Episodes
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Episode 2 - LJ Smith: Night World: Daughters of Darkness
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Backlist: We're back with THE Night World book, DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (originally published August 1996), in which LJ Smith tries, just really TRIES to write a murder mystery. Like, she did her best. To, ah, varying degrees of success for us. THIS MAY BE A CONTENTIOUS ONE Y'ALL.
Chill: Cyna is drinking a Horny Goat (cranberry juice + limon rum + 7up) and Ollie is drinking a Starry Night (Wollersheim Dancehall Absinthe Blanche (RIP) + blackberry ginger ale) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: NIGHT WORLD VOL 3: SPELLBINDER
Stay safe, friends.
(1h 45m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of misogyny, sexual assault, racism, classism, violence, violence against animals/animal death.)
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Friday Jan 27, 2023
Episode 1 - LJ Smith: Night World: Secret Vampire
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Intro Episode: Night World
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
We couldn't leave it that way with our girl LJ, so we're back, standing at the at the foot of the mountain, her unfinished masterpiece, her magnum opus (if you don't count the new Vampire Diaries I guess), NIGHT WORLD! And for once, LJ has provided us INFO. How did she plot the series? Which of LJ's core philosophical belief is WOVEN into each and every book? Which author does she (probably) have a wildly unreasonable grudge against and why? LISTEN AND FIND OUT!
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward. See y'all next time (with booze!) for Episode 1: Secret Vampire!
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Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Episode 3 - LJ Smith: Dark Visions: The Passion
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Episode 2 - LJ Smith: Dark Visions: The Possessed
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Backlist: What happened, y'all? How did DARK VISIONS: THE POSSESSED (published 1995), a book literally designed for sexy, emotionally intimate rendezvous, end up being so fucking boring??? This is Lisa Jane's bread and butter! HOW???
So anyway it's a short one.
Chill: NGL, we may have phoned these ones in, in our defense, so did LJ. Ollie is drinking A Waste of My Time (Wollersheim Dancehall Absinthe Blanche + honey + Nixie Watermelon Mint sparkling water), and Cyna soothed her throat with The Possessed (apple spice chai + Fireball) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: DARK VISIONS VOL 3: THE PASSION
Stay safe, friends.
(1h 17m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of racism and classism.)
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Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Episode 1 - LJ Smith: Dark Visions: The Strange Power
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Backlist: LISA JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE is back on her bullshit and so are we! This month we're talking about DARK VISIONS: THE STRANGE POWER, published December 1st, 1994 and HOO BOY does it feel like it. LJ is back and indulging in her worst habits, and Ollie is NOT having it.
Chill: Cyna tried to drink a Third Eye (creme de violette, gin, grapefruit juice, and club soda) but ended up drinking wine $9 peach clearance wine, bb! Ollie is drinking a Witch Eyes (Wollersheim Dancehall Absinthe Blanche + Seagram's Ginger Ale + Glacial Freeze Gatorade) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: DARK VISIONS VOL 2: THE POSSESSION
Stay safe, friends.
(1h 35m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of racism, misogyny, acephobia, homophobia, ableism.)
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Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Season Intro: Dark Visions
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
We're alive! And so is LJ! We're back with an intro to Season 11: Dark Visions, which features our semi-annual State of the LJ and also a shocking amount of chat about Gen 13 for some reason? Listen, it's rough out here - Dark Visions is LJ's most obscure trilogy and not even SHE seems to remember that she wrote it. No worries though, she's definitely writing a sequel.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward. See y'all next time (with booze!) for Episode 1: The Strange Power!
Thanks for sticking with us, folks, and stay safe! Come check in with us on twitter @BacklistPodcast!
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Episode 4 - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Promises to Keep
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Backlist: RAISE A GLASS, FRIENDS, because we have MADE IT to the end of the Return to Den of Shadows with PROMISES TO KEEP (published January 2013), and after all this, we're left with just one question: what editor looked at this premise and said "Yeah, no, this seems fine."
Chill: Cyna is drinking a Fuck This Book (just a whole bottle of Barefoot Bubbly Pink Moscato), and Ollie is drinking an 'Everyone Benefits From Slavery So You're All Complicit' is a Bad Theme (absinthe + ginger ale + crushed up candycane shards) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: WHO CAN SAY????
Stay safe, friends.
(2h 35m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, intense discussion of suicide, abuse, slavery, racism, and incest. )
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Tuesday May 31, 2022
Episode 3 - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Poison Tree
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Episode 2 - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Token of Darkness
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Backlist: Ollie was asked to edit some text for ToD and couldn't remember the title Token of Darkness, and all they could get to was "Time of Death". And frankly, they're not wrong. TOKEN OF DARKNESS by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (published February 9, 2010), a book that maybe existed. We're not sure.
Chill: Cyna is drinking a Liquified Ghost (coconut rum, crème de cacao, 2% milk, and green food coloring for streaks!) followed by... a bottle of wine lolol. Ollie is drinking a Hey There, Delilah (Cîroc Black Raspberry, Wollersheim Absinthe Blanche, pineapple juice, lemon juice, lime juice, and a sugar-dipped pineapple chunk) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: POISON TREE.
Stay safe, friends.
(2h 30m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language from the hosts; discussions of death and ghosts, car accidents, witchcraft, girlhate, shaming of one teenage girl for basically existing, relationship zoning, shitty dudes, classism, hospitals, and weird questions about who gets to decide what happens to a body after your mind/soul is no longer home from the book.)
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