Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpodFacebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover.To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button.You can find Mai Corland on IG @maicorland as well as at her website at https://meredithireland.wordpress.comThis episode begins Season 11 for us–we’ve got over 200 episodes under our belts and are back to bring you more. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that fantasy is big right now, and we discovered a fun fantasy that feels like an Ocean’s 11 type romp with multiple characters trying to take down a king. The book is titled Five Broken Blades and it is written by Mai Corland. We were delighted to speak with her a couple weeks back, especially since she is now an international bestselling author. And in fact, while recording this episode you will hear Mai receiving some good news. While some people might let this success go to their heads, Mai is down-to-earth and gets entirely too much pleasure poking fun at her new status. We chat about the fantasy series she can’t stop recommending, why writing middle grade and YA novels was such good prep for pacing in her new romantic fantasy, and how riding the subway opened up her world as a teen.Books Discussed In This Episode:1- Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland2- Four Ruined Realms by Mai Corland3- You Are Here: Connected Flights edited by Ellen Oh 4- Emma and the Love Spell by Meredith Ireland5- The Jasmine Project by Meredith Ireland6- Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse7- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse8- The Jane City trilogy by Fonda Lee9- The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent10- 5 Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Marné Deranger @readerbythewater - Sandwich by Catherine Newman11- Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives by Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett12- Such Charming Liars by Karen McManus13- One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus14- The Cousins by Karen McManus15- Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson