Disney layoffs hit Marvel's podcast department and key audio producer Jasmine Estrada Marvel Comics has laid off audio producer Jasmine Estrada, who worked on podcasts like The History of Marvel Comics, Marvel's Pull List, and more

The recent wave of layoffs at Marvel Comics has hit the podcasting department
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The Heated Rivalry season 2 rumors of a drastically bigger budget are wrong, says showrunner Jacob Tierney Don't get your hopes up: Heated Rivalry season 2 won't have the budget to take Ilya and Shane to outer space.

Heated Rivalry does NOT have a much larger budget for season 2, says Jacob Tierney
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Watch the Beaches, A New Musical - From Page to Stage panel with Iris Rainer Dart and Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso from Bookcon 2026! Four decades after the novel Beaches hit shelves, author Dart was at BookCon to talk about its Broadway adaptation, alongside producer Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso. The Popverse gang was there too, and w...

Watch the Beaches, A New Musical - From Page to Stage panel with Iris Rainer Dart and Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso from Bookcon 2026!

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Watch the Page to Screen panel with Andy Weir, Emily St. John Mandel, Robinne Lee, & May Cobb from Bookcon 2026! Weir, Mandel, Lee, & Cobb - the minds behind Project Hail Mary, Exit Party, The Idea of You, & the Hunting Wives, respectively - talked having their prose adapted to screen with BookCon '26, and Popve...

Watch the Page to Screen panel with Andy Weir, Emily St. John Mandel, Robinne Lee, & May Cobb from BookCon 2026!

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Get a first look at Ravenloft: The Horrors Within in the only official D&D actual play series, Dungeon Masters Wizards of the Coast is dropping previews of their upcoming Ravenloft: The Horrors Within sourcebook into Dungeon Masters' first two episodes.

Want to get a sneak peek at the upcoming Ravenloft: The Horrors Within book? Better tune into the upcoming official D&D Actual Play series, Dungeon Masters.

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Watch the Heroines of Romantasy panel with Victoria Aveyard, Rachel Gillig, Carissa Broadbent, & Scarlett St. Clair from Bookcon 2026! Aveyard (Red Queen), Gillig (Two Twisted Crowns), Broadbent (Crowns of Nyaxia), and St. Clair (Touch of Darkness) brought their romantasy expertise to NYC, and Popverse was there to record it

Watch the Heroines of Romantasy panel with Victoria Aveyard, Rachel Gillig, Carissa Broadbent, & Scarlett St. Clair from Bookcon 2026!

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Watch Shadow and Bone / Ninth House author Leigh Bardugo from Bookcon 2026! Grishaverse creator and Six of Crows author Leigh Bardugo made BookCon '26 a must-quest for fantasy fans... and Popverse caught her panel on tape

Watch Shadow and Bone / Ninth House author Leigh Bardugo from Bookcon 2026!

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Watch The Depths of Darkness: An Exploration of Dark Fantasy with Holly Black and Marie Lu from Bookcon 2026! Authors of The Spiderwick Chronicles (Black) and the Legend series (Lu), explored the side of the fantasy left out of most fairy tales - and Popverse was there to film it

Watch The Depths of Darkness: An Exploration of Dark Fantasy with Holly Black and Marie Lu from BookCon 2026!

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Watch the Horror as a Mirror, Horror as Escape panel with Chuck Tingle, Tananarive Due, Kylie Lee Baker, & Bethany C. Morrow from Bookcon 2026! Fright fans at BookCon came out in droves for Horror as a Mirror, Horror as Escape: How Lived Experiences Shape Fictional Fears - featuring Tingle (Lucky Day), Due (The Reformatory), Baker (Bat Eater ...

Watch the Horror as a Mirror, Horror as Escape panel with Chuck Tingle, Tananarive Due, Bethany C. Morrow from Bookcon 2026!

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Watch Then/Now: The Evolution of Your Career Since That 1st Book with Melissa de la Cruz, Meg Cabot, Ann M. Martin, Libba Bray, & Kami Garcia from Bookcon 2026! Cruz, Cabot, Martin, Bray, and Garcia (authors of the Blue Bloods, Princess Diaries, Baby-Sitters Club, Gemma Doyle, and Beautiful Creatures series, respectively) looked back on their decades=spanning...

Watch Then/Now: The Evolution of Your Career Since That 1st Book from BookCon 2026.

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Why HBO couldn't do much marketing for Heated Rivalry, according to showrunner Jacob Tierney: "Just be grateful there’s some horny people at HBO.” Heated Rivalry showrunner Jacob Tierney explains why HBO didn't do more press for the episodes as they were airing during a BookCon 2026 panel.

Were you wondering why HBO didn't seem to do much promotion of Heated Rivalry as it aired? It is because the episodes were often not done being edited until just before they aired.

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The beauty of horror is in the empathy that it inspires in us, says boundary-pushing author Chuck Tingle The Bury Your Gays and Camp Damascus author believes that fear is universal, even if what causes fear isn't.

The true beauty of horror isn't in the gore or the scares - it is in the empathy we feel for each other and the characters, explains Chuck Tingle.

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The hockey crowds in Heated Rivalry are VFX and the raw footage looked like "COVID hockey" because no one was in the stands Heated Rivalry was sold to HBO before the show's VFX had been finalized.

Believe it or not, the crowds on Heated Rivalry were CGI
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The Poppy War and Yellowface author R.F. Kuang writes fiction because it's "cheaper than therapy" and she gets paid for it Sure, you could pay a therapist to help you process your trauma, or you could write a couple of bestselling novels instead.

What drives a person to write novels for a living? For R.F. Kuang, author of The Poppy War and Yellowface, it is simply because working through her problems by writing is cheaper than therapy.

