ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Join us every other Tuesday as Erik J. Brown (Author of All That's Left in the World & Lose You to Find Me) and Alyssa Ljub (Netflix's The Circle Season 4 & Alyssa Explains it All Podcast) celebrate the growing popularity of YA Novels. Each episode will contain stories from authors, recommendations or lists that is sure to expand your goodreads list!
Update frequency:
every 17 days
Average audio length:
63 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
57 episodes
since Jan. 29, 2024
episodic
explicit content
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Join the YA-OK podcast as they are joined by a diverse panel of Young Adult authors to discuss the importance of representation in all literature but ESPECIALLY when it comes to YA novels. Erik J. Brown and Matt Kelly will welcome authors Hannah V Sawyerr, Susan Lee, Julie Soto, Laura Taylor Namey…
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This week we are doing a Spoiler Filled Deep Dive into Erik's new Thriller "Better The Devil". Make sure you have read the book prior to this episode to avoid spoilers!
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For our 50th Episode we sit down with Ellen Cochrane who took a true story she remembered from her youth and crafted an exciting and informative middle group book out of it. Follow the Water has strong "Hatchet" vibes in all the best ways and we know you're gonna love Ellen as much as we did!
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We're back!! Today we sit down with author Cassie Miller to discuss her debut YA Novel "Meet Me Under the Lights"! This book was pitched to us as "Friday Night Lights" meets "The Notebook" which obviously checked all our boxes. Enjoy an hour conversation about baseball, theater and Kenny Ortega!
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In a mini-Episode Producer Matt sits down with past guest Lance Rubin about his new book Forever 16 and the audiobook he made with his wife and brother!
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This week we go through our favorite books we read in 2025!
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For our Christmas Episode this year we are very excited to be joined by Kevin Jakubowski, a screenplay writer who wrote the YA novel 8-Bit Christmas which later became a huge hit on HBO Max. We discuss the transition from screenplays to novels as well as what it was like seeing his first book beco…
This week we are joined by the author team Fox Starr about their new Fantasy YA novel The Bone Tower!
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This week we are joined by author Randy Ribay who wrote the critically acclaimed Patron Saints of Nothing as well as well as some Avatar The Last Airbender novels and the more recently released "Everything We Never Had"
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This week Erik and Alyssa are joined by Abigail Hing Wen who talks about her novel "Loveboat, Taipei" which was turned into a Netflix movie as well as her newest novel "The Vale"
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