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Annie Beth Donahue interviews Krista Lynn Weeks about the upcoming release of The Birding Tree on Jan. 19th, 2027 (preorders open soon). Krista discusses how a hobby of birdwatching combined with rediscovering a childhood idea for a story in one of her old notebooks to make the seed of the idea for her new book. As Krista pondered her old idea, she realized it still had immense potential as a Middle Grade novel. Nine years and several edits later, Krista sent the book to Bandersnatch Books and we loved it! We can’t wait to share it all with you in the new year. In the meantime, get to know Krista! Mentioned in this episode: • The Birding Tree - Krista Lynn Weeks www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/birding-tree • A Storied Life - Krista Lynn’s Substack bykristalynn.substack.com • Krista Lynn Weeks’ Site kristalynnweeks.com • Jessica Linn Evans - Illustrator • The Burgess Bird Book for Children - Thornton W. Burgess • Flora and Ulysses - Kate DiCamillo • Charlotte Mason Method • Plot Grid of J.K. Rowling • Merlin Bird ID app Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

Carolyn Clare Givens chats with Betsy Farquhar the Editor-in-Chief of Redeemed Reader, a bookish review site for all types of books. She discusses the origins and mission of Redeemed Reader, along with thoughts on various book prizes, the dangers inherent in reviewing book series before they’re done and the trickiness of navigating social media as a book person. Then Carrie shares her conspiracy theory about the Newbery Medal… ORDER THE REDEEMED READER Mentioned in this episode: Redeemed Reader - www.redeemedreader.com The Redeemed Reader - Janie Cheaney et al. The Newbery Medal Phoenix Award The American Library Association Melissa Sweet - www.melissasweet.net Mari in the Margins - Rebecca J. Gomez Wild Things and Castles in the Sky - Leslie Bustard et al. Enclave Publishing - www.enclavepublishing.com Waxwing Books - www.waxwingbooks.com The Teacher of Nomad Land - Daniel Nayeri Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley The Hero & the Crown - Robin McKinley Jen Bryant - www.jenbryant.com Biblical Critical Theory - Christopher Watkin Awesome Good Clean Jokes for Kids - Bob Philips Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com Lumen Sound from Pixabay This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

Carolyn Clare Givens chats with David Kern about all sorts of bookish topics, including but not limited to, David’s local bookstore (Goldberry Books); his publishing wing with wife, Bethany (Lumen Art); and his podcasts: Close Reads and Withywindle. Then there is also a meditation on midnight conversations with books in closed bookstores… And of course, the most important question is asked: Cheetos or Doritos? ORDER FROM GOLDBERRY BOOKS Mentioned in this episode: • The Charlatan’s Boy - Jonathan Rogers • Lumen Art - Bethany Kern • Withywindle Podcast • Close Reads Podcast • Goldberry Press • Goldberry Books - www.goldberrybooks.com • Lumen Curriculum - https://www.goldberrypress.com/pages/lumen • “Christianity and the Future of the Book” by Alan Jacobs • Winters in the World - Eleanor Parker • From Here to You - Maile Silva • Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal • The Banderpod S3:E6 - Graeme Pitman • Byword Writing App Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com Lumen Sound from Pixabay This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

Rachel Donahue interviews Jonathan Rogers about the new re-release of The Charlatan’s Boy on Oct. 5th, 2026 (preorders open now)! She also discusses how his creation of the writers’ community The Habit has helped her as a writer and hundreds of others. Along the way, Jonathan and Rachel also discuss naming alligators, feechies, dogs in tuxedos, flintknapping tomfoolery, phrenological scams, the picaresque novel, his love of small talk, disintegration vs. reintegration, writing messy by hand, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and finally who are the writers that make Jonathan Rogers want to write? Preorder - The Charlatan’s Boy Mentioned in this episode: • The Charlatan’s Boy - Jonathan Rogers • The Habit Writers Community • The Wilderking Trilogy - Jonathan Rogers • Joe Hox • Flintknapping • Warner Robins, GA Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

The Song of the Stone Tiger by Glenn McCarty has been nominated for audiobook of the year by The Selah Awards! To celebrate we’re closing out season five by sharing Glenn reading the first three chapters of the book. Enjoy! Mentioned in this episode: • The Selah Awards - 2026 https://www.blueridgeconference.com/2026-selah-award-finalists/ • The Song of the Stone Tiger Audiobook - Audible https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Song-Stone-Tiger/dp/B0G1TZ74QK • The Song of the Stone Tiger Audiobook - Spotify • The Song of the Stone Tiger Audiobook - Hoopla www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook/the-song-of-the-stone-tiger-glenn-mccarty/18968967 • The Song of the Stone Tiger www.bandersnatchbooks.com/store/p/stone-tiger Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com Music by DELOSound from Pixabay This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

