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Episode 144 – Interview with CL Clark, Author of The Unbroken

The author interviews continue! This week, I’m talking to CL Clark, author of the new fantasy novel The Unbroken, which follows a soldier called Touraine and a princess called Luca and their complicated relationships with empire and with each other. We chatted about Arabic dialects, how the book changed in the editing process, and whether it’s possible to hold power ethically. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 144 Things We Discussed The Battle of Algiers (movie) Ici on noie les Algeriens (movie) Cherae…

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Episode 143 – Interview with Rose Lerner, Author of The Wife in the Attic

Jewish lesbians! Sinister country houses! Shell art! These are but a few of the wondrous things you will find in Rose Lerner’s latest book, The Wife in the Attic, an f/f retelling of Jane Eyre that’s out now as an Audible Original. I got to talk to Rose about this book, her research for it, why Mr. Rochester did nothing wrong if he’s telling the truth, and her favorite Holmes/Watson AU, the Bunny and Raffles stories. “Whatever, I don’t need to justify Raffles’s behavior,” said Rose at one point, whereupon she immediately justified Raffles’s behavior. (I was convinced, for what…

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Episode 142 – Interview with Talia Hibbert, Author of Act Your Age, Eve Brown

Very unexpectedly, it is March! (Believe me, I’m as surprised as you are.) One of the benefits of March is that it means ALL THE BOOKS are coming out, and one of my very most anticipated books of March 2021 was Talia Hibbert’s new romance novel, Act Your Age, Eve Brown. Eve has never been quite sure where she belongs, but when her parents cut her off and she hits a B&B owner with her car, she decides she might as well stay and help out at the B&B. Its owner’s name is Jacob, and he is uptight and tightly…

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Episode 141 – 2020 SF in Review, with Renay!

Happy (?) New Year, friends! We are not sure what kind of year to say we hope you’re having, because the events of this year so far have been… really shit! But at least there is a new president in office who actually cares about solving the pandemic and getting all our shit back together, and at least there is such things as dogs and cats, both of which continue to be extremely good species. We Jennys will be coming at you with a joint podcast soon! But first, I had the wonderful Renay of Lady Business on the pod,…

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Episode 140 – Holiday Gift Guide 2020 and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half

I have to say, the Poetry Foundation really came for me with one of their recent poems, and I can’t be alone with it so I’m going to quote it for y’all here as a run-up to this actually very chipper and non-insane podcast. I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane, The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories, The news would pour out of various devices Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen. I would call my friends on other devices; They would be more or…

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PODCAST – Episode 139 – Spoopy Books and Kwana Jackson’s Real Men Knit

So, the election was yesterday. When we recorded this podcast, we didn’t know what the election results were going to be. As I write this post, I don’t know what the election results are going to be. Probably as you are reading this, you don’t know what the election results are! But I hope you are being very very gentle with yourself in this, the scariest Halloween week we’ve ever known, and I hope this podcast provides a very small escape. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you…

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Episode 138 – Fictional Travel Destinations and Elizabeth Little’s Pretty as a Picture

Happy Wednesday, darling friends! We have dedicated much of today’s podcast to indulging in escapist fantasies, and I have to be honest: They made us feel really nice. We highly recommend taking a short break in which you pretend you do not live in our present dystopian hellscape, as it is beneficial to one’s mental health. On today’s podcast, we also talk about our non-escapist democracy preservation efforts, as well as reviewing Elizabeth Little’s totally delightful mystery novel, Pretty as a Picture. Join us! You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to…

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PODCAST – Episode 137 – Fall Book Preview and Alisha Rai’s Girl Gone Viral

It is Part Two of our inadvertent two-part series on romance novels centered on viral moments (the first part being Talia Hibbert’s Take a Hint, Dani Brown). Today we’re talking about the angst-forward member of this pair, Alisha Rai’s Girl Gone Viral, and learning about the relative angst tolerance of each of us two Jennys. We also chat about the books we’re excited for in Fall 2020, as well as the things we’re reading and something-elsing (watching and listening to, respectively), and try not to get too silly even though we recorded on a video chat this time. You can…

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PODCAST – Episode 136 – An Interview with Andrea Stewart, Author of The Bone Shard Daughter

It’s a beautiful day for an author interview! I was fortunate enough to have the chance to speak with Andrea Stewart, whose debut novel, The Bone Shard Daughter, came out yesterday. It’s a fantasy novel set in an Asian-inspired world where the Emperor rules over the islands with… honestly a fair bit of inattention. He’s much more interested in creating magical constructs, which are powered by tiny shards of bone, taken from the skull of every child in the Empire when they turn eight years old. His daughter Lin is competing frantically to get back her memory from when she…

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PODCAST – Episode 135 – Books We Bought in the Quarantine and Talia Hibbert’s Take a Hint, Dani Brown

A friend recently mentioned that quarantine lets you discover what everyone’s fail state is, which I thought was incredibly smart. Mine is definitely Control Freak, often manifest in the subcategory Resource Hoarding. One way in which this has manifested during quarantine is that I’ve spent all my travel money on books. Ordinarily I am quite frugal about buying things, but this year I have acquired an undue number of books — though admittedly that’s partly because I’m trying to support independent bookstores. So it was a thrill that Whiskey Jenny agreed to devote this podcast to the books we’ve acquired…

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