In case you missed the chat tonight on BlogTalk Radio, you can listen to it here:
At the RadioShow Page
An MP3 File
I giggled a lot.. I repeated myself a lot of first, because I was still very nervous! I had no clue how to answer any of the questions! They were hard! It’s a 45 min. show, so in case you don’t have time to listen to the whole thing, I’ll do a little recap here.
- Well there was an introduction! ha!
- We talked about how books can help with things like: self esteem for example
- That I was an “invisible” person in high school, I related to The Opposite of Invisible by Liz Gallagher.
- I showed up for my first swim practice in a two piece.
- Books are an escape!
- Xander is my Rotten-weiler. Everyone loves him, especially Cat.
- I’ve gotten to meet other bloggers. I mentioned Chelsea of the Page Flipper and Lauren of Shooting Stars Mag. I’m amazed that you can have real friendships that develop online!
- Why I like reading YA: relate to the characters and Fantastic Writers! They are the complete package!
- Vlogs
- That I can’t help buying books! Even if I already have them.
- My Favorite books from this year: well the ones I remembered to mention: Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert, Willow by Julia Hoban, and Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater.
- The YA Connection, that is in retirement at the moment.
- The genre that I wish I could read more of: fantasy! Diana Peterfreund author of Rampant asked this one!
- Cindy of Cindy’s Love of Books stopped by
- Cindy asked what was the one thing about blogging that surprised me the most? That authors are accessible! You can talk to them and everything, that’s just crazy!
- Cindy’s favorite book she mention was Willow by Julia Hoban. Lots of Willow talk.
- We couldn’t pick a favorite author!
- Also, thanks to Adele of Persnickety Snark, I remembered I loved Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols.
- Book Blogger Appreciation Week, started by My Friend Amy. And my 10 nominations!
- Vania of Reverie Book Reviews stopped by.
- V asked what’s one of the hardest thing about bloggin? My reviews! I stink at writing them!
- Steph of Steph Su Reads asked what books I read and loved as a teen? I read James Patterson and Micheal Crichton, loved the Jurassic Park books. I didn’t read teen books, there weren’t really any. Loved Goosebumps and Babysitters Club when I was younger.
- Talked about the fact that you can read YA at any age, and the recent negative email and comments that were made on the blog.
- Diana from The Book Resort called in.
- Diana asked where do I see YA trending? We need a new “vampire” I’m predicting unicorns, zombies, faeries and angels!
- Khy from Frenetic Reader stopped by too!
- Khy asked what books have gotten overlooked? I mentioned The Dairy Queen series by Catherine Gilbert Murdock.
- Team Unicorn!
- Plus a few other things that I might have mentioned!
It was a lot of fun! And THANK YOU to everyone who called in and chatted and listened! I really appreciate it!
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Faeries are definitely coming in, and angels, too.
Well, it's certainly nice to hear that there was lots of WILLOW talk — There was talk of THE STORY SIREN over here in NYC as well! I'm surprised your ears weren't ringing as I told the sales people at Barnes and Noble about your amazing blog, the boost you have given me, and the wonderful service you provide to so many authors and readers!!! They were very impressed….. I'm off to listen to the interview!!
Julia Hoban
I listened for about half of the show! You did great.
I grew up reading Goosebumps and The Babysitter's Club, too! They were my favorite books when I was little and I owned every single one in the series.
I agree that faeries are the new thing this year.
You did a great job! I enjoyed listening.
I agree with zombies, faeries, and angels (especially dark angels or fallen angels… those bad boys for some reason) being the new "vampire." Being on that show sounds so cool! Way to go!
By the way, I have an award for you. =) I know you've received it already, but I wanted to nominate you still.
http://bambireads.blogspot.com/2009/08/zombie-chicken-award.html
Have a nice day, Kristi! =)
You did AWESOMELY!
I hope you can do it again sometime- it went so fast!
It was so much fun listening to you! I'm hoping that this is just the start of YA lovers breaking into radio and talk shows… wouldn't it be fantastic if we could get a YA author or blogger on a famous talk show?
You did awesome! It was fun listening to you
Great job!
You did great Kristi, I also received and email from Willow's author Julia Hoban, and she wants to be a guest. As fro Steph's question I always try and get YA bloggers as guests. I have Page Flipper, Greenbeanteenqueen, I heart monster, Ashley and a few others. I already have another YA guest going to appear after yesterdays show, and will always try and fit anybody in who wants to be a guest.
Barry
You were wonderful!
It's funny, because it was playing so quietly on my laptop so I had to plug in my huge sony earphones and I guess it was really quiet in my house because when you mentioned Xander I yelled out "YAY! XANDER!" and just about terrified both of my dogs who were fast asleep next to me. Jinx got all excited and ran to the window to look out, wagging his tail and Annie went to the food cupboard (ha!) and I was trying to listen to you and at the same time tell them "No, no! There's no one there! It's not food time! Go lie down!"
Oops.
I enjoyed listening to the show! You didn't really sound nervous at all!
Great Interview really! I heard it after, but you were great! Seriously. Thanks for the additional book recommendations. Congrats!
I am listening to it now.
By the way, if you do ever need an X book, let me know. I've got one, hehe. 
I don't know when I'd be able to send it your way, but that's ok.
You're doing great so far! I'm only 12 minutes in though, lol, but I love listening to this conversation!
fantastic Job. I really enjoyed listening.
I thought you did really well. At first I thought he wasn't going to let you get a word in!
Glad you had fun though.
I'm such a loser for forgetting. I hope that you do this again. I would totally call and harass you. Anyhoo…off to download the mp3 file for my ipod. Can't wait to listen.
Kristi, you did an amazing job! I believe this is just the start of many awesome things to happen in the YA community.