BookSmitten Podcast
1) Summer Breaks: The Girls of Skylark Lane w/ Robin Benway
It's our last (probably) summer break episode! Jack and Heather chat with National Book Award winning author Robin Benway about her new (and first!) middle grade novel, The Girls of Skylark Lane. Robi...Show More
2) Summer Breaks: Gracie Under the Waves w/ Linda Sue Park
We’re back with another of our Summer Breaks. In this episode, Jack chats one-on-one with Newbery award-winning author Linda Sue Park. We talk about Linda Sue’s new book, Gracie Under the Waves, and h...Show More
3) Summer Breaks: No Going Back w/ Patrick Flores-Scott
We’re back with another of our Summer Breaks. In this episode our co-host Patrick gets the spotlight this time, as we talk about his new YA novel, No Going Back.
4) Summer Breaks: Ready, Set, Dough! w/ Kelly J. Baptist
Introducing: Summer Breaks! We’ll be airing a couple of episodes this summer to tide you over as we regroup and plot out the next season. Here is our conversation with our very own Kelly J. Baptist ab...Show More
5) Season 2 Finale with Ann Whitford Paul
The author of Writing Picture Books herself, Ann Whitford Paul, joins us again to help us close out our season. Are we officially picture book authors now?
6) Conference Takeaways from SCBWI Marvelous Midwest
Follow along with Kelly and Heather at the SCBWI Marvelous Midwest 2024 Conference in Davenport, Iowa as they gather wisdom from keynotes and attendees, and even glean insight from soup.
7) Titles and Critiques
As we inch our way toward finishing our BookSmitten challenge, the crew talks titles and shares pages from their picture book manuscripts.
8) Dummies
We’re not dummies … but for this episode we made some! The crew talks about the invaluable experience of making picture book dummies—aka mockups—even for non-illustrators.
9) Page Turns and Word Count
The drama. The suspense. The page turns! The crew covers the similarities and differences between creating page turners in novels and picture books, and the tricks and challenges of letting go of our ...Show More
10) Year-end Reflections
The crew looks back on key lessons from the season so far, what brought them joy in 2023, and whether or not they'll keep writing picture books after this challenge.