ACOFAE Podcast Presents: A Far Better Thing: “2025 - it was the worst of times, it was the worst of times” When was the last time you picked up a one of the "classic" books for fun? Has it been a while? Was it required reading that you were tested on at the end? Keep those answers in mind as you join Laura Marie and Jessica Marie in discussing A Far Better Thing by H.G. Parry. A reimagining of A Tale of Two Cities, this story sees the reader encountering now only the classic characters like Sydn...
Jul 14, 2025•52 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Cinderalla is Dead: Reading is timeless. Slightly in their classics era, ACOFAE is reading diversely all year round and exploring Cinderella is Dead. A reimagining of the classic story in every way possible, the reader finds themselves in Prince Charming's kingdom and all is not well. Cinderella has been dead for 200 years and her story has been made into laws that women must follow, and they are horrible laws. Men have all the power and no one ever questions the King. E...
Jul 07, 2025•1 hr 3 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: The Robin on the Oak Throne: "Gentleman in the streets, freak in the sheets." So. There are monsters. The main characters are based out of New York, but we're not starting in NYC in book 2. We're starting off somewhere else, and we're stealing something. No, not one of the things we need, stealing something else for reassssons. There are memories wrapped up in nightmares capped off with spells, and therapy. No really. There's also parties, theater, an auction, a Queen, t...
Jun 30, 2025•1 hr 22 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Jessica's Genre: Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood. Celebrating Jessica Marie's half birthday with her genre of choice, ACOFAE dives into the Romance genre with Ali Hazelwood's Love, Theoretically. Surprising maybe someone, Laura Marie loved this story that is filled with Academia, it's politics, people pleasing, and learning how to truly be yourself. Oh and also unlearning the need for male validation. ACOFAE loves that. Elsie is a Physicist and needs a job badly. Ja...
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 11 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil: "Hunger." In an ACOFAE first, Laura Marie went into this fantastic book completely blind and ended up not taking notes during either read through! An ACOFAE first! So what happened in this book that sucked Laura Marie in so completely that by the time she came up for air, over 60 pages had passed? If you read the back cover it's obvious, but Laura Marie did not so you can imagine the shock. Join Jessica Marie as she guides listeners a...
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 14 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Coming of Age: Seven Little Kisses by Samanth Ferrand What are your favorite "Coming of Age" stories? Are they filled with angst? Awkwardness? Was it set in middle school? Before? After? Does it make you wince to recall the most painful parts? These are some of the questions that live within the genre of Coming of Age and their answers will stay with you. Using Samantha Ferrand's Seven Little Kisses to explore the genre a bit more, Laura Marie and Jessica Marie are throw...
Jun 09, 2025•57 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Cursebound: "Why are we letting people go!?" ACOFAE is back in the world of Fae and Elves with Cursebound, the sequel to Faebound which brought us to Yeeran and Lettel and their world of animals, curses, war, and politics. Yeeran is determined to get the word out about the hidden and cursed Fae and decides that telling her ex is the best way to do that. Surprising absolutely no one, it goes terribly and both Yeeran and the reader are thrust into political situation that ...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 3 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Shield of Sparrows: "You are a bird." It feels like it's been a while since Laura Marie and Jessica Marie were both delighted with a new release and while it probably hasn't been that long, finding the joy seemed harder than ever until ACOFAE picked up Shield of Sparrows. A big claim for sure, but how often does the journey of self discovery, self acceptance, and MONSTERS come into play together in a Romantasy? Monsters is a new addition to the ACOFAE lexicon and Laura M...
May 26, 2025•1 hr 41 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Lilo and Stitch '02: " 'O'hana' means 'Family'." How old were you when you first watched Lilo and Stitch? Did you cry? Have you seen it as an adult? You will cry. ACOFAE dives into the animated Lilo and Stitch and it's an episode that is filled with tears. Mainly Jessica Marie's, but it's a tough watch for Laura Marie too. Lilo is lonely and asks for the best angel there is, and Stitch is an experimental alien from another galaxy that is bent on destruction. Throw in CPS...
May 19, 2025•1 hr 1 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: 202. The Mummy: "The triangle, like a pyramid, is the strongest shape." ACOFAE dips into the archives and is slyly setting up some things in the future by covering the 1999 classic action-adventure movie, The Mummy. A movie that served as the awakening for an entire generation, Brenden Fraser and Rachel Weisz knew what they were doing as Laura Marie and Jessica Marie watch them fall in love while exploring the sands of Egypt. Heartwarming and extremely funny, The Mummy h...
