Bookwild - Auto-Buy Authors Part Two

Episode Date: November 3, 2022

We are back this week to talk about our auto-buy authors!You can also watch the episode on YouTubeFollow us on Instagram!Garehttps://www.instagram.com/gareindeedreads/Katehttps://www.instagram.com/thegirlwiththebookonthecouch/Authors We Talked About This WeekLisa JewellAlice FeeneyLars KeplerE G ScottJane HarperAshley WinsteadMary KubicaLisa UngerColleen HooverSamantha HayesMay CobbJaime Lynn HendricksJennifer HillierSamantha BaileyChristopher RiceJT ElisonBlake CrouchGrady HendrixRobert BryndzaRobert DugoniCharlie DonleaLoreth Anne WhiteRobert DugoniLiane MorirartyBooks We Talked About This WeekThe Silent WomanThe Girl with Dragon TattooThe Snow ManDaisy DarkerSometimes I LieHis and HersI Know Who You AreWatching YouThe Night She DisappearedGood Rich PeopleLocal Woman MissingSecluded Cabin Sleeps Six  Get Bookwild MerchCheck Out My Stories Are My Religion SubstackCheck Out Author Social Media PackagesCheck out the Bookwild Community on PatreonCheck out the Imposter Hour Podcast with Liz and GregFollow @imbookwild on InstagramOther Co-hosts On Instagram:Gare Billings @gareindeedreadsSteph Lauer @books.in.badgerlandHalley Sutton @halleysutton25Brian Watson @readingwithbrian 

Hey guys, welcome to the Killing the Tea podcast. This is Gare and Kate. And we are going to be discussing all things, chills, thrills, and kills. Kate and I are going to be talking about our favorite books, TV shows, and movies that are in the thriller or crime fiction genre, as well as some reading habits and other items related to how we met on Bookstagram that will fit in with this podcast. So, thank you so much for joining us and we hope that you have fun and get totally terrified. We haven't talked about any men, right? Oh, that's easy. Christopher Rice. He was next on my list. There we go. Christopher Rice is just, I feel like one day they might do a study and realize that there are actually like 10 authors inside of his brain that have all written different things because like, a density of souls is one of my favorite books of the entire world. It will traumatize you to no end. Like crying, being afraid, being shocked.

Okay. Just everything. And I read it recently again this past summer. Oh, really? Amazing. Amazing. Nice. But then, like, he's written some thrillers.

I loved. he's dipped his toe into like science fiction and a really amazing way because like I'm not a huge science fiction person but his Burning Girl series is like

oh my God you would love it you would love it and that's sci-fi well she gets like yeah yeah that series a little bit like it yeah she gets some like thing that like there's this I'm not a science,

sci-fi person. She's this thing that they can like inject her with and she has like superhuman strength based on her fear. So she uses that to like hunt down bad guys and serial killers and stuff but it has that like science fiction

element to it. But it's also good for people like me who are not very big or like have the knowledge of science fiction terms and things. things like that. Like you can just slowly dip your toe in and like wait in the pool and then you'd be like, wow, that was really friggin' awesome. And then there's, there's three of them. And now he's writing romances and they're so, I know, yeah, it's under C. Travis Rice

instead of Christopher Rice, but there, they're, he has two of them. All the covers are so different. Yeah, right. I know. they're just so good. They're so addictive. They have like the pacing of a thriller and how he like tells the story because there's always some sort of like missed. I don't want to say like a mystery element. It's not a mystery book.

But there's some sort of element in the plots of his romances that like make you want to keep reading because you want answers on things. But then like he throws in like a bunch of steam and you're like, oh, I know that it's only 40 degrees outside. but like I have to turn on the air conditioner because that's what I'm like like I read the first one and I was like obviously I'm going to read this because it's Christopher Rice

I'm starting to read a little bit more romance. Yeah. And then I finished it and I was like Jesus like is there anything you cannot do? Seriously. Sapphire sunset. Is that the one you're talking about? Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Nice. Yeah, there is some steam in there. And then Sapphire Spring, the second one I loved even more. Oh, nice. Oh my God. They're so good.

