Episodios

  • The Front Matter S2E3 ft. Jenn Baerg Steyn, Owner of Yellowknife Books
    Mar 25 2026

    On this episode of The Front Matter, Publisher Matt Joudrey & Publicist Dani Arieli interview Jenn Baerg Steyn, the proprieter of Yellowknife Books!

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    49 m
  • The Front Matter S2E2 feat. Chelsea McKee-Trenchard Owner of Raven's End Bookstore and author Keith Cadieux
    Dec 28 2024

    Matt Jourdrey, owner of the horror bookstore Raven's End, Chealsea McKee-Trenchard, and author of the Donner Parties, Keith Cadieux, discuss horror, community and building connections.

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    47 m
  • The Front Matter S2E1 feat. Michael Bumsted from Whodunit Bookstore and author C.C. Benison
    Jul 25 2024

    Welcome back to The Front Matter, the podcast where booksellers and authors join our publisher to discuss all things books! On our season 2 premiere we get into the role of the bookseller, the joy of mysteries, and the every changing book landscape with Michael Bumstead, owner of Whodunit Bookstore, and C.C. Benison, author of The Unpleasantness at the Battle of Thornford.

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    55 m
  • The Front Matter S1E7 feat. Kennedy Rooke from Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore and author Patrick Jenkins
    Nov 30 2023

    In the final episode of Season 1 of The Front Matter, host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Patrick Jenkins, author of Tales from Phantom City, and Kennedy Rooke from Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore about the joy of bookstores and art of graphic novels.

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    58 m
  • The Front Matter S1E6 feat. Dr. David Anderson from GoodMinds.com and poet Mary Barnes
    Sep 28 2023
    In this episode, our guests get candid about Indigenous authorship and what Truth and Reconciliation means to them. Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Mary Barnes, Ojibwe poet and author of What Fox Knew and Moving Upstream, and Dr. David Anderson from GoodMinds.com, a First Nations family owned online bookstore that sells First Nation, Métis, and Inuit books.
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    53 m
  • The Front Matter S1E5 feat. Jack Hui Litster from Octopus Books and author Christian McPherson
    Aug 31 2023

    In this episode we visit the great city of Ottawa and the wonderful Octopus Books. Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Christian McPherson, author of Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy, and Jack Hui Litster from Octopus Books about what draws people to bookstores, what the biggest threats to independent bookstores are, and myths about the writing industry.

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    1 h
  • The Front Matter S1E4 feat. Ian Elliot from A Different Drummer Books and author Janet Trull
    Jul 27 2023

    Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Janet Trull, author of Something's Burning, and Ian Elliot from A Different Drummer Books about the joy of bookstores, from the smells to events to the writers whose stories live there.

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    42 m
  • The Front Matter S1E3 feat. Alex Snider from Queen Books and author Megan Wykes
    Jul 7 2023

    Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Megan Wykes, author of Back to the Garden, and co-owner of Queen Books, Alex Snider about their bookstore experiences and the publishing industry at large.

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    52 m