Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! It’s been a little while, but we are BACK! with a new book club podcast episode on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the surprisingly racy horror novel Spread Me by one of my fave authors, Sarah Gailey.
What’s this episode about?
We kick off the episode with a little personal update about where Kait and I have been for the past few months. We ended the 2025 podcast season a little...
Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word.
Kait and I were over the moon this month because we interviewed one of our favorite horror authors: Ursula Vernon, a.k.a., T. Kingfisher.
We read (and adored) the first two books in Kingfisher’s Sworn Soldier series last year: What Moves the Dead and What Feasts at Night. We are so excited to say that we were some of the first people to read...
Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! Another new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word! Join me and Kait as we discuss Book #2 in The Sworn Soldier series: What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher.
It's another hit for Kingfisher! Kait and I both enjoyed the What Feasts at Night, though I still liked What Moves the Dead more. We appreciated the continued humor in this second book, as well as the banter between the characters...
Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the Gothic horror novel What Moves the Dead, which is Book #1 in The Sworn Soldier series by T. Kingfisher.
This episode is a love fest for What Moves the Dead. Kait and I both really enjoyed Kingfisher's smart, spooky, and surprisingly funny retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. We discuss...
Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the psychological thriller novel Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent.
After throwing her father’s corpse into the family trash incinerator, Sally Diamond doesn’t understand why her neighbors are treating her weirdly. But, it's fine; she's used to be on her own, and she has memories of her dad to keep her...
Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the psychological thriller novel My Murder by Katie Williams.
After being brutally murdered, wife and new mother Lou is brought back to life via cloning, along with several other victims of her serial killer. She gets to return to her happy marriage. Her daughter. Her old job. All the parts of her life she was told she...
Yup: the unthinkable has happened. I, the woman who hates the sound of her own voice, am co-hosting a book podcast.
I've been writing about books for years; now, I'm talking about them, too. If you have a burning desire to hear what my voice sounds like -- and to find out what books you should and shouldn't read -- come listen to me and my critique partner, Kait, on Dark Side of the Word: Podcast.
What kind of books do we talk about?
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