If It Was a Book

About If It Was a Book

For all book lovers: writers, readers, publishers, librarians, and anyone who enjoys pop culture and ADHD chaos. BookToker Ashley @wickedreads invites authors and other bookish influencers to the podcast to discuss their outrageous stories and decide what would happen if you were writing that situation as a book! You can submit your story to ifitwasabook@gmail.com to hear how your favorite author might re-write your life into a best seller!

Publisher

Ashley @wickedreads | Bookish Podcast Host

Category

arts · education · fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jan 2025

Latest episode

20 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Jan 2026

   Write a Bachelor-Style Horror with Madi Lim of BookTok News

   Send us a text You may know Madi from her series BookTok news, but lets go back to her college days. In today's episode we take a real flier Madi received on her college campus and rewrite it into what would happen "if it was a book" Madi and I chose to take the concept of The Bachelor but make it Saw. Tune in to see how these girls make it out of this creepy billionaire's squid games.

2. 

   12 Jan 2026

   Write a haunted college apartment love story and get revenge on your ex with author Maxym M. Martineau

   Send us a text Welcome back with our first episode of season 2!! This episode re-writes the actual experience Maxym had living in a haunted apartment into a story about finding love, friendship, and your own self worth. 00:00 Introduction to Maxim M. Martineau 04:37 A Ghostly Encounter: The Story of Murphy 09:29 Who is Clark 15:16 How can we make this a love story? 21:45 The Ghostly Connection 23:17 Ashley can’t stop talking about tv shows 24:08 Healing Through Friendship 25:3...

3. 

   10 Nov 2025

   Write a magical realism book about the Fae in the Irish Countryside with Nathan Shuherk @schizophrenicreads

   Send us a text Welcome to the season 1 finale! - After a night out at the bars, our main character finds the trains have ended for the night and he must brave the four mile walk through the forest in the dead of night to reach home…but he is not alone in the forest… - 00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Guest 01:00 Nathan's Terrifying Drunken Experience in Ireland 04:37 Brainstorming the Fictional Story 09:08 Exploring the Fae and Magical Realism 13:51 The Character's Hallucinations a...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

127,834

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

78

Social presence

94

YouTube

82

Engagement

51

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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