In this episode, Abigail Owen and Julia chat all about Abigail's newest release: The Games Gods Play. A mythic story that weaves modern and ancient Greek together in a wholy new story following a heroine who is thrust into... the games gods play!

Read Abigail's favorite books: Star Wars, Admiral Thrawn trilogy and her paranormal inspiration, Twilight! Find her books at her fave indie bookstores: Lark & Owl Booksellers, The New Romantics, and The Lazy Daisy Bookshop or find them on Bookshop.org

Follow Abigail on social media: Website, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Abbie's Awesome Nerds, and don't forget to sign up to her newsletter!

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In this episode, authors Sung-il Kim and Anton Hur chat about their combined fantasy adventures on the smooth roller coaster (iykyk) of Blood of the Old Kings, written by Sung-il and translated by Anton, and available now!

Check out Sung-il's favorite books: The Analects, Thus Spake Zarathustra, and Neuromancer and find him on Bluesky and Instagram

Find Anton's book Toward Eternity and his favorite books: Possession, Dragonsong, and Geneaology of Morals and find him on Bluesky, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and his website

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In this episode, Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin chat with Julia about their YA historical mystery, The Bletchley Riddle (out October 8th)! We chat about co-writing, investigating history, what makes a great book, and much more!

Want more from the authors?

Check out Steve's favorite books: The Great Train Robbery and Treasure Island from his fave hometown bookstore Northshire Bookshop in Saratoga Springs, New York

And find Ruta's favorite books: Rebecca, The Birds, The Apple Tree, Ethan Frome, as well as her fave authors Kate DiCamillo and Roald Dahl from her fave bookstores Parnassus Books and Plenty Bookshop

Find Steve on the socials: website, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

Find Ruta on the socials: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, website

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In today's episode, Julia and Shawntelle chat about her newest book The Fallen Fruit! It's a time-travelling sensation that explores generational trauma through a curse that is doomed to repeat itself at least once in every generation. Can Cecily stop it before it's too late? This episode contains minor spoilers.

Shawntelle's most useful writing helper: Aeon Timeline

Check out her favorite Books: Xenogenesis (Lilith's Brood) by Octavia E. Butler and Imajica by Clive Barker

Grab her book from her favorite Indie Bookshop: Main Street Books in St. Charles, Missouri

Follow Shawntelle: TikTok, IG, Threads, Twitter, FB, Website

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In this episode Julia chats with bestselling author TJ Klune about his upcoming sequel in the Cerulean Chronicles: Somewhere Beyond the Sea. They discuss the importance of voting, Trans rights, LGBT activism, his next few years in publishing, and tons more! This episode has No Spoilers for Somewhere Beyond the Sea, so just sit back and enjoy the ride (and also pre-order his book before it comes out on September 10th).

Keep an eye out for TJ's current favorite book: When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Kelley

Order his books from his favorite indie bookstore: A Book For All Seasons

Find him on Instagram & his website

And make sure you are registered to vote!

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In this episode, Julia chats with debut author Ivy Fairbanks about her novel Morbidly Yours! Initially independently published, now re-released through a traditional publisher and with two more to follow! In her book, Lark (an animator and recently widowed Texan) picks up and moves across the world to Galway, Ireland, where she meets Callum (an undertaker and socially anxious mess) and the two become unlikely friends. The book handles grief, love, and anxiety in such a way that it'll be hard to put down!

Find Morbidly Yours at Ivy's fave indie bookshop: Tombolo Books in St. Petersburg, Florida

And check out Ivy's favorite books: Just For The Summer by Abby Jimenez and Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Interested in watching Ask A Mortician? Click here! How about Victor Sweeney from Wired? Here's a video! And here's more on Song of the Sea from Cartoon Saloon!

Follow Ivy on socials: IG, TikTok, website

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In this episode, Julia chats with bestselling author Kika Hatzopoulou about the sequel in her dystopian duology, Hearts That Cut. (If you haven't listened to her previous episode on NF about the first in her duology, go check it out!)

Read Kika's current favorite book, Off With Their Heads, and grab her books from her fave indie bookstore: Books of Wonder

Follow Kika on Instagram, TikTok, and sign up for her newsletter!

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