Have you ever wondered what it'd be like to compete in a reality TV show? Sarah J. Schmitt's new release, Where There's a Whisk, introduces readers to Peyton Sinclaire, a young waitress who gets the opportunity of a lifetime when she becomes a competitor of a teen reality TV show. If Peyton wants to win a scholarship to her dream culinary school, she'll need to navigate through harsh judges, aggressive competitors — and even a love triangle. Sarah J. Schmitt joins Chelsea Regan and takes us behind the scenes of Where There's a Whisk. Purchase Where There's a Whisk This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm. Buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstore. Libro.fm has a special offer for Bookstacked readers. Get TWO audiobooks for the price of one with your first month of membership when using the code Bookstacked. Click here to get started. Get in touch … Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in the next episode! Record and send us a voice message! Follow and talk to us through Twitter! Send us an old-fashioned email! Follow the guest and host … Sarah J. Schmitt: SarahJSchmitt.com, @sarahjschmitt (Instagram), @SJSchmitt (Twitter) Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark (Instagram), @chelsearegan17 (Twitter) 

Bookmarked: A YA Book Podcast

Bringing reality TV to YA with Sarah J. Schmitt ('Where There's a Whisk')

What happens when you fall out of sync with your best friend — the person you've shared everything with? Friendships evolve over time, and Hayley Krischer's latest novel, The Falling Girls, doesn't shy away from this reality. In The Falling Girls, best friends Shade and Jadis drift apart when Shade takes on cheerleading and finds new friendships within the squad. Things only become tenser when one of the cheerleaders dies under mysterious circumstances. Hayley Krischer joins us to discuss this thriller and her take on writing female friendships. Purchase The Falling Girls This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm. Buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstore. Libro.fm has a special offer for Bookstacked readers. Get TWO audiobooks for the price of one with your first month of membership when using the code Bookstacked. Click here to get started. Get in touch … Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in the next episode! Record and send us a voice message! Follow and talk to us through Twitter! Send us an old-fashioned email! Follow the guest and host … Hayley Krischer: HayleyKrischer.net, @hayleykrischer (Instagram), @hayleykrischer (Twitter) Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark (Instagram), @chelsearegan17 (Twitter) 

Exploring female friendships with Hayley Krischer ('The Falling Girls')

We're bringing the great debate to our podcast and asking the question, do audiobooks count as reading? Bookstacked writer Michael Burns dived into the history and culture around audiobooks in a recent article, and we decided to dissect it on the show. When's the best time to listen to audiobooks? Is the audiobook ever better than the book itself? How much of an impact does a narrator have on an audiobook? What audiobook recommendations do we have? There's plenty to discuss in this episode! Related: Do audiobooks count as reading? by Michael Burns This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm. Buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstore. Libro.fm has a special offer for Bookstacked readers. Get TWO audiobooks for the price of one with your first month of membership when using the code Bookstacked. Click here to get started. Get in touch … Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in the next episode! Record and send us a voice message! Follow and talk to us through Twitter! Send us an old-fashioned email! Follow the hosts … Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark Spencer Miller: @yacanadabooks Michael Burns: @themichaelburns Saul Marquez: @SAULMARQ 

Do audiobooks count as reading?

Robyn Schneider is best known for her contemporary novels like The Beginning of Everything and Extraordinary Means. Now she's venturing into the realm of young adult fantasy in her latest book, The Other Merlin — a feminist retelling of King Arthur with a couple of twists up its sleeve. We welcome Robyn to the podcast where she gives us all the details on her newest book and explores what it's like to write in the vein of YA fantasy and King Arthur lore. Purchase The Other Merlin This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm. Buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstore. Libro.fm has a special offer for Bookstacked readers. Get TWO audiobooks for the price of one with your first month of membership when using the code Bookstacked. Click here to get started. Get in touch … Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in the next episode! Record and send us a voice message! Follow and talk to us through Twitter! Send us an old-fashioned email! Follow the guest and host … Robyn Schneider: @robynschneider (Instagram), @realrobynschneider (TikTok) Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark (Instagram), @chelsearegan17 (Twitter) 

Gender bending in King Arthur’s Court with Robyn Schneider ('The Other Merlin')

The story of the Baudelaire orphans has been explored in books, a television show and even a movie. While the final pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events were penned years ago, the story of Lemony Snicket continues in his latest book, Poison for Breakfast. In this episode, Bookstacked writer Chelsea Regan chats with author Daniel Handler—the man behind Lemony Snicket—to dive into his writing approach and the inspiration behind his latest novel. Purchase Poison for Breakfast This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm. Buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstore. Libro.fm has a special offer for Bookstacked readers. Get TWO audiobooks for the price of one with your first month of membership when using the code Bookstacked. Click here to get started. Get in touch … Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in the next episode! Record and send us a voice message! Follow and talk to us through Twitter! Send us an old-fashioned email! Follow the guest and host … Daniel Handler: @authordanielhandler (Instagram) Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark (Instagram), @chelsearegan17 (Twitter) 

A Conversation with Lemony Snicket ('Poison for Breakfast')

