Reader's Forecast

Sam Vacik
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What's on the horizon this week at our local bookstores? Don't have time to shop yourself for delicious new reads? Looking for new books to help you relax and enjoy a story or new topic? In Reader's Forecast, host Sam Vacik helps you to save time book shopping on the go, resting after a busy day, or otherwise looking for new reading material. The host invites you to take a look at new book releases in a wide variety of genres, authors (both new and established), subjects, and more. Sam introduces each author, narrates the back cover, and makes note of a smattering of book reviews. Whether you're a daring bookchaser or just on the watch for your next sunny beach read, Reader's Forecast has got you covered. So click 'play' to find your next book. Follow us on social media for new episode releases, new books, and more at: Bluesky: @readersforecast.bsky.social Instagram & Threads: @readers.forecast Substack: @readersforecast Patreon: @readersforecast

  1. 6d ago

    Only Fools Break into the Twilight Zone

    Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Welcome to Week 2 in our countdown to Halloween! It's another stormy week full of frights and wicked delights on the Reader's Forecast… Experience the chilling relationship between a father and daughter at the end of the world. Fall iinto the Twilight Zone with a bio on Rod Serling. Venture into deathly bogs teaming with otherworldly life and rich archaeological finds. Embark into space explorations and wander through suspenseful, psychological thrillers. Stay tuned as we review frills, chills, and thrills with 10 books to review cover to cover and 4 debut authors in this week's Reader's Forecast! Publishing Week: 13 Oct 2026 The books featured in this episode are not sponsored.

    Only Fools Break into the Twilight Zone

  2. Oct 9

    Fail Sings the Fair Banshee

    Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! We'll start off the week with a magical library and a women's horror from Latin America, but we'll quickly find out that secondary school is better when it's supernatural! And if that's not enought to get your horror on, then explore more frights, magical realism, alien contact, grief, and fright delights with a hint of bad romance. We're counting down the four weeks to Halloween with horrorable reads and dark reading rainbows because life's just full of tough choices, isn't it? Mwa ha ha ha. Stay tuned as we review frights, nights, and scary delights with 10 books to review cover to cover and 3 debut authors in this week's Reader's Forecast! Publishing Week: 6 Oct 2026 The books featured in this episode are not sponsored.

    Fail Sings the Fair Banshee

  3. Sep 30

    Alternative Realities and the Rock that Saved Them!

    Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Feeling caught between a rock and an alternative reality? Don't we all?! As a blustery noreaster barrels down on the east coast, so is a confusing combo of alterantive reality, scifi, historical fic, and history literature exploring heavy topics of immigration, ancestry, war, first contact, dual timeline mysteries, and death, including … a potential mixup of a couple going to Cloud 6 instead of 9? This episode has books for everyone and anyone who is willing to strap on hiker boots and wage into this cosmic alterantive reality mess! Will we resolve the dual timelines? WIll first contact go off without a hitch? Will afterlife schenanigans prove to be reality or mythology? Stay tuned for 1 debut author and 9 books to review cover to cover in this week's Reader's Forecast! Publishing Week: 22 Sep 2026 The books featured in this episode are not sponsored.

    Alternative Realities and the Rock that Saved Them!

  4. Sep 26

    Fallow By Any Other Proof

    Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Batten down the hatches as a hurricane is whirling through with this nightmarish and apocalytic collection of literature, featuring 3 debut authors and a collection of horror, alternative reality, end times, mystery, and humorous satire. Fear not, however, as clear skies eventually arrive with a cross-country road trip and the comedy of an actress trying not to write the memoire she previously promised. Tune in for this episode exploring books diving into the dark side of literature! Publishing Week: 15 Sep 2026 The books featured in this episode are not sponsored.

    Fallow By Any Other Proof

  5. Sep 16

    Leaving the Library in Love

    Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Blustery stormy weather breaks in the week with a part-history, part-business novel exploring economics from the Great Depression to the 2008 FInancial Crisis. Two psyops — one a lit fic and the other a sci fi thriller featuring a self-driving car — explore death, grief, and loss before diving into a WWI historical fic involving an unlikely spy setting: your local library. With one debut author and a Black British Romcom worthy of the Bridget Jones' Diaries legacy, we'll explore 8 books cover to cover in this week's Reader's Forecast! Publishing Week: 8 Sep 2026 The books in this podcast were not sponsored. If you found a book to review with us, please head over to your podcast app to rate, review, and follow the Reader's Forecast podcast because it helps us to build our audience and meet new people.

    Leaving the Library in Love

  6. Sep 7

    The Official Barman's Guide to Body Language

    Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Pack your umbrellas for a week practically full of rain and storms, ranging from animal dark fantasy and scifi novels reflecting on humans and our humanity to three women's fiction exploring love, loss, and family. Three debut authors balance the inclusion of three war era historical fiction novels — one following a Jewish barman in Nazi-occupied Paris (based on a true story), one featuring two Japanese teens interned in Arizona in WW2, and the last following two academics turned spy to trace a Russian conspiracy at Oxford University. This forecast is packed full of 9 books sure to catch your ears off guard. Tune in for new reading delights as we get back on track after prolonged techical difficulties! Week: 1 Sep 2026

    The Official Barman's Guide to Body Language

  7. Aug 15

    Food Doesn't Time Travel Well

    Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Time travelers break out through time in showers of time-wimey storms from time traveling agencies that promised safe trips to the past as we explore generational stories of farming through the Great Recession and scientific breakthroughs in farming. We will have fun with a satirical dinner party and see the rainbow through a murder mystery. And if that doesn’t scratch your reading itch, there is also some fantasy and fantastical beasts lurking around the road a war dog takes to find a home. Stick with me for this variety show of just released novels in this week’s Reader’s Forecast! This podcast was not sponsored nor elicited. All books were selected by the host for inclusion in this podcast. Publishing Week: 04 August 2026

    Food Doesn't Time Travel Well

  8. Aug 6

    Tangled Histories, and Where to Fantasize Them!

    Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Here we go: exploring tangled histories and where to fantasize them. Should history be fantasized in Hong Kong, Japan, the USA, Afghanistan, Italy, a fictional land, or elsewhere? Wherever we go, we’re sure to run into stormy weather with dark high fantasy in fictional land, a paranormal murder mystery in the USA, and a historical fiction in Hong Kong. Lest you believe the lies that our skies are dark and in shadow, bring out the sun with an African American historical fiction and a satirical but funny murder mystery solved by a shrink. Catch me if you can in this cover-to-cover review of 9 new books and 1 debut author in this week’s Reader’s Forecast! This podcast was not sponsored nor elicited. All books were selected by the host for inclusion in this podcast. Publishing Week: 28 July 2026

    Tangled Histories, and Where to Fantasize Them!
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What's on the horizon this week at our local bookstores? Don't have time to shop yourself for delicious new reads? Looking for new books to help you relax and enjoy a story or new topic? In Reader's Forecast, host Sam Vacik helps you to save time book shopping on the go, resting after a busy day, or otherwise looking for new reading material. The host invites you to take a look at new book releases in a wide variety of genres, authors (both new and established), subjects, and more. Sam introduces each author, narrates the back cover, and makes note of a smattering of book reviews. Whether you're a daring bookchaser or just on the watch for your next sunny beach read, Reader's Forecast has got you covered. So click 'play' to find your next book. Follow us on social media for new episode releases, new books, and more at: Bluesky: @readersforecast.bsky.social Instagram & Threads: @readers.forecast Substack: @readersforecast Patreon: @readersforecast

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  • Creator
    Sam Vacik
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    29
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Samantha (Sam) Vacik
  • Show Website
    Reader's Forecast