YA-OK Podcast
1) "Follow the Water" Author Ellen Cochrane
For our 50th Episode we sit down with Ellen Cochrane who took a true story she remembered from her youth and crafted an exciting and informative middle group book out of it. Follow the Water has stron...Show More
2) "Meet Me Under the Lights" Author Cassie Miller
We're back!! Today we sit down with author Cassie Miller to discuss her debut YA Novel "Meet Me Under the Lights"! This book was pitched to us as "Friday Night Lights" meets "The Notebook" which obvi...Show More
3) How Forever 16 Turned into Lance Rubin's Family Audiobook
In a mini-Episode Producer Matt sits down with past guest Lance Rubin about his new book Forever 16 and the audiobook he made with his wife and brother! Buy Merch Join Our Facebook Group Follow u...Show More
4) Our Favorite Reads of The Year
This week we go through our favorite books we read in 2025! Buy some merch! Follow us on Instagram! Join Our Facebook Group! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
5) 8-Bit Christmas Author Kevin Jakubowski
For our Christmas Episode this year we are very excited to be joined by Kevin Jakubowski, a screenplay writer who wrote the YA novel 8-Bit Christmas which later became a huge hit on HBO Max. We discu...Show More
6) "The Bone Tower" Authors Fox Starr
This week we are joined by the author team Fox Starr about their new Fantasy YA novel The Bone Tower! Buy some YA-OK Merch Follow us on Instagram Join our Facebook Group Learn more about your ad ...Show More
7) "Everything We Never Had" and "Patron Saints of Nothing" author Randy Ribay
This week we are joined by author Randy Ribay who wrote the critically acclaimed Patron Saints of Nothing as well as well as some Avatar The Last Airbender novels and the more recently released "Every...Show More
"Everything We Never Had" and "Patron Saints of Nothing" author Randy Ribay
1:16:30 | Nov 18th, 2025
8) "The Vale" and "Loveboat, Taipei" Author Abigail Hing Wen
This week Erik and Alyssa are joined by Abigail Hing Wen who talks about her novel "Loveboat, Taipei" which was turned into a Netflix movie as well as her newest novel "The Vale" Learn more about you...Show More
9) The Dark Writing of Christopher Pike
This week in honor of Halloween just around the corner Erik takes the time to educate Alyssa and Producer Matt on all the dark tales we missed out by not reading Christopher Pike in their youth! Learn...Show More
10) 20 Years of Twilight
On October 5, 2005 Twilight hit book shelves and immediately became a global phenomenon! Today to celebrate that Alyssa and Erik dive into their history of these books and if they think they hold up s...Show More