Freshly sharped pencils, old and new faces, sweater weather and — of course — lots and lots of books. It's time to jump into fall, and what better way than with some great reads to dive into? From old and new releases, there are several books on our mind that strike us as perfect for the season, whether you're actually returning to school or not. This year, we're digging strong female friendships, finding love at university and thrilling mysteries. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm. Buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstore. Libro.fm has a special offer for Bookstacked readers. Get TWO audiobooks for the price of one with your first month of membership when using the code Bookstacked. Click here to get started. Get in touch … Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in the next episode! Record and send us a voice message! Follow and talk to us through Twitter! Send us an old-fashioned email! Follow the hosts … Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark Eleanor Maher: @wordsinstars (BookTube) Mary Dempsey: @EmKateDee (BookTube) 

It's time for back to school fall-ish book recommendations

Bookmarked's YA Book Club is back, and this time we're venturing headfirst into one of last year's biggest fantasy novels: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. Legendborn has been at the top of numerous best-of lists and we're happy to report that the hype is real. This layered story breathes new air into Arthurian lore. With twists and turns at every corner, it's no wonder the book was a hit among the Bookstacked Team. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm. Buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstore. Libro.fm has a special offer for Bookstacked readers. Get TWO audiobooks for the price of one with your first month of membership when using the code Bookstacked. Click here to get started. Related Links: REVIEW: ‘Legendborn’ by Tracy Deonn captivated the whole team Get In Touch: Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in a future episode! Record and send us a voice message! Follow and talk to us through Twitter! Send us an old-fashioned email! Follow the hosts: Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark Saul Marquez: @SAULMARQ Brigitte Herron: @bookandthebone 

Book Club: 'Legendborn' by Tracy Deonn

Bust out the sunglasses, beach towels and books! With summer well underway, we sat down to discuss some of our favorite YA book reads for the season. We hit on new and old titles, discussing why each should be on your TBR (we apologize in advance for adding to it). This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm. Buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstore. Libro.fm has a special offer for Bookstacked readers. Get TWO audiobooks for the price of one with your first month of membership when using the code Bookstacked. Click here to get started. Get in touch … Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in the next episode! Record and send us a voice message! Follow and talk to us through Twitter! Send us an old-fashioned email! Follow the hosts … Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark Saul Marquez: @SAULMARQ Spencer Miller: @SpencerBMiller (Instagram) Brigitte Herron: @bookandthebone 

YA book recs for your Summer TBR

By way of information, we want to announce to our readers and listeners that we are continuing the Bookmarked YA Book Club we started earlier this year! In February, we read Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas. We posted our status updates on Twitter and Instagram and then got members of the Bookstacked Team together to discuss the book on our podcast, Bookmarked. The podcast will continue as the home of the book club. We've settled on selecting four book club picks every year — one for each season. We missed out on Spring this year, but we're excited to jump into Summer with a new book club pick. For the month of July, our book club pick is Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. Here's how it works: Members of the Bookstacked Team are already reading Legendborn. They'll be sharing their thoughts on the book via social media posts using #BookmarkedYA. If you want to join our conversations, you can also post on Twitter and Instagram using #BookmarkedYA. At the end of July, we'll drop a book club discussion episode in the Bookmarked podcast feed. #BookmarkedYA comments and posts from listeners and readers will be incorporated in the discussion (so be sure to post if you want your voice included in the episode!) We'll see you in July! About Legendborn: After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A flying demon feeding on human energies. A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down. And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw. The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates. She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.

Introducing our Summer YA book club pick

The Kinder Poison was an unforgettable race across the desert, complete with rival rulers, inventive magic and a very relatable, potential human sacrifice. Now, all the characters you fell in love with are back in the sequel, The Cruelest Mercy. This episode includes minor spoilers for The Kinder Poison and The Cruelest Mercy! We talked to Natalie about everything from how she adds humor to the most unlikely situations, to her surprise and delight at the rise of the #TeamKasta movement. Come listen in, as we dive deep into the magic and intrigue of her fantastic fantasy series. Purchase a copy of The Cruelest Mercy. (http://bit.ly/cruelestmercybookshop) This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm. Buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstore. Libro.fm has a special offer for Bookstacked readers. Get TWO audiobooks for the price of one with your first month of membership when using the code Bookstacked. Click here to get started. (http://bit.ly/librofmbkstckd) Get in touch … Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in the next episode! Record and send us a voice message! (http://bit.ly/bkmrkdvoice) Follow and talk to us through Twitter! (http://bit.ly/bkmrkdtwttr) Send us an old-fashioned email! (http://bit.ly/bkmrkdemail) Follow the guest and host … Natalie Mae: @bynataliemae (Instagram), nataliemaebooks.com (Website) Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark (Instagram), @chelsearegan17 (Twitter) 

Finding the perfect blend of magic and humor with Natalie Mae ('The Cruelest Mercy')

