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Write a Bachelor-Style Horror with Madi Lim of BookTok News
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textYou may know Madi from her series BookTok news, but lets go back to her college days. In today's episode we take a real flier Mad...
Write a haunted college apartment love story and get revenge on your ex with author Maxym M. Martineau
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWelcome back with our first episode of season 2!! This episode re-writes the actual experience Maxym had living in a haunted apartment ...
Write a magical realism book about the Fae in the Irish Countryside with Nathan Shuherk @schizophrenicreads
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWelcome to the season 1 finale! -After a night out at the bars, our main character finds the trains have ended for the night and he mus...
Write a Witchy Book Where We Break a Hex our Grandma Put on our Skeptical Ex with Author Maya Ameyaw
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Young Adult author Maya Ameyaw as we take a reddit post and write a witchy Christmas Carol quest where you heal your inner child an...
Write a College Thruple book but One of the Members is a ghost with Author Akwaeke Emezi
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin us in interviewing Akwaeke Emezi about their new book, writing experience in writing YA, Adult fiction, and for TV. Their newest b...
Get Revenge on Your Commitment-phobic Ex by Dating His Brother with Author Ava Rani
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhen your ex is taking their new fiance to a mutual friend’s wedding, the only right answer is to bring his brother he’s always been...
Write a children's book about Mothman's son and his little sister's detective agency with @novelniah
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textDani was just a normal kid until tragedy struck and she had to go live with her older half brother–who isn’t what he seems. When Dan...
Write a messy college romance about two advice columnists at the school paper with indie author Chelsea Curto
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin us this week with romance author Chelsea Cutro of Face Off and the DC Stars as she perpares for the release of her first dark roman...
Write a Paranormal College Film-Bro Redemption with a Sapphic Romance SubPlot With Debut Author Cait Jacobs
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhen Doreen and Sam become roommates their freshman year of college, they don't expect a nefarious ghost to add to the tension of s...
Write a Workplace Revenge Romance and Forgive Your Inner Child with Best-Selling Author Diana Quincy
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis week I had the honor of interviewing best-selling author and award-winning television journalist Diana Quincy about her new book &q...
Write a Campy Sorority Cannibalism Book with @curlyhairbiblio
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin me this week with Liv @curlyhairbiblio who is a booktokker, bookstagrammer, editor of Readin' magazine, and a publicist for Sc...
Re-write the 2005 crime drama Bones with less will-they-won’t-they and more dogs Guest starring @jacfrostisreal
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJac and I take an 8 season long will-they-wont-they and get the characters together in two seasons with more communication, more dogs, a...
Write a children's book series about talking to animals and finding your place in the world with Jenessa of the Read the Book First podcast
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe're baaaaack!!-When Blue's chance encounter with a leopard seal leads to big changes in her life. We follow 9-year-old Blue ...
Write a Heartwarming, Groundhog Day Reimagining that Tackles Grief and Family with Author, Ravynn Stringfield
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhen a teacher’s watch stops at the exact time of his father’s death, he set out to do whatever he can to prevent it, but when nothi...
Write a Dual Love Story Between Two Men and the Three Ducks They are Desperate to Save with @recitrachel
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textBill had no idea that his commute to work would lead him to rescuing not one, not two, but three ducks on the side of the road. This cha...
Write a Twisted, Adult-Summer-Camp Thriller with Obsession and Unreliable Narrators. Guest Staring @sarahsbookstacks
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIt's our twentieth episode!!! After losing her boyfriend and all of her friends Sarah decides to go to an adult summer camp to reco...
Write a Sapphic, Multiverse Tragedy with Debut Author Maddie Martinez
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAfter losing the love of her life, Jac is contemplating an ultimate ending to their story when she stumbles upon a stairwell that transp...
Write a sapphic, enemies to lovers, forced-proximity romance with a rabbit on the loose! Guest staring author Gabriella Gamez
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textVideo episodes can also be found on YouTube. You can follow the pod onhttps://www.instagram.com/ifitwasabookTiktokhttps://www.tiktok.co...
Write a college, rivals-to-lovers, sports romance that challenges the patriarchy with @dodothebookbitch
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWrite a college, rivals to lovers, sports romance that challenges the patriarchy in this week's episode of If it Was a Book. Our gu...
Write a YA "The Real Jungle Juice was the Friends We Made Along the Way" Coming of Age with Romance Author Ava Rani.
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin me with author Ava Rani of the Biotech Billionaire series as we talk publishing, jungle juice, getting away with shenanigans, and m...
Write a Rom-Com Turned Serial Killer Thriller (with Vampires?) with Lavender PR's co-founder Brittani Hilles
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textBrittani Hilles, co-founder of Lavender PR--a bookish PR company--tells us about her real-life experience with a celebrity and we re-wri...
Write a Childhood-Friends-to-Strangers-to-Witnessing-a-Murder-Together-to-Lovers Book with incredible author, Denise Williams
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin romance author Denise Williams as we talk best sellers, audiobooks, and our mutual hatred of AI while we write a fun but silly seco...
Write an unreliable narrator, secret sibling, thriller with @earlgreypls
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textCome talk DNA tests, surprise siblings, book recs, reading logs, and more with Aubrei K @earlgreypls Video episodes can also be found o...
Write a raunchy college romance with a wacky cast and a bet that keeps everyone on edge with author TJ Alexander
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, author TJ Alexander shares with us a story from their college days and a bet they made with their roommates (3 people, ...
Write a Sapphic, KDrama-inspired, workplace romance with Readin' CEO, Sera Danielle
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWrite a KDrama-inspired, sapphic, workplace, dislike-to-lovers, romance with me and Sera Danielle @Serareadthat the Chief Executive Visi...
Write a Campy Horror with Bestselling Author, Bill Wood
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTalk criminal minds, veronica mars, online dating, and more with author Bill Wood while storyboarding a campy horror book. You can watch...
Write a YA survival thriller with Bailey @greekchoir
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Bailey from @Greekchoir as we take her reurn from church camp story and turn it into an Appalachian survival standoff with a touc...
Write a time-slip-finding-yourself-book that may resolve your mommy issues with author Cara Bastone
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTalk grief, hobbies, ghost writing, manga/manhua/manhwa, and kdramas with author Cara Bastone while storyboarding a time-slip urban fant...
Write a Bachelor-inspired foodie romance with @hannahlisalohr
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textHannah brings us the story of a bachelor breakup that rocked the fandom and we used that as inspiration to storyboard a foodie-influence...
Write a Cult-y Vampire Thriller with the Author of One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year, Robyn Schneider
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAuthor Robyn Schneider shares her experience as a solo traveler in Europe in her early twenties and we re-write it into a cult-y dracula...
Write a revenge novella with Keara @theboricuabookworm
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin me with fellow library icon Keara @theboricuabookworm as we re-write her situationship ghosting into a revenge romp novella where s...
Write a Twin Switch-aroo Trilogy with USA Today Best Selling Author, Samantha Markum
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTalk Y/N fanfic, 2000s teen TV, therapy, and more with author Samantha Markum while she and host, Ashley, storyboard a twin switch-aroo ...
Write Theater-Kid, Fake-dating, single-parent, sports-romance chaos with Morgan @booksandlooksss
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Morgan @booksandlooksss and I while we storyboard a chaotic fake-dating(I'm sensing a theme here) theater kid reprisal story. ...
Write a Fake Dating Workplace Romance with Award-Winning Author, Nisha Sharma
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoining us this week is Nisha Sharma, author of Dating Dr. Dil, My So-Called Bollywood Life, Radha and Jai’s Recipe for Romance and mo...
Write a YA Paranormal Thriller about a Florida Man with @Azantareads
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin @azantareads and I while we take her neighbor having SWAT called to his house and turn it into a YA, paranormal, teen-detective boo...