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Meet Tricia Copeland. She is an award-winning author of books for youth and young adults. Mostly she writes fantasy books, but as we learn during this episode, she also does write some romance books.   Tricia says that as a child she hated writing. Even so, she went to school and eventually she went to college where she received a degree in Microbiology. She also attained a Master's degree. She then went to work for a chemical company. After four years she found herself beginning a journey of technical writing and writing patterns and supporting materials.   After a few years Tricia became a stay-at-home-mom for a time. She tells us how she loved to tell stories and entertain her children.   We learn how she wrote her first fiction book series in 2015-16 about her time facing anorexia. In real life, she faced this and overcame it. She then began writing fantasy youth books and realized not only that she could write, but that she did not hate writing at all. She has written several series and has plans for more.     About the Guest:   Tricia Copeland is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Kingdom of Embers, To be Fae Queen, Lovelock Ones, and Azreya, Aztec Priestess, and dozens of other titles. She is the host of the Finding the Magic Book Podcast who weaves magical stories about love, courage, and finding your passion.   Tricia began her author journey with a women's fiction series, the Being Me series, which is an adaptation of her experience with anorexia. Afterwards she quickly pivoted to her favorite genre, fantasy. Her young adult fantasy series highlight themes including resilience, perseverance, faith, loyalty, trust, friendship, family, and love. They include the Kingdom Journals and Realm Chronicles series that find witches, vampires, and fae fighting an evil spirit determined to end them all. She tempers the high stakes drama in these books with her fun rom coms in the Perfect romance series.   Tricia Copeland believes in finding magic. She thinks magic infuses every aspect of our lives, whether it is the magic of falling in love, discovering a new passion, seeing a beautiful sunset, or reading a book that transports us to another world. An avid runner and Georgia native, Tricia now lives with her family and four-legged friends in Colorado. Find all her titles including contemporary romance, now penned under Maria Jane, young adult fantasy, and dystopian fiction at www.triciacopeland.com.   Ways to connect with Tricia:   https://triciacopeland.com https://www.facebook.com/TriciaCopelandAuthor/ https://www.instagram.com/authortriciacopeland/ https://twitter.com/tcbrzostowicz https://www.tiktok.com/@triciacopelandauthor https://www.youtube.com/@triciacopelandauthor https://www.amazon.com/stores/Tricia-Copeland/author/B00YHN5Q4G https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14055439.Tricia_Copeland https://www.bookbub.com/authors/tricia-copeland     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.     Michael Hingson ** 01:17 Well, hello everyone. We're really glad to have you here, wherever you may happen to be listening in from. We're really glad that you're listening to unstoppable mindset. I'm your host, Michael hingson, and our guest today is Tricia Copeland. Tricia is a prolific author. I use that word absolutely without any any concern, a prolific author of children's books, especially in the fantasy world. So she has been doing this a while and and also has an interesting story just of her life to tell. So we're going to go into all of that and delve in and see where we go. So Tricia, I want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset. We're really glad you're here.   Tricia Copeland ** 02:05 Thank you, Michael, I appreciate you having me, and I do want to make a little edit to that intro. Okay, go ahead. My books are young adult to New Adult books, so ages 13 plus mostly, all right,   Michael Hingson ** 02:19 so young adult to new adult. All right, that's fair. So how do you feel that your books fall into the range of things like the Harry Potter series and so on, sort of the same age groups,   Tricia Copeland ** 02:40 right? Genre adjacent, I have a series, The Kingdom Journal series, which includes three witches that have to break a curse on the witch lines. So the witches have to find each other as well as figure out how to break the curse using various forms of magic. So not really the same as Harry Potter, but definitely with with the witches, and the kind of contemporary world that Harry Potter is. But actually, I won't say that, because I haven't I think Harry Potter is mostly in the contemporary world, right? I didn't read all the books. I have to admit that he's   Michael Hingson ** 03:18 somewhat in the contemporary world, but, but I was thinking more of from a standpoint of the same type of age group.   Tricia Copeland ** 03:25 Yes, I think a younger reader. I think people started reading Harry Potter maybe around 10 or 11. And these books have older teenagers to start, age 1718, so 13 Plus is a good indicator. I think the other   Michael Hingson ** 03:42 thing I would observe about Harry Potter is that there are a lot of people who aren't necessarily teenagers or young adults, including me, who have read them and enjoyed them. I think that that Harry Potter certainly brought an interesting dimension to reading for teenagers especially, and hopefully young adults, because a lot of people did catch on to them, and they they had a great theme, and you do some of the same sorts of things by virtue of the fact of what you're writing and who you're writing it for,   Tricia Copeland ** 04:17 right? They definitely caught adult eyes and hearts and minds too   Michael Hingson ** 04:23 well, tell us somewhat about the early Trisha growing up and so on. Love to learn a little bit more about you, and then we can talk about whatever we feel is relevant to talk about the early Tricia,   Tricia Copeland ** 04:35 right? Well, I grew up in rural South Georgia, small town in south Georgia, and always loved reading and hiking and the outdoors, and very quickly, knew that maybe I didn't want to be in a small town forever. So I went to college in Atlanta, and I got a degree in microbiology, and from there, I got a master's. Degree, and I started my career in Central Research and Development at a chemical company, a large chemical company. So I was looking at making chemicals from microbes. And that was very exciting. That was my dream job that I'd always wanted. So that was very cool to be able to achieve that goal, and I actually didn't like writing until I started doing more technical writing with papers and patents.   Michael Hingson ** 05:29 Technical writing can be boring, but people could make it more exciting than oftentimes they do. I would say I've had to do some of it. I understand   Tricia Copeland ** 05:39 well, you have to like the topic, right? If you don't like the topic, you're not going to like the paper,   Michael Hingson ** 05:45 right? But also, I think that a lot of technical writers write and it's all very factual, but I think even in technical writing, it would be better if writers could do some things to draw in readers. And I've always felt that about textbooks. For example, my master's degree and bachelor's degree are in physics, and I've always maintained that the the physics people who write these books, who are oftentimes fairly substantial characters in in the genre, if you will, or in the field, could do a lot more to interest people in science and physics by rather than just doing these technical books, telling some stories along the way, and bringing people in and making people relate more to the topic. And they don't do that like I think at least that they should.   Tricia Copeland ** 06:36 I guess that can be said, maybe for every technical Yeah. Area,   Michael Hingson ** 06:43 yeah, it would be nice if technical writers spend a little bit of time, but of course, then the other side of it is that the industry doesn't want that. So what do you   Tricia Copeland ** 06:54 do? It may be a catch 22 on that one   Michael Hingson ** 06:56 might be, but that's okay. So how long did you stay working at the tech at the chemical companies and so on?   Tricia Copeland ** 07:06 I was in the lab for four years, and then I moved into the patent Legal Group. So I began my career as a Patent Agent, and now that's what I do for a living. My day job is that I help clients draft and file their patent applications.   Michael Hingson ** 07:22 So you have your own business doing that. I do, yes, oh,   Tricia Copeland ** 07:28 well, I write by day and I write by night.   Michael Hingson ** 07:32 Yeah, well, that can be pretty exciting, though. You get all sorts of interesting things to write about. I   Tricia Copeland ** 07:40 do I meet a lot of cool people that are inventing cool things.   Michael Hingson ** 07:44 So here's the question, do you ever find that what you write about during the day influences you, and you want to use some of that, or the general concepts of some of that, at night, when you're doing your your fiction writing?   Tricia Copeland ** 07:58 I haven't done that yet, I did write one dystopian fiction about a viral pandemic, and that touched on a little bit of my background in microbiology and genetics, but not anything that my clients have done   Michael Hingson ** 08:19 well. So you got into the patent field when you when you started doing that initially, were you doing it for a company, or did you just leap out on your own and start to have your own business?   Speaker 1 ** 08:30 Yes, I was doing that for a company. Okay? And how long did you do that? I was at that company   Tricia Copeland ** 08:35 about a year and a half. And at the time, we lived in Pennsylvania and outside of Philly. So then we had a job change, and we moved to Denver, so I took a little time off to be with my kids before I started my business.   Michael Hingson ** 08:53 So how long ago did you start the business?   Speaker 1 ** 08:57 In 2012 so 13 years doing it a while? Wow,   Michael Hingson ** 09:01 okay, and obviously you're having some success because you're still doing it.   Tricia Copeland ** 09:05 I am. Yes, I love helping my clients, and feel like I can definitely give them a value add   Michael Hingson ** 09:14 if you're not giving something away. What's probably the most interesting patent that you helped somebody work on attaining   Tricia Copeland ** 09:24 I will say, I worked with an inventor a year ago, and amazing man, he had had his career in education and teaching, and he developed a set of blocks to help people or Help kids. I should say, learn the parts of speech so you could put the together, the blocks, whether it was a subject, verb, pronoun, noun, adjective, adverb, and I learned parts of speech that I never knew existed from helping them with this application, and I was very excited. To help him get his patent. That's kind of cool.   Michael Hingson ** 10:04 Yeah, I am fair. I'm not sure I know all the parts of speech, but I remember being involved in high school well and in elementary school and diagramming sentences and learning a lot about the different or a number of the different parts of speech. Not sure I necessarily remember all of them extremely well, so I probably split infinitives and well, what do you do?   Tricia Copeland ** 10:28 Yes, I hated sentence structures.   Michael Hingson ** 10:35 Well, so what got you started then, since you were writing patents for people and so on, and helping people in securing patents. What got you then started in dealing with fiction writing, right?   Tricia Copeland ** 10:49 Well, when my kids were very young, I was a stay at home mom, and most of my days were spent chasing them around, occupying them, entertaining them, shuttling them from one place to another. So I realized in the evenings I was bored. I did my mind didn't have enough to occupy it. And I was about, I think it was about 38 and, you know, looking at my 40 year old birthday and thinking, huh, well, and I maybe it was like my 20 year high school reunion. I don't know why it coincide coincided, but I started thinking about my early college years I developed anorexia, and thinking about that time in my life and how poignant it was that I was able to recover from that disease and really gain some life skills from that experience. So I started a story that was a fictionalized account of my experience with anorexia and recovering for anorexia. So my first series, called the being me series, is a four book series about a character named Amanda who develops anorexia and then is able to recover.   Michael Hingson ** 12:01 So what caused if you understand, or, man, I don't know a lot about anorexia, Anorexia, and probably have some misconceptions about what I'm about to ask, but what, what caused it? Why did you develop that condition?   Tricia Copeland ** 12:16 Well, there's a lot of I mean, it happens differently for a lot of people, I think anorexia is a lot about control and having control over your environment. And I got there was a number of factors that I was depressed and not happy about not feeling like I was achieving, maybe what I should be achieving, and instead of someone might have turned to alcohol or drugs to alleviate those stressful feelings. I channeled all that into Okay? Well, if I'm just thin and if I just look good enough, then everything will be fine. And obviously, once your brain starts to get in that cycle, it just compounds on itself. You can't stop yourself from thinking that way. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 13:05 and what helped you get out of doing that? Was it writing or what? What really caused you to realize that ain't the way to go?   Tricia Copeland ** 13:16 Yeah, I almost died. That was it very it was a low point. And really, you know, if I didn't do something different, if I didn't let people help me do something different, I would not have made it. So really, you know, a lot of that is like educating people how serious eating disorders are, as well as how helpless sometimes the person that is experiencing them is in being able to help themselves.   Michael Hingson ** 13:48 And you said that this happened somewhat in your your college years.   Tricia Copeland ** 13:53 Yes, I was 20.   Michael Hingson ** 13:56 Were there a lot of pressures were, were people criticizing you in any way that helped contribute to it, or was it sort of really   Tricia Copeland ** 14:04 internally? Part of it was internally. Part of it was, you know, what I thought people's expectations I was in. I was at a engineering school and I was a biology major, so maybe that wasn't the best place for me. Everybody was very high in performing. Yeah, yeah. There are many, many factors, I think, and just my my brain that was not processing things, maybe as realistically as they could have been processed.   Michael Hingson ** 14:33 But what you eventually did about it was to write a series about it, so clearly you were able to move beyond it, and then, if you will, talk about it,   Tricia Copeland ** 14:45 right, right? So I went into inpatient recovery, and then was able to get the help that I needed with therapist and psycho psychiatrist and support groups, and that was a big help. And then, yes, 20 years later, I. Wrote a series about it.   Michael Hingson ** 15:02 Well, that's pretty cool. And again, it's I'm always one who admires people who are able to and willing to talk about things. I went to an event last year was the Marshfield, Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival, and the Cherry Blossom Festival, which happens every April, is a celebration of American history, and they'll bring people in who have some relationship to an historic event, or who have relatives who were so for example, the great grandson of President Grant was at this event, but one of the people who was there was a former secret service agent who rode in the car behind John Kennedy when he was in Dallas and assassinated, and it took him 45 years to get to the point where he could come out of his experiences enough to start to talk about it, and I just have always admired people who do that. For me, being in the World Trade Center on September 11 and getting out, I never really viewed it as all that traumatic, but I guess it was, but my way to deal with it was, and I realized it much later, but we had so many newspaper reporters who wanted to know about the blind guy who got out of the World Trade Center. I talked about it, I mean, answered everyone's questions. And that was ironically, I love to pick on the media, but ironically, it was the media that really probably helped me move forward from September 11 the most.   Tricia Copeland ** 16:41 Yeah, I can imagine that was a lot of processing that you were able to do, as you talked about it.   Michael Hingson ** 16:48 People asked all sorts of questions, some really good questions, some not so good questions. And we got to observe all sorts of different types of press people. We had one Italian film crew who came to our house, there were 13 people, most of whom didn't really seem to do a whole lot, but they were there. And then there was a Japanese crew that came. And I think there were two people. It's just amazing what you see and what you learn. And for me and my wife, both now my late wife, but both, both of us love to observe and study and really think about what all these people are doing and how they do it, and we use it as ways to help us learn more about things, if you will, studying and being a student. I think of life as always an important thing,   Tricia Copeland ** 17:39 right, yeah, and I guess everybody reacts different to trauma and how you can process that everybody needs a little bit different. But yes, if you could look at things through a learning lens, that can definitely help too.   Michael Hingson ** 17:52 So you wrote the being me series. How many books are in that series? Four books, four books. Okay, and so, how long ago did you write those?   Tricia Copeland ** 18:03 I published them between 2015 and 2016   Michael Hingson ** 18:07 Okay, did you self publish or I do? Yes, you still do. Okay, great. Well, all right, and then what? What made you decide to then continue and start going into sort of teenage and so on, fiction and fantasy and so on, right?   Tricia Copeland ** 18:31 I realized that I just loved writing, and it was something that I didn't want to stop doing. So when I looked around for my next genre to write in, it was very obviously fantasy. For me. I read fantasy from a very young age. I loved Merlin and King authors legends and the Lord of the Rings and all of those books as a young person and a young adult, and that's just what I wanted to write. So my first book, interestingly enough, my editor sent it back to me and said, This is not fantastical enough. You need to make it more paranormal. So it took a minute to make that switch. What   Michael Hingson ** 19:15 book was that   Tricia Copeland ** 19:16 that is drops of sunshine and it is mirrored off an experience I had. I was a camp counselor at a camp for the blind when I was in I guess after my freshman year of college, and the campers in my story have these extra sensory skills where they can read people's minds. That was the paranormal aspect of my book, and that's not known in the beginning the story to our main character, and then she discovers that these kids have this special talent, and that was how my fantasy books started out. Mm, hmm.   Michael Hingson ** 20:00 Then where did it go from   Tricia Copeland ** 20:01 there? Then I jumped into the witches with the kingdom Journal series. I developed a character that was a vampire or is a vampire witch hybrid, and so she has a vampire mother and a witch father, but she doesn't know who her father is. She's never met him. And to make things a little bit harder, vampire witch Hyderabad are not allowed, but either the witch lines or the vampires, so both the vampires and the witches got together and said, these beings are too dangerous. We're not going to allow them in our society. And if she's discovered, then she'll be killed. That was the first character, Alina, and she's and to give her just a little more stress, I put her in a human High School, so now she pretends, you know, can't pretend to be a witch. Can't pretend to be a vampire. She needs to be human too. And, yeah, so that was a really fun book to write, and that's the series where the trinity of witches has to come together, so she has to find the other two witches of the Trinity, and they each get to tell their story in the books too. So that's why it's called the kingdom journals. It's a little bit of a journal format, so each character gets to tell their own story as well as telling the overall plot line of the series. How   Michael Hingson ** 21:19 do you come up with these characters and create these stories? I mean, it's very imaginative. I wouldn't have thought of it. How do you, and I'm sure other people say that, but how do you create the characters? How does all that   Tricia Copeland ** 21:32 work? Yeah, I set out, funny enough, I set out to write a vampire series that was my vampire is my favorite fantasy characters. And I thought, Okay, I'm gonna write a vampire series. It's not you don't want to do it too far out from what most people write or most people think of vampires. But I wanted my vampires to be a little bit different from the other vampires and other series. So I had this idea of making the vampire witch hybrid and her set in a human High School, and what would that look like? And then the challenge? I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with the challenge, but somehow I came up with this curse, and the curse was on the witch line, so it very quickly morphed into more of a witch book and the magical side of things, but the vampire characters are still there, and I explore them a little bit, although not as much as the witches.   Michael Hingson ** 22:27 Do you find that the characters essentially tell you what they want to be and who they are and why they do what they do. How much are the characters involved in your writing process? I've heard other authors say that that in some of the fiction things, the characters really create the story   Tricia Copeland ** 22:47 they do. I feel like my books are very character driven. So how I usually start with the idea for a character and think of their personality, their challenges, what I want, what themes I want to show with that character and then build the world sort of around that character. So it shows those themes and those character traits and what they're overcoming, either in their personal life or in their their physical life, right? But I do have characters that go off script. In the second book, kingdom of darkness. I have a character who we're not sure if he's a good guy or a bad guy. The main character thinks that he may be trying to delude her into thinking he's good when he's not really good. But I wrote him so well, like he was so nice that I couldn't make him a villain. So he became, I rewrote the story a little bit. I'd written it in my mind, I guess, but I rewrote it a little bit. So he did end up being a villain. And then somehow he got his whole own book, so he gets to star in his whole book after that.   Michael Hingson ** 23:54 And does he stay a villain? No, he   Tricia Copeland ** 23:57 didn't stay. He didn't was never, I mean, I kind of wrote it so the main character thought he was a villain, but in the end, I didn't make him a villain.   Michael Hingson ** 24:06 Well, I like books like that. I yeah, I think that most creatures are generally pretty nice.   Tricia Copeland ** 24:14 We would hope so,   Michael Hingson ** 24:16 although I don't know that that bears necessarily are overly generally nice to people, but, you know, who knows? Yeah, that doesn't mean they're evil either. Well, no, yeah.   Tricia Copeland ** 24:27 I mean, they're just living their life, right? That's they need their food sources. Is just like we need our food sources. So   Michael Hingson ** 24:35 I'd rather not be their food source, though, but that's okay, right?   Tricia Copeland ** 24:39 Yeah, and I don't know. I do struggle with, like, evil or antagonistic characters, because I'm, I don't like the idea that there's a character that is purely evil for no reason. So that is, that's always a grapple in an author's mind. I think,   Michael Hingson ** 24:56 well, and you know, I'll go back to Harry Potter. Modern Of course, we have Lord waldemart, who was definitely evil. But even so, the way she created the characters and the way she crafted the books, which probably in some ways, are similar, just in a process of what you do, it's not necessarily overly graphically evil. Even if there's evil, it isn't so graphic that you you you become totally adverse or against it. Evil or bad things are there, but it's all on how you present it. That's why I like books that are essentially puzzles, if you will, because they leave a lot of things to your imagination, and they give you the ability to as a reader, think about it, but as a writer, you also are essentially drawing the reader in to where you want the reader to go, but, but they're puzzles, rather than just some graphic thing, talking about all these horrible, mean, nasty things that a character may do.   Tricia Copeland ** 26:08 That's true, and it's all perspective, right? So the quote, unquote villain in my series is out to destroy all the vampires. But then you meet vampires that are good vampires, right? And you think, Huh, well, maybe this one vampire shouldn't be destroyed, because this vampire is not acting in a mean or hurtful way. So many sides to those questions,   Michael Hingson ** 26:33 yeah. Well, so the Kingdom series. How many books are in that one?   Tricia Copeland ** 26:38 There are four books in the main series, and there's a prequel to that series, okay?   Michael Hingson ** 26:45 And then what happened? What happened after that series?   