That's amazing. And he's also like very funny. Ooh, that's cool. And he's always been very, very kind to me, which to me means a lot because we were talking about like, I don't know how long ago it was, but at one point in one of our previous episodes, we were talking about how the only downfall that I've seen on Bookstagram so far is when really admire an author and then they their personality and any reaction or interaction that you have with them can kind of hinder you from being a fan um and he is the complete opposite of that like

i have i read i read a density of souls when i was a teenager um probably i'm i'm gonna say 20 years ago to be honest wow i think it came out in 2000 or 2001 um and i read it when it first came out. I remember buying at the bookstore. I remember where I was in, I remember being in a car dealership lot because my dad was getting a new truck and I wouldn't get out to look at vehicles with him. I mean, I was only like 13 or 14, so I don't think he'd really want my opinion anyway. But I was like, I'm not getting out. I'm reading this book. And like, I was sitting in the car reading it while he looked at vehicles because I could not put it down. That's awesome. And I've loved him for 20 years. I had a crush on him in high school. Oh, I love that. I absolutely love him,

and he is so, so nice. That's so cool. He's so funny. He's like, he's one of those people that, like, really gives back to, to his readers, and he's just, like, such a nice person. I would love to meet him in person. I would love to meet him in person and just be like, you are a perfect, human being and I don't care what he writes. Yeah, you agree. Like, if he like got really, if he, if he ever had like a really big ego and was like, I'm going to publish every grocery list I've ever written in the past 10 years and charge like thousands of dollars because, you know, here are all my grocery lists.

I would be like, okay, pre-order like, duh. Sign me up. Sign me up. whatever you want. I mean, because at this point, like, he can write anything and he's just an incredible human being. So. I love that. That's a glowing review. That is my, that is my Christopher Rice. Oh, honestly, when it comes to reading his books for the past 20 years and never once being disappointed and not only not being disappointed, but him being just an incredibly

kind and funny and admirable human being. That's so cool. Christopher Rice, I love you. This is a Christopher Rice and podcast now. Yeah. This podcast is now going to be 100 episodes of every memory that I have reading a Christopher Rice book. Yes. So yeah, he's my, I mean, when it comes to male authors, like, top that.

Yeah, I can't top that amount of love. I do have Blake Grouch on mine, which is all sci-fi. but I have loved every single one of them has like twisted my mind and been super suspenseful and cinematic really cinematic a lot of the scenes like stay in my head visually I've never heard a bad thing about him like Crouchon yeah yeah never heard about I love his book so much I would love to talk to him but you know not been successful yet you know somebody you know, I'm going to give a shout out to an author that I've only read two books by. I'm about to start my third book by him.

And as of right now, because I've only read two books, I don't want to be like, oh, like you're auto by author. I've loved them. I'm hoping I love the third one. And I hope that I continue to love everything this man writes, but Grady Hendrix. Yes. He can tell a freaking story. You can tell a story. I read The Southerner's Guide to Slaying Vampires.

Did I get that right? I read that one. Yeah, you did. So good. Final Girl Support Group. That's what I knew. Amazing. Yeah.

And now I'm going to read my best friend's exorcism before the movie comes out. Yeah. A couple days. He had while traveling. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm going to read that and dive in. But the cover for his upcoming book, How to Sell a Haunted House.

Oh, my gosh. He has the best titles. There's one called Horror Store. And the way that it's written, we'll have to get you a physical copy of it because I know you're a Kindle girl. But like the way that it's written in the book, it looks like an IKEA catalog. Whoa. Yeah. So I want to go back in his back list because I think he's like, from what I've read so far and just the plots alone of the books that I haven't read yet, I would like to see him be an autobiothor for me because he's, he's very smart. And I love the thriller horror elements in his books. So I definitely, I'm going to give a little shout out to Mr. Petit Hendrix. And being like, like, you know what sir i think you're on your way to being an autobiothor for me because i like what you're doing

and don't stop yeah i like that i mean right now the way i see his books is i mean modern day stephen king nice thriller horror elements he has not let me down the two books that i've read um but i mean just the the horror elements the way that they're all kind of different and the ideas that he has and I think that his creative control, even if even if his books don't work for you, like the creative aspect in his writing and the way that he tells a story, like you will not be, you cannot deny that he is a very, very creative person. And all of his ideas are very original. That's even better.

