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In Reader's Forecast, host Sam Vacik helps you to save time book shopping on the go, resting 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.
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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 relationship between a father and daughter at the end of the world. Fall iinto the Twilight Zone with a bio on Rod Serling. Venture into deathly bogs teaming with otherworldly life and rich archaeological finds. Embark into space explorations and wander through suspenseful, psychological thrillers.
Stay tuned as we review frills, chills, and thrills with 10 books to review cover to cover and 4 debut authors in this week's Reader's Forecast!
Publishing Week: 13 Oct 2026
The books featured in this episode are not sponsored.
9 Oct 2026
Fail Sings the Fair Banshee
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 supernatural! And if that's not enought to get your horror on, then explore more frights, magical realism, alien contact, grief, and fright delights with a hint of bad romance. We're counting down the four weeks to Halloween with horrorable reads and dark reading rainbows because life's just full of tough choices, isn't it? Mwa ha ha ha.
Stay tuned as we review frights, nights, and scary delights with 10 books to review cover to cover and 3 debut authors in this week's Reader's Forecast!
Publishing Week: 6 Oct 2026
The books featured in this episode are not sponsored.
30 Sept 2026
Alternative Realities and the Rock that Saved Them!
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 alterantive reality, scifi, historical fic, and history literature exploring heavy topics of immigration, ancestry, war, first contact, dual timeline mysteries, and death, including … a potential mixup of a couple going to Cloud 6 instead of 9? This episode has books for everyone and anyone who is willing to strap on hiker boots and wage into this cosmic alterantive reality mess! Will we resolve the dual timelines? WIll first contact go off without a hitch? Will afterlife schenanigans prove to be reality or mythology? Stay tuned for 1 debut author and 9 books to review cover to cover in this week's Reader's Forecast!
Publishing Week: 22 Sep 2026
The books featured in this episode are not sponsored.
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