Join us this week as we sit down with the prolific author Karina Halle to talk about her writing process and her new Dark Gothic Romance duology Hollow and Legend!

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This week we sat down to yap about Hollow by Karina Halle, but of course we go off on many tangents. Ben Barnes anyone?

One man wants to possess her.
The other is literally possessed.
Welcome to Sleepy Hollow. May you never leave.

From a New York Times bestselling author comes a dark academia gothic romance retelling of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, where Katrina Van Tassel doesn't have to choose between Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane, and there are worse things haunting them than the Headless Horseman.

Kat Van Tassel's life was predestined from childhood; she was to marry her best friend, Brom Bones. However, Brom mysteriously vanished from Sleepy Hollow as a teenager. Now, at nineteen, Kat enrolls in Sleepy Hollow Institute, a shadowy school run by her powerful family. There, she becomes entangled with her enigmatic, older teacher, Ichabod Crane, who delves into dark magic.

When Brom returns, suffering from amnesia and a dark transformation, they must confront gruesome murders attributed to a vengeful spirit, The Headless Horseman, while navigating their tangled relationships.

As Kat, Ichabod, and Brom seek answers, their bonds deepen, and forbidden desires take hold. But Sleepy Hollow holds secrets more sinister than they imagined. The Headless Horseman lurks, threatening to claim them, while something even more terrifying looms in the shadows. Embark on a journey of dark mysteries, desire, and danger in the eerie heart of Sleepy Hollow.

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Wowowow guys, we sat down this week with the one and only Steve Walker (like he needs an intro?)

We yap about everything from Tower of Dawn to music to books!

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Welcome to our Author Spotlight Episodes, a spoiler free recommendation of some of our favourite indie authors!

For this Spotlight we are covering The Dark Knight of the Souls by Sohaila Elshater!

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Super special Author Spotlight for Sam to rave about B's book Daughter of Stone, available 31st October 2025.

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GUYS IT FINALLY HAPPENED! This week we sat down with the one and only Raven Kennedy to talk all things Plated Prisoner and her upcoming projects!

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Welcome to our Author Spotlight Episodes, a spoiler free recommendation of some of our favourite indie authors!

For this Spotlight we are covering Through the Wicked Wood by Kristen R. Moore!

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PITH!!

Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.

Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.

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