That's really cool. Yeah. I had Charlie Donnelly on as well. Charlie Donnell, yes. Just want to make sure, you know, there's something that are proud of us. You know, I'm not going to lie. When we discussed this topic, this is for all of our listeners as well. When we discussed this topic, I was like, I don't even need to make a list because this is going to be so easy.

And the way that you and I have realized what we have in common, I was expecting us to have a lot of people in common. But, yeah, Charlie, 100%. Mm-hmm. I love his. I love the Rory Moore series so much. Have you seen the cover to his upcoming book yet? No, I haven't. I don't even know what it's about.

Oh, my God. This is an exclusive. It's exclusive. You might find it on Amazon or I saw it on Amazon. Okay. But yeah, you are going to. Yeah. That is, whoa, that is so pretty.

Mm-hmm. Oh, February. March of next year. Yep, but I mean, hang on. That looks amazing. Oh, this is going to be a memory. I know.

Kate the Great scene, the cover for the Charlie Dunley book. Well, that's an amazing reaction video. I don't know. That's a good, great question. We'll just call him Charlie. I mean, we've read enough of his books at this point. We can be on our first name. Charles.

Yeah. Charles. He doesn't know it, but we're on a first day basis. Yeah, he's really nice too. That's cool. He's a nice guy. He's really talented. Yeah, that's a really good one.

I love his books. I get so into them. Christopher Rice, Grady Hendrix, and Charlie. Robert Brinzo is another one I had because of the Erica Foster series. I did read almost all of those. I read the first one and I really, really liked it. Mm-hmm.

And I apologize to you, sir. but right after I finished that, I was like, oh, I need to go on to the second one. And then that was when my Karen Slaughter spiral happened. Oh, wow. Then yeah. So he's another one, like Grady Hendricks and him. Like, I will read your back list.

There's another series that he started. And there is. You're right. I read the first book in that series and it was really good. I think I read it too. I'm going to have to look here because now. That's going to drive me nuts because there's Erica Foster. Those were all so good.

Like, he does procedural just like there are procedures. Yeah. Kate Marshall, nine elms. Kate Marshall. Yeah. Yes. That was good. That was good.

I would like to read more of those as well. There is. Yeah, he's really good. Oh, she's coming back in Devil's Way. January 26th, there's a new Kate Marshall one. geez January's not too far away especially because now I'm see now I'm going to make the list I know now I'm going to make the list and it's all going to go downhill from here I'm just going to always picture you manically making lists when we like get off the phone sometimes I don't know

if you if you pay attention to this but sometimes like when we are talking you might see that I've read a message and it'll take me like a couple of minutes to get back to you. And it's because like whatever you mentioned, like, I will like read your message and be like, okay, add it to the list or like prioritize it or whatever. And then like, then I'll get back to you. Or you might mention an author like in conversation and me being like, you know, I want to read like Brian Freeman. Yeah. Yeah. Because that was a good thing about this weekend. You were reading something I recommended. I was reading something you recommended and we were both. We both loved it. Yeah. It was great.

Yeah. He's a great one. He is fantastic. I don't know when he, if he plans on writing another one, but I hope he does in that series. Yeah, I don't know. He's a really good, he's a really good crime fiction writer. That's for sure. And I actually think that I might have a recommendation for you.

who was a male author in a series. Nice. And Robert Dugoni. Yes. I am such a big fan of those two. I don't know if anybody hears this. I read those around the same time as I was reading the Erica Foster ones because those series were both on Kindle Unlimited. And at the time, I was on a budget.

