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Part two is here!! Today join me and two of my friends to talk about all things classics!! Our favorite classics, beginner friendly classics, and our classics TBR (To Be Read) lists!! This is part two. Here Rebekah discusses her favorite classics, then we delve into classics we think are good for beginners just diving into classics, and classics on our TBR lists!! Enjoy! Please comment, and maybe even subscribe? ;) Thank you!! Find Jessica's Books ⁠Here⁠ ⁠Millennial Preacher⁠ by Rebekah Palmer ⁠Face of My Soul⁠ by Rebekah Palmer Amanda Leigh's ⁠Books⁠ ⁠The Cat Chat Writers⁠ blog (our shared short fiction blog) Amanda Leigh's ⁠Substack⁠ ⁠www.authoramandaleigh.com

Today join me and two of my friends to talk about all things classics!! Our favorite classics, beginner friendly classics, and our classics TBR (To Be Read) lists!! This is part one. Here we discuss our favorite classics, then in part two we delve into beginner friendly classics, plus our classics TBR lists! Find Jessica's Books Here Millennial Preacher by Rebekah Palmer Face of My Soul by Rebekah Palmer Amanda Leigh's Books The Cat Chat Writers blog (our shared short fiction blog) Amanda Leigh's Substack www.authoramandaleigh.com

Today I have an old interview with author Mandi Grace!! My podcast even had a different name at the time!! We did this a while ago, but I did not want to waste the interview, so here it is! Her and I are both members of Quill and Cup, an amazing writing community for women! Check that out here if you're interested: https://www.quillandcup.com/offers/ZtsLiHPG/checkout Check out my books! https://www.authoramandaleigh.com/books Check out my blog: https://girlwithapenandadream.blogspot.com/ Follow me on Instagram: @AmandaLeighYA Read some short stories on The Cat Chat Writers Blog: https://thecatchatwriters.blogspot.com/ Mandi Grace:Author and Book Coach Mandi Grace is deeply passionate about understanding people and what makes them tick. Author of ten novels ranging from folklore retellings to dystopian sci-fi, her books include a Robin Hood retelling, the dystopian trilogy Finding Hope, and her upcoming epic fantasy inspired by Arthurian legends. She writes to bring compassion and unity into a divisive world. When she’s not writing her own stories, Mandi can be found combining her love of people with storytelling while she works with her book coaching clients.Check out her website for book links, newsletter, and book coaching info:mandigrace.org

A wrap up of all of the books that I read in June and July. Including a Manga Horror trilogy, a Marvel comic collection (Hawkeye), a poetry collection, and a SciFi/Super Hero novel (or anti-hero novel, really.) How was your June and July reading? Start my Beauty of the Dark Series today! *Books MUST be read in order!*: | Goodreads  Go to my website to check out the books I've published and order signed copies :) I also offer book formatting, teaser, and cover designs. You can check out our pricing here :) Check out my Blog Here Send Me a Voice Message on My Podcast!! :)

I posted this on my Instagram account, so I thought I would share it here. I am wrapping up my reading from January through May of 2023. Check out our short fiction blog, The Cat Chat Writers, here.  Start my Beauty of the Dark Series today! *Books MUST be read in order!*: | Goodreads  Go to my website to check out the books I've published and order signed copies :) I also offer book formatting, teaser, and cover designs. You can check out our pricing here :) Check out my Blog Here Send Me a Voice Message on My Podcast!! :)

Join us for another group episode!! Rebekah Palmer, Jessica VanderWerff, and I come together to talk about all things poetry. Our process when writing poetry, our favorite poets, titling our poetry collections, and the big question: what is our first love? Fiction or poetry?... Plus MORE!! Check out our short fiction blog, The Cat Chat Writers, here. Find Jessica's books on Amazon. Get Rebekah's poetry collection, Map of My Heart here. Get Strength: Lives Touched by Cystinosis, here. (Currently on sale at the time this episode is posted.) Start my Beauty of the Dark Series today! *Books MUST be read in order!*: | Goodreads  Go to my website to check out the books I've published and order signed copies :) I also offer book formatting, teaser, and cover designs. You can check out our pricing here :) Check out my Blog Here Send Me a Voice Message on My Podcast!! :)