Tricia Copeland ** 26:48 So in the finale, kingdom of war, my witches were going to have this huge battle against a vampire army that the evil witch created to, you know, battle the good witches. Yeah, she put which souls in the vampires. So that made them sort of like super vampires. But anyway, my witches needed an army, and I thought who would be a good character to be, to have an army that can come help the witches. So, yeah, the beings I thought of were fairies, and I created a queen Titania, is her name, who had an army who would come help the witches battle these vampire witch soul hybrid be. And when I created her, she just kind of took on her own character, and I quickly morphed that into what was her backstory, what were struggles? Where was she living? Where would the spay army come from? And that is what kind of launched my realm chronicle series, that the finale is coming out next month. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 28:10 that's that's pretty cool, and that that answers, again, the question we talked about earlier. The character actually took over, if you will, the writing, which is always cool, because that really shows how deeply you're invested in the characters and you let them have their voices, right?   Tricia Copeland ** 28:26 And I couldn't really give up the characters from my kingdom Journal series. They not, you know, not to give too much away, but they do complete their first quest and but this evil witch who's trying to destroy the vampires is still out there somewhere, so I couldn't completely let them go. So the witches from my kingdom Journal series come into the round Chronicles series, and the fairies and the witches are continuing to help each other.   Michael Hingson ** 28:56 Well, that's cool. Well, it's kind of neat to even though it's a new series, and I assume you can read one without reading the other, but still, it's neat that you, you follow on and help to craft and expand the world.   Tricia Copeland ** 29:11 It's been a lot of fun. And I, you know, selfishly, I didn't want to let go the characters. I felt like they had a little bit of story left in them, and I was able to do that through the round chronicle series. And yeah, it it was a lot of fun for me to   Michael Hingson ** 29:26 write. And now, of course, the question is, will there be a lot more story with them, which is part of the adventure that will come next? Right?   Tricia Copeland ** 29:33 Yes, I'm, I'm thinking of that. I put my characters through a lot. So after I finished the finale, I felt like I just had to let them rest. I'm not really sure if I will continue with those same characters or or either pull out some different characters from that book to have their own stories. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 29:54 well, it's, it's going to be an adventure. No question about. It   30:00 definitely so   Michael Hingson ** 30:04 with your books. Do you have themes in your books? That is, are you? Are you trying to convey messages? Do you have themes and things that you want people to think about as they go through reading your books?   Tricia Copeland ** 30:16 I do. I feel like I like that in the book, and so I kind of embed that in my books too, but it's really more about what is the character grappling with. Not only, like I said in their physical world, maybe Queen Titania is the first female queen in her realm, and some of the old guard, other monarchs are not sure that a female should be able to rule, So that's sort of an out, outside challenge. But she also has inner conflict and challenges where she's not really trusting that she really can do it and she's really supposed to do it, and should she, you know, hand the crown to someone else who may be older or wiser or and so it does she have faith in herself. You know, would sort of be that theme there. And so each of the books have, I mean, it's not like I say, hey, the theme of this book is you need to believe in yourself, yeah, but just showing that the character arcs and how they overcome their challenges.   Michael Hingson ** 31:22 How do you again create those? How do you work those in what? What's the process that allows you to to put those themes in and and add them to the book and bring that value out? Right?   Tricia Copeland ** 31:37 I guess it's just how, the way I the challenges I choose to put in front of my characters and showing them fail at times, and showing them I do write first person, so you're getting a very up close view of what the character is thinking and feeling at all times. So I think that helps with a little bit of that, knowing that the character is struggling with whatever their um, XYZ, inner, inner turmoil that they're struggling with. And then, you know, just having other characters bounce things off of them, because the character themselves might not realize, hey, I I get anxious when I'm not in control of situations. So, you know, somebody might say, Hey, you're doing this again, stop.   Michael Hingson ** 32:29 That's why we have editors,   32:30 right,   Michael Hingson ** 32:33 and other people to help well, so you are you, but you clearly talk with your characters and you let them have a voice, which is, I think, something that adds a really great dimension to the writing that you do. And I think it's very important to do that.   Tricia Copeland ** 32:51 I hope so. I have very detailed character sheets for each of my characters. I create much bigger back stories than, probably, than really makes it into the books, just to be able to know, like, how my characters will react in situations, what their growth needs to be, where areas that I want to show that growth, and what's most important in their values, And how would they react to all the different challenges?   Michael Hingson ** 33:24 What caused you to bring fairies into it again? I think that's pretty imaginative. You were writing about witches of vampire. Fairies are are different. How did that come about?   Tricia Copeland ** 33:34 Honestly, I was at a book event, and a person was walking around with these postcards, and they were trying to get authors to write a short story for an anthology, and it had to be a fantasy genre, and it had to be a character with a mental health challenge. But the image on the postcard was of a fairy, and she was hunched in a meadow in these grasses, and she looked kind of anxious or scared, maybe even a little timid or worried. And I thought, Oh, that's a cool image. It was very striking with the green grass and her fairy wings and just her eyes were like had just a lot of feeling behind them. So it caught my eye. I never thought I'd write about fairies. I was looking for the Army for my witches, and I thought, well, you know, the fairies could be like the characters the witches go to. So it was just kind of happenstance that I happened to see this fairy character on a postcard and think, Huh, I could, you know, the fairies could be the answer.   Michael Hingson ** 34:44 And turns out, they were, they were Yes. So are all fairies girls? No, okay.   Tricia Copeland ** 34:51 I mean, fairies are much like humans in my world, except that my fairies have wings. They in. Middle Earth, which is just below earth. So they share our same bedrock. It kind of mirrors our Earth in my world. And they have rings where they can come back and forth between the fae and the human realm, and they live in our contemporary times. I like those themes of there might be witches, there might be vampires, there might be fairies that walk alongside us every day, and we don't know it.   Michael Hingson ** 35:24 And do they know Bill Bo Baggins, since we're talking about Middle Earth, just   Tricia Copeland ** 35:29 they do, well, they might have read the book. I don't know that they met him personally.   Michael Hingson ** 35:35 Yeah. Well, that's, you know, another, another story, but it's but it's cool. What other kinds of characters are you thinking of for maybe future books, outside of witches, vampires and fairies,   Tricia Copeland ** 35:49 right? So I won't give too much away, but no, in order to perform some of the spells that they need to perform in, I guess in two of my books in this series, to be a Fae legend, which is the third book of the series, and to be a Fae which is the finale, The last book of the series. My witches and fairies need to perform these spells. So they need a great amount of power or energy, and they have to assemble different kinds of beings. And in the finale, they have to assemble 12 different kinds of beings. If you try to make a list of different kinds of being, you actually in ones that the witches and the fairies could find in the human realm, like so I had an elf and the werewolves and nicks and selkies like so the Nicks are shape shifters that shift into fish, and then the selkies are shape shifters that shift into now I'm blanking not walruses seals, sorry. So yeah, I had to go find all these different characters. So all of those characters are in this final book, and I I'm thinking of maybe some of those characters that can form a new series.   Michael Hingson ** 37:11 So are all trolls, mean, nasty creatures, or, do you know yet,   Tricia Copeland ** 37:16 in my series, they are depicted as that? Yes,   Michael Hingson ** 37:21 how about gnomes? I don't have any gnomes. Well, there's another one for you to look at down the line. Might be. It might be interesting to see where that goes. Of course. Yep, so you but you have a variety of characters, and I think it's it's great when you have a rich culture of a lot of different characters. And of course, there are all sorts of potentials for conflict or for different creatures to work learn to work together too,   Tricia Copeland ** 37:56 right? The Fay historically have not worked with other beings or creatures. They very much kept to themselves and had primary purpose. They think their primary purpose is to protect the humans from all the evil spirits. So that has been their focus historically, and they've shunned other groups of beings based on whether they thought they were descended from the Creator, who's sort of like their god or the creator or the evil one, right? So the Fae believed that the vampires and werewolves, for instance, were created by the evil ones, so they shouldn't associate with those types of beings, and there's a lot of learning in there. I guess you could say it, are we going to partner with these beings, and how? What does that look like? And is that really okay? And can we choose a different path than what our predecessors have chosen?   Michael Hingson ** 38:59 And I guess it's sort of pretty clearly, is that they somewhat do that.   Tricia Copeland ** 39:06 Yes, they do. And Titania, our main character, is very much the Herald for that type of behavior and that type of community and that type of acceptance   Michael Hingson ** 39:23 well. So your next year, your book will be out in July, and then where do you go from there?   Tricia Copeland ** 39:31 Yes, so like I said, I'm tossing around ideas for fantasy characters. I also write in the romance genre, so generally, I'll write a fantasy, and then I'll write a romance. I'll switch back and forth between writing those. The past year and a half, I guess I've been focusing on finishing this fantasy series, so I have two romances now queued up that I'm excited about writing, and we'll get to those first. I   Michael Hingson ** 39:58 think, hmm. What romances Have you written already?   Tricia Copeland ** 40:03 So after the being me series, I started the perfect romance series, which the first book was a little bit different from a typical romance. It has five parts, and it's the same main character, but based on decisions at different times in her life, her life goes off in a different way. So you see her go to France and fall in love with the French man, or you see her take a job in New York City and fall in love with a investment banker. And so you see her in different stages of her life, having made different decisions, but still finding happily ever after. So that kind of kicked off that. And somebody, somebody called it speculative romance at one time, and it's more like make your own story or choose your own ending type of book. But from there, I initially thought I would write like a full book showing each of the happily ever afters with that same character, but I wrote one book showing one happily ever after scenario, but then decided that I would look at all of her friends lives so they all met in college, and they were in this one sorority together. And so I write different books showing the different friends love stories. So I've written perfect. Was the first one perfect, always with Chloe. And then Brie book is a close as close to perfect. And this is still set in Lexington, Kentucky. And then the last one is perfect office pack, which is a enemies to lovers, office romance.   Michael Hingson ** 41:51 Now, do you put a lot of sex in your books? I   Tricia Copeland ** 41:54 don't know. My books are what's called closed door or fade to black, so you'll see some kissing, but not much more than that,   Michael Hingson ** 42:03 and that's fine. And the reason I asked that question was to get to the whole issue of so many people when they're writing, just have to make everything so graphic. There's got to be all this sex and all this other stuff that they put in them. And my view has always been, is that really necessary? And I gather you, you're essentially saying the same thing. And again, it's like detective stories. I love to read a lot of detective stories, but I like the detective stories most that are puzzles. That is, I want to figure out who done it. I don't need all the graphics of how somebody got murdered, or what happened. It happens. You don't need to put all that graphic stuff in to get to dealing with the puzzle. And it's the same thing with sex. You really need all that. Like a lot of comedians, it's all the shock stuff. They got to have all these horrible words, swear words, and everything else but the best comedians, I think most people, if they really study it, will agree, are the ones that tell stories without all that dirty and sex stuff in it.   Tricia Copeland ** 43:12 And that's what I like to read and what I like to watch, too. But there are definitely people that enjoy different types of books. Yeah, there are, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 43:21 yeah, I hear you, but I, I would prefer to be able to use my imagination in various things. So one of my favorite detective stories or Characters of All Times is Nero Wolfe, written by Rex Stout, because he he writes in a way where you don't see all the graphic and don't need to see any of the graphic to get the entire picture. He describes enough so you know what's going on, but he doesn't deal with it in a way that would How do I put it? Offend anyone?   Tricia Copeland ** 43:59 Right? And I would probably argue that mystery books are would be the hardest to write, I think, because you have to give enough clues throughout so that the reader doesn't think, Oh, I would have never thought that was the villain, but you don't want to put too much in. So it's so obvious who the villain is, right? So I think it's the ways those authors weave those stories are very intricate and thought out and multi layered and impressive to me   Michael Hingson ** 44:34 well. And the reality is that sometimes, and again, I'll use Rex Stout as an example, when you find out who did it, or who the bad person was, and Wolf explains it clearly, all the clues were there, but it would be really hard for you to put it together. Now, there have been a few times where there were things that he didn't tell you, that if you if he had said those. Because during the book, you might have figured it out, but mostly the clues are somewhat there, but it is so subtle that I doubt very many people would figure it out, which   Tricia Copeland ** 45:14 is, yeah, definitely.   Michael Hingson ** 45:17 It makes it so much fun. When that happens, it is. So you're, you're still deciding what you want to do for your next series of books, or what, what the next realm will be, if you will,   Tricia Copeland ** 45:31 in the fantasy genre, yes, I'm still deciding which way to go with my next characters.   Michael Hingson ** 45:38 Yes, right, but you're going to probably do some romances before you go into those. I   Tricia Copeland ** 45:43 am, yes, I was just writing a newsletter to my subscribers. In the last book, I had subscribers pick names for my characters. And so in this book, I thought, You know what? I don't like this character has has only been introduced and very briefly in one of the books, and so she doesn't have a lot of backstory. And I thought, You know what, I can just ask my readers, where do you think she should live? What are her hobbies? What does she like to do? What's her favorite book genre? I thought that would be a lot of fun for my readers to direct some of that.   Michael Hingson ** 46:18 And what kind of answers did you get? Did you get a lot of feedback?   Tricia Copeland ** 46:22 Like I said, I Well, with the names one when? So I'm just sent out the poll today, new one, but for the name ones, yeah, I would. I got like 100 answers. And then I thought, you know, next time, I won't do the names, because sometimes names are so personal and can vote like a lot of emotion that people get very heated about people's names.   Michael Hingson ** 46:47 Now, do mostly women answer? Do you get both sexes answering your questions? It is   Tricia Copeland ** 46:52 mostly women, but definitely, maybe 10% male, I would think. And actually, I feel like I have more interaction, and that's mostly on the fantasy side, but I feel like I actually have sometimes more interaction. Maybe, I don't know, maybe this get more passionate about fantasy?   Michael Hingson ** 47:13 Yeah, probably so. But you know, there's, there's something to be said for reading a good romance book. I like cozy mysteries as well, and a lot of those are really combinations of mysteries and romance, and the mystery part is oftentimes more straightforward, but it's just the whole book and the putting the entire book together that makes it so much fun.   Tricia Copeland ** 47:41 Yeah, those can be a quick, you know, kind of feel good read. I yeah for that genre, yeah, and   Michael Hingson ** 47:49 there's nothing wrong with that. It's good to have feel good books occasionally,   Tricia Copeland ** 47:54 too. I am all for feel good everything, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 47:58 Well, when I travel, I like to read on airplanes, and I like not to work and do reading that's really related to work, because going and coming from events is really the time that I get to have the most down time once I get somewhere I am on until I am on the airplane coming home. And so it is the way to relax. So I enjoy reading things that will allow me to relax when I'm going and coming from trips or from events, which is so important, I think, to be able to do and I think people should do more of that. It's always worth slowing down some and really letting your mind just wander.   Tricia Copeland ** 48:38 Yeah, plane trips are my favorite, because that's I do the same thing. I read on the plane, and I listen to audio books mostly if I'm home, when I'm exercising or when I'm doing chores. But to be able to sit down and read doesn't happen that often.   Michael Hingson ** 48:56 What do you like to read most from audio books? What? What genre?   Tricia Copeland ** 48:59 Um, exactly what I write, fantasy and romance.   Michael Hingson ** 49:03 What's your favorite fantasy books   Tricia Copeland ** 49:06 I just finished, and I'm so behind because I don't read fantasy when I'm writing fantasy. So I just finished Holly Black's, the folk of the air series, the cruel prince, I think the cool prince, the wicked king and the queen of nothing. I think they're the three books in that series. So that was really good series. And I'm writing Emily's wild encyclopedia fairies right now. So I just started that get   Michael Hingson ** 49:33 a little bit more information on those fairies for a future book. Right? That's that's kind of important to do. So do you produce with I've asked a number of people this, and I'll ask you, do you arrange for audio books to be produced from your series?   Tricia Copeland ** 49:53 I do both my fantasy series, The Kingdom journals, as well as the realm Chronicles. I have audio books. Four. I'm a little bit behind in the realm Chronicles. My Narrator had some health problems, so I'm switching narrators. But my new narrator, Tina walls, wolsen craft, yes, I think that's how you pronounce her last name, she will be working on the fourth book in the realm Chronicles series in September. So I'm hoping that will come out in October, and that will be my, my eighth audio book.   Michael Hingson ** 50:23 And where can people get the audio books?   Tricia Copeland ** 50:26 So the kingdom Journal series is on all platforms, and then the realm chronicle series, the newest series, is on Audible. Okay,   Michael Hingson ** 50:37 so and again under your name for the author?   Tricia Copeland ** 50:42 Yep. Tricia Copeland, author, the Kingdom Journal series. The first two books are female character, so and now I'm blank. I can't believe I'm blanking on her name. It'll come to me in a minute. Yeah. So I had a female narrator for the first two books, and then the second two books are male Lee main characters. So Dan Delgado did the narration on those and then Jillian Yetter, who was the most amazing narrator for Titania. She even had pink hair, just just like Titania does, a hold of the the cover of the book has Titania is pink hair. So that was really fun to work with her, and we won an award for the second book in that series, to be a fake guardian   Michael Hingson ** 51:26 in audio book. Oh, cool. What was the award? It   Tricia Copeland ** 51:29 was independent book publisher Association, young adult fantasy, Silver Award.   Michael Hingson ** 51:35 Oh, cool. That's exciting. It's always good to have awards. Have you run other awards along the way?   Tricia Copeland ** 51:40 I have several Colorado independent book Publishers Association for the first book, kingdom of embers, in the kingdom Journal series, as well as several the global Book Awards for to remember it to be, to be a fake queen, which is the first book in the kingdom journals and as Ray at my Aztec mythology.   Michael Hingson ** 52:06 So how many books have you written all together?   Speaker 1 ** 52:08 Next month's book will be 23 Wow.   Michael Hingson ** 52:13 That is really exciting. Well, I know we're putting in the show notes, the picture of the book cover for the next book. And as I mentioned earlier, if you want to send us other books that you think people ought to read, we'll put those pictures in the the notes as well. I'm glad to have all the pictures you want to share.   Tricia Copeland ** 52:31 I will definitely share them. Thank you. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 52:34 so is there anything else you'd like all of our listeners and viewers to know or to think about going forward,   Tricia Copeland ** 52:42 right? Well, if you go to my website, which is triciacopeland.com,   Michael Hingson ** 52:47 and Tricia is T, R, i, c, I A, Copeland, C, O, P, E, L,   52:53 a n, d, l, a n, d.com.com,   Tricia Copeland ** 52:56 yes, if you go there, and if you just want to get a trial of my books. If you subscribe to my newsletter, then you can read a free short story fantasy as well as a free short story romance.   Michael Hingson ** 53:07 Oh, okay. If people want to reach out to you, what's the best way to do that,   Tricia Copeland ** 53:13 they can reach out on direct message, on social media, or my email is Tricia T, R, i, c, I a@triciacopeland.com   53:21 too. Okay,   Michael Hingson ** 53:24 then people can, can reach out and and they'll, I'm sure, have all sorts of ideas for you.   Tricia Copeland ** 53:31 I love ideas, and I love talking to readers about my books.   Michael Hingson ** 53:36 Yeah, I I've written three, and I love getting comments and feedback from people, because I get new ideas and new thoughts. And mine are really all about helping to inspire people and so on. So it's it's always good when people have their their observations, whatever they are.   54:01 I agree.   Michael Hingson ** 54:03 Well, anyway, I want to thank you for being here. This has been a lot of fun, and I really value your time being here, and I hope people will reach out and and also, more important, get your books and read your books and review them. One of the most important things that all of us who are authors will tell anyone is, please review the books. Please go to places like Amazon and Reddit and so on and review the books, because those reviews are are viewed and paid attention to by so many people. So giving an author, a great review is always a wonderful thing to do.   Tricia Copeland ** 54:44 We do appreciate those and thank you so much, Michael for having me.   Michael Hingson ** 54:48 Well, it was my pleasure, and I want to thank all of you for listening and watching today. We really appreciate it. If you've got any thoughts, I'd love to hear from you, please email me at Michael H i. M, I, C, H, A, E, L, H, I, at access, A, B, A, C, C, E, S, S, i, b, e.com, but also go to our podcast page, www, dot Michael hinkson.com/podcast, you can see all of our podcasts there, but they're also available wherever you're listening to podcasts and and you can find the most anywhere podcasts are available. If you know anyone who ought to be a guest that you think would make a wonderful guest, and you'd like to have them tell their stories and Tricia you as well, I would really appreciate you introducing us, because we're always looking for more people to have on the podcast, and so please don't hesitate to reach out and don't hesitate to provide introductions, but again, give us a five star review here on unstoppable mindset. We value your reviews greatly, and we really appreciate you doing it. So I want to thank you, Tricia again, for being here. This has been fun, and I think it's really important that people do get a great sense of what you're doing, and I think we've done that, and we're really anxious to see where you go from here.   Tricia Copeland ** 56:08 Thank you so much, Michael, I so appreciate it.   Michael Hingson ** 56:15 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. 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Welcome to That's A Mouthful, the unfiltered, no-BS podcast where Cody & Matt tackle today's most unexpected, hilarious, and heartfelt topics — one mouthful at a time.This episode kicks off something brand new: our official book club!

