Watchung Booksellers' community of writers and readers dive deep into what they do for the love of books. Watchung Booksellers is located in the heart of Montclair, NJ, a literary beacon filled with writers, journalists, publishers, and avid readers. Each year we host hundreds of author events and every day the most interesting and dedicated readers walk through our doors. Their insights and enthusiasm have inspired us to share our conversations with book-lovers everywhere. We invite you to ...
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X-Men fans (Dylan & Regina) discussing new issues of all X-Men comics and spotlighting the fandom that makes readers feel at home in the House of X.
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Conversations and reviews about Young Adult books for teachers, readers, and caffeine addicts everywhere.
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Learn HOW to learn Chinese with hosts Jared Turner and John Pasden. You will learn tips, strategies, and insights so you can supercharge your language learning. You will also be inspired by guest interviews with people from all over the world who have learned Chinese. Both Jared and John both learned Chinese, lived in China for many years, and have worked with learners all over the world and understand the unique challenges that Chinese learners face. They stay at the forefront of language l ...
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In the not-so-distant future, mind readers are outlawed in Los Angeles. Sid (Dianna Agron) and her family have spent years fighting to protect her true identity as a reader, but her life quickly starts to unravel when a string of gruesome murders are suspected to have been committed by a mind reader. Sid’s true identity risks exposure when she becomes entangled in a romantic affair with a mysterious woman named Andie (Maria Sten), who seems to be involved in a sinister underworld. But after ...
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We are a group of (former) high schoolers who enjoy reading books and watching movies. So as normal people do we decided to make a podcast about it.
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Write Club The Podcast | For Aspiring Writers, Published Authors & Readers Everywhere
Write Club The Podcast | For Aspiring Writers, Published Authors & Readers Everywhere
A weekly show for aspiring writers, published authors and readers everywhere. Join Stephanie Rouse, Theresa Stoker, Heather Worsley , Linda Jack Werlein, Pat Woolfe & Nicola Cairncross each week where they'll share guest readings and interviews, along with what they're reading, what they're writing, what it's really like to be a writer. You can join in the weekly "Name the Novel" quiz and find out "What's On The Bedside Table?". If you like what you hear, come and join our community! Firstly ...
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A monthly podcast dedicated to celebrating the literary short story and all things bookish. Bite-size short fiction for writers and readers everywhere. Listen to a short story or interview on the 1st of each month at 12:00am. Hosted by Tabitha Potts and Martin Nathan open to established, new and emerging writers in the English language. Always free to submit. We are a small organisation run by volunteer writers and producers (Tabitha Potts and Martin Nathan) hoping to benefit the writing com ...
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Passion on the Page is a poetry podcast produced by aois21 publishing featuring aois21 Creatives and guest poets, released every three weeks. If you are interested in being a guest poet, visit media.aois21.com. aois21 publishing is a cloud-based publishing service for authors and readers everywhere, providing the key marketing infrastructure to support self-publishers, the tools and guidance to new authors starting out, and titles that span all genres to entertain every generation of readers.
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There are monsters everywhere. Maybe it’s your neighbor, or that person in the car behind you. It could even be the partner you sleep beside each night… True Crime Exposed was created to shine a light on victims by telling their life stories & discussing the tragedies that took them from us. In this show you will find a new case to binge each week, but that's not all! When possible, TCE includes family, expert, survivor, and wrongfully convicted interviews throughout their episodes. On top o ...
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The podcast about how publishers create, distribute, and monetize digital content.
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"I want to publish a book." Let's talk about the ins and outs of modern publishing. The rules have changed. Options are everywhere. Come for random rants about publishing, questions answered, interviews held. Your host is Sean Buvala, publisher at The Small-Tooth-Dog Publishing Group. Also includes raw audio from FBLive events that Sean records every Monday at authoryes.com
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Welcome to the Ascension! Our world is shifting into a different level of consciousness. This can often be confusing and overwhelming. This podcast will explain what changes the world as well as we are experiencing during the process of waking up and being awake. Shannon is a healer, psychic, medium, clairvoyant and spiritual advisor. Jessica is a healer, psychic, clairvoyant, tarot reader and energy healer. Great fiends, interesting guests and lots of down to earth talks makes this a fun an ...
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Known as the Canadian Mark Twain, Stephen Leacock was a humorist whose gentle parodies and spoofs still evoke a smile and a chuckle more than a hundred years after they were first published. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town was published in 1912. Set in the fictional town of Mariposa in Canada, which is peopled by a delightful assortment of characters, the book has proved to be an enduring classic in the humor genre. Readers around the world continue to enjoy these little stories about the ...
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There are people who launch books and end up just having a nice thing to put on their shelves. Then there are people who launch books that transform their careers—and lives. As a former member of the first group, Legacy Launch Pad publisher and New York Times bestselling author Anna David strongly urges you to be part of the second. In this show, she talks to entrepreneurs and authors about how to intentionally launch the book that will serve as the best business card and marketing tool you’ ...
