Episodes & Transcripts

Today we had the pleasure of chatting with Samantha Saldivar! Tune in for all things Sapphic sports romance, Sam’s origin story, and centering our favorite underrepresented stories. Links: Sam’s IG Running Home to You Play You For It Cleat Cute Honey Girl Kiss Me, Maybe Imogen, Obviously The Perfect Match I Think They Love You…

Today we chatted with bestselling speculative author and fellow podcastor Sunyi Dean! Join us as we dive into conversations about publishing, The Girl With a Thousand Faces, and ghost stories, both the ones we write, and the ones we’ve experienced! Links: The Girl With a Thousand Faces Sunyi’s website Publishing Rodeo Espíritu When Sleeping Women…

On this episode we got to chat with bestselling and award-winning author, as well as a national leader for Authors Against Book Bans, Adib Khorram! Join us while we talk about his newest release, One Word, Six Letters, and all the uncomfortable truths it brought up for us. Links: One Word, Six Letters You’ve Found…

We had such a blast talking with Ahmad Saber on this episode, from his journey to publication to deep dives into spirituality and queerness, and even coming up with a new book idea together! Links: Ramin Abbas Has Major Questions Ahmad’s instagram LGBTQReads Devout by David Archuleta I Kissed Shara Wheeler Call Me by Your…

We had a scary good time talking with Vincent Tirado about all things horror: the craft, the tropes, and ALL the hot takes. Links: Patreon You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom We Don’t Swim Here Save the Cat Writes Horror Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Where to watch It…

Join us as we welcome the one and only Alechia Dow onto the Bidi Bidi Book Pod! On this episode, we shared about publishing woes, but also took some much needed time to celebrate our wins. Links: Signed copies of Until the Clock Strikes Midnight (if they haven’t sold out): An Unlikely Story, Mysterious Galaxy,…

On this episode, we talked with William C. Morris Award finalist Stefany Valentine about how life imitates art, writing IP, sensitivity readers, Avatar the Last Airbender, and fought over who had the hottest take. Links: Patreon Ko-Fi First Love Language Love Makes Mochi My Galvanized Friend Podcast recommended books

The “second chances” PR team is here to preach! We talked about Achillean romance, surviving in the publishing industry, representation, and the importance of going to bat for marginalized communities, especially if you read or write about them. You can access Julian’s secret extra question on our Patreon Links mentioned: Last First Kiss Find My…

For our inaugural episode of the Bidi Bidi Book Pod, we talked about the origin and mission of this podcast, how our 2026 is going so far, shared some author goals, and manifested some dreams. We also talked about what we’re currently working on, though some of those bits had to get edited out just…