For The Love of Purple: Engaging with Author Laurie Forest

June 13, 2022

For The Love of Purple: Engaging with Author Laurie Forest

I knew I needed to talk with Laurie Forest about the relationship she’s cultivated with her readers after I attended Phoenix Books’ “most interactive…

January 6, 2022

YA Books for Readers of Any Age

It was recently pointed out to me (rather callously, in my overly-sensitive opinion) that I no longer fall into the category of a “Young…

November 5, 2021

Finding Joy: Books to Celebrate the Extraordinary Pleasures of the Everyday

Percy Shelley is credited with having said “The soul’s joy lies in doing”, perhaps a spin on Shakespeare’s “Things won are done, joy’s soul…

October 14, 2021

On Beyond Hygge: Read Globally, Live Happily

Back in 2016, many Americans suddenly developed a widespread fascination with the Danish concept of hygge, defined as “a quality of coziness and comfortable…

September 29, 2021

An Autumnal Update

Hello from AuthorPods’ Vermont headquarters, where summer is well on its way out, and the trees are showing off their annual explosion of color….

August 30, 2021

Knitting Therapy

Back in the summer of 2008, I was a hormonal and anxious new mother when I picked up a book I’ve never forgotten, as…

August 11, 2021

Books That Got Me Through: My Trans Child’s Transition

At AuthorPods, we’ve been considering the countless ways that books affect us by asking readers to share “books that got them through” a certain…

July 27, 2021

So You Want To: Compost in Your City Home

In America, we waste roughly 40% of our food per year. The bulk of this waste occurs at the consumer level, where only 5%…

July 16, 2021

Books about Dance Every Dancer Will Love

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Using the written word to…

July 14, 2021

Calling all Francophiles: A Bastille Day Reading List

The 14th of July marks Bastille Day in France, a commemoration of the 1789 storming of a despised prison by rebellious Parisians in a…