Episode 21 - Shelley Martin

Shelley Martin taught kindergarten and ran cattle; once upon a time.  She’s now an award winning author, mother and wife, and loves living in North Idaho.  Her imagination has always plagued her, the characters jumping into her head at some random song or thought.  She started writing when she was ten, finishing her first short story when she was eleven.  The paranormal has always fascinated her, and nothing draws her to the page more than the whisperings of fantastical creatures.

Learn more about Shelley @ http://shelleymartinfiction.com/

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Episode 20 - Angela McPherson

Born and currently residing in Midland, Texas, Angela shuffles three busy children (not including her husband) all over the place. She works in a busy pediatric doctor's office as a nurse during the day, and writes at night. She is addicted to coffee----who isn't? And firmly believes chocolate can fix all----especially chocolate ice cream. She laughs a lot, often at herself and is willing to try anything once (she thinks). When Angela isn't rushing kids around, working or writing, she's reading. Other than life experience, Angela turns to a wide variety of music to help spark her creative juices. She loves to dance and sing, though her kids often beg her not to.

Learn more about Angela @ http://angelamcphersonblog.wordpress.com/

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YaPodcast's Holiday Celebration!

Join us on YAPodcast this Christmas Eve for a good old fashioned retelling of Charles Dicken's, A Christmas Carol. Gather your family around the fire (and your laptop) to listen to your favorite YA authors (and one blogger) share this holiday favorite! Plus, enter our spectacular giveaway! The Rafflecopter will be launched on the blog on December 13th and will conclude on Christmas Eve! You could win 17 awesome books!

Participating Authors
Jill Cooper
Tia Silverthorne Bach
Eliza Tilton
S. M. Boyce
Stacey Marie Brown
Ashley Lavering
Morgan Wylie
Elaine Fields Smith
M.R. Polish
Amy Evans
Elizabeth Kirke
Devyn Dawson
Christine Marquette
Elizabeth Sharp
Laura A. H. Elliott
Kristina Circelli
Amy Strickland

Giveaway Prizes
Dream Slayer by Jill Cooper
Chasing Memories by Tia Silverthorne Bach
Broken Forest by Eliza Tilton
Lichgates (Grimoire Saga #1) by S.M. Boyce
Darkness Of Light (Darkness Series Book 1) by Stacey Marie Brown
Curse of the Beast by Ashley Lavering
Silent Orchids (The Age of Alandria: Book 1) by Morgan Wylie
The Perfect Place by Elaine Fields Smith
Change of Possession by M.R. Polish
Snow Bound by Elizabeth Kirke
The Great Wolf by Devyn Dawson
An ebook of the winner's choosing (up to $2.99) gifted by blogger Christine Marquette
Second Nature by Elizabeth Sharp
Winnemucca, a small-town fairy tale by Laura Elliott
The Sour Orange Derby by Kristina Circellie
Rescue OR, Royer Goldhawk's Remarkable Journal by Amy Strickland
Wildflower by Amy Maurer Jones

Episode 19 - Ashley Lavering

A nomad at heart, I currently claim Nevada as my home. I have a wonderful husband and two young children that put up with my "writing time." When I'm not pondering on a spell that will magically calm the ferocious winds that plague the air around me, you can find me, with notepad in hand, frantically jotting down ideas in those short moments between caring for my girls.

Art and science have always been my yin and yang. Throughout my college career, I shifted between the two, but in the end I graduated with a Bachelors of Mathematics and Science from the University of Wyoming.

Charging into adventures and discovering something new has always been a passion of mine, but as a teenager I use to run screaming from a reading or writing assignment. Looking back, the irony isn't lost on me. Now you can't catch me without a book in hand or without an open word document. Every time a new idea pops into my mind my heart races and my hand twitch to write it. In that moment, I have my writer's high and pray it will sustain me through thousands of hours of revision.

Learn more about Ashley Lavering at http://www.ashleylavering.com/

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Episode 18 - Airicka Phoenix

Huddled beneath a perpetual cloud of imagination, International Best-Selling author Airicka Phoenix lives with her husband and four gorgeous children in the beautiful province of British Columbia. When she's not busy playing with her imaginary friends, creating worlds and toying with fictional lives, she can be found reading, polishing her collection of daggers, or chilling with her kids.

Airicka is the creator of THE TOUCH SAGA, THE SONS OF JUDGMENT SAGA, THE LOST GIRL SERIES, and GAMES OF FIRE. Her standalone novel, BETRAYING INNOCENCE will be published Oct 2013 and the conclusion of Finding Kia, book 2 of The Lost Girl Series, REVEALING KIA, will be out Nov 2013. She also has plans to release a Sci-Fi horror/romance, WHEN NIGHT FALLS, Dec 2013.

Airicka also writes adult paranormal & contemporary romance under her alter ego, Morgana Phoenix. She has a paranormal short coming out Dec 2013 in SNOWED IN, An Anthology and CAPTURE ME, Morgana's debut novel will be released Fall 2014.

For more about Airicka, visit her website.

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Episode 17 - Amy Harmon

Amy Harmon is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, A Different Blue. Amy knew at an early age that writing was something she wanted to do, and she divided her time between writing songs and stories as she grew. Having grown up in the middle of wheat fields without a television, with only her books and her siblings to entertain her, she developed a strong sense of what made a good story.

Amy Harmon has been a motivational speaker, a grade school teacher, a junior high teacher, a home school mom, and a member of the Grammy Award winning Saints Unified Voices Choir, directed by Gladys Knight. She released a CD in 2007 called "What I Know" - also available on Amazon and wherever digital music is sold. She has written five novels, Running Barefoot, Slow Dance in Purgatory, Prom Night in Purgatory, the New York Times Bestseller, A Different Blue, and her new release, MAKING FACES. For updates on upcoming book releases, author posts and more, join Amy on www.authoramyharmon.com or on facebook at www.facebook.com/authoramyharmon.

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Episode 16 - Michele G. Miller

Michele is the author of the Amazon bestselling Coming of Age Fantasy- Never Let You Fall, The Prophecy of Tyalbrook Series and Last Call, a romantic suspense released 10/21/13

She is currently working on Never Let You Go, the second book in The Prophecy of Tyalbrook Series.

Having grown up in both the cold, quiet town of Topsham, Maine and the steamy, southern hospitality of Mobile, Alabama, Michele is something of a enigma. She is an avid Yankees fan, loves New England, being outdoors and misses snow. However she thinks southern boys are hotter, Alabama football is the only REAL football out there and sweet tea is the best thing this side of Heaven and her children's laughter!

Her family, an amazing husband and three awesome kids, have planted their roots in the middle of Michele's two childhood homes in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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