So I read all of them. I think I ordered the, I think I read the first two. Yeah. I read my sister's grave the first one in the series twice, maybe three times now, because it's just so good. It's so like it's wholesome and it's like dark mystery. Yeah.

And I also, you know, I want to read it again because I did my casting and the person that I picked for Tracy Crossway, the main character. Yes. People told me after how much they hate that actress. Oh, gosh. I was like, you know what? She was a good idea at the time, but maybe we can do a little. We can improvise.

A little switch up here. So. Yeah, there's so many of those, too. There's seven in that series. I thought there were more than that. Maybe there are. Maybe I'm not on the right page. Yeah.

I think, I thought there were like closer to 10. Oh, there are two prequels. And then, oh, you're right. There are three other ones, too. There are nine books and two prequels. I didn't know there were prequels. It literally says book 0.5 and book 0.25. So does that mean they're like novellas maybe?

Oh, maybe. That's kind of what I'm thinking. Yeah, I'm showing, I'm showing a 10th book coming out here. I'm showing a 10th book coming out October, 2023. So we have a little time to catch up. Yeah. God, I need to. So I've read to book 8, apparently.

I'm going to. I'm going to be totally totally unprofessional on this. I'm going to start like just, I mean, telling myself like Robert D, Robert G. I know. I'm going to make the who was the other person that we said

we were going to do the back list of or that I was going to. Oh, Grady Hendrix. Yes. Now I'm really going to have a list. Wait to see. I'm going to send you screenshots to adjust to. Yeah, yeah, Robert Degone. I read, I think I read the first two.

Yeah, I remember that second one. Her final breath was dark and good. Is that the second one? Yeah. I think the third one has an indigenous aspect to it. I think it takes place on a reservation. Yeah. Yeah, I think I have that one.

I need to reorganize my bookshelves too. Suspicious of a Native American high school girl. Yeah. Oh, I remember. Oh, my gosh. That ending is great. That was a crazy ending. Oh, oh, it was crazy. Mm-hmm. It was sad. Oh, yeah. But it was good. Mm-hmm. I'm gonna, yeah, I need to move some of his books together because I saw my sister's grave. And all of my authors are just kind of, I mean, except for like Lars Kepler, um, Karen Slaughter and Lisa Unger. and Jennifer Hillier, like everybody else is just kind of like spread out wherever you can fit. So yeah. I need to figure out how many Robert

Dugonis I have. Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking I have two more. Okay. Go for it. J.T. Ellison? Yes. I did not put. Yep. I agree.

J.T. L.S. I love her series. If you have not read her series. her series, you will love. Have I? Have I? No, I haven't read a series. Oh, the all the pretty

Taylor Jackson? Taylor Jackson. Okay. I haven't, I've read other ones of hers. Taylor Jackson, you will love that series. I'm nice. I am guaranteeing it right now.

Taylor Jackson series, you will absolutely love because they, they kind of remind me of the Tracy Crosswhite series. Okay. But they all have like these really, really creepy dark plots. And then like her standalones are like a little bit lighter. So.

Oh, okay. Yeah. If you want to go into a spiral. Yeah. 100%. And the Kindle covers, they have updated covers compared to like the paperbacks that originally came out. Oh, that's cool.

So that is my girl. You're like due with. That what you wish. Do with that what you wish. Lorith Ann White. I don't know that one. She has a trilogy.

No. I don't know if it's three or four bucks. The Angie Palarina. Yeah, Lorith. L-O-R-E-T-H. Okay. She's got some pretty

damn... Her covers are beautiful. Good books. Yes. The Angie Pallarino series is very, Very good. Shout out to my friend Cindy once again for recommending that to me. She's always right. Damn her. And her standalones are also really good. She's got, I'm going to have to add her to my list.

Because I know there's like a few of her backlists that like I haven't read yet. And she's just a force of nature. Her books are really like long. But like you don't feel like you're. reading a long book. That's the best when it doesn't feel like it. It's like terrible getting into an end of book and being like, that could have been shorter. Oh yeah. I hate that. But you're not going to feel that way with Loretta and right. You won't feel that way with J.T.

