J. Ryan Stradal SELLS and A Bookstore with a Mission

The Book Case

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Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.7 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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We are so pleased that our Writer in Residence, J. Ryan Stradal, has sold his newest to Atria Publishing. He is here this week to tell us how he did it, and how Atria became his new home (and it apparently involved an auction). We are also joined by the husband and wife team behind Bound and Vine, a brand new bookstore in Fayetteville, North Carolina that brings military families together to share ideas and share community. Join us! Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this week's episode: Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal The Book Haters’ Book Club by Gretchen Anthony Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet,
0:06.3	Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11am.
0:18.1	Price and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:28.2	Welcome back, book casers.
0:29.2	It's Charlie Gibson.
0:31.2	Oh, and this is Kate Gibson.
0:32.2	Sorry, I didn't realize who was going to throw to me
0:33.1	quite that fast.
0:34.3	Well, I had to wake her up,
0:35.2	and it was a little jab to the ribs.
0:37.3	And she came alert
0:38.4	right away. We have an old friend this week. Jay Ryan Straddle is with us. If you have been listening
0:44.7	over the weeks, you have known that Jay Ryan Straddle, author of three very successful novels,
0:50.7	has been with us as our writer in residence. Why? He agreed to be our writer in residence. This is a mystery that we will never be able to answer. He was sober at the time, and we appreciate that. Well, we should give them a little bit of a pressy. If you haven't been listening, and you really should, if you want to go back to the beginning and listen to the very first episodes with him, you'll see that this writer-in-residence experience
1:11.4	is really, it could be called the genesis of a novel.
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