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We Know How to Read : S16 E3 : Hillary Raymer Interview

Welcome to our annual holiday season series, They Know How to Write, where we interview authors for the holidays. This week we have Hillary Raymer, author of  Starstorm Series: A spicy romantasy series of eight interconnected books following each of the Starstorm siblings, set in a world where marriage is required but love isn't always guaranteed. Full of magic, love, banter, and emotional damage. A big congrates on releasing book two in the Starstorm series this past week! Hillary Raymer is a fantasy romance author. She’s a wanderer, a storyteller, and believes in happily ever afters.
We absolutely loved talking with Hillary on the podcast, find her on Instagram at hillaryraymer for more!

We Know How to Read : S16 E2 : Shania Scichilone Interview

Welcome to our annual holiday season series, They Know How to Write, where we interview authors for the holidays. This week we have Shania Scichilone, author of Fates Divine Series. An author with many talents weaves a supernatural, fantasy, and adventure in her books, starting with A Fate of Smoke and Ash. This Young Adult novel is great for those who wish to read witches, dark fantasy, and suspenseful twists and turns! 
"TO BE WOVEN BY THE FATES IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART."
We absolutely loved chatting with Shania on the podcast, find her on Instagram at shaniascichilone for more!

We Know How to Read : S16 E1 : Kate St. Clair Interview

Welcome to our annual holiday season, They Know How to Write where we interview authors for the holidays. We are starting our season with the talented Kate St. Clair, author of Ptolemy. She is an advocate for education through fiction, and works with young writers through various #OwnVoices and underserved youth groups. She loves speaking on the topics of mental health, Queer characters, and addressing deep societal issues through the underpinnings of a story. The Ptolemy Project is a young adult science fiction adventure novel that dives into conflicts and emotions all while trying to return home in one piece.
Even if they can make it out, will they be able to find a way back to Titan and to a society that accepts them—scars and all?
We had so much fun and laughs chatting with Kate, find her on Instagram at kate_st_clair to follow her author journey. 

We Know How to Read : Stacks on Stacks : Phantasma by Kaylie Smith

Welcome back to our Stacks on Stacks series, a once-a-month book club. We started this to help us conquer that never-ending TBR, talk more with you, and abbreviate it as “S.O.S.” because yes send help! We will never finish our TBR at this rate!! We announce our “SOS” read at the beginning of each month, inviting you to read, listen, and talk with us on Instagram or Discord about that month's "SOS" book. Phantasma by Kaylie Smith, the first in an interconnected series. This book quickly had us falling head over heels for the characters, drama, and phantastic plot-twists! Caraval meets Throne of the Fallen in this SPICY dark romantasy where a necromancer, Ophelia, needs help from a dangerous phantom, Blackwell, to win a deadly competition, only to find their partnership puts her at risk of breaking the game’s most vital rule: don't fall in love.

We Know How to Read : S16E1 : Trial of the Tomes : Romance

Let the trials begin! This week we are putting Romance to the test in the following categories first impressions, design, writing style, general plot, characters, and our critical and enjoyment scores. In one corner for men, we have Thunderstruck by Carter Blake, and in the other corner for the women is Jackson by Nyssa Kathryn. Carter Blake writes novellas about steamy alpha romances. Nyssa Kathryn writes suspense romances of alpha men in small-town romances. Who will come out on top?! 

We Know How to Read : S16E1 : Trial of the Tomes : Gender in Publishing

Welcome to the Trial of the Tomes! We're looking closely at the idea of author gender in genre, publication, and writing style. How that impacts the public eye, reader experience, and marketing. Most importantly who does it best?! We have read one male author and one not man in the following genres Romance, Romantic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Murder/Thriller! Pitting them against each other with trials to see who ranks supreme in the Trial of the Tomes!! Follow the competition to see who is victorious and who falls! This week is all about gender in publication and everything to go with it!

We Know How to Read : Stacks on Stacks : The Foxglove King by Hannah Whiten

Welcome back to our Stacks on Stacks series, a once-a-month book club. We started this to help us conquer that never-ending TBR, talk more with you, and abbreviate it as “S.O.S.” because yes send help! We will never finish our TBR at this rate!! We announce our “SOS” read at the beginning of each month, inviting you to read, listen, and talk with us on Instagram or Discord about that month's "SOS" book. The Foxglove King is Hannah Whitten's first in a trilogy. In this lush, romantic new epic fantasy series from New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten, a young woman’s secret power to raise the dead plunges her into the dangerous and glamorous world of the Sainted King’s royal court. We break down the story, our thoughts, and overall review of this HIT of a novel. Join us next month with our "SOS" Daughter of the Drowned Empire by Frankie Diane Mallis.

We Know How to Read : S15E4 : TROPE-tastic Summer : Tropes you can't avoid

Welcome to our TROPE-tastic summer series season finale! Wrapping up this whirlwind of a summer with the good, the bad, the ugly, and the fun of tropes. This final episode goes into the tropes you can't avoid because they are the genre! Yes, we are getting into it today on the podcast. Come back tomorrow for our Stacks on Stacks episode and next week for Trial of the Tomes!

We Know How to Read : S15E4 : TROPE-tastic Summer : Are tropes bad?

Continuing our discussion from last week, are tropes bad?  Bad for marketing? Bad for the reader? How do tropes impact reader experience, marketing, and more in the book community? We talk about how we see the impacts of tropes in the publishing and reading world. 

We Know How to Read : S15E3 : TROPE-tastic Summer : Are tropes good?

We put tropes under the microscope to see what they really are and are they good? How do tropes impact reader experience, marketing, and more in the book community? We talk about how we see the impacts of tropes in the publishing and reading world.