Welcome back to out National Poetry Month series!! Today on the podcast my good friend Jessica VanderWerff is on the podcast again, to read us some more of her poetry, And this time she's reading us BRAND NEW poems for us!! Also mentioned in this podcast: Charles Xavier, Vision, Erik Lehnsherr (probably lol), and I know a few other Marvel things are mentioned hahaha. Enjoy!! Find Jessica's books on Amazon. Check out our short fiction blog, The Cat Chat Writers, here. Start my Beauty of the Dark Series today! *Books MUST be read in order!*: | Goodreads  Go to my website to check out the books I've published and order signed copies :) I also offer book formatting, teaser, and cover designs. You can check out our pricing here :) Check out my Blog Here Send Me a Voice Message on My Podcast!! :)

My good friend, Rebekah Palmer, hoins us to read her poetry from the anthology Strength: Lives Touched by Cystinosis, as well as a short story from our short fiction blog, The Cat Chat Writers. We hope you enjoy this episode, and Happy National Poetry Month!! Get Rebekah's poetry collection, Map of My Heart here. Get Strength: Lives Touched by Cystinosis, here. (Currently on sale at the time this episode is posted.) Check out our short fiction blog, The Cat Chat Writers, here. Start my Beauty of the Dark Series today! *Books MUST be read in order!*: | Goodreads  Go to my website to check out the books I've published and order signed copies :) I also offer book formatting, teaser, and cover designs. You can check out our pricing here :) Check out my Blog Here Send Me a Voice Message on My Podcast!! :)

Happy National Poetry Month all!! I'm back with a mini season to celebrate National Poetry Month. Today I'll be reading eight poems from my collection, Guided by Moonlight. We will have two more poets on here, and then the three of us will do a podcast together!! If you like these poems, you can find the full collection on Amazon here. If you want to learn more about National Poetry Month click here. Start my Beauty of the Dark Series today! *Books MUST be read in order!*: | Goodreads  Go to my website to check out the books I've published and order signed copies :) I also offer book formatting, teaser, and cover designs. You can check out our pricing here :) Check out my Blog Here Send Me a Voice Message on My Podcast!! :)

Ania and I connected through Instagram. Ania is the co-founder of Quill and Cup, a women-led writing community that I am now a part of. I knew I had to interview her for my podcast. In this interview we talk about Quill and Cup (of course), killing your writer's ego (a big thing in Quill and Cup), and much more!! Enjoy, and please leave a review or share if you enjoy this content. :)  Check out Ania's books here and here.  Also, check out her Instagram profile here, and the Quill and Cup profile here.  Start my Beauty of the Dark Series today! *Books MUST be read in order!*: | Goodreads  Go to my website to check out the books I've published and order signed copies :) I also offer book formatting, teaser, and cover designs. You can check out our pricing here :) Check out my Blog Here Send Me a Voice Message on My Podcast!! :)

I decided to record a quick episode explaining why I changed the name of this podcast. I am getting back into the swing of recording and uploading episodes, so I hope you can be patient with me as I do. :) In short, I changed the name because I felt the need to talk about more things. You can hear a longer explanation in this episode. I hope you enjoy, and let me know what you think on social media. Or leave a review if you enjoyed, please. It would mean so much.  Start my Beauty of the Dark Series today! Goodreads  *Books MUST be read in order!* Go to my website to check out the books I've published and order signed copies :)   I also offer book formatting, teaser and cover designs. You can check  out our pricing here :)  Want to see some behind the scenes or send me a DM? Follow me on Instagram   Check out my Blog Here   Send Me a Voice Message on My Podcast!! :)   Check out the short fiction blog I run with two writer friends, The Cat Chat Writers blog. Also, find us on Tumblr.

