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Started as a forum for discussion about YA books during the pandemic, On The Shelf is now about all types of books and talking to all types of authors. Each week host Honora Quinn virtually sits down with your new favorite author from self-published to the NYTs bestselling to ask the important questions, like what type of plate they are.

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Started as a forum for discussion about YA books during the pandemic, On The Shelf is now about all types of books and talking to all types of authors. Each week host Honora Quinn virtually sits down with your new favorite author from self-published to the NYTs bestselling to ask the important questions, like what type of plate they are.

Cover art by Luciana Kraus
Intro and Outro Theme by Elise Boldizar

    How A Research Trip Became the Basis for A 'Killer' Story - Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner

    How A Research Trip Became the Basis for A 'Killer' Story - Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner

    Today on OTS I got to speak with the one and only Lisa Gardner about her newest novel STILL SEE YOU EVERYWHERE. While being the 3rd book in the FRANKIE ELKIN series you can dive right into this book (and this interview) with little information. In this installment Frankie is at her most conflicted, she is sent out looking for a missing girl but the one sending her on this job is a serial killer with three weeks left to live.



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    • 33 min
    It All Started With A Dream... No Literally - The Last Refuge with Christina Bacilieri

    It All Started With A Dream... No Literally - The Last Refuge with Christina Bacilieri

    Today on what has become the unofficial Birthday Special (thank you all for the support the last few years btw!) I talk with Christina Bacilieri about her debut novel (and book 1 in her debut STEALING SANCTUARY trilogy) THE LAST REFUGE.

    I had a lot of fun learning about Christina and her novel especially its rather unique origins!



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    • 25 min
    Writing A Story for The People That Need It Most - Strong Like You by T.L. Simpson

    Writing A Story for The People That Need It Most - Strong Like You by T.L. Simpson

    Today I had the absolute pleasure of talking with T.L. Simpson about his debut YA novel STRONG LIKE YOU. We discuss how his previous work in journalism, especially on the crime beat, impacted and helped form the story and how he set out to to write this story for those who need it most.



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    • 35 min
    A Doomed Film Festival on the French Riviera... What Could Go Wrong? The Girl From The Grand Hotel with Camille Aubray

    A Doomed Film Festival on the French Riviera... What Could Go Wrong? The Girl From The Grand Hotel with Camille Aubray

    Almost two years ago I got the honor of talking with Camille about her novel THE GODMOTHERS, a book a devoured, and since that day I have been waiting for her next novel. Enter THE GIRL FROM THE GRAND HOTEL, set at the first, and doomed, Cannes Film Festival...



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    • 27 min
    No Good Deed Goes Unpunished So Should We Stop Trying? - The Darkness Rises by Stacy Stokes

    No Good Deed Goes Unpunished So Should We Stop Trying? - The Darkness Rises by Stacy Stokes

    Incoming to a bookstore near you... a YA thriller with layers of the supernatural. THE DARKNESS RISES follows Whitney who can tell when someone is about to die...



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    • 29 min
    From A Real Life Inconvenience to A Stressful Literary Event - We Are Never Getting Home with Tracy Badua

    From A Real Life Inconvenience to A Stressful Literary Event - We Are Never Getting Home with Tracy Badua

    Tracy and I spoke just over a year ago about THIS IS NOT A PERSONAL STATEMENT, a surprisingly stressful novel about faking your way into college, and she is back again with another stressful tale. Enter WE'RE NEVER GETTING HOME, a story about getting stranded at a music festival on the brink of friendship collapse...

    I love talking with Tracy once again and hope you check out her work!



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