Hey, remember that cool babe who wrote The Butterfly Effect, which I adored? Well, author Rachel Mans McKenny has a new podcast called Blind Date With a Book!

The podcast features Rachel and her fellow writer friends, Elena Nicolaou and Kristen Evans, as they set up a guest on a blind date with a book using dating app questions. Think questions like…

Do you consider yourself a romantic?

What’s your dream Saturday?

If tattoos only lasted one year, what would you get?

Each of the three hosts competes against each other to give the best book recommendations. It’s a matchmaking game show podcast that leads to the best literary meet-cutes!

The Blind Date With a Book podcast just launched and I loved episode 1. You can listen online and download/subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

What I love about the podcast is the creative format. I used to listen to a lot of bookish podcasts but fell out of the habit because I got bored with the book recommendation episodes. It was usually the hosts reading a brief message from the person writing in and giving them a giant list of recommendations without any feedback from the person who was asking for the recs. In Blind Date With a Book, you get the person’s feedback in the episode and the hosts can make changes to their recommendations based on what the person shared in their second round of picks.

I thoroughly enjoyed Blind Date With a Book and I hope you will too. If you end up being a guest on the show, let me know!