May 12, 2025•1 hr 6 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: SPECIAL EPISODE 22: Our new friend, Aimee Phan! ACOFAE welcomes to the podcast educator and author Aimee Phan to discuss her latest release, The Lost Queen! Steeped in Vietnamese myths, tales, and legends The Lost Queen takes the familiar stories and reimagines them in modern day California, High School problems and all! Jolie is a swimmer who is in the throws of being a social outcast for reasons and Huong is the girl who steps in and shows Jolie that all is not what it...
May 05, 2025•46 min
Acofae Podcast Presents: Roswell '99: "Men don't yearn anymore." Surprising probably no one, Laura Marie is the catalyst behind covering the 1999 WB hit Roswell. While watching her comfort show, Laura Marie was struck with the feeling that Jessica Marie needed to see these aliens yearn. And yearn they do. A classically teen high school drama with big feelings and science fiction, Laura Marie watched this when it was on air and has a lot to say about it. Jessica Marie is kicking her feet giggling...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 10 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: SPECIAL EPISODE 21: Our new friend, Jade Presley! ACOFAE welcomes to the podcast New York Times Bestselling Author Jade Presley to discuss her newest release The Never List. Long time listeners will notice that this book is the podcast's first 5 person why choose and Laura Marie and Jessica Marie have all the questions. From the writing process to blocking out those spicy scenes, Jade gives ACOFAE all the details about fantasy world building, map creation, research and m...
Apr 21, 2025•47 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Special Episode 20: Our new friend, Kait Ballenger! ACOFAE welcomes to the podcast award-winning author Kait Ballenger to discuss her newest release Original Sinner! Join Kait, Laura Marie and Jessica Marie as they dive into the inspiration, the writing process and all the daddy issues that come with Lucifer as he stomps around New York City as a billionaire CEO. Brooding and a little lost, Lucifer meets his match in Charlotte a girl from out of town that temps Lucifer i...
Apr 14, 2025•51 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: ACOFAE celebrates 200 episodes!: "We could be syndicated." ACOFAE celebrates 200+ episodes by choosing and reflecting on their five favorite episodes of all time! Join Laura Marie and Jessica Marie as they go over their five episodes and discuss all of the ins and outs of what makes an episode really WORK. The choices will surprise you as much as it did Laura Marie and Jessica Marie and the reasons why episodes were chosen may surprise you even more! ACOFAE talks bad rev...
Apr 07, 2025•59 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Heat of the Everflame: "I'm not a regular mom, I'm a spy mom." Laura Marie and Jessica Marie are heated as they discuss _Heat of the Everflame _. Diem is making choices and they certainly are choices as her group journeys across borders and seas causing chaos every way they turn. Luther is single-minded in his determination to see Diem find her true purpose, and everyone else is along for the ride as betrayals are afoot and if Diem's mother has no haters then ACOFAE is d...
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 37 min
ACFOAE Podcast Presents: Marie Antionette: "The revolution can be girly pop." ACOFAE says "Happy Birthday!" to it's very own Laura Marie and her choice for an episode this year was the film, Marie Antionette. A movie that Jessica Marie has never seen and one that Laura Marie had to learn how to love. Marie Antionette is a girly pop take on the life and death of Marie Antionette. No violence here, just cake, pastels, shoes, hair, dogs, and gossip. Oh and a husband who likes to hunt more than spen...
Mar 24, 2025•1 hr 14 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Series Fatigue: The Dryad Storm by Laurie Forest Being excited about a new release can be scary. Being excited about a new release that is ALSO the conclusion to the series is another level of excited/scary. When that new release that is also the conclusion of the series then turns out to be a DNF for BOTH Laura Marie and Jessica Marie, then the question becomes? Was it them? or Is it really that bad? The Black Witch Chronicles comes to an end with The Dryad Storm, the b...
Mar 17, 2025•57 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: True Blood: "Bill, I've got the ick." Vampires can be so many things: sparkly, fast, blood thirsty, gorgeous. They can also be Confederate and Southern, which is what is going on here in ACOFAE's True Blood rewatch Season 1 episodes 1 and 2. Sookie is just ordinary girl with an extraordinary ability until Vampire Bill walks into her seating section and changes her life. Throwing it all the way back to 2008, True Blood was a moment, is a moment, and will be a moment in ti...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 16 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Want curated by Gillian Anderson: "Fantasy is freedom." Kicking off International Woman's Month with Gillian Anderson seems fitting. A woman that has touched the lives of so many different people in different ways, a champion for STEM and the skeptic-turned-believer, Gillian, is more involved in our everyday lives than we knew! "Want" is a collection of stories that have been curated and catalogued by Gillian and presented to us the reader in a way that challenges and ex...