Schick uns deinen Themenvorschlag oder deine Frage zum Buch schreiben und veröffentlichenSie entstanden aus einem Bedürfnis heraus und heute sind sie nicht nur kaum mehr wegzudenken, sondern dominieren den Buchmarkt beinahe: Young Adult und New Adult. Aus vielen Gemeinsamkeiten heraus fällt die Unterscheidung vielen schwer. Beide Einordnungen sind bekannt für einen packenden und schnellen Erzählstil, spannende Stories und der Suche nach Identität.Doch worin liegen die Unterschiede? Wie jung sind die ersten Werke tatsächlich? Und welche Themen stehen im Vordergrund? An welchen Stellen finden wir einen Übergang und wo liegen die Grenzen dessen, was wir unseren Leser:innen in dem Alter zumuten können? Diese Fragen stellen sich Emmy und Laura und geben damit einen Einblick in ihre Arbeit mit Geschichten aus Young Adult und New Adult.Support the showStelle dich deinem fantastischen Buchabenteuer mit den Zeilenschlingern! In dieser Reihe von 12 Online-Workshops begleiten wir dich Schritt für Schritt durch den gesamten Schreibprozess.✩ Jetzt mehr erfahren: https://zeilenschlinger.de/fantastisches-buchabenteuer/ Komm jetzt in unseren Zeilenschlinger Discord Channel:https://discord.gg/nRnDa5xt36Du möchtest mit Chris an deinem Buch arbeiten? Egal, ob Lektorat, Beratung oder Coaching, hier findest du mehr zu ihren Angeboten und wie du sie kontaktieren kannst: https://christineroedl.de/ Du willst dein Buch im Podcast vorstellen oder als Dienstleister:in in der Buchbubble, deine Kund:innen erreichen?✩ Informiere dich hier: https://www.zeilenschlinger.de/werbeplatzKennt ihr schon unseren Arschtritt des Monats? ✩ Als Newsletter-Abonnent erhältst zu exklusiven Zugang zu unserer Datenbank, in der wir Vorlagen und Checklisten zu unseren Themen teilen. ✩ Du erhältst Einblick in unseren persönlichen Schreibprozess. ✩ Hier geht es zur AnmeldungEuch gefällt unser Podcast? Wir würden uns über Eure Unterstützung freuen: ✩ Werdet offizieller Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Zeilenschlinger ✩ Gebt uns einen Kaffee aus über Ko-Fi: https:/...

