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Reader's Forecast
by Sam Vacik
What's on the horizon this week at our local bookstores? Don't have time to shop at the bookstore? Looking for new books to help you relax and enjoy? In Reader's Forecast, host Sam Vacik helps you to save time book shopping on the go, resting at after a busy day, or otherwise looking for new reading material. The host invites you to take a look at new book releases in a wide variety of genres, authors (both new and established), subjects, and more. Sam introduces each author, narrates the back cover, and makes note of a smattering of book reviews. Whether you're a daring bookchaser or just on the watch for your sunny beach read, Reader's Forecast has got you covered. So click 'play' to find your next book. Follow us on social media for new episode releases, new books, and more at: Bluesky: readersforecast.bsky.social</
Episodes
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Only Fools Break into the Twilight Zone
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Welcome to Week 2 in our countdown to Halloween! It's another stormy week full of frights and wicked delights on the Reader's Forecast… Experience the chilling...
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Fail Sings the Fair Banshee
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! We'll start off the week with a magical library and a women's horror from Latin America, but we'll quickly find out that secondary school is better when it's...
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Alternative Realities and the Rock that Saved Them!
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Feeling caught between a rock and an alternative reality? Don't we all?! As a blustery noreaster barrels down on the east coast, so is a confusing combo of...
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Fallow By Any Other Proof
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Batten down the hatches as a hurricane is whirling through with this nightmarish and apocalytic collection of literature, featuring 3 debut authors and a...
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Leaving the Library in Love
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Blustery stormy weather breaks in the week with a part-history, part-business novel exploring economics from the Great Depression to the 2008 FInancial Crisis....
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The Official Barman's Guide to Body Language
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Pack your umbrellas for a week practically full of rain and storms, ranging from animal dark fantasy and scifi novels reflecting on humans and our humanity to...
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Food Doesn't Time Travel Well
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Time travelers break out through time in showers of time-wimey storms from time traveling agencies that promised safe trips to the past as we explore…
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Tangled Histories, and Where to Fantasize Them!
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Here we go: exploring tangled histories and where to fantasize them. Should history be fantasized in Hong Kong, Japan, the USA, Afghanistan, Italy, a fictional...
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Curiosity Killed the Crime Writer
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Choose: a mystery crime writer who must solve a murder with an imaginary detective, a historical fantasy involving magic and the queens of Henry VIII, or…
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Make Nice, Not Heist!
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Cloud heists getting you down in this era of the data empire? What does an astronaut have to do with an authoritarian Romanian regime in 1989? Don’t want to…
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Apocalyptically Cozy
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Heat domes, thunderstorms, and sunshine — oh gee wiz! What is coming of this world? It’s almost apocalyptically cozy! Travel with the host through apocalyptic...
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Smart Moss Seeks Timely Eyre
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Ever wonder what happens when a classic literary hero becomes a time traveler? Are you curious what sentient moss would think and do? What would it be like to...
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6 Summer Drenching Debuts
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Pull out your umbrellas for this downpour of debuts — because there are six of them out of a total of nine authors! Reader’s Forecast packs historical, fantasy,...
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Fast and Ficticious
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Slow your summer roll with this cozy collection of history and fast fiction. What if Henry VIII and his queens lived in an epic fantasy world with dragons? What...
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Multi-Flavored SciScream
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Ready for an exciting summer? Get ready for a Reader’s Forecast full predominantly of flavors of science fiction, including multiple sci-fi thrillers…
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Comedy, Dramedy, Romedy
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Prepare for a week of storms, brusk winds, and lustrous lightning with a thriller, heist, and legal drama that cede the way to sunshine and rainbows with comedy...
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Horrorably Romantic
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Frigid horror freezes the beginning of the week but gives way to two sci-fi novels. Though, one requires you to be up to date on your spy craft while the other...
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Swearing Warblers Don’t Say, “Aloha”
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Summer may not be the time of ghostly humans outside October, but it’s perfect for ghostly horses with all that heat outside. Perhaps, New York City brings to...
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Two Debut Thunder Catchers
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! High temperature thrills and change crash out early in the week, giving way to the coldness of a space opera, but not to worry, as warmth returns with romantasy...
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Rain, Sun, and a Little Ectoplasm
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Grab your umbrellas, weather radios, and ghost traps because, not only is there a deluge headed our way in this forecast, there is a ghost haunting us. Ghost...
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April Showers Bring Queer Flowers
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Spring ushers in new flowers — queerly growing from books! If that isn’t strange enough, there is a science fiction novel that goes off all dystopian on this...
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Space Spy Meets Faerie Anthropologist!
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! A space spy, a food journalist, and a faerie anthropologist walk into a bar… is probably not a good joke to be telling, but it makes for a heck of a hook! Where...
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Cozy Fiction with a Drop of Horror
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Cozy romantasy, curious historical fiction, and humorous litfic ring in the new week, but trouble brews as the week gives way to a book storm steeped with...
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Four Debuts and a Bestseller!
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Tumbling into this week’s Reader’s Forecast arrives four debut authors amidst bestsellers! Whether the book is being beset by book witches in a fantasy…
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Science Fantasy = SciFa?
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Do you enjoy the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and history? Have you ever read a novel where these genres blend together? There’s a new book out this week...
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Horrors, Thrillers, and ... Romance?
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Every so often there is a week filled with horror… novels, that is! For our horror, thriller, and suspense enthusiasts out there, this week is full of…
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Storms Yield to Sunlight
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Get ready for a turbulent week as this week’s Reader’s Forecast features a week starting with dark and deep nonfiction, eventually giving way to sunny, warm...
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Historical or Fictional?
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Let’s play a game: Historical or Fictional! What is the genre of each of this week's new releases? Take a guess and listen in as the host reads 7 newly released...
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Variety OMG (Wk 2 Mar 2026)
Got some feedback for the Reader's Forecast podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself in the next episode or bonus content! Variety, genres, and authors — oh my! This week’s episode features 8 must-read books ranging from fantasy to history, from established to debut authors. Stay...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What's on the horizon this week at our local bookstores? Don't have time to shop at the bookstore? Looking for new books to help you relax and enjoy?
In Reader's Forecast, host Sam Vacik helps you to save time book shopping on the go, resting at after a busy day, or otherwise looking for new reading material. The host invites you to take a look at new book releases in a wide variety of genres, authors (both new and established), subjects, and more. Sam introduces each author, narrates the back cover, and makes note of a smattering of book reviews.
Whether you're a daring bookchaser or just on the watch for your sunny beach read, Reader's Forecast has got you covered. So click 'play' to find your next book.
Follow us on social media for new episode releases, new books, and more at:
Bluesky: readersforecast.bsky.social</
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Sam Vacik
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What's on the horizon this week at our local bookstores? Don't have time to shop at the bookstore? Looking for new books to help you relax and enjoy? In Reader's Forecast, host Sam Vacik helps you to save time book shopping on the go, resting at after a busy day, or otherwise looking for new...
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Reader's Forecast is created and hosted by Sam Vacik.
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