Episodes

Welcome to the Page 1 Challenge , a fun little game for book lovers. Here’s how we play: without knowing the title, author or even genre of a book, can hearing Page 1 be captivating enough to make you want to read it? That’s...

Welcome to the Page 1 Challenge, a fun little podcast game for book lovers. Here’s how we play: without knowing the title, author or even genre of a book, can hearing Page 1 be captivating enough to make you want to read the...

Remember when your mother was making spaghetti sauce and she gave you a spoonful to taste? That’s sort of what we do here on The Page 1 Challenge . We give you just a taste of a book – just the first page. Is the first pag...

Imagine a world where people choose to read a book without first knowing the title or the author. Does such a world exist? Yes! This is The Page 1 Challenge , where we find out if only hearing a book’s first page is enough to...

Don’t judge a book by its cover. That’s good advice. But we take it a step further. We don’t even judge a book by the title or author. We judge it by listening to the first page! This is The Page 1 Challenge! Can page 1 e...

Welcome to the Page 1 Challenge, a fun little game for book lovers. Here’s how we play: without knowing the title, author or even genre of a book, can hearing Page 1 be captivating enough to make you want to read it? That’s...

Hello! I’m going to read page 1 of a book to you, and I won’t tell you the title or author before reading it. But how will you know if the author is famous or the book is an award-winning best seller? Ah! You won’t! And tha...

Imagine choosing to read a book without first knowing the title, the author, or even seeing the cover art. Who would do that? Well, WE would! This is The Page 1 Challenge , where we find out if only hearing a book’s first p...

Title? Author? We don’t need no stinking title or author! This is The Page 1 Challenge , where we judge a book by its first page. Is page 1 compelling enough to make you want to read the book? That’s what we’re here to fin...

THIS is The Page 1 Challenge , the podcast where we DON’T judge a book by its cover, or even by the author or the title! We judge it by reading the first page, and only the first page. Is that fair? Oh, heck no. But it is ...

Judging a book by its cover is considered to be superficial and unsophisticated. Judging a book by its first page is considered to be the whole point of this podcast called The Page 1 Challenge . Before telling you the title...

Fellow cave people, choosing new book to read doesn’t HAVE to involve knowing title or author or seeing the cave art. We just invented fire! And by 'fire' I mean listening to the first page of the book to see if we find it ...

Welcome to The Page 1 Challenge . If you’ve listened to this podcast before you know that this is usually where I give a whimsical intro about how the podcast works. Today I’m just going to say that this particular Page 1 ma...

Welcome to the podcast! I’m going to read the first page of a book to you. I bet you’d like to know the title and author of this book first, wouldn’t you. Sure…. That’s the kind of person you are. But that’s not how we do ...

You are traveling to a dimension where you can neither know the title nor author of a book. A journey into a land where you can’t even see a book’s cover art. What will you do? Your future may depend upon deciding if the fir...

Welcome to The Page 1 Challenge . On this book lover’s podcast, it is meritocracy, or rather Page1itocracy that matters. We don’t reveal the author, title, or any description of a book until AFTER we read page 1. So the first...

Welcome to The Page 1 Challenge - the short podcast for book lovers where the host changes the intro every week just for the novelty of it, and we read ONLY the first page of a book to you before identifying the title and aut...

If you told me that people would decide whether to read a book based only on its first page, I’d say “Hey – you must listen to The Page 1 Challenge , where we read Page 1 before telling you the author, title or any descriptio...

We’re always told not to judge a book by its cover. But nobody said not to judge by its first page! And on The Page 1 Challenge , that’s exactly what we do. Before identifying the author or title of a book, we just read Pag...

[ SPOILERS - DON'T READ UNTIL YOU LISTEN TO THE EPISODE!! ] . . . . This episode of The Page 1 Challenge features the book "EO-N" by Dave Mason, published by Hellbox Editions in 2020. Dave's website is: https://www.davemasonw...

[ SPOILERS - DON'T READ UNTIL YOU LISTEN TO THE EPISODE!! ] . . . . This episode of The Page 1 Challenge features the book "Thieves of Joy" by Jen Guberman, published by UGM Publications in 2021. Jen’s website is: https://ube...

[ SPOILERS - DON'T READ UNTIL YOU LISTEN TO THE EPISODE!! ] . . . . This episode of The Page 1 Challenge features the book " Deadly Declarations " by Landis Wade, published by Lystra Books in 2022. Landis’ website is: https:...

[ SPOILERS - DON'T READ UNTIL YOU LISTEN TO THE EPISODE!! ] . . . . This episode of The Page 1 Challenge features the book " The Audacity of Sara Grayson " by Joani Elliot, published by Post Hill Press in 2021. Joanie’s websi...

[ SPOILERS - DON'T READ UNTIL YOU LISTEN TO THE EPISODE!! ] . . . . This episode of The Page 1 Challenge features the book "Franklin Rock" by Mark Klein, published by Greenbriar Publishing, LLC in 2021. Mark’s website is: htt...