E160: Cozy Fantasy with Julie Leong

 

Today I welcome Julie Leong to the show to discuss the wildly popular subgenre, Cozy Fantasy. We chat about Julie’s book, THE TELLER OF SMALL FORTUNES, as well as the history of Cozy Fantasy, our earliest experience reading the subgenre, and we offer some wonderful book recommendations, listed below:

• Salt and Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher
• Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood
• The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields
• The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen
• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
• Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater 
• Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
• A Natural History of Dragons by Mary Brennan
• The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C. M. Waggoner
• The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
• Redwall by Brian Jacques 

E159: The Gothic Novels of Emily Carpenter

Today I welcome Emily Carpenter to the show to discuss her new book GOTHICTOWN, as well all her previous gothic novels. We chat about her books in context with beloved gothic tropes, characters and settings, like isolation, creepy towns, and the American south.

GOTHICTOWN is on sale March 25th, so get your preorders in now!  

E158: True Crime and the Real Hester Prynne with Kate Winkler Dawson

 

Today I welcome journalist, professor and true crime podcaster, Kate Winkler Dawson, to the show to discuss her new historical true crime book, ALL THE SINNERS BOW: TWO AUTHORS, ONE MURDER, AND THE REAL HESTER PRYNNE. We discuss the 1832 murder of Sarah Maria Cornell and how that murder inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write The Scarlett Letter, as well as the research into both the murder and the writing of FALL RIVER, the first American true crime book written about this murder in 1833. 

Kate Winkler Dawson has three True Crime podcasts, one of which is retired and folded into the other. Here are the links to listen: