Owen King interviews Jacqueline Holland on our first Fully Booked Takeover.

We’re doing something exciting on this week’s episode: It’s the Fully Booked Takeover, a new regular feature at the podcast where a beloved bestselling author takes over hosting duties for our main interview. They get to invite an author of their choosing, whose work they admire, for an in-depth conversation—writer to writer. The questions they ask and the subjects they explore are all up to them.

On this week’s inaugural Fully Booked Takeover, we’re thrilled to welcome novelist, graphic novelist, and TV producer Owen King as our special guest host. Kirkus calls his latest novel, The Curator (Scribner, March 7), a “Dickens novel meets Hieronymus Bosch painting—dark, chaotic fun” (starred review). And, of course, he’s the son (and sometime collaborator) of legend Stephen King. Owen is talking with novelist Jacqueline Holland about her promising debut, The God of Endings (Flatiron Books, March 7), a “new and contemplative take on the vampire novel.”

Future guest hosts on the Fully Booked Takeover include Sarah MacLean, Megan Abbott, and Karin Slaughter. Please tune in.

Then editors Laura Simeon, Mahnaz Dar, Eric Liebetrau, and Laurie Muchnick share their top picks in books for the week.

Editors’ picks:

The Eternal Return of Clara Hart by Louise Finch (Little Island)

Papa’s Magical Water-Jug Clock by Jesús Trejo, illus. by Eliza Kinkz (Minerva)

1964: Eyes of the Storm by Paul McCartney (Liveright/Norton)

My Murder by Katie Williams (Riverhead)

Also mentioned on this episode:

Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A.S. King

A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams

I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister

Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams

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Fully Booked is produced by Cabel Adkins Audio and Megan Labrise.