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Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid opens up about how the TV series adaptation news buoyed her Parkinson's diagnosis just 3 or 4 days before 3 or 4 days after Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid was diagnosed with Parkinson's, she got the call to turn it into a TV series from Jacob Tierney

Just a few days after she got diagnosed with Parkinsons, Game Changers author Rachel Reid got a DM on social media from the man who would become the Heated Rivalry showrunner.

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DC's Absolute Batman is now selling 3 times what Scott Snyder expected, and DC staffers are looking back at 'New 52' data to learn how much bigger this is than that Absolute Batman surpasses 'New 52' Batman sales on day 1, as DC admits “the success… is beyond bewildering."

DC's Absolute Batman is selling 3x what Scott Snyder (@ssnyder1835.bsky.social) and Chris Conroy (@conroyforreal.bsky.social) thought it would and the @dc.com team is looking back at the New 52 era to find something comparable to its success.

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Popverse's @ashleyvrobinson.bsky.social sat down at BookCon with prolific author @jodipicoult.bsky.social & she pulled back the curtain on the upcoming @netflix.com adaptation of The Book of Two Ways - including Outlander Matthew B. Roberts coming on as showrunner!! 👀 Watch this clip for the deets!!

R.F. Kuang wrote the first draft of Yellowface in a month because as a digital native, she didn't have to do any research into how mean people could be on Twitter For Yellowface, R.F. Kuang already knew the plot and the characters, plus she had already seen how nasty people could be on Twitter so she didn't have to do much research.

R.F. Kuang wrote the first draft of Yellowface in a month because as a digital native, she didn't have to do any research into how mean people could be on Twitter.

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From book to screen fast: Heated Rivalry’s unusually quick path to TV success It was only three years ago that Heated Rivalry writer/director/producer Jacob Tierney contacted Game Changers writer Rachel Reid about adapting her books to the screen

From book to screen fast: Heated Rivalry’s unusually quick path to TV success.

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Veronica Roth has already finished the sequel to dystopian romance Seek the Traitor's Son Roth's dystopian romance series, The Burning Empire, is not only getting a second entry after Seek the Traitor's Son, but at BookCon 2026, the author confirmed it was complete

Veronica Roth has already finished the sequel to dystopian romance Seek the Traitor's Son.

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Watch the Horror as a Mirror, Horror as Escape panel with Chuck Tingle, Tananarive Due, Kylie Lee Baker, & Bethany C. Morrow from Bookcon 2026! Fright fans at BookCon came out in droves for Horror as a Mirror, Horror as Escape: How Lived Experiences Shape Fictional Fears - featuring Tingle (Lucky Day), Due (The Reformatory), Baker (Bat Eater ...

Watch the Horror as a Mirror, Horror as Escape panel with Chuck Tingle, Tananarive Due, Kylie Lee Baker, & Bethany C. Morrow from Bookcon 2026!

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Watch Then/Now: The Evolution of Your Career Since That 1st Book with Melissa de la Cruz, Meg Cabot, Ann M. Martin, Libba Bray, & Kami Garcia from Bookcon 2026! Cruz, Cabot, Martin, Bray, and Garcia (authors of the Blue Bloods, Princess Diaries, Baby-Sitters Club, Gemma Doyle, and Beautiful Creatures series, respectively) looked back on their decades=spanning...

Watch Then/Now: The Evolution of Your Career Since That 1st Book with Melissa de la Cruz, Meg Cabot, Ann M. Martin, Libba Bray, & Kami Garcia from Bookcon 2026!

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Watch the Spotlight on R.F. Kuang from Bookcon 2026! Ground-breaking author of Babel and Katabasis R.F. Kuang came to NYC for this year's BookCon, and Popverse was there to film her panel

Watch the Spotlight on R.F. Kuang from Bookcon 2026!

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Jodi Picoult confirms Netflix's The Book of Two Ways TV adaption with Outlander's Matthew B. Roberts: "It'll have two really hot men: there's no downside to this story" Netflix to adapt Jodi Picoult’s The Book of Two Ways with Outlander showrunner attached.

Jodi Picoult confirms Netflix's The Book of Two Ways TV adaption with Outlander's Matthew B. Roberts.

"It'll have two really hot men: there's no downside to this story."

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Watch Game Changing TV: Celebrating Heated Rivalry with Rachel Reid & Jacob Tierney from BookCon 2026! Game Changers author Rachel Reid and Heated Rivalry showrunner Jacob Tierney brought steam to melt a whole city full of hockey rinks, and Popverse was there to catch their BookCon spotlight

BookCon brought Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid and showrunner Jacob Tierney on the Main Stage today, and you can now watch the whole panel free.

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More Divergent is on the way - Veronica Roth announces new novel THE SIXTH FACTION The Sixth Faction will be the sixth entry into Roth's Divergent novel series, but will take place in an alternate timeline than her previous works.

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How to watch BookCon 2026 panels online for free on Popverse Missed BookCon? Popverse is bringing the biggest panels online for free.

BookCon FOMO? Or want to re-live the big moments?

Popverse is filming several of the big panels, and will be sharing them free with you.

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BookCon 2027 dates & location BookCon 2027 dates and location revealed ahead of 2026 event kickoff.

BookCon 2026 just started, but we have the BookCon 2027 dates & location (and who is getting first dibs on tickets).

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DC has created a new Deathstroke and he is out to kill everyone (including Slade Wilson) Deathstroke: The Terminator #5 from Tony Fleecs and Carmine Di Giandomenico will feature a fight between Deathstroke... and himself

There's a new challenger on the horizon in DC Comics: another Deathstroke! We've got all the details for Deathstroke: The Terminator #5 here
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