Ellison. Right. But yeah, I think that you'll really, really like, I think you'll really like both of those. Yeah. And I would be excited to take the Robert Dugoni challenge with you, Degani. Yeah. We should.

Yeah. It's been a long time since I read them. So yeah. Maybe you can help me, you can help me recast Tracy Crosswhite. I definitely could help with that since there's an uproar. There's just like a lot of people are like, she's so boring. Yeah. So I'll tell you who I'll tell you who I picked when I, when I send you some DMs after this, because I know that that's just what we do. we gab on here for a very long time, but then we're like, oh my God, what are you doing? More books.

More books. Yeah. Yeah. Lorith. The only other one I had was Leanne Moriarty is for me. I loved Apples Never Fall, her one that came out recently. She just doesn't put out books as often. Yeah.

I really enjoyed Apples Never Fall. I don't think, nine-proof strangers wasn't necessarily the one for me. favorite of hers for sure. Yeah, yeah. But it's also, you know, if we switched it around and My Perfect Strangers came out before Big Little Lies, I think it would have been, you know, a different situation for me. It's just, that's a very hard book to come off from. So, you know, props to her. I love the way that she writes. I love her storytelling. And the way you get to know the characters. Like the characterization is so big and bold.

Yeah, yeah. I really did like Apples Never Fall, especially the ending. Yeah. Because everything in that book was very believable. Yeah. You're not having these like wild crazy twists and turns that like you're like, that would never happen. You're just kind of like. And it was still not the ending you thought it was though, was the other kind of cool thing. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And there's the little details that you kind of like kick yourself in the ass for not realizing early on.

Yes. Yeah, she's a, she's a great one. So yeah, I would say, yeah, we and Moriarty, I don't think it was like maybe like a month or two ago that I realized how to say her last name. So I'm glad that we, like, I'm glad that I learned that before we recorded this because for the longest time I was like, it was like almost like somebody having like a stroke. Like I'd be like, yeah, bra or her. I really mostly know because the Sherlock Holmes villain is Moriarty. Ah. So there's that.

That's a good, yeah, that's a good, that's a good, that's a good connection. Oh, I have one more. Nice. You looked so sad and happy. Because honestly, when we decided to do this, like, I was like, I know who I'm going to talk about first. Mm-hmm. Because this, like, because she has my whole entire heart and soul and it's Jessica Noel. Oh, yes.

I would have felt like such an asshole. if I didn't mention Jessica Noel because shout out to my girl, Jessica. I love you with all of my heart. I've told you that I, she was one of the first Instagram lives I did during COVID. Oh, really? And I was like, this is a far, like, this was one of those things where like I sent her a DM. And I was like, I'm going to put it out there. I'm going to say that I tried to do this.

And it's never going to happen. But at least I can say I tried. Yeah. be like, hey, would you want to do an Instagram live sometime? Like, I just, like, really admire you as, like, a human. I think you're perfect. I think you're the perfect author. I think that, like, you're dropped dead beautiful. And I think that you're a perfect

human being. Um, and she was like, sure, yeah. She was like, sure, yeah. Like, why not? And she was so down to earth during that conversation. Like, just like, lounging, like, just, I mean, I've never seen anybody take a white t-shirt and a pair of

jeans and just make it look like you came off the runway somewhere. But like she's just such a freaking cool girl. That's so cool. Do you know what I mean? Like she is just like the ultimate like if like honestly she's not mean. I don't think that I could ever picture her being mean. But like she's like the Regina George. Right. Like you know what I mean? Like I saw her wearing camel camo pants and black flip flops. So I bought camel pants and black flip flops. But Jessica Null. Yeah. Jessica Null is amazing. I'm glad you remember that one. Luckyest Girl Live is one of my favorite books. Her second book, The Favorite Sister.

