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Where authors, entrepreneurs & business founders are heard. A 24/7 broadcast of author interviews, founder spotlights, readings and book launches.
September Special
Book an author interview, feature or launch broadcast before September 30 and save 25% on your participation package. Confirm your booking through our official team email to lock in the offer.
Welcome to BBN
Watch our introduction to Book Broadcast Network — the broadcast home of authors, entrepreneurs & business founders.
The voices behind the network — broadcasting author conversations around the clock.
Author Spotlight
Weekdays 09:00·Broadcaster and former literary editor. Twelve years interviewing novelists.
The Book Talk
Weekdays 11:00·Critic and essayist with an unhealthy affection for difficult second novels.
New Release Hour
Weekdays 13:00·Reviews editor tracking every release worth an hour of your attention.
Publisher's Corner
Weekdays 15:00·Twenty years in publishing, now asking editors the questions writers can't.
The Reading Room
Weekdays 19:00·Culture writer and broadcaster with a gift for bringing listeners inside the story.
The Evening Review
Weekdays 20:00·Voice artist and literary curator turning the day's headlines into late-night conversation.
Schedule
Launches, book clubs, panels and festivals — set a reminder and we'll notify you the moment the broadcast begins.
Book Broadcast Network · Jim Van Laak
An insightful conversation with Jim Van Laak about his book To See Far and the real-world challenges and possibilities of cooperation and conflict on the new space frontier. Live via Zoom on bookbroadcastnetwork.org.
Premieres
Broadcasts airing for the very first time — series premieres, launch nights and first listens before publication.
Williams Bennett · Owen Blackwood
First airing of a three-part conversation on folklore, weather and stubborn old gods.
Ethan Shulamite · Lila Fontaine
A live launch night for a romance twelve years in the drafting.
Deborah Peculiar · Marisol Vega
Eleven new poems read aloud on air before the collection reaches shelves.
Archive
Replay author spotlights, launches and special events from the BBN archive.
Book Broadcast Network · Avery D. Rowan
A memoir of chosen family, faith and grief from Chicago's West Side. Audio interview (camera off), broadcast live on bookbroadcastnetwork.org + Spotify.
Live Video
Author interviews, book launches, panels and readings — broadcast live with an open audience chat.
Book Broadcast Network in conversation with John Bentley
John Bentley: the man behind Internet TV, ambition, and the ego and the id — a curated founder conversation streamed directly from Spotify while you browse the network.
Coming Up
Interviews and shows scheduled next — set a reminder and we'll notify you the moment the broadcast begins.
Critics and readers argue the month's most talked-about titles.
Everything published this week, read and ranked.
Acquisition editors on what they're buying and why.
Verse read aloud, in the poet's own voice.
On the charts
Rotating picks pulled from the Goodreads charts — exact editions, covers, ratings and where to read them.
14.16· 1.1M ratings on Goodreads
Alfred A. Knopf · 2022 · 401 pages
Two childhood friends reunite as adults to make video games together, in a thirty-year story about creative partnership, ambition and the many forms love can take.
24.28· 1.6M ratings on Goodreads
Little, Brown and Company · 2018 · 393 pages
The banished witch of Aiaia claims her own story, moving between gods and mortals as she discovers a power that belongs entirely to her.
33.99· 3.1M ratings on Goodreads
Viking / Canongate · 2020 · 288 pages
Between life and death there is a library, and within it the shelves go on forever. Nora Seed is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out the lives she might have lived.
44.42· 3.4M ratings on Goodreads
Atria Books · 2017 · 389 pages
A reclusive Hollywood icon finally tells the truth about her glamorous, scandalous life — and about the person she truly loved.
54.16· 480K ratings on Goodreads
Harper Voyager · 2022 · 542 pages
At Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation, silver-working turns language into magic — and one student must choose between the empire that raised him and the country he lost.
64.31· 700K ratings on Goodreads
Grand Central Publishing · 2017 · 490 pages
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan endure exile, prejudice and reinvention in a sweeping saga of survival and belonging.
Ratings and edition details as listed on Goodreads. Cover art is served from the Open Library record for the same ISBN edition.
Fresh on the shelf
New titles approved by our team — discover the stories authors are sharing with the world right now.
