again, this is the last topic.
:
1287
01:04:16,815 --> 01:04:21,265
Um, there is a claim
that Beverly by Lauren J.
:
1288
01:04:21,265 --> 01:04:26,985
Roberts, is a complete lift, and in the
words of this creator bar for Bar, okay.
:
1289
01:04:27,345 --> 01:04:30,345
Um, lift From Obsessed by RJ Lewis.
:
1290
01:04:30,345 --> 01:04:33,915
Now the content creator
up on screen is Lola Remy.
:
1291
01:04:34,185 --> 01:04:36,705
I have a link in the video's
description so you can watch her
:
1292
01:04:36,705 --> 01:04:40,065
video because again, she presents
the points, she presents the facts,
:
1293
01:04:40,065 --> 01:04:42,585
she downloaded both books and mm-hmm.
:
1294
01:04:42,591 --> 01:04:45,375
Beverly is a lift from Obsessed, I mean.
:
1295
01:04:45,690 --> 01:04:47,759
Fran, another pla plagiarism claim.
:
1296
01:04:47,759 --> 01:04:48,720
What are your thoughts?
:
1297
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:53,129
I also saw one comment, um,
and again, this is gossip.
:
1298
01:04:53,129 --> 01:04:54,359
We don't know this for a fact.
:
1299
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:58,770
Uh, where one person was saying, I
wonder if it's the author rebranding
:
1300
01:04:58,770 --> 01:05:03,420
themselves, like creating a new pseudonym
and republishing and repackaging.
:
1301
01:05:03,629 --> 01:05:05,850
But in my mind, the author would
announce that on that page.
:
1302
01:05:05,910 --> 01:05:06,270
Yeah.
:
1303
01:05:06,870 --> 01:05:11,220
I don't, I don't know if the author would
do that, because I don't know either
:
1304
01:05:11,220 --> 01:05:15,089
one of the authors, and I don't know
if there was any negative connotation
:
1305
01:05:15,089 --> 01:05:16,859
to the name for her to be doing that.
:
1306
01:05:16,859 --> 01:05:19,350
'cause like I feel if you're
rebranding, but you're not.
:
1307
01:05:19,830 --> 01:05:21,180
Changing the genre.
:
1308
01:05:21,180 --> 01:05:23,970
So it's almost like
republishing the same thing.
:
1309
01:05:24,270 --> 01:05:30,450
It feels weird, but here's something
I have seen, and if that's the case, I
:
1310
01:05:30,450 --> 01:05:35,099
feel like the author should just come
out and say that, um, Melissa Foster
:
1311
01:05:35,100 --> 01:05:40,319
also has a pen name that Nat right
now, it escapes my, my memory and she
:
1312
01:05:40,319 --> 01:05:43,350
writes Spicy Romance as Melissa Foster.
:
1313
01:05:43,710 --> 01:05:47,790
And then on there the other
pen name, it's the same story.
:
1314
01:05:47,819 --> 01:05:51,810
So like the books are the
same, but one is sweet.
:
1315
01:05:52,890 --> 01:05:52,980
Ooh.
:
1316
01:05:53,009 --> 01:05:57,540
So she changes the names and she removes
the sex and she changes a couple of
:
1317
01:05:57,540 --> 01:05:59,610
things, but it's basically the same thing.
:
1318
01:05:59,730 --> 01:06:01,440
Oh, under a different name.
:
1319
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:05,610
Now I don't think she's super, super
public with it, but it's kind of known.
:
1320
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:10,770
If you are a fan, um, and right
now it escapes my memory, so
:
1321
01:06:10,830 --> 01:06:12,420
maybe that could be the case.
:
1322
01:06:12,420 --> 01:06:15,240
But if that's the case and this
much drama is happening, I feel like
:
1323
01:06:15,240 --> 01:06:16,590
the author should say something.
:
1324
01:06:17,070 --> 01:06:20,340
Um, but I have a feeling it's more I.
:
1325
01:06:21,450 --> 01:06:21,899
Plagiarism.
:
1326
01:06:22,919 --> 01:06:25,230
Yes, I'm leaning towards that.
:
1327
01:06:25,230 --> 01:06:28,560
But again, look, if I have information,
I am gonna present it to you all.
:
1328
01:06:28,710 --> 01:06:31,770
And I did see it in the comments,
so it had me thinking, you
:
1329
01:06:31,770 --> 01:06:32,879
know, it had me thinking.
:
1330
01:06:32,910 --> 01:06:33,629
Yeah, yeah.
:
1331
01:06:33,689 --> 01:06:35,850
But yet another plagiarism claim.
:
1332
01:06:35,850 --> 01:06:38,430
Again, we're never, we're
never gonna avoid that.
:
1333
01:06:39,359 --> 01:06:39,509
I know.
:
1334
01:06:39,509 --> 01:06:40,140
It's wild.
:
1335
01:06:40,410 --> 01:06:41,220
It's wild.
:
1336
01:06:41,460 --> 01:06:41,970
It is.
:
1337
01:06:42,450 --> 01:06:45,149
Alright, so we are at the
end of today's live show.
:
1338
01:06:45,149 --> 01:06:47,549
Again, thank you for
joining us for a novel hour.
:
1339
01:06:47,549 --> 01:06:51,149
We go live here every Thursday
at 12 noon Eastern time.
:
1340
01:06:51,359 --> 01:06:55,140
Next week we're gonna be sharing
some audio book recommendations.
:
1341
01:06:55,140 --> 01:06:55,439
Okay?
:
1342
01:06:55,439 --> 01:06:55,890
Perfect.
:
1343
01:06:55,890 --> 01:06:58,200
Especially if you're hitting the road.
:
1344
01:06:58,410 --> 01:07:01,200
Then the following week we're gonna
share some Caribbean book recommendations
:
1345
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:02,669
focusing on Caribbean authors.
:
1346
01:07:02,879 --> 01:07:05,669
Then we're gonna get into more
beach read recommendations.
:
1347
01:07:05,669 --> 01:07:09,540
We did our summer reading episode already,
so you can check out the summer Reading
:
1348
01:07:09,540 --> 01:07:12,060
Guide Challenges book Recs and more.
:
1349
01:07:12,270 --> 01:07:13,680
And again, just mark your calendar.
:
1350
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:14,939
We have lots of exciting shows.
:
1351
01:07:14,939 --> 01:07:16,020
Calming up.
:
1352
01:07:16,545 --> 01:07:18,615
Every Thursday, 12 noon Eastern time.
:
1353
01:07:18,615 --> 01:07:20,714
So thanks everyone for
watching us Replay Crew.
:
1354
01:07:20,714 --> 01:07:22,125
We appreciate you as well.
:
1355
01:07:22,245 --> 01:07:25,964
So be sure to sh so be sure to
share your thoughts in the comments.
:
1356
01:07:26,265 --> 01:07:27,970
All right, everyone, bye bye.