Such a different, different story, but incredible. Like, I laughed so much. I, like, could not stop reading it. It has this, like, twisted humor in it at times. The plot is just fantastic. Nice. Descanol. And I'm very excited for her third book.

I know she, like, because I get noticed. notifications for her and Sarah Michelle Geller. When they like add to their stories or have new posts, it's like Jessica and Sarah Michelle Geller. And I did like have been following this journey of her like writing the story, being very transparent with like what's working for her, what's not doing her edits and everything like that. And I am just very excited for her third book.

That's so exciting. I think she's amazing and I just absolutely love Jessica Nol. she is like there is so funny in a really dark way yeah even on her Instagram and her Instagram stories like

I just like crack up with like the thing she say like you know it's got like that like dry sense of humor a little bit of like a dark sense of humor and then just like an overall like good sense of humor yeah all while being like a relatively like amazing down to earth person yeah I talked to her once on Instagram live and I'm like raising her.

She's so down to her. I'm going to tell you in that like half hour, 45 minutes that I talked to her, I just like immediately was like, I know that you like there's really nothing you can do at this point that would sway me into thinking you're not just an amazing human being. Yeah. That's like the best when you feel that way with someone. Yeah. I think she's fantastic. And you know, we don't talk often. But like if she ever does want to. message me. But we can. We don't talk often. I do respond to her stories and stuff. I'm going to

tell you and everybody an amazing story about why Jessica Knoll is my ultimate, ultimate. Oh, boy. She auctioned off

a bunch of of signed copies of her books to like the first I want to say I don't even know however many people she picked she picked like a number and she auctioned off books to the first people who donated um to a cause and I believe the cause was the yellowbird foundation okay I I'm going to have to... I think it was the Yellowbird Foundation. I don't remember the specific name of it. Little Yellowbird, it could have been.

Canadian travel industry? Probably not then. But whoever donated to this charity that she loved because they were helping with women's abortion rights. Oh, nice. And, you know, I obviously, I'm going to back up women's rights 100% no matter what I can do. And I saw that. And I was like, I don't even care if I win a book. I just want to donate to something that that means a lot to me. That means a lot to her, you know, like women's rights, whatever you want me to do. I'm going to do it. I don't care for a month in March or donate, whatever. So, you know, I did it. I sent her

my receipt and I was like, hey, thanks for the heads up. And my DM must have gotten lost somehow. And I was just like scrolling on Twitter. And she was like, you know, I got an amazing amount of people giving me their proof of receipt. And, you know, all of you really showed up. And she's like, but the thing that was like kind of disheartening was that no man had had donated and like let her know and I saw that and I was like, oh my God, that really sucks. But then I was like, wait a second. And so I responded to her tweet and I was like, hey, I'm like, I donated. I'm a guy. And she was like, oh my God. Like, I'm a guy. Hey, me. But I was like, oh, like I did. I'm a guy. And she was like, you're the only man that donated.

Wow. And I was like, wow, that like, that sucks like, no man donated. Like, it was like, obviously, you know, I mean, it's women's rights. Like, let's get real. Like, everybody should be supporting women. And so she sent me the signed copy of the book. And she wrote in it to a gentleman and a scholar. Oh, my gosh. That is the best story. I love her so much. I would too. I get it. Yep. She's, so that's my Jessica Null story. Yeah. When I read that, that was the only time in my life that I was like, I could die happy. Oh, I'm sure.

You know what I mean? That would be amazing. Most people, it's like, oh, I met Justin Bieber or like I, you know, ran into like Julia Roberts on like some street in Los Angeles. something. I was like, um, Jessica Nola called me a gentleman and a scholar. That's, so, that's all I needed. That's all I needed. So everything, everything, every moment of my life after that has just been like bonus time. Hey guys. I hope you enjoyed the episode. Be sure to follow us on Instagram so that you can keep up with everything we're reading and talking about. You can follow Garrett at Garrett Indeed reads and you can follow me, Kate, at The Girl with a book on

the couch. Thank you.