So, July Camp NaNoWriMo did go AT ALL as I planned, but I am very okay with that. Also, I'm taking a little break from the podcast. Or rather, from posting new episodes. You can hear all about it in this episode. :) And the podcast is not going away, it will be back very soon.  Message on me on Facebook, Instagram, or e-mail me at [email protected] :) You can also find me on Twitter or Tumblr. Start my Beauty of the Dark Series today! *Books MUST be read in order!*: | Goodreads  Go to my website to check out the books I've published and order signed copies :) I also offer book formatting, teaser and cover designs. You can check  out our pricing here :) Check out my Blog Here Send Me a Voice Message on My Podcast!! :)

I had a blast talking to Karen on this interview!! We talked about so much stuff; writing, editing, self publishing, Fantasy, Paranormal, outlining, marketing, struggles as an author, music, shows, movies, and more!! I honestly can't even remember it all. What I do remember is having a blast doing it, AND Karen also gave some of the most tangible advice on the podcast for anyone wishing to go down the self-publishing/indie route. Lots of good advice and gems in here you DO NOT want to miss!! It's a long episode, but a great one!! It's impossible to pick favorites out of my interviews, but this one is up there for sure. 3 Check out ALL the places you can find Karen online below. There are a lot, so you can be sure to follow her somewhere!!  Bookbub follow link | Amazon.com author page link  | Mailing list | Silver Guardians Facebook group  | ARC group  | Twitter- @kytomlinson   Blog  | Facebook page: @ktomlinson.author  | Instagram | Goodreads  | Patreon  | TikTok: @karentomlinsonauthor Message on me on Facebook, Instagram, or e-mail me at [email protected] :) You can also find me on Twitter or Tumblr. Start my Beauty of the Dark Series today! *Books MUST be read in order!*: | Goodreads  Go to my website to check out the books I've published and order signed copies :)   I also offer book formatting, teaser and cover designs. You can check  out our pricing here :)   Check out my Blog Here   Send Me a Voice Message on My Podcast!! :)

July camp NaNoWriMo has officially begun!! I wanted to do a bonus episode to talk about my Camp NaNoWriMo plans. Let me know what your plans are. You can message me on my Facebook page, Instagram or e-mail me. :) Good luck and happy writing!! 3  Message on me on Facebook, Instagram, or e-mail me at [email protected] :)  You can also find me on Twitter or Tumblr.  Start my Beauty of the Dark Series today! Goodreads: https://bit.ly/ForbiddenTBR *Books MUST be read in order!*: https://amzn.to/2HVcKDA Go to my website to check out the books I've published and order signed copies :)  https://www.authoramandaleigh.com/ I also offer book formatting, teaser and cover designs. You can check  out our pricing here :)  http://leighdesignsstudio.weebly.com/services.html Want to see some behind the scenes or send me a DM? Follow me on Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/amandaleighya/ Check out my Blog Here  http://girlwithapenandadream.blogspot.com/ Send Me a Voice Messageon My Podcast!! :)  https://anchor.fm/amanda-leigh7/message

This was an IGTV video that I decided to convert to a podcast episode. A while ago, Dana and I did a Q&A on her page, and I thought it would be gun to do one on my page this time!! And my 30th birthday seemed like a good time to do it!! ;) Dana's Bio: Dana Muwwakkil is a writer, creator, mother and most recently an author. The Anxiety Diaries is her first book and can be found at: Theanxietydiaries.com Get her book here: https://www.amazon.com/Anxiety-Diaries-1-Dana-Muwwakkil/dp/0578729326/ Start my Beauty of the Dark Series today! Goodreads: https://bit.ly/ForbiddenTBR *Books MUST be read in order!*: https://amzn.to/2HVcKDA Go to my website to check out the books I've published and order signed copies :)  https://www.authoramandaleigh.com/ I also offer book formatting, teaser and cover designs. You can check  out our pricing here :)  http://leighdesignsstudio.weebly.com/services.html Want to see some behind the scenes or send me a DM? Follow me on Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/amandaleighya/ Check out my Blog Here  http://girlwithapenandadream.blogspot.com/ Send Me a Voice Messageon My Podcast!! :)  https://anchor.fm/amanda-leigh7/message