Viele rümpfen darüber die Nase oder rollen mit den Augen, und dabei hat doch gerade eine ganze neue Generation das Lesen für sich entdeckt – sollten wir das nicht feiern? Die Rede ist natürlich von »New Adult« und »Romance«, und schon so manche Person hat versucht, den Hype um diese Genres zu ergründen. Emily und Florian probieren das heute auch mal und zwar auf Einladung der Azubis des Hanser Verlags live vor kritischer Fan-Crowd. Damit das Ganze nicht viel zu boomerig wird, haben sie in weiser Voraussicht beim Auseinandernehmen einiger Bestsellertitel Unterstützung durch Maria Hamberger, die nicht nur jünger, sondern auch liebevolle Leserin mancher Romance-Sparten ist. Danke Maria, danke Azubis, danke immer aufregende Buchwelt. Viel Spaß bei Hanser Rauschen! Wenn euch diese Folge gefallen hat, bewertet sie doch gerne auf der Podcast-Plattform eurer Wahl! Bei Fragen, Meinungen oder Anmerkungen schreibt uns gerne an rauschen@hanser.de.

Eine Buchhandlung nur für BookTok-Fans, kann das funktionieren? Als wir zum ersten mal von Bookish Empire in Jever gehört haben, wussten wir sofort, dass wir unbedingt die beiden Inhaberinnen in den Alles Buchmarkt Podcast einladen müssen.Dankenswerterweise hatten Rieke Gerdes und Rieke Steinborn Lust und Zeit uns Rede und Antwort zu stehen. Wir besprechen mit ihnen, wie lange es von der ersten Idee bis zur konkreten Umsetzung gedauert hat. Zudem klären wir den Unterschied zwischen New Adult, Young Adult und Romance, ob Dark Romance Bücher eine Altersfreigabe bräuchten und vieles mehr.Bookish Empire findet ihr sowohl auf TikTok als auch auf Instagram. Und natürlich haben die beiden BookTok Profis auch gleich noch die passenden Buchtipps für euch parat.Rieke Gerdes empfiehlt If We Were Gods von Lara Große (Leaf), eine Fantasy Geschichte (bzw. Dark Academia), die ihr u.a. über Genialokal beziehen könnt.Rieke Steinborn empfiehlt Say My Name von Francis Eden (Leaf). Die Romance Geschichte mit Thrill könnt ihr natürlich ebenfalls bei Genialokal bestellen (oder im Buchladen eures Vertrauens).Der Alles Buchmarkt Podcast ist Teil der eBuch Familie.

