Christen Civiletto & Julia Rose
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Best-selling authors, read below the surface.
BOOKSTORM brings authors into lively conversations about the books that made readers linger. The tone is enthusiastic and literary, with attention to craft, psychology, ethics, cover art, series arcs, and the lived experiences behind the work.
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BOOKSTORM is a brisk, affectionate author-interview show for readers who want more than a plot summary. It centers best-selling and widely read authors, then asks what their books are really working through. The conversations are warm and visibly bookish. They often begin with a welcome, a bit of author background, and attention to the physical book, including covers and series placement. Then the show moves into character pressure, moral tension, research choices, and the emotions that keep a reader alert. Ian McGuire’s White River Crossing prompts discussion of 18th-century trade, guns, Indigenous tribes, European expansion, and the language of protection. Caitlin Rother’s Hooked leads into journalism ethics, source boundaries, public trust, partisan reporting, misinformation, and law enforcement. Kat Rosenfield’s How to Survive in the Woods brings out survival identity, open wounds, wilderness, fear, preparation, and the psychology of living after trauma. Brooke Fast’s To Cage a Wild Bird gets framed through author identity, book presentation, Instagram writing, reviews, and a life in the mountains of Maine. Greg Hurwitz’s Orphan X ANTIHERO gives the show room to talk about series accessibility, thriller craft, literary awards, international readership, and the way each installment can welcome new readers. Don Winslow’s The Final Score brings crime fiction, moral delinquency, criminal worlds, and career influence to the foreground. Robert Dugoni’s Her Cold Justice returns to series loyalty, family, a woman lawyer, and the value of authors who think carefully about their themes. Ashley Elston’s Anatomy of an Alibi opens questions of identity, observation, impressions, and how another career can sharpen a novelist’s eye. Kristen Civilletto and Julia Rose bring a high-energy, reader-first style that keeps the interviews moving. The show is polished but conversational. It flatters the pleasure of a great page-turner while still asking why the story works. BOOKSTORM suits readers who love author access, thematic talk, and the feeling of leaving an interview with a longer reading list.
Made for: For readers of thrillers, crime fiction, historical novels, and memoirs who want author context without losing the pleasure of enthusiasm. It also fits book-club listeners who like themes, craft, and character psychology.
What sets it apart: BOOKSTORM combines upbeat reader excitement with sustained attention to ethics, identity, survival, justice, and moral pressure. The interviews stay close to specific books while letting authors explain the ideas and choices behind them.
Dive deep into best-selling books with author Christen Civiletto and poet Julia Rose as they interview top authors about the hot-button topics and heartfelt themes that drive their bestsellers. Your favorite authors are here! And this mother-daughter duo is asking them the BIG questions about their novels, memoirs, and more. Love great books? This podcast is for you!
Kristen Civilletto and Julia Rose take you past plot and into the choices authors made underneath.
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A considered author interview about colonial trade, paternalism, and the costs of progress.
BookStorm keeps the focus on Ian McGuire's larger concerns: colonial trade, paternalism, and the uneasy meeting of cultures. It is at its best when McGuire slows down and explains the trading relationship in plain terms, showing how European goods, including weapons, could help…
A sharp author conversation where newsroom ethics and thriller instincts keep crossing paths.
Caitlin Rother's visit to BookStorm frames crime writing as more than a genre exercise; it becomes a discussion of reporting, source limits, and the ethical weight that can sit behind suspense.
A survival story opens into a sharp study of identity and fear.
Kat Rosenfield's conversation about How to Survive in the Woods frames survival as a problem of identity as much as endurance. The episode follows Emma's psychological journey while also tracing a second psychological plot around her, returning to the book's central unease:…
Great books, taken chapter by chapter, with delight
Book talk with room to wander.
BookStorm speaks with Ian McGuire about White River Crossing, set in 1766 at a remote Hudson Bay Company outpost and centered on a trader's claim of gold at Ox Lake.
Kristen Civilletto interviews New York Times best-selling author Caitlin Rother about Hooked, a thriller set in La Jolla, California, and tied to her 16-book career in true crime, memoir, and fiction.
BookStorm hosts Kristen Civilletto and Julia Rose interview Kat Rosenfield, a New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award nominee, about How to Survive in the Woods.
Hosts Kristen and Julia interview author Brooke Fast about her book 'To Cage a Wild Bird' and her background as an Instagrammer living in a tiny house in Maine.
Hosts Kristen Civiletto and Julia Rose interview bestselling author Greg Hurwitz about his new thriller 'Antihero' and his Orphan X series.
Hosts Kristen Civiletto and Julia Rose interview bestselling author Don Winslow about his new collection of crime fiction novellas.
Alison Brennan joins BookStorm co-host Kristen Civilletto to discuss Make It Out Alive, her 51st book and the latest in the Quinn and Costa FBI series, 20 years after her first book appeared in January 2006.
BookStorm hosts Kristen Civilletto and Julia Noel Rose interview Robert Dugoni about Her Cold Justice, the third Keira Dugan legal-thriller novel involving Michael Westbrook's murder case.
Hosts interview bestselling author Ashley Elston about her novel and themes of identity.
Hosts interview bestselling author Ross Montgomery about his new novel Murder at World's End.
Co-hosts Kristen and Julia interview New York Times bestselling author James Grippando about his new novel 'The Right to Remain'.
Co-hosts Kristen Civiletto and Julia Rose interview #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer about his fiction and nonfiction books, TV shows, and writing career.
Co-hosts Kristen Civiletto and Julia Rose interview bestselling author Liza Palmer about her career and books.
Co-hosts interview co-authors Simon Gervais and Ryan Steck about their thriller novel 'The Second Son'.
Co-hosts Kristen Civiletto and Julia Rose interview bestselling author Susan Mallory about her novels and writing process.
Co-hosts Kristen and Julia interview thriller authors Isabella Maldonado and Jeffrey Deaver about their new book and series.
Co-hosts Kristen Civiletto and Julia Rose interview bestselling author Brian Freeman about his latest Bourne novel, The Bourne Escape.
Co-hosts Kristen Civiletto and Julia Rose interview bestselling author Daniel Silva about his latest novel and his long-running series featuring protagonist Gabriel Allon.
This episode features an interview with New York Times best-selling author Kristina McMorris discussing her new book 'The Girls of Good Fortune' and her writing career.