Episode #3 — 2013 Mid-Year Breakdown
Episode #3: 2013 Mid-Year Breakdown — right-click and save to download.
Renay and Ana discuss their favorite books so far from 2013, including 10,000 derailments for discussion of book marketing, YA fandom, blogging, fannishness and fanfic, series fatigue, books we're looking forward to reading in the latter half of the year, and screeching in joy/horror at our life choices.
Corrections
1. The third thing about covers is a secret, clearly. Shhhh.
2. "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" is a novelette, not a novella. :)
Posts mentioned during show
- Renay's 2013 Mid-Year Media Thoughts: Time Flies When You're Watching Supernatural
- The Half-Year Mark: Best Books of 2013 (so far)
- The Book Smugglers Reflect On 2013 So Far (i.e. Is The Best Yet To Come?)
- Review of Zenn Scarlett by Christian Schoon (Discussion of Hugo Syndrome)
- The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (Renay's Review)
- Book Review: The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (Ana's Review)
- Author Event: John Scalzi — Booksellers at Laurelwood
- Old School Wednesdays
Fiction mentioned during show
- The Other Half Of The Sky edited by Athena Andreadis
- vN by Madeline Ashby
- The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (YES, A THIRD TIME. SORRY NOT SORRY?)
- On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard
- "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard
- "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" by Pat Cadigan
- Spiritwalker Trilogy by Kate Elliott
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- Sandman by Neil Gaiman
- Newsflesh by Mira Grant
- The Lost Sun by Tessa Gratton
- Gifts by Ursula Le Guin
- Bel Dame Apocrypha by Kameron Hurley
- Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
- Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
- "The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal
- September Girls by Bennett Madison
- The Blonde of the Joke Bennett Madison
- The Catalogue of the Universe by Margaret Mahy
- Dogsland by J.M. McDermott
- October Daye by Seanan McGuire
- Sunshine by Robin McKinley
- Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer
- Nation by Terry Pratchett
- The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
- I Was a Rat by Philip Pullman
- The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Old Man's War by John Scalzi
- Redshirts by John Scalzi
- The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
- Saga by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
- Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
- Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
Books We're Looking Forward To:
- iD by Madeline Ashby
- The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
- The Nearly Honorable League of Pirates by Caroline Carlson
- The Mad Scientist's Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke
- Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone
- Parasite by Mira Grant
- Reality Boy by A.S. King
- The Lost Kingdom by Matthew J. Kirby
- Outcast by Adrienne Kress
- Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
- Orleans by Sherri L. Smith
- Milkweed Triptych Ian Tregillis
- Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
- The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig
- Under the Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig
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