Carmen is at it again, levelling up in the most unexpected way! She's joined a brand-new class, not to master swimming strokes or dabble in paint-by-numbers, but to unlock a whole new skill set. It's quirky, it's bold, and it's so Carmen. Take a listen to find out what surprising path she's diving into. It's right up her alley and might just inspire you to try something totally out of left field! Webpage

Matilda's made a new adult friend, but how do you keep the friendship up? Kiwi musician Georgia Lines joins us to talk her new single Wonderful Life! The Sleuth Booth: The final key update, what could the random key Producer Sara found REALLY unlock? She goes to the locksmith... I'm THIS old, and I still ask my parents, what? The People's Poll: Licking the baking bowl, when you're an adult? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Zwei Meter groß, braunhaarig, sportliche Figur: Sieht so der perfekte Boyfriend für Romance-Leserinnen aus? Dr. Stefan und Mr. Ralf sprechen mit Professor Gerhard Lauer über Fankultur früher und heute und den Einfluss von Romance auf den Beziehungsalltag der Leserinnen.

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The Summer Reading Program begins June 1! Kick it off with some new, adult fiction to help get in those minutes!

Ewa Mykytyn returns to the first (Arm)chair for Chat No. 8 in which she talks about Zodiac Academy: Ruthless Fae by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti!Host: Ewa Mykytyn (Goodreads|Instagram)

Viele Verlage haben in den vergangenen Wochen den Start neuer Labels und Imprints verkündet - vor allem im Bereich New Adult. Außerdem sprießen Festivals für Kinder- und Jugendbücher gerade wie Pilze aus dem Boden. Zeit für eine Übersicht.

