4 years ago this month Tamara and Casey joined together to talk about books in one of their favorite genres, URBAN FANTASY!! It was the Mercy Thompson series that kicked off this long-running read-along on the Shelf Addiction podcast. You'll have to listen to this celebration episode to hear that fun back story! Soon after, Nicola joined them and they've been talking fantasy ever since! From adult to young adult, paranormal romance to urban fantasy, and more. They've read a huge variety of series. To help celebrate this milestone, they are giving away the first book in series for each of their favorites. Check out the giveaway details below. Listen to this episode and find out why they chose these three series to share with everyone!

​​Check out previous series episodes here!

​Thank you for celebrating 300 episodes with me! Thank you for listening to my podcast. Check out the links below to take you to all of the episodes that are mentioned in this episode. There were soooo many I wanted to pick, but I really had to narrow them down. Here A few of my favorite episodes from the first 299 episodes! I enjoyed all of these equally, they are in order as they appear on the podcast episode.

Featured interviews!
Tavia Gilbert (Audiobook Narrator)
Samantha Downing (Author)
Shai August (Author)
Louisa Luna (Author)
Janina Edwards (Audiobook Narrator)
Michelle Campbell (Author)

Featured book chats!
#3Bloggers1Series Realm Enforcers Series | Excerpt from the Wicked Kiss discussion
#BuddyReads A Stranger on the Beach discussion
#3Bloggers1Series Mercy Thompson Series | Excerpt from the Storm Cursed discussion
#BuddyReads Broken Things discussion

Get excited, the big 3-0-0 is coming! The Shelf Addiction Podcast launched on April 20, 2016. Since then, this podcast has grown and transformed. I'm so happy to be celebrating 300 episodes!! In preparation for this awesome milestone that will be arriving very shortly, I want to give something back to the book nerd community that listens to the podcast.

You will get 1 entry for each task. You can do as few or as many as you like through the end of December! You can earn up to 10 entries and the first one is FREE, no task required!

Happy New Year!!! 2019 is here and it's time to set those reading goals. Listen to today's 12 minute podcast episode as I break down my reading goals. I also announce an awesome giveaway especially for you, the readers of the Shelf Addiction blog and the listeners of the Shelf Addiction Podcast!

I would love to hear your thoughts on today's episode and if you'd like to share with me one of your reading goals are for 2019 or just talk about books in general you can find me on Twitter and Instagram or comment below.

It's that time again! Snow is falling (in some places), holiday shopping is gearing up, and we are getting ready to take planes, trains, and automobiles to visit family and friends. If you're not traveling, no worries, you can listen while cooking that huge holiday meal, or while wrapping gifts. I even listen while I'm out doing my holiday shopping!

Today I'm sharing my favorite audiobooks of 2018 (thus far). Not all of these were published this year, but I have listened to them all this year.  I hope you'll listen to a few of these gems during your holiday season. Also consider gifting any of my recommendations. They great gifts for both your audiobook listening friends and audiobook newbies! 

Be sure to stop by Audio Publishers Association website to see the complete schedule of blogs to visit. Each blogger will have audiobooks to share, recommended audiobooks, holiday listening, gift ideas, and books to travel with this season.

In addition to the audiobook recommendations, you'll also have many opportunities to win audiobooks generously donated by Beacon Press, High Bridge Audio, LA Theatre Words, Macmillan Audio, Penguin Random House Audio, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster Audio, and Tantor Audio.

Enter the Shelf Addiction giveaway for another chance to win!

I have a fun local giveaway for those of you in the Metro Detroit area! Enter to win this memoir and a pair of tickets to view the movie when it comes out. FIVE people will win! The movie tickets will be only valid Landmark Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak, MI. The film will be released in Detroit area theaters on November 16th.

​Synopsis: ​As a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality, growing up the son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small-town Arkansas. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to "cure" him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. He was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urges and, because of his brush with sin, stronger in his faith in God. Instead, when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to survive and step out from a life lived in shadow and to search for his true self, empathy, and forgiveness.

​Shelf Addiction Giveaway TERMS & CONDITIONS

-You MUST be at least 18 years old to enter or have parental permission. 
-Metro Detroit residents ONLY.
-The winner will be notified via the contact email provided on the contact form. 
-All entries will be verified. 
-The winner will have 2 business days to claim the prize or another winner will be chosen. ​You will have to provide your Metro Detroit mailing address.

​​DISCLOSURE: This giveaway is sponsored by Allied Global Marketing. Allied Global Marketing will mail the book and the ticket vouchers to the winners.