Professional Book Nerds
Kate McDermott joins the Professional Book Nerds podcast to discuss her cookbook Art of the Pie, which was selected for the Big Library Read program in March of 2016. They chat about how she got started in baking and her favorite pies in the world.
Jill is joined by author Alisson Wood to talk about her new memoir Being Lolita. Alisson's book is the powerful and personal story of a seventeen-year-old girl who was groomed by an English teacher at her high school who used the book Lolita to transform Alisson from student to lover to victim. But Alisson's book is also a memoir of survival that looks at the ways she rewrote her own story.
Adam interviews debut author Alexis Henderson about her buzzy new book The Year of the Witching. They discuss how horror novels and movies help her deal with her anxiety, portraying witches in various mediums, and the line between extreme religions and cults.
Jill and Adam interview the great Charlaine Harris, well-known author of the Sookie Stackhouse Chronicles, The Aurora Teagarden series, and the Midnight, Texas series, all of which have been turned into television adaptations.
Dawn Kurtagich joins the Professional Book Nerds podcast to chat about her Young Adult horror book, And the Trees Crept In, the difficult life experiences that inspire her writing, and the importance of colors in her life.
Adam interviews Rose Szabo about their new novel What Big Teeth. They discuss building out the gothic drama that unfolds in their novel, why Rose chose werewolves, and they both share thoughts on the recent Dracula series on Netflix.
Adam chats with Alafair Burke who was in town for a library event! They discuss her latest thriller The Better Sister, how she uses tension from the criminal justice system to up the stakes for family dramas, and what it's like getting to work with Mary Higgins Clark.
Jen Calonita joins the Professional Book Nerds podcast to discuss her experience as an editor at a teen magazine, the magical worlds she builds with her Fairy Tale Reform School series, and how Disney has been a through line of her career.
Adam chats with Cadwell Turnbull about his novel The Lesson, which comes out June 18th. This story about an advanced race of aliens coming to The U.S. Virgin Islands explore colonialism and the history of an oft-overlooked part of the world.