Ewa Mykytyn returns to the first (Arm)chair for Chat No. 6 in which she talks about Zodiac Academy: The Awakening by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti!Host: Ewa Mykytyn (Goodreads|Instagram)

Schick uns deinen Themenvorschlag oder deine Frage zum Buch schreiben und veröffentlichenWenn nichts mehr geht … Auch die Menschen in der Buchbranche sind leider nicht vor dem Ausbrennen sicher. Wir werfen aus persönlicher Sicht einen Blick auf das Thema in unserer neuen Ausgabe des BuchBubbleBuzz. Aber es wird auch positiver: mit Duftstickern. Oder ist das eher auch eine negative Entwicklung, die sich die Branche gerade ausdenkt? Und warum genau eigentlich müssen wir nach jeder großen Messe wieder feststellen, dass New Adult, Romantasy und Dark Romance außerhalb der Bubble nicht nur in einen Topf geworfen, sondern auch immer wieder verteufelt werden? Das fragen sich Chris, Laura und Hanna in dieser neuen Folge. Links aus der Folge: ✩ Artikel des SWR über die LBM: https://dream-dresden.de/ ✩ Kommentar des Deutschlandfunk über die LBM: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/maenner-buecher-maennlichkeit-zielgruppe-toxisch-100.html ✩ Blog-Artikel von Hanna zu Buchmessen: https://johanna-hegermann.de/buchmesse-herbst-wie-du-als-leserin-autorin-oder-standinhaberin-das-beste-aus-deinem-besuch-rausholst ✩ Blog-Artikel von Hanna übers Packen für Buchmessen: https://johanna-hegermann.de/packen-fuer-die-buchmesse ✩ Buchpassion Bremen (3.5.): https://buchpassion.com/ ✩ DREAM Dresden (3.5.): https://dream-dresden.de/ ✩ INTERCOMIC Köln (3.5.): https://www.messen.de/de/15552/koeln/intercomic/info ✩ LibeRatisbona Regensburg (3. & 4.): https://www.liberatisbona.de/ ✩ Seitenzauber Buchmesse Ingolstadt (10.5.): https://seitenzauber-buchmesse.de/ ✩ Friedberger Buchmesse (11.5.): Support the showHol dir das 0 Euro Workbook gegen Schreibblockaden in unseren Zeilenschlinger Discord Channel:https://discord.gg/nRnDa5xt36Du willst dein Buch im Podcast vorstellen oder als Dienstleister:in in der Buchbubble, deine Kund:innen erreichen?✩ Informiere dich hier: https://www.zeilenschlinger.de/werbeplatzKennt ihr schon unseren Arschtritt des Monats? ✩ Als Newsletter-Abonnent erhältst zu exklusiven Zugang zu unserer Datenbank, in der wir Vorlagen und Checklisten zu unseren Themen teilen. ✩ Du erhältst Einblick in unseren persönlichen Schreibprozess. ✩ Hier geht es zur AnmeldungEuch gefällt unser Podcast? Wir würden uns über Eure Unterstützung freuen: ✩ Werdet offizieller Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Zeilenschlinger ✩ Gebt uns einen Kaffee aus über Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/zeilenschlinger Vielen Dank an unsere Patreons! ✩ Vivien Busch✩ Carolin StreckmannFolge uns gern auch auf unseren anderen Kanälen, um auf dem Laufenden zu bleiben: ✩ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zeilenschlinger/ ✩ Facebook: https://www.f...

Ewa Mykytyn returns to the first (Arm)chair for Chat No. 6 in which she talks about Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas!Support Film Literate on Patreon!Host: Ewa Mykytyn (Goodreads|Instagram)

Wer sich auf den Buchmessen wie jetzt in Leipzig umschaut, der merkt schnell: New Adult Literatur wird immer mehr Platz eingeräumt. Die Romane, die Geschichten von jungen Erwachsenen erzählen, sind enorm beliebt. Der Grund dafür ist vor allem eine passionierte weibliche Fan-Gemeinde. Das Identifitkationspotenzial ist hoch. Denn im Genre New Adult werden verstärkt Stimmen junger Frauen und auch queerer Personen gehört. Insofern ist der New-Adult-Boom für die Literatur das, was Stars wie Taylor Swift und Billie Eilish für die Musik sind: eine neue weiblich(er) gelesene Popkultur. Doch was zeichnet New Adult genau aus? Welche Erzählformen gibt es? Wie wichtig ist die Community? Und was haben Liebesromane mit Feminismus zu tun? Moderatorin Birgit Reuther alias Biggy Pop spricht in der neuen Folge des Nachtclub Überpop mit zwei musikaffinen New Adult-Autorinnen aus Hamburg: Anabelle Stehl hat in den vergangenen vier Jahren elf Romane veröffentlicht und mit "Trusting Yourself" zudem ein Buch zum Thema Selbstachtung. Immer wieder greift sie auch soziale Themen in ihren Büchern auf. Thea Hong hat mit "Seoulicious" einen tollen Debütroman vorgelegt. Eine Selbstfindungsreise von Hamburg nach Seoul, in der es um koreanisches Essen und K-Pop geht, aber auch um Alltagsrassismus und das Gefühl, zwischen verschiedenen Identitäten hin- und hergerissen zu sein.  Mit Musik von Big Bang, Taylor Swift, BTS, The Protomen, Lennon Stella und Rina Sawayama.

Die Leipziger Buchmesse verzeichnet großes Besucherinteresse, besonders bei jüngeren Leserinnen und Lesern. Der Verkauf von Tickets wurde sogar begrenzt. Plattformen wie TikTok fördern den Buchverkauf unter dem Hashtag BookTok. Gedruckte Bücher sind beliebt, insbesondere im Genre "New Adult". Norwegen ist als Gastland vertreten und über KI wird diskutiert. Rainer Hartmann fasst den ersten Messetag zusammen. Und unsere Moderatorin Daniela Stahl spricht mit Reporterin Simone Thielmann, die live vor Ort ist.

Nora Blum ist studierte Psychologin, erfolgreiche Gründerin der Plattform Selfapy und nun auch Buchautorin: „Radikale Freundlichkeit“ ist soeben erschienen und der Titel ist bei ihr Programm. Mit Karla Paul spricht sie über ihre positive Lebenseinstellung, ihre Vorliebe für Coming-of-Age-Romane, ihre Lieblingsschriftsteller*innen Benedict Wells und Mariana Leky, Krimis als Ablenkung und weshalb sie so ein großer Fan von Stefanie Stahl ist! Mehr Informationen zu Nora Blum: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nora-blum-kindness/ Die Titel dieser Folge: William Goldman: „Die Brautprinzessin” (Klett-Cotta) Cornelia Funke: „Tintenherz” (Oetinger) Chad Harbach: „Die Kunst des Feldspiels” (Dumont) Mariana Leky: „Was von hier aus sehen kann” (Dumont) Caroline Wahl: „22 Bahnen” (Dumont) Ewald Arenz: „Alte Sorten” (Dumont) Rutger Bregman: „Moralische Ambitionen” (Rowohlt) +++ Viel Spaß mit dieser Folge. Wir freuen uns auf euer Feedback an podcast@penguinrandomhouse.de! +++ Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Kevin Hart has been sent to release his first adult animated series, called Lil Kev. Lil Kev is based on Kevin Hart’s life and set to be released on BET Plus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In 2024, we celebrated the new additions to the romantasy space, the fun in sprayed edges, and the increased popularity of books! Now, we're looking into our bookish crystal ball for 2025 . . . What do we think will happen in the book world? Listen to this episode to find out! Are you a book lover? We are too! Join Kiwi and the Bird as we discuss and debate YA and NA's hottest releases. This podcast is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros, Holly Black, Marissa Meyer, Leigh Bardugo, and more. Curious about us? Keimi (the Kiwi) works at the local library and has a passion for gummy sweets, parkour, and soft bois. Taylor (the Bird) is an aspiring author who secretly loves romance, chocolate milkshakes, and stoic, brooding love interests. Shoutout to the wonderful ERIN ARMSTRONG for editing this podcast! Explore Erin's portfolio at ⁠www.erinarmstrong24.com⁠ and follow on Instagram: @migrantsnorer. Follow Kiwi and the Bird! Instagram: @kiwiandthebird TikTok: @kiwiandthebird Twitter: @kiwiandthebird www.kiwiandthebird.com Thanks for supporting us nerdy book lovers. If you'd like, donate to our show via Patreon or Venmo! @kiwiandthebird Please kindly send business inquiries to kiwiandthebirdpodcast@gmail.com. Keywords: A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, Fourth Wing, The Cruel Prince, Shatter Me, Victoria Aveyard, Bookworm, Book Nerd, Bookish, Book, Books, Bookstagram, BookTok, Rick Riordan, Cassandra Clare, Young Adult, New Adult, Read, Reads, Reading, Reader, Readers, ACOTAR, TOG, Percy Jackson, Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiwiandthebird/support

It's time to get SPOILERY! No holes are barred in today's episode. We're getting into the nitty gritty with Alex Aster's LIGHTLARK. Dare to listen? Are you a book lover? We are too! Join Kiwi and the Bird as we discuss and debate YA and NA's hottest releases. This podcast is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros, Holly Black, Marissa Meyer, Leigh Bardugo, and more. Curious about us? Keimi (the Kiwi) works at the local library and has a passion for gummy sweets, parkour, and soft bois. Taylor (the Bird) is an aspiring author who secretly loves romance, chocolate milkshakes, and stoic, brooding love interests. Shoutout to the wonderful ERIN ARMSTRONG for editing this podcast! Explore Erin's portfolio at ⁠www.erinarmstrong24.com⁠ and follow on Instagram: @migrantsnorer. Follow Kiwi and the Bird! Instagram: @kiwiandthebird TikTok: @kiwiandthebird Twitter: @kiwiandthebird www.kiwiandthebird.com Thanks for supporting us nerdy book lovers. If you'd like, donate to our show via Patreon or Venmo! @kiwiandthebird Please kindly send business inquiries to kiwiandthebirdpodcast@gmail.com. Keywords: A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, Fourth Wing, The Cruel Prince, Shatter Me, Victoria Aveyard, Bookworm, Book Nerd, Bookish, Book, Books, Bookstagram, BookTok, Rick Riordan, Cassandra Clare, Young Adult, New Adult, Read, Reads, Reading, Reader, Readers, ACOTAR, TOG, Percy Jackson, Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiwiandthebird/support

