Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, J.P. Rindfleisch, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week’s entertainment news, including stories about Audible, querying writers, and Dan Brown. Then, stick around for a chat with Evelyn Clarke (V.E. Schwab and Cat Clarke)!

V. E .Schwab was born in California, raised in Tennessee, and currently splits her time between Denver, Colorado and Edinburgh, Scotland. She got her undergraduate degree in book design at Washington University in St. Louis, and her masters in depictions of monstrosity in medieval art at the University of Edinburgh. In addition to writing books and hosting a podcast called No Write Way, she spends her time on tour, or plagued by the knowledge of how short life is, in terms of the number of books she’ll be able to read, and obsessively saving tiktok videos for recipes she’ll probably never make. She also likes to run, and cycle, and swim—though not all at once. 

V.E. is the author of more than 25 books, spanning MG, YA, and Adult, though she’s never been keen on labeling stories for a certain audience. Plenty of young readers like Vicious, and plenty of older ones like Cassidy Blake, and she believes the best story is the one that finds you when you need it. 

Her greatest goal as an author is to make you doubt your reality. Not by convincing you that magic is real, but by planting a seed of doubt that it’s not. 

Cat Clarke was born in Zambia and brought up in Edinburgh and Yorkshire, which has given her an accent that tends to confuse people. Cat has written non-fiction books about exciting things like cowboys, sharks and pirates, and now writes YA novels. She lives in Edinburgh with a couple of cats, Jem and Scout, who spend their days plotting to spit up furballs at the most inconvenient times. She likes cheese A LOT, especially baked camembert.

Check it out!

Evelyn Clarke: https://www.instagram.com/evelynclarkewrites/?hl=en

V.E. Schwab: https://www.veschwab.com/

Cat Clarke: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4118351.Cat_Clarke

The Ending Writes Itself: https://www.amazon.com/Ending-Writes-Itself-Novel/dp/0063444615

Audible to Launch NYC Pop Up – https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2026/04/audible-to-launch-nyc-pop-up/

What Nobody’s Telling Querying Writers About What’s Happening to Publishing Right Now – https://vickyweberbooks.substack.com/p/what-nobodys-telling-querying-writers?utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

From Arundhati Roy’s ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ to Dan Brown’s ‘Secret of Secrets’: How one man printed thousands of fake bestsellers – https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/from-a-bookseller-on-red-fort-pavements-to-a-publisher-how-one-man-churned-out-thousands-of-fake-copies-of-bestselling-books-10613379

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Jena Brown – https://www.⁠⁠⁠jenabrownwrites.com

Kevin Tumlinson – ⁠⁠⁠https://www.kevintumlinson.com/⁠

JP Rindfleisch: https://shop.jprindfleischix.com/en-cad

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