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A comic book history podcast examining the context and content of both storylines and trends within the industry.
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"John Shore is American's leading non-douchey Christian." -- Dan Savage, Savage Love, and founder of the It Gets Better Project. "John Shore is awesome. The minute I started reading his stuff, I knew he was a brother from another mother." -- Rob Bell, author of Love Wins, Sex God, and Velvet Elvis. "John Shore is a gadfly, calling the Christian Church everywhere to act the way it says it believes about love and justice, which of course makes him an uncomfortable presence in those churches th ...
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1370: InVision Is Looking for ProAV Salespeople to Join Its Event This Month in Scottsdale, Arizona
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My latest episode of Rants & rAVes features TD SYNNEX Senior Vice President Sandi Stambaugh. Sandi talks me through the unique nature of the second annual TD SYNNEX InVision event, taking place Aug. 27-29, 2024. It’s aimed at ProAV salespeople and is highly focused on helping newbies (three years of experience and under) understand how to be succes…
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1369: Here’s a Wrap-Up of Everything MAXHUB Launched at InfoComm 2024
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It may seem like MAXHUB became a UCC leader overnight. But the truth is, there’s a lot of strategy behind what the company does in AV and UCC. My latest Rants & rAVes episode features MAXHUB’s Alan Nicholls, its business development manager, who reviews everything MAXHUB did at InfoComm 2024. If you’re an MS Teams company, you should watch this!
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Interview with Daisy Goodwin the author of Diva
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We interview Daisy Goodwin, novelist and screenwriter, about her latest novel, Diva (Head of Zeus March 2024), inspired by the life of the brilliant soprano Maria Callas. The novel opens at a time when Callas is at the height of her extraordinary career but in a stultifying marriage and haunted both by her unhappy childhood and the ever-present fea…
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How Colossus built one of the largest investing-focused podcast networks
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ When Patrick O’Shaughnessy launched his podcast Invest Like the Best in 2016, he had no intention of building it into a media company. He just wanted to use it to interview the world’s best investing minds so that he could deepen his own understanding of the industry. But the show proved to be a huge …
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Episode 14: A Commitment to Representation
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In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers podcast, Margot Sage-EL interviews Arthur Levine about his prolific career in children’s publishing. Arthur A. Levine is the founder of the independent publisher Levine Querido. His determination to bring a diverse selection of "The Best of the World's Literature for Young People" to American readers intr…
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From the Classroom to China: Teenagers Putting their Chinese to the Test
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In this special episode, host Jared Turner takes you inside a study abroad trip to China with a group of teenagers including his two sons. These teenagers, who have been learning Chinese for years in a dual language immersion program, finally get to put their skills to the test in the wild, navigating real-world challenges, stepping out of their co…
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1368: The Panasonic Connect KAIROS Invents a New Product Category: Broadcast AV
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Panasonic Connect’s Chris Merrill joins me on the latest episode of Rants & rAVes. At InfoComm 2024, I recorded a deep-dive demo of KAIROS, the company’s live production platform that can take nearly any signal and distribute it all via AV-over-IP to any digital canvas. KAIROS is single-handedly building a new market category Panasonic Connect call…
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In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, booksellers Asia Jannah and Nicole Ban chronicle their respective bookselling experience and share insight on the daily operations of working at Watchung Booksellers. Asia Jannah was born and raised in Montclair, and has worked at Watchung Booksellers for a total of 9 years. She is currently the …
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We review From The Ashes Phoenix and Blood Hunt Laura KinneyBy Dylan Carter
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How Gary Arndt built Everything Everywhere, a podcast with 1.5 million monthly downloads
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ What does a professional travel photographer do when all international flights are shut down due to a global pandemic? That’s a question Gary Arndt found himself asking in the early months of 2020. By that point, he had built up millions of social media followers and an entire career from snapping pho…
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In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, authors Katherine Dykstra and Joe Pompeo unpack the nuances of writing in the historical true crime genre. Joe Pompeo is the author of Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime. A veteran magazine journalist and author, most recently as senior correspond…
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Is Your Chinese as Good as You Think it is? Confronting the Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Do you think your Chinese skills are better than they actually are? You might not be alone. This cognitive bias can cause learners to overestimate their proficiency, leading to overconfidence and potential setbacks in their language journey. Jared and John share personal anecdotes and experiences, breaking down the stages of language learning where…
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Episode 237 - From The Ashes Begins
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We review the X-Titles and related books from 07/10/2024By Dylan Carter
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Boost Your Business by Sharing Your Story (Solo Episode)
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Here's a special release for you: the keynote I recently gave at a mastermind that encompasses so much of what I know to be true about coming up with your book idea. It's short but sweet. Enjoy! FOR MORE ABOUT THE PODCAST AND OTHER STUFF, GO TO WWW.ONGOODAUTHORITYPOD.COM.By Anna David