Adam22 opens up about the highs and lows of his career as a podcast host, rapper, and internet personality. We delve into his controversial podcast episodes, his views on the evolving rap scene, and the challenges of balancing family life with a career in the adult entertainment industry. Stay tuned for an unfiltered conversation that gets to the heart of what drives Adam22's success and the controversies surrounding his career. Go Support Adam! YouTube: @NoJumper IG: http://www.instagram.com/adam22 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/adam22 Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's time to get SPOILERY! No holes are barred in today's episode. We're getting into the nitty gritty with Carissa Broadbent's THE SERPENT AND THE WINGS OF NIGHT. Dare to listen? Are you a book lover? We are too! Join Kiwi and the Bird as we discuss and debate YA and NA's hottest releases. This podcast is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros, Holly Black, Marissa Meyer, Leigh Bardugo, and more. Curious about us? Keimi (the Kiwi) works at the local library and has a passion for gummy sweets, parkour, and soft bois. Taylor (the Bird) is an aspiring author who secretly loves romance, chocolate milkshakes, and stoic, brooding love interests. Shoutout to the wonderful ERIN ARMSTRONG for editing this podcast! Explore Erin's portfolio at ⁠www.erinarmstrong24.com⁠ and follow on Instagram: @migrantsnorer. Follow Kiwi and the Bird! Instagram: @kiwiandthebird TikTok: @kiwiandthebird Twitter: @kiwiandthebird www.kiwiandthebird.com Thanks for supporting us nerdy book lovers. If you'd like, donate to our show via Patreon or Venmo! @kiwiandthebird Please kindly send business inquiries to kiwiandthebirdpodcast@gmail.com. Keywords: A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, Fourth Wing, The Cruel Prince, Shatter Me, Victoria Aveyard, Bookworm, Book Nerd, Bookish, Book, Books, Bookstagram, BookTok, Rick Riordan, Cassandra Clare, Young Adult, New Adult, Read, Reads, Reading, Reader, Readers, ACOTAR, TOG, Percy Jackson, Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiwiandthebird/support

In the absence of Devin "New Dad" Diazoni, Ewa Mykytyn assumes first (and only) chair for a breakdown of Catherine Doyle's The Dagger and the Flame. So, listen in and hear all about The City of Fantome!Support Film Literate on Patreon!Host: Ewa Mykytyn (Goodreads)

It's time to get SPOILERY! No holes are barred in today's episode. We're getting into the nitty gritty with Sangu Mandanna's THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES. Dare to listen? Are you a book lover? We are too! Join Kiwi and the Bird as we discuss and debate YA and NA's hottest releases. This podcast is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros, Holly Black, Marissa Meyer, Leigh Bardugo, and more. Curious about us? Keimi (the Kiwi) works at the local library and has a passion for gummy sweets, parkour, and soft bois. Taylor (the Bird) is an aspiring author who secretly loves romance, chocolate milkshakes, and stoic, brooding love interests. Shoutout to the wonderful ERIN ARMSTRONG for editing this podcast! Explore Erin's portfolio at ⁠www.erinarmstrong24.com⁠ and follow on Instagram: @migrantsnorer. Follow Kiwi and the Bird! Instagram: @kiwiandthebird TikTok: @kiwiandthebird Twitter: @kiwiandthebird www.kiwiandthebird.com Thanks for supporting us nerdy book lovers. If you'd like, donate to our show via Venmo! @kiwiandthebird Please kindly send business inquiries to kiwiandthebirdpodcast@gmail.com. Keywords: A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, Fourth Wing, The Cruel Prince, Shatter Me, Victoria Aveyard, Bookworm, Book Nerd, Bookish, Book, Books, Bookstagram, BookTok, Rick Riordan, Cassandra Clare, Young Adult, New Adult, Read, Reads, Reading, Reader, Readers, ACOTAR, TOG, Percy Jackson, Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiwiandthebird/support

The new Adult Mental Health and Addictions Centre is set to open next year. But, what does this new service mean for those struggling with addictions recovery outside of St. John's? We spoke with Jeff Bourne, the Executive Director of U-Turn, an organization in Carbonear that supports addiction recovery. 

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Eine ganze Halle wurde auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse New Adult freigeräumt. Die Autorin Kathinka Engel spricht mit Fridtjof Küchemann über das Genre, den Rummel und ihr eigenes neues Buch „Words Unspoken“.

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Children's and YA literary agent Becca Langton returns to the podcast to check in and tell us all about what's been going on with her work in publishing, working in the US market whilst living in London and being in the middle of two book auctions!

Is it time that we revisit the category of 'New Adult' books again? Kate Dylan's fantasy heist story fits in this category, post YA but written for the reading tastes of the 20-something year old audience who've just graduated out that group.   On today’s episode of Mythmakers, Kate will be engaging in a fascinating discussion with Julia Golding about why the themes of being on the edge, close to shattering, work so well with that age group (and many others). They’ll also discuss queer relationships in novels and how the market has changed since Kate started writing. Think that you know where would be best to stage a heist? Their suggestions may surprise you!   For more information on the Oxford Centre for Fantasy, our writing courses, and to check out our awesome social media content visit: Website: https://centre4fantasy.com/website Instagram: https://centre4fantasy.com/Instagram Facebook: https://centre4fantasy.com/Facebook TikTok: https://centre4fantasy.com/tiktok   0:00 Welcome to Mythmakers 1:37 The Influence of Young Adult Literature 4:02 Transitioning to Fantasy Writing 8:50 Themes of Betrayal and Growth 12:04 The Heist Novel Unveiled 19:24 Chaos in the Writing Process 25:51 Collaborative Storytelling 27:11 Exploring Queer Representation 32:37 The Value of Art in Fantasy 36:18 Balancing Writing with Daily Life 41:13 Tips for Aspiring Fantasy Writers 46:02 Magic in Fantasy Storytelling 49:09 Heisting in Fictional Worlds

The Adult Community Transition program in Grants Pass, which helps young adults with disabilities transition to independent living, moves to new facilities.

Everything old is new again...or young again? We're talking about New Adult romance today, that is, romance novels where the love story is set at or during college! We're hopping in the time machine and headed a generation or two back in romance to talk about the first time New Adult came around changing the contemporary romance game. We're getting to the bottom of why these particular love stories work so well when it comes to feelings, and asking that eternal question -- has anyone involved in this subgenre actually met a 19 year old man? (JK, we support you!) We're taking next week off, but we'll be back the week after for the start of our Seventh Season! If you'd like more romance chatter in the meantime, we encourage you to join our patreon, where you get another episode from us each month, and access to the incredible readers and listeners and brilliant people on the Fated Mates discord! Support us and learn more at fatedmates.net/patreon.Our first read along of Season 7 will be Molly O'Keefe's Everything I Left Unsaid duology, selected by Jen which despite the first book being a cliffhanger should not surprise you because she contains multitudes. The second book is The Truth About Him. Read them both and get ready for Jen to talk to you for hours. You will thank us.Also! We're back on the phonebanking train this election season! Join us on Saturdays between now and Election Day to phonebank with fellow romance lovers, Jen, Sarah, and special guests who will knock your socks off! Learn more and register at fatedmates.net/fatedstates.The Books50 Shades of Grey by EL JamesWait for You by Jennifer ArmentroutThe Wild Seasons Series by Christina LaurenButterfly by Jo BrennerFirst Semester by QB Tyler Losing It by Cora CarmackNever Sweeter and The Professor by Charlotte SteinThe Unrequited by Saffron KentSincerely, Carter by Whitney GThe Boys Next Door by Miranda SilverThe Game On Series by Kristen CallihanThe Deal by Elle KennedyForeplay by Sophie JordanLick and Play by Kylie ScottThe Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodFourth Wing by Rebecca Yaros

What went into creating MORE THAN LIFE, a YA historical fantasy that's perfect for fans of Pirates of the Caribbean and All the Stars and Teeth? Recently, we had the wonderful opportunity to chat with Bethanie Finger, the host of Prince Kai Fan Pod. Get caught up with all the facts and secrets behind this sweet and adventurous debut! (NON SPOILER) Are you a book lover? We are too! Join Kiwi and the Bird as we discuss and debate YA and NA's hottest releases. This podcast is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros, Holly Black, Marissa Meyer, Leigh Bardugo, and more.  Curious about us? Keimi (the Kiwi) works at the local library and has a passion for gummy sweets, parkour, and soft bois. Taylor (the Bird) is an aspiring author who secretly loves romance, chocolate milkshakes, and stoic, brooding love interests. Follow Kiwi and the Bird! Instagram: @kiwiandthebird TikTok: @kiwiandthebird Twitter: @kiwiandthebird www.kiwiandthebird.com Thanks for supporting us nerdy book lovers. If you'd like, donate to our show via Venmo! @kiwiandthebird  Please kindly send business inquiries to kiwiandthebirdpodcast@gmail.com.  Keywords: A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, Fourth Wing, The Cruel Prince, Shatter Me, Victoria Aveyard, Bookworm, Book Nerd, Bookish, Book, Books, Bookstagram, BookTok, Rick Riordan, Cassandra Clare, Young Adult, New Adult, Read, Reads, Reading, Reader, Readers, ACOTAR, TOG, Percy Jackson, Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiwiandthebird/support

