A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST

This week, romantasy author Kristen Vale, who writes queer cozy fantasy romcoms filled with sweetness & spice, joins us to talk about her latest, A Spell of Heart & Havoc. We talk about how she got started, how romance novels can re-regulate our nervous systems in a wild world, the benefits of escaping into the fantasy genre, building compelling characters, a...

This week, one of our youth librarians interviews Leslie Priscilla, an educator, advocate, and founder of Latinx Parenting, discussing her new book, 'Chancla: Healing Our Families, Ourselves, and Our Culture Through Nonviolent Parenting,' which came out last month. We also talk about how this book is available to borrow from our library's Parent/Teacher section, located in ou...

This week, our co-host Mary Grahame welcomes two professors she studied under during her undergrad years: Dr. Anne E. Duggan, Ph.D. (from Wayne State University) and Dr. Julie Koehler, Ph.D. (currently at Michigan State University), the co-editors of Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales. We talk a...

Brittney Arena is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of A Dance of Lies. Her latest, To Dance With Death, completes the Edge of Glass duology, as she looks forward to next year's Prince of Night. After a challenging health journey, Arena turned to writing—not only as a coping mechanism but as a means of exploration, transporting her to new worlds wherever she was, and all...