Black Chick Lit

Episode 40: Cinderella is Dead ft. Colored Pages Book Club Podcast

This month, Ako & Marci from The Colored Pages Book Club drop by to talk Cinderella is Dead by Kaylnn Brown.This episode is bringing Big Pieces (and Pisces Moon) energy, ya’ll. 

We talk pig infrastructure, we sympathize with evil witches and we ask, what exactly was the plan? Also discussed in this episode:

• Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
• Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
• Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius
• The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
• And Then She’s Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall

As always, shout out to our Patrons: Martel, Jennifer, Ansela, Therese, Melissa, Catherine, Katie, Emily, LaToya, Ali, Kat, Montara, Maria, Adoria, Frank, Ellen, Sylvia, Bryonna and Curtis, because we literally could not do this without your support.

And thanks to Suite 45 for use of our theme Jonse’n (seriously, like three separate people told me how much they liked it this past month).

Episode 39: When No One is Watching

What’s this? Another special guest?!

This week we read When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole, and we’re not gonna lie, the discussion goes in some weird places (apologies in advance to Robo X). 

This is a thriller and it’s SPOILER FREE YA’LL, so you really have no excuse to download, listen, then go read this book!

As always, a very special thank you to our Patrons: Martel, Jennifer, Ansela, Therese, Melissa, Catherine, Katie, Emily, LaToya, Ali, Kat, Montara, Maria, Adoria, Frank, Ellen, Sylvia, Bryonna and Curtis.

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Special thanks to Suite45 for our theme song, Jones’n. And thanks to YOU for listening!

In this episode:

• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
• The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan
• I Want My Hat Bac by Jon Klassen
• The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
• The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
• This is how the robot uprising starts

Episode 38: The Boyfriend Project ft. Farrah Rochon

We're back and we have another special guest joining us this week! (Honestly, we're not used to being so popular.)

This episode, we read The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon, and got to chat about the book with the author herself.

She spoke with us about the differences between traditional and indie publishing, how Samiah and her girls came to be and whether Daniel is too perfect a romance hero.

She also gives us a few hints about the next book in The Boyfriend Project series.

Thanks to our patrons for their support: Adoria, Ali, Ansela, Bryonna, Catherine, Ellen, Emily, Frank, I Found This Great Book Podcast, Jennifer, Kat, Katie, LaToya, Maria, Martel, Melissa, Montara, Sylvia and Therese. Join us on Patreon starting at only $2 a month and help support the podcast!

Thank you for listening and be sure to rate, review and subscribe to us on iTunes. Special thanks to Suite45 for our theme song, Jones’n.

Episode 37: Take a Hint, Dani Brown ft. Talia Hibbert

We got a real treat for y'all this episode! We read Take a Hint, Dani Brown, by Talia Hibbert, and were joined by the author herself for a conversation about everything including her move from indie publishing to traditional, the Black Lives Matter movement in Europe and whether her parents read her books.

We did manage to also chat about Zaf, Dani and their hilarious romantic hijinks.

Thanks to our patrons for their support: Adoria, Ali, Ansela, Bryonna, Catherine, Ellen, Emily, Frank, I Found This Great Book Podcast, Jennifer, Kat, Katie, LaToya, Maria, Melissa, Montara, Sylvia and Therese. Join us on Patreon starting at only $2 a month and help support the podcast!

As always, thanks for listening and be sure to rate, review and subscribe to us on iTunes. Special thanks to Suite45 for our theme song, Jones’n.

BCL Chat: Black Lives Matter

Hi, readers. We hope you’re doing well and are staying safe. We recorded this chat shortly after the protests began, but due to continuing health issues in Dani’s family, it just now got published.

The delay doesn’t matter, though, because the topic we discuss will never go stale: the importance of Black lives, Black joy, Black stories and Black survival.

We also talk about wtf is up with Just Kidding Rowling, how we’re too old for social media and what’s gonna happen when the ‘rona pops back up.

This episode was made possible with the help of Mocha Girls Read and The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt by Jill Watts.

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