Misa Sugiura's new novel Love and Other Natural Disasters isn't just a great twist on the fake dating trope, it's also a great novel to kick off Pride Month. Misa joins us for a bonus episode of Bookmarked to talk about her new novel and how she's offering a refreshing twist on the YA book rom-com. Purchase a copy of Love and Other Natural Disasters. (http://bit.ly/laondbookshop) This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm. Buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstore. Libro.fm has a special offer for Bookstacked readers. Get TWO audiobooks for the price of one with your first month of membership when using the code Bookstacked. Click here to get started. (http://bit.ly/librofmbkstckd) Get in touch … Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in the next episode! Record and send us a voice message! (http://bit.ly/bkmrkdvoice) Follow and talk to us through Twitter! (http://bit.ly/bkmrkdtwttr) Send us an old-fashioned email! (http://bit.ly/bkmrkdemail) Follow the hosts … Misa Sugiura: MisaSugiura.com (Website), @misallaneous1 (Twitter) Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark (Instagram) 

I'd like you to meet my fake girlfriend — with Misa Sugiura ('Love and Other Natural Disasters')

Netflix's adaptation of 'Shadow and Bone' might be one of those rare occasions where the show turned out to be better than the book. *GASP!* We know, we know — it's blasphemy! But we still appreciated many of the changes to the source material, especially when those changes mean more screen time for our favorite Crows. In this super-packed episode, we unravel all our feelings about 'Shadow and Bone.' This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm. Buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstore. Libro.fm has a special offer for Bookstacked readers. Get TWO audiobooks for the price of one with your first month of membership when using the code Bookstacked. Click here to get started. (bookstacked.com/librofm) Related Links: Kristy sits down with author Joan He to discuss The Ones We're Meant to Find A Guide to the Grishaverse 10 Years: Remembering Veronica Roth's Divergent Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard is very good Some Twitter threads that dive deeper into the problematic aspects of the show's racial commentary: Thread 1, Thread 2, Thread 3 Get in touch … Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in the next episode! Record and send us a voice message! Follow and talk to us through Twitter! Send us an old-fashioned email! Follow the hosts … Saul Marquez: @SAULMARQ Britani Overman: @mrsbs713 Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark Spencer Miller: @SpencerBMiller (Instagram) Kristy Mauna: @krissssm 

Is Netflix's 'Shadow and Bone' better than the book? (Shadow and Bone Review)

This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm. Buy audiobooks while supporting your local bookstore. Libro.fm has a special offer for Bookstacked readers. Get TWO audiobooks for the price of one with your first month of membership when using the code Bookstacked. Click here to get started. Joan He's captivating novel, The Ones We're Meant to Find, is a story of sisters against the backdrop of a world shaped and transformed by climate change. The book, which releases May 4, is already one of the top selections in YA this year. We're super excited to welcome author Joan He to the podcast to discuss the ins and outs of her captivating book. PURCHASE The Ones We're Meant to Find Get in touch … Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in the next episode! Record and send us a voice message! Follow and talk to us through Twitter! Send us an old-fashioned email! Follow the guest and host ... Joan He: Twitter, Instagram, Website Kristy Mauna: Twitter, Instagram 

YA dystopia and climate change with Joan He ('The Ones We're Meant to Find')

SPOILER WARNING: This episode includes minor spoilers for 'Fireborne' and 'Flamefall'! In 2019, Fireborne introduced us to Lee and Annie, two young dragon riders struggling to come to terms with their pasts as they competed to see who would lead their newly rebuilt society. Now, their story continues in Flamefall, where the political intrigue gets messier, the alliances become murkier and a brand new group of riders flies off the page. This is the book Fireborne fans have been waiting for and it does not disappoint. Come listen in, as we talk to author Rosaria Munda about expanding her world, building complicated moral dilemmas and plotting the course for her incredible cast of characters. Get in touch … Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in the next episode! Record and send us a voice message! Follow and talk to us through Twitter! Send us an old-fashioned email! Follow the guest and host … Rosaria Munda: @RosariaMunda (Website) Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark 

Rebellion, romance and dragon riding with Rosaria Munda ('Flamefall')

Concrete Rose is Bookstacked's first YA book club pick — and we all agree it was a good one. Angie Thomas' Concrete Rose is an emotional journey that packs a punch. It's a relevant and needed book in today's world, one that further explores what it means to be Black in America while also being so relatable to absolutely anyone who picks it up. In this episode of the podcast, we sit down to discuss what's sure to be one of our favorite books of the year. Related Links: Review: Angie Thomas wowed us all with her latest novel 'Concrete Rose' Nostalgia for a place I’ve never been: An interview with Louisa Onomé How L. L. McKinney and Robyn Smith are shining a spotlight on Nubia, Wonder Woman’s Black twin sister 10 Years of Peculiardom: Ransom Riggs reflects on completing the Miss Peregrine’s series Get In Touch: Let your voice be heard! There are several ways you can get in touch with us and interact with the show. Your messages might be included in a future episode! Record and send us a voice message! Follow and talk to us through Twitter! Send us an old-fashioned email! Follow the hosts: Saul Marquez: @SAULMARQ Michael Burns: @_michaelburns Chelsea Regan: @pluckybookmark Spencer Miller: @SpencerBMiller (Instagram) Britani Overman: @mrsbs713 Eleanor Maher: @wordsinstars (BookTube) 

Book Club: 'Concrete Rose' by Angie Thomas

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