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Middle Grade Novels of Courage and Creativity with Author Jaime Formato (E102)

In today’s episode I am chatting with Jaime Formato. Jaime is a writer, elementary school teacher, and tiefling rogue from northern Florida. Her days are spent hanging out with kids and reading, and the nights are for D&D, hockey, and writing. She lives in a little house by the woods with her amazing husband, their beautiful children, two cats that don’t love her enough, two dogs that love her too much, and a whole lotta nature. Her novel Roll for Initiative, a geeky coming-of-age story came out in Fall 2022.

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Soap Operas, Family Sagas & the Immigrant Experience with Alina Adams (E101)

In today’s episode, I am chatting with Alina Adams. Alina is a New Your Time best-selling author, soap opera insider and pioneer in online storytelling. She was born in the Soviet Union and immigrated with her parents to the U.S. at age 7, where she learned English by watching American soap operas at their home in San Francisco. Alina’s childhood and immigration experience was the inspiration for her two latest historical fiction novels, “The Nesting Dolls” (2020) and “My Mother’s Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region” (2022).

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