Join host Jo Michaels, of the Jo Michaels blog, and author Teal Haviland as they discuss books, writing, and UTOPiAcon! Teal has been with Utopia since the beginning, and she won an award at UtopYA 2013 for Debut Novel of the Year. We'll be discussing her social networking site for authors My Endless Endings (MEE), awards she's won, and her books. Included in her awesome lineup is Inception (The Reaping Chronicles, 1). You can check it out on Amazon here, and follow her author page by giving it a like here.

You can also find Teal's page for The Reaping Chronicles on Facebook and give this lovely author a follow on Twitter!

Join Indie author and blogger Jo Michaels as she interviews author Silvia Stein. You can check out Siliva's blog here! She's the author of Closure and Chasing Clarity, and she's the recipent of the following awards: The International English Award, The National Society of Leadership

and Success Award, and The International English honor society (Sigma Tau Delta). Today, she'll be chatting about Chasing Clarity and reading you a little excerpt she's prepared. Stay in here until the end! Check out Silvia's Facebook page or join the release day event while your'e at it!

Here's the hashtag for the Twitter chat: #SylChasers

Book blogger and Indie author Jo Michaels interviews author BJ Sheldon to discuss her Utopia con revelations. BJ was on the team that won the first annual Utopia Lip Sync competition, is a fierce dancer, and to top all that, she’s also an award-winning author. Her titles include: Haunting, Imprint, and Inevitable, books one through three of The Dusty Chronicles, and the upcoming Hear the Crickets: book one of The Gibborim Series. We’ll be talking about BJ’s intro into writing, where her motto “Be Ceaseless” comes from, her Utopia con revelations, and we might just touch on her books (I'