The Front Matter

On this episode of The Front Matter, Publisher Matt Joudrey & Publicist Dani Arieli interview Jenn Baerg Steyn, the proprieter of Yellowknife Books!

Matt Jourdrey, owner of the horror bookstore Raven's End, Chealsea McKee-Trenchard, and author of the Donner Parties, Keith Cadieux, discuss horror, community and building connections.

Welcome back to The Front Matter, the podcast where booksellers and authors join our publisher to discuss all things books! On our season 2 premiere we get into the role of the bookseller, the joy of mysteries, and the every changing book landscape with Michael Bumstead, owner of Whodunit Bookstore, and C.C. Benison, author of The Unpleasantness at the Battle of Thornford. 

In the final episode of Season 1 of The Front Matter, host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Patrick Jenkins, author of Tales from Phantom City, and Kennedy Rooke from Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore about the joy of bookstores and art of graphic novels. 

In this episode, our guests get candid about Indigenous authorship and what Truth and Reconciliation means to them. Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Mary Barnes, Ojibwe poet and author of What Fox Knew and Moving Upstream, and Dr. David Anderson from GoodMinds.com, a First Nations family owned online bookstore that sells First Nation, Métis, and Inuit books. 

In this episode we visit the great city of Ottawa and the wonderful Octopus Books. Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Christian McPherson, author of Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy, and Jack Hui Litster from Octopus Books about what draws people to bookstores, what the biggest threats to independent bookstores are, and myths about the writing industry. 

Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Janet Trull, author of Something's Burning, and Ian Elliot from A Different Drummer Books about the joy of bookstores, from the smells to events to the writers whose stories live there. 

Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Megan Wykes, author of Back to the Garden, and co-owner of Queen Books, Alex Snider about their bookstore experiences and the publishing industry at large. 

Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Sareh Farmand, author of Pistachios in My Pocket, and Chris Cox from 32 Books & Gallery about the value of bookstores for readers, writers, and communities. 

'The Front Matter' - Candid discussions with authors and bookstore professionals about how they connect readers, writers, and community. 
 
Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests award winning writer/poet, Ariel Gordon and General Manager of McNally Robison Booksellers, Angela Torgerson.