On a unique scale from 1 - 7, how much did Keimi and Taylor love WHEN AMONG CROWS by Veronica Roth? Find out in this 15 minute book recommendation! (NON SPOILER) Are you a book lover? We are too! Join Kiwi and the Bird as we discuss and debate YA and NA's hottest releases. This podcast is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros, Holly Black, Marissa Meyer, Leigh Bardugo, and more.  Curious about us? Keimi (the Kiwi) works at the local library and has a passion for gummy sweets, parkour, and soft bois. Taylor (the Bird) is an aspiring author who secretly loves romance, chocolate milkshakes, and stoic, brooding love interests. Follow Kiwi and the Bird! Instagram: @kiwiandthebird TikTok: @kiwiandthebird Twitter: @kiwiandthebird www.kiwiandthebird.com Thanks for supporting us nerdy book lovers. If you'd like, donate to our show via Venmo! @kiwiandthebird  Please kindly send business inquiries to kiwiandthebirdpodcast@gmail.com.  Keywords: A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, Fourth Wing, The Cruel Prince, Shatter Me, Victoria Aveyard, Bookworm, Book Nerd, Bookish, Book, Books, Bookstagram, BookTok, Rick Riordan, Cassandra Clare, Young Adult, New Adult, Read, Reads, Reading, Reader, Readers, ACOTAR, TOG, Percy Jackson, Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiwiandthebird/support

Some people say, “Lisa how do you do it ALL?” And some people hear all I'm doing and say, “Me too!” If you say “Me too!,” you are going to love this episode because it's completely devoted to my process of planning. I share all my strategic thought process behind the days I have meetings to why I make time for the community on Fridays. I remember hearing, “If you want to grow a business, you must be consistent.” I want to offer a consistent experience for the Organize 365® Community.  The Inception of The Sunday Basket® I revisited the story of how the Sunday Basket® came to be. I had this 14” high stack of papers. Joey took really short naps. By the time I sifted through the paper stack and found an actionable thing to accomplish during his wink of sleep, he'd be awake again. So one night, when the kids were in bed and Greg said good night early, I sorted all that paper into 40 piles! I placed those 40 piles in separate folders and they all went in my Longaberger Basket. The next day when Joey laid down, I quickly pulled out one folder and got something accomplished. Reactive to Proactive Once the Sunday Basket® was proving to be effective for me, I started to enforce the rule of, “If it can wait until Sunday, then it must wait.” Once I processed the basket I could make my weekly plan, my follow through. I have found the waiting to be magical! I was using one basket for home and work, but soon realized I should split them into their own boxes. And that's when I started moving faster, getting more done. So 6 years ago, I started manufacturing the official Sunday Basket®, designed to help the slash pockets stand up and color coded in colors that Organize 365® uses. I went into great detail of the evolution of Organize 365® and products in episodes 521 to 525. New Adult Planning Tools I look at my week that I am a CEO as Monday 8am to Thurs 8pm. And from Thursday 8pm to Monday 8am, I am a home manager. I shared how this is really working to my benefit. I was getting frustrated though that all the planners start the week with Sunday in the month view. I want to see Saturday and Sunday together. And I wasn't really sure where to document odd things that need to get done, like a baby gift for my hair dresser or ideas for social media for an episode that would not get published for weeks still. Where does one put that information? So I came up with three new products to help you plan.  2 Year Dated Planning Calendar (AKA “Lisa 2 Year Planner”) This planner starts with Monday as the beginning of the week. It starts in July 2024 and goes through 2026. This planner will help everyone who plans out a period of time rather than details of a week or day; it's not a date book. Rainbow 52 Week Planner This planner has 6 rainbow colors vertically, in rows. I can plan out as far as I need to with this information that I used to not know where to write. The pages can be dated or kept blank. There are periods of time I use it and then the week of vacation I don't. Make it work for you. Rainbow Weekly Planning Sheet It's a similar idea as the planner, but labeled one week at a time, or seven boxes horizontally. I use the pink row for social media ideas, the orange for all things podcasting, the yellow for new products; you get the idea. There are seven boxes but you do not need to acknowledge the week day. You can view it as seven items to plan and implement. You can color code your family for needs and activities or a student for their subjects in school. And it matches the Lisa School Binder from the Kids Program! All this planning in the name of staying consistent, also known as your follow through.  EPISODE RESOURCES: The Sunday Basket® Friday Workbox® 2 Year Dated Planning Calendar Rainbow 52 Week Planner Rainbow Weekly Planning Sheet Lisa School Binder Sign Up for the Organize 365® Newsletter  Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Share this episode with a friend and be sure to tag Organize 365® when you share on social media!

X's rollout of private likes for all users marks a significant shift towards enhancing user privacy and promoting authentic engagement on the platform. This change, alongside updated policies on adult content, reflects X's broader strategy to create a safer, more inclusive digital environment.

Beth Golay recently spoke with "One of Our Kind' author, Nicola Yoon about Jasmyn's complicated view of the world, the real-world issues discussed in the novel, and more.

This week on Excelsior Journeys, host & producer George Sirois sits down with fellow author Laura E. Thompson. She has written several YA & New Adult novels under the pen name Laura LaBarge, and has moved into sci-fi & fantasy with her Elven Quest series, her Witches of Tradbeldam series, and more! And she accomplished this with the help of the writing community she had cultivated over the years, a community that her former agent recommend she not pursue. Learn more about Laura by clicking HERE.For those who would like to get involved with the Once Upon a Podcast Network, please message onceuponapodcastnetwork@gmail.com with your contact information and the name & description of your show. And if you have an idea for any of the concepts listed below, definitely let us know! We'd like to add shows that focus on the following:Indie Comics / Cosplaying / Book Club (roundtable show with indie books & authors) / Indie Films / Conventions / Fan Fiction / Self-Help (a creative host focusing on ailments all creatives deal with such as anxiety, depression, imposter syndrome, etc)Subscribe to all shows in the Once Upon a Podcast Network by clicking HERE.The Excelsior Journeys podcast exists primarily as a platform for creatives of all kinds (authors, filmmakers, stand-up comics, musicians, voice artists, painters, podcasters, etc) to share their journeys to personal success. It is very important to celebrate those voices as much as possible to not only provide encouragement to up-and-coming talent, but to say thank you to the established men & women for inspiring the current generation of artists.If you agree that the Excelsior Journeys podcast serves a positive purpose and would like to show your appreciation, you can give back to the show by clicking HERE

In this New and Indie Spotlight episode of Fictional Hangover, Amanda and Claire chat with author Mai Corland about her debut New Adult fantasy book Five Broken Blades, releasing May 7 from Entangled Publishing's imprint Red Tower Books.

Join WealthWave leader Christa Mathews and Wendy Boyd, Senior Vice President and Head of Life Distribution for Transamerica, as they shares valuable insights on financial literacy and personal finance, particularly for the next generation of Gen Z and Millennials. In this episode, Wendy discusses the importance of starting early, the power of compound interest, and the value of understanding various financial products. Through engaging anecdotes and practical advice, she highlights the significance of financial education and making informed decisions to secure a stable financial future. Tune in to learn how to avoid common financial pitfalls and empower yourself with the knowledge to navigate the complexities of money management.

John & Kailey sit down with Josh, the Director of Sales and Marketing at Freedom Ordnance. They discuss the difficulties of dealing with banks as a firearms manufacturer, the revolving door of ATF challenges and the release of their new Grip the FG15 that can turn your Rifle into a Gatling Gun! The post State of The Second 32 – AR's are the New Adult Legos? (ft. Freedom Ordnance) appeared first on Firearms Radio Network.

First EVER episode in english and I feel so honored to have as a guest one of my favourite authors : Ana Huang. *screams and kicks feet* Ana Huang is a #1 New York Times, Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and #1 Amazon bestselling author. Best known for her Twisted series, she writes New Adult and contemporary romance with deliciously alpha heroes, strong heroines, and plenty of steam, angst, and swoon.I got the chance to sit down with her to talk about the Twisted series and ask her about her favorite characters, were they inspired by anyone she knows, what's her writing process and why she made Alex, Rhys, Josh and Christian AKA our book boyfriends, the men they are ?Un GRAND merci à la maison d'édition Hugo New Romance qui m'ont donné cette opportunité

In today's episode, we welcome special guest New York Times bestselling author Jay Crownover who is not only a New Adult romance pioneer, but also a kpop and kdrama fan. If you've ever wondered who kicked off Megan's kpop obsession, blame Jay! We chat about how kdramas have influenced our writing, and Jay's latest book-turned-movie news. Visit Jay and check out her books: https://www.jaycrownover.com/Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jay.crownoverSign Up for Our Newsletter!Want our thoughts on why everyone should watch I'm Not a Robot in a 500-word essay? More thinky and/or thirsty writer takes on your favorite shows? This is the place to get it. Sign up HERE!Ready to download your first audiobook? Don't forget to click HERE for your free Audible trial.*Audible is a sponsor of Afternoona Delight Podcast*Are your family and friends sick of you talking about K-drama? We get it...and have an answer. Join our AfterNoona Delight Patreon and find community among folks who get your obsession. And check out www.afternoonadelight.com for more episodes, book recs and social media goodness. And don't forget about the newest members of our network: Build an appetite for juicy living with It's Bananas, a podcast where the fruit maven shares how tasting new and diverse fruits leads to self-discovery, joy, and connection; and Afternoona Asks where diaspora Asians living in the West find ways to reconnect to Asian culture via Asian/KDramas.Last but CERTAINLY not least....love BTS? Or curious what all the fuss is about? Check out our sister pod Afternoona Army for "thinky, thirsty and over thirty" takes on Bangtan life. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★