Bookish & Unbalanced
Bookish & Unbalanced is a podcast all about mental health in the book world. We dive deep into conversations and discussions with authors, readers, reviewers, editors, publishers, and more to talk about mental health. From our own personal mental health, to the characters in books, to the community as a whole.
Episodes
Join us as we interview MJ from MJ's Queer Book Club and talk all things invisible illnesses and mental health.
Join us as we interview Elizabeth Broadbent about her non fiction and fiction writing, gothic horror, C-PTSD, and growing up in a traumatic family.
Join Ami, Katie, & AJ as we interview Rachel Bowdler about IBS, anxiety, autism, and just why she was told "Have you tried melons?"
Join us as we interview queer author Sophie Stern in what it's like to write in the queer book community and about post-partum depression.
Join us this episode to discuss the journey of self-discovering in sexuality to gender identity. Join AJ, Ami, and Katie as we interview Rey "Rachel" Spangler, romance author extraordinaire.
Join the hosts, AJ, Katie, and Ami, as we discuss the difference between self care and coping skills, and just why we need both. And watch Ami have a few revelations about themself.
Join us as we talk with avid reader and author Jazz Shouse about trauma dumping in our books and why YA is such an important genre to read and write.
Join us as we talk with the stupendous Jeremy Carlisle Parker about narrating and acting and opera singing, but mostly about making sure you have a strong community support surrounding you, especially in such isolating work.
Join the hosts as we call each other out on having burn out (except Katie, she's practically perfect in every way). We discuss signs of burn out and what to do to pull ourselves out of the depths of its grasp.
Join Katie and AJ as they interview Emily Campbell, an avid reader of sapphic fiction, and what she likes to read and why, and how finding books with diverse representation may have saved her life.
Join us as we interview author Dean Klinkenberg about his academic career in psychology to writing non-fiction and fiction, and learn a few tips about the Mississippi River.
Join your hosts as we discuss what it means to find community in the book world and an update on where we are in life and writing projects.
Join us as we talk with Alicia from Alicia Reviews to talk about grief, mood reading, and the wide variety of books within the sapphic book community.
Join Jacqueline Ramsden as they discuss writing with CPTSD and anxiety, and the journey to finding their own pace of creating stories that represent those with mental health struggles.
Giggle alongside Adrian, Katie, and Ami as we attempt to discuss tropes and what our tropes are. Whether or not you hate tropes, they are useful when it comes to being an author and marketing. But somehow, we couldn't stop laughing for most of this podcast. A wonderful break to the heavy topics we generally have.
Listen to Aven's ideas on a genderless world, her struggle with mental health, and what it's like in the narrator's box.
Join us as we interview Katherine and discuss writing mental health into our books with intention.
Join the conversation about why Ami and AJ are so anti "self care" and what we think we really should be doing.
Join us as Hayden Quinn talks all things YA books and finding and creating accessible care.
Join us as we interview JJ Hale about a late in life ADHD diagnosis and learning to trust yourself.
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