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Book Creators on International Podcast Day, A Sit-Down with Jennifer Baker & More

Florence Pugh, Ta-Nehisi Coates, People We Meet on Vacation

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Kyle Colley
October 01, 2024

Happy October!

We are just 30 days away from Halloween.

59 days until Thanksgiving.

Which means we are only 86 days until The Polar Express pulls up.

All Abroad!

Photo from The Polar Express Movie

Check out our latest Creators Talk Podcast with the outstanding Hannah Lisa Lohr.

We talk about everything from moody reads and creators monetizing in the book space, to Hannah’s beautiful home library.

Enjoy!

The Tale of the Table:

  • 📚 A Sit-Down with Jennifer N. Baker

  •  📺 International Book Podcast Day

  • 📖 New Book by Ta-Nehisi Coates

This Week On Bookum:

This week we get to sit down with author, editor, advocate, and 20-year publishing veteran Jennifer N. Baker for the Founders Talk Podcast.

Jennifer is the creator and host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary!

We will discuss everything from podcasting to publishing and her writing process.

This is sure to be an exciting conversation!

If you have any questions for Jennifer Baker, please make sure to reply to this email or add them to the community feed on Bookum.

You can listen live on Bookum this Friday at 1 PM EST!

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This Week in The Book World:

Yesterday was International Podcast Day (yup, news to us too), so it's only right that we talk about book podcasts.

Book podcasts have played a pivotal role in how people discuss and discover books and authors.

Content creators have built strong relationships with their communities through audio (which, as you know with Nooks, we at Bookum believe in the power of audio conversations around books).

In the spirit of podcasts & creators, we wanted to highlight some important book (and writing) podcasts you should check out, along with a sentence reason why:

The Stacks with Traci Thomas
Reason: Because of Traci—listen, and you will understand why; amazing guest who always are very open.

The Baldwin 100 with Cree Myles by Penguin Random House + Vintage Books
Reason: The concept is awesome, well done, and the luminaries who share their stories on James Baldwin are fascinating.

Founders Podcast with David Senra
Reason: David Senra's mission is to read 1,000 books on the world's best entrepreneurs and share their stories and takeaways.

Write-Minded with Brooke Warner & Grant Faulkner
Reason: Weekly inspiration for writers from all walks of life on how they write and navigate the publishing space.

How I Write with David Perell
Reason: David has some of the best podcast guests, and he asks them insane writing questions that no one else does.

She Well Read
Reason: The chemistry between Samra and Lana is always fun, and they turn one book club pick into a full season of conversation.

Reckon True Stories with Deesha Philyaw & Kiese Laymon
Reason: Feels like eavesdropping on the craziest author party you somehow got an invite to.

Check these out and let us know which ones you end up becoming a fan of!

Also, if you want to host your own real-time podcast conversations with your book friends, start a Nook on Bookum!

This Week in Publishing:

There are some authors who, when they drop a book, you just know they are going to say something thought-provoking—and Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of them.

The Between the World and Me author is back with a new book, The Message.

Summary:
"Coates journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities."

Add the book to your TBR list on Bookum:

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See you next week!

Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):

Elba Idris to star as Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart TV series by A24 Studios https://www.bellanaija.com/2024/09/idris-elba-things-fall-apart-tv/

Florence Pugh will executive produce and star as the lead character Cathy Ames https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/east-of-eden-series