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We review the X-Titles from the Last week of June and First week of July 2024By Dylan Carter
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Episode 235 - The Special PRIDE Wedding Issue
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We review Destiny and Mystiques Weddiing with special guest host TaylorBy Dylan Carter
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In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, designers Olga Grlic and James Iacobelli relay their decades-long experience in cover design at major publishing houses with Watchung Booksellers' emeritus owner Margot Sage-El. Olga Grlic, book designer, is currently VP Creative Director of Wednesday Books, Griffin Paperbacks, Essentials, and an…
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How to Use Instagram Reels to Blow Up Your Book
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You know that kindergarten teacher we all wish we'd had? That's Erin Lee. But part of what makes us all wish she'd been our teacher is the fact that in addition to being a teacher, she's an award-winning children's book author. Still, as we discuss quite a bit around here, being an amazing author doesn't always guarantee book sales. But Erin HAS so…
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In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, authors Laura Marx Fitzgerald and Lily Braun-Arnold discuss how their passion for reading led to writing careers, and how they found inspiration and mentorship along the way. Guest Bios: Laura Marx Fitzgerald is the author of two art mysteries for kids, Under the Egg and The Gallery, and the pict…
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From Reluctant Traveler to Fluent Speaker: Cleopatra’s Chinese Language Adventure
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Cleopatra Wise initially had no desire to learn a foreign language but after being convinced to go to China for a class trip, her visit to Shanghai became a transformative experience that sparked her interest in learning the language. She embarked on a quest to learn Chinese which ended up with her working in Taiwan, Beijing, and later working for …
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Close to Revelation and Check Your Tire Pressure
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This month we have two auto-fiction stories about parents and children. Our first auto-fiction piece, "Close to Revelation" written by Janet Lawrence, is set during the pandemic and tells the story of a woman trying to get pregnant using IVF while chaos erupts all around her. Janet Lawrence is a writer, journalist, and video producer based in New Y…
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Episode 234 - Vampires, Wolverines, & Deadpools Everywhere
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We are still catching up and almost there.By Dylan Carter
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Episode 233 - The End of the 1st Krakoan Age
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We are still Catching up on the Fall of XBy Dylan Carter
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How Jared Newman built Cord Cutter Weekly, a TV streaming newsletter with 32,000 subscribers
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My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ When Jared Newman launched his Cord Cutter Weekly newsletter back in 2016, the streaming TV market was much smaller than it is today, with most TV networks either not having their own streaming app or requiring a cable subscription to access it. But as it turned out, he timed his launch perfectly, as …
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1367: Planar’s WallDirector Could Signal the Future of the AV Cloud
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Could Planar’s WallDirector Cloud software-as-a-service ecosystem, designed to manage Planar’s LEDs, be the cloud-based management platform that every other display company ends up emulating? I think it’s possible! Today’s Rants & rAVes episode features Planar’s Robert Detwiler, who talks about WallDirector and its management of the Planar ecosyste…
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1366: The Peerless-AV STS650 Monitor Mount Includes AV Gear Racking (and Won a 2024 Readers’ Choice Award!)
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Peerless-AV’s STS650 Universal Scissor Wall Mount made its debut in 2024 and immediately became a hit with AV integrators and end users alike due to its unique ability to allow for AV gear to be racked behind it professionally (sans cable ties). Peerless-AV VP Sales, North America and APAC, Brian McClimans, joined the latest episode of Rants & rAVe…
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In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, Janet Torsney and Margot Sage-EL sit down to discuss the wonderful partnership between the Montclair Public Library and Watchung Booksellers--two institutions in Montclair devoted to the love of books. Guest Bios: Janet Torsney became the director of the Montclair Public Library in August 2022 af…
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We launched the Watchung Booksellers podcast with "How It Started": an episode with Margot Sage-EL, the owner, now owner emeritus, of Watchung Booksellers, reflecting on the last 30 years of the business. Today we take a look at how it’s going with Maddie Ciliotta-Young, who left a career in education to take the reigns on running the bookstore, in…
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When to Start Reading for Maximum Fluency
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Discover why reading in Chinese is a game-changer for fluency and learn the best time to start using graded readers. Jared and John break down the benefits of extensive reading and offer tips on how to integrate graded readers into your study routine for maximum impact. Whether you're a beginner or intermediate learner, find out how reading can acc…
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Episode 232 - The Fall of X is Stilling Falling
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Still catching up on X-Men books this is the weeks of May 9th, May 14th, and May 22ndBy Dylan Carter
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In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, authors Laura Sims and Hillary Frank discuss thrillers--how we define them, why we are drawn to them, and how they compare in different mediums: print, audio, film, and television. Our Guests: Laura Sims is the author of How Can I Help You, a New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Book Riot, and Crim…
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