Every author conversation is remastered and published to our Spotify feed within hours of going off air — unedited, chapter-marked and free to follow.
Full interviews
New weekly
Listen anywhere
Live author interviews, virtual book clubs and festival broadcasts — join the audience, ask a question and hear the story behind the story.
Archive
A memoir of chosen family, faith and grief from Chicago's West Side. Audio interview (camera off), broadcast live on bookbroadcastnetwork.org + Spotify.
A global interview strand from the Book Broadcast Network newsroom — founders building across publishing, fintech, energy, health and beyond, on the record about what actually worked.
Lead interview
A two-person imprint became a nationwide catalogue of 140 titles. Adaora breaks down the unit economics of independent publishing, the year she almost closed, and why turning down venture money kept the books honest.
Henrik Sørensen · Fjord & Fable Studios
Mei-Ling Tan · Chapter & Co.
Zainab Diallo · Baobab Media
Beyond books
Fintech, clean energy, agritech, health, logistics and more — founders from four continents on companies, challenges and innovation.
Co-founder & CEO · PayRidge
Building payment rails for informal markets — why cash still wins on the street, and the USSD layer that finally converted it.
Founder · NordGrid Renewables
Community-owned wind cooperatives as a business model — raising €18M from 4,000 local shareholders instead of a fund.
Founder & CEO · TerraTrace
Satellite data for smallholder farmers — pricing a product for customers who earn $4 a day and still churning under 2%.
Founder · Nile Threads
Export-grade Egyptian cotton, direct to consumer — cutting four middlemen out of a supply chain that hadn't changed in 60 years.
Co-founder & COO · Mercado Verde
A cold-chain network for small farms — the routing maths that cut spoilage 40% and made fresh produce profitable at scale.
Founder · Kotoba Health
Telemedicine for Japan's ageing regions — earning the trust of 70-year-old patients before earning revenue.
Founder & CEO · SkillForge
Vocational training that employers actually pay for — flipping the tuition model so hiring partners fund the classroom.
Co-founder · FrachtPilot
Digitising Europe's mid-size freight forwarders — selling software to an industry that still runs on fax and phone.
Worldwide
Authors, entrepreneurs and business founders tune in from every continent. Explore the live hubs powering our global broadcast.
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Membership
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Partners
Book Broadcast Network works with global retailers, publishers, audiobook services and reader communities to put authors, entrepreneurs and business founders in front of listeners.
Global retail and audiobook partner for author launches, pre-orders and listener acquisition.
Seattle, USA
Reader community integration for ratings, reviews and book-club conversations around broadcasts.
San Francisco, USA
Audiobook and spoken-word distribution for exclusive excerpts and narrator interviews.
Newark, USA
Bookstore retail partner supporting in-store events, signed editions and launch broadcasts.
New York, USA
Independent bookstore network that channels listener purchases to local bookshops.
New York, USA
Audio streaming distribution for podcasts, playlists and on-demand interview episodes.
Stockholm, Sweden
Digital bookstore and audiobook platform for pre-orders and featured author spotlights.
Cupertino, USA
Search and preview partner helping listeners discover titles mentioned on air.
Mountain View, USA
Ebook and audiobook retailer with a strong international reader base.
Toronto, Canada
Subscription reading and audio service for extended excerpts and archive listening.
San Francisco, USA
Publishing partner supplying authors, advance copies and exclusive launch content.
New York, USA
Global publisher contributing authors and thought leaders to interview strands.
New York, USA
Publishing collaborator for business, memoir and fiction author spotlights.
New York, USA
Publisher partner for thriller, business and literary fiction programming.
New York, USA
Publishing partner for non-fiction, science and entrepreneurial author features.
New York, USA
Bookstores, search engines and retail platforms that make every title mentioned on air easy to find and buy.
Major publishing houses that supply authors, advance galleys and launch campaigns for network programming.
Audiobook, streaming and reader-community platforms that extend broadcasts into on-demand listening and conversation.
Submit your book for an author interview, radio feature, literary discussion, podcast appearance, launch broadcast or a featured author campaign across the network.
September special: 25% off every participation package booked this month.
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Deborah Peculiar · guest Marisol Vega — “Field Notes for a Drought”
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