Rachel Donahue interviews Dr. Carolyn Weber about how poetry has shaped her life and faith, and also her newest release, Four Questions God Asks. Carolyn is best known for her memoir Surprised By Oxford, which has been turned into a movie (available on Apple, Angel or Amazon) but Carolyn is also a poet and the trajectory of her entire life has been altered by how deeply she engaged with a John Donne poem which helped her understand the gospel as a graduate student. Mentioned in this episode: • Surprised by Oxford (2022) • Four Questions God Asks - Carolyn Weber • Surprised by Oxford - Carolyn Weber • Holy is the Day - Carolyn Weber • Sex and the City of God - Carolyn Weber • Holy Sonnets - John Donne • ‘Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God’ - John Donne • Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Surprised by Joy - C.S. Lewis • Homegoing: Poetry for a Season - Carolyn Weber • Summering - Carolyn Weber • Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier • Ties that Blind - Dr. Alan Godwin • George MacDonald Press - David Jack • Introduction to Poetry - Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

Annie Beth Donahue interviews Bethany Faulk about the newest Bandersnatch Book release, Seichō Summer! Bethany describes Seichō Summer as a kind of 90’s Little House on the Prairie, albeit with sushi rather than smoked meats! But both Faulk and Laura Ingalls Wilder lightly fictionalized their own childhoods to make a story that could resonate with all generations about feeling misplaced somewhere… until you slowly grow up and connect the dots. (成長 - Seichō is Japanese for “growth”) Bethany started with her own teenage journals to remember the joys and angsts she’d forgotten and to lovingly recreate the 90’s and to write this coming of age novel from a true place. Annie Beth and Bethany also discuss how Bethany once got a sushi roll named after her! Mentioned in this episode: * Seichō Summer - Bethany Faulk www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/seicho-summer * National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo * Little Women - Louisa May Alcott * The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt * Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder * Flicker.Press Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

Carolyn Givens interviews Melissa Woodruff about her path to being a reader, then a homeschool mom who writes novels, works at her church, and now has become a full partner in Bandersnatch Books! From Radio Shack to camp counseling, Melissa has weaved through life with energy, love and engagement with everyone who God sends her way. When she stumbled into Bandersnatch Books’ booth in the Great Homeschool Convention in 2023, she was mostly looking for good things to read, to fill her inexhaustible need for good books for herself and her kids, but instead she discovered three new friends and sparked a vision for what Bandersnatch Books could become. We’re excited to introduce Melissa to you, and we know you’ll love her as much as we do! Mentioned in this episode: * Melissa Woodruff * Eternal Church - Fort Mill, SC * Season 4: Episode 10 - Melissa Interviews Carrie, Annie Beth and Rachel * The Red Door - Rachel Lulich * Promise - Loren Warnemuende * Goblabet - Ken Priebe * Real Poems for Real Moms - Rachel Donahue * Great Homeschool Convention - South Carolina * Gallows Hill - Lois Duncan * Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Jacob Collins for key audio assistance! Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

Carolyn Clare Givens interviews S.D. Smith (The Green Ember) about where the Green Ember came from, how he seeks to serve his audience, how he stumbled into a grace-filled vocation (albeit with hard work and a calling) and the strange concatenation of events that could possibly align to allow for an entire barbecue restaurant to be filled with only bearded men on a Tuesday! Sam is also releasing a new Green Ember book: The Lost Legend! Carrie and Sam further discuss his role in the Oscar nominated short film Forevergreen directed by Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears. Mentioned in this episode: * S.D. Smith’s Site * The Lost Legend - S.D. Smith * The Green Ember Series - S.D. Smith * Forevergreen - Short Film by Nathan Englehardt and Jeremy Spears * “Leporine” Definition * Withywindle Podcast * CiRCE Institute * Sarah MacKenzie - Read-Aloud Revival * Tale of the Three Trees Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

A.B. Donahue interviews Ambre Sautter about “Reshelving Alexandria” a bookish community on Facebook and later on Substack (organized originally in 2017). Ambre is a wife and mother of five living in the picturesque landscapes of Iowa, and she aims to be a guide for others on their literary journeys, especially in curating their own home libraries. Though she is a homeschooling parent, Ambre doesn’t primarily use her home library for syllabi, but mostly as a place to track all the souvenirs of the places that books have taken her. (Also did you know the librarians of the Library of Alexandria were all pirates? It’s true!) Mentioned in this episode: * Ambre Sautter * Stories from the Ashes Podcast * Reshelving Alexandria * The Red Door - Rachel Lulich * The Token - Samuel Shellabarger * Steele Savage (Illustrator) * Nellie Bly * The Talisman Ring - Georgette Heyer * The Unknown Ajax - Georgette Heyer Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

Carolyn Clare Givens interviews Square Halo’s Théa Rosenburg about co-writing and compiling Strong Allies after Leslie Bustard’s death. Thea had originally planned to be an editor and a collaborator on Leslie’s book Strong Allies, a book that expounds upon the Hebrew word ezer which can be translated as helper, but is perhaps better translated as ‘Strong Ally’. Expounding this concept was Leslie Bustard’s focus in her life but she was unable to complete her book before her death, so Thea stepped in to be a strong ally and weave together a vignettes, essays and other materials into a the literary quilt of Strong Allies. Mentioned in this episode: Strong Allies - Leslie Bustard, Théa Rosenburg Emma M. Lion - Beth Brower Carved in Ebony - Jasmine Holmes Wild Things and Castles in the Sky - Leslie Bustard, Carey Bustard, Théa Rosenburg The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living - Leslie Bustard Tiny Thoughts I’ve Been Thinking - Leslie Bustard Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Betsy-Tacy - Maud Hart Lovelace A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson Jacob Have I Loved - Katherine Patterson Maria Fearing Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

Rachel S. Donahue interviews Rabbit Room’s Andy Patton (Darkling Psalter) about where and how the logistics of productivity overlap with the creative process, and much much more having to do with 3.5x-speed-audiobooks, the Toyota Way, LitRPG, and yellow slime (yes, yellow slime!) and the various niche corners of the internet where LitRPG represents a new kind of publishing model, that’s really a revamp of a very old model: Serial Publishing. Note: Bandersnatch Books has recently joined forces with Flicker.Press a serial publisher for all things good, true and beautiful Mentioned in this episode: Flicker.Press Darkling Psalter Housemoot Andy Patton - The Rabbit Room, Director of Operations The Toyota Way L’Abri Fellowship Yellow Slime Mold LitRPG Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinnaman Royal Road Patreon Lo-Fi Chill Music by Andrii Poradovskyi from Pixabay Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

Annie Beth Donahue interviews Doraine Bennett about writing In the Grip of the Ice, Bandersnatch Books’ most recent adventure. Doraine shares her previous experiences as a writer which prepared her for this epic adventure told from the perspective of real-life stowaway Perce Blackborow, and his journey upon a famous Antarctic exploration ship (Endurance) interspersed with accounts from their valiant leader Shackleton. Doraine’s novel in verse communicates the longing, fear, and courage of the intrepid men who survived this harrowing journey into the unknown, and how they found their way back home. Mentioned in this episode: In The Grip of the Ice - Doraine Bennett In the Grip of the Ice - Study Guide Dorraine Bennett’s Website: www.dorainebennett.com The Infantry Bugler Magazine The Happy Hollisters - Jerry West Bammerhab: Bible Explainer Podcast - SDG Morgan Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

Rachel S. Donahue again interviews Ben Palpant (creator of Brightwing Tales) to learn how a poet approaches a foray into children’s literature. Ben is our first return guest on the podcast (you may remember him from Season 3: Episode 9 where we discussed his poetry book, An Axe for the Frozen Sea). Ben is back after completing a new work of children’s literature in the whimsically adventurous tradition of Wind in the Willows, Watership Down and Winnie the Pooh. Mentioned in this episode: * Brightwing Tales 1: Mole’s Misadventure - Ben Palpant * PREORDER (May 1st) - Brightwing Tales 2: Acorn’s Misadventure - Ben Palpant * “the Holy Ghost over the bent / world broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.” God’s Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins * Brightwing Society Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com

Melissa Woodruff interviews her friends and colleagues Carolyn Clare Givens, Rachel S. Donahue and Annie Beth Donahue for this end of season question & answer episode filled with as many questions that we could answer, taken from all the questions that you listeners sent in. Thank you for sending questions, thank you for listening and thank you for taking an interest in Bandersnatch Books! Also we touch on the future directions that Bandersnatch Books will be moving into for 2026 and beyond! Preorder Joe the Fourth and the King’s Crown Preorder I’ve Got a Bad Case of Poetry (must be before Dec. 5th for Christmas delivery!) Audiobook for The Song of the Stone Tiger - Now Available Mentioned in this episode: * Melissa Woodruff * SDG Morgan * Carolyn Clare Givens www.carolyncgivens.com * The King’s Messenger * Rachel S. Donahue * Annie Beth Donahue * Interview with “Librarian Laura” * Daughter of Arden Series - Loren G. Warnemuende * The Habit Writing Group Also mentioned in this episode: * In the Grip of Ice - Doraine Bennett (Spring 2026) * Currently Untitled MK-CoA-YA - Bethany Faulk (Mid-2026) * Pen & Paintbrush Mysteries: Book 2 - Katherine Ladny Mitchell (Summer 2026) * Red Rex: Book 2 - Matthew Mellema (Summer 2026) * The Birding Tree - Krista Weeks (Fall 2026) * Magda’s Butterflies - Marcia Strykowski (2027) * Elizabrie - Rachael Watson (2027) Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com Diana Pavlac Glyer for our namesake book, Bandersnatch This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com