Mar 03, 2025•58 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Onyx Storm: "Why, Rebecca? WHY!?" If you've been a listener for a while, then you are well aware that ACOFAE and the Empyrean Series have not always gotten along. There's been discussions about being bratty, snobby, and enjoying things just for what they are -- vibes. So in light of all this history, Laura Marie and Jessica Marie have called in some backup to discuss book 3 of The Empyrean Series Onyx Storm. ACOFAE welcomes Aris to the pod to help frame discussions to pu...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 31 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Faebound: "When someone offers you a throne, TAKE IT!" Sometimes all it takes is a good twist to make the reader sit up straight and pay attention. Sometimes it takes thinking about that twist and all it's repercussions to cement the storyline for a reader, and sometimes it's a slog until it's not. Listener recommended Faebound is all that and more: romantic fantasy, military drama, sisterhood plot lines, and a secret prince! Yeeran was born into war. Ambitious and of hi...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 5 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Pop Culture Poetry 003: Wicked: Act 1: "Something bad is happening in.." Wicked is so many things: a book, a Broadway show, a movie and at it's core words and music. Join ACOFAE as they continue their Pop Culture Poetry series with a dive into the lyrics of Wicked Act 1. There is something special that happens when you look at the words on the page and tease out meaning from music. Laura Marie and Jessica Marie are gushing and tearing up as they recount their first exper...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 14 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Glow of the Everflame: "Going through the motions not the Emotions." You know that feeling when a book series makes you FEEL something? Not simply frustration or ick but passion, anger, confusion, and maybe sometimes that little spark of joy. That's what ACOFAE is feeling as they continue on with the Kindred's Curse Saga in book 2, Glow of the Everflame. Diem has to learn how to politic or die trying in a book that takes us to the heart o the palace and into the thick of...
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 25 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: The Truman Show: "You’re afraid. That’s why you can’t leave.” Romanticize your life! Become the main character in your own life! What happens when these things aren't just suggestions but actual fact? Enter Truman Burbank star of The Truman Show, a show all about him all the time, and everyone is watching. All the time. Except he doesn't know. My design. Wow. Join Laura Marie and Jessica Marie as they explore The Truman Show with Jim Carrey and have thoughts and feelings...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 8 min
ACOFAEPodcast Presents: Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole: "Denial with a capital D." The wonderful thing about fantasy is that it's an escape. Sometimes an escape from reality is so needed that Laura Marie and Jessica Marie change up the recording schedule to accommodate Spark of the Everflame. Diem is and isn't like other girls and her world is one of division, gods, and magic. When the old king dies, Diem is thrust into a world of rebels and violence that has her questioning her loyalties t...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 19 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: The Wizard's Brew: "January is weird, let's make it weirder." It's 2025 and things that we are doing this year is finding joy wherever it may take us. Be it different genres, subgenres, or formats...altogether 2025 is the year ACOFAE leaves no stone unturned in the search for joy. So that should explain why Laura Marie and Jessica Marie find themselves in a crime procedural. No really, CRIME! Think 1920's crime noir with gnomes. And werewolves. Maybe some shapeshifters. ...
Jan 13, 2025•56 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: SPECIAL EPISODE 019: Our new friend, Melissa Landers! ACOFAE welcomes to the podcast New York Times, USA Today, and Sunday Times bestselling author Melissa Landers! Laura Marie, Jessica Marie, and Melissa dive into all things The Half King, including the writing process, genre shifts, writing romance and more! Melissa's newest release The Half King takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery and a literal journey as we are exploring a new fantasy world through advent...
Jan 06, 2025•58 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Catching Fire: "Eyes bright, chins up, smiles ON." Ending the year with some "welcome to the revolution" vibes, Laura Marie and Jessica Marie are rewatching Catching Fire (movie two) in the The Hunger Games series (books by Suzanne Collins.) Nothing says the "end of the holidays" like a slog through the country to visit people that don't really like you, all to be roped back into the same thing you said you'd never do again. We laugh so we don't cry. Katniss and Peeta ar...
Dec 30, 2024•1 hr 6 min
ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Secrets of Blackthorn Hall: "Back with old friends as we always say." Deck the halls and fa-la-la yourself because it's Shadowhunter season on ACOFAE! This year Laura Marie and Jessica Marie are covering Secrets of Blackthorn Hall, a web series turned kickstarter turned beautiful physical book filled with Joy. That's right, there aren't any sad tears here, just happy ones as everyone you've ever loved (and some people that you hate) are included in the story of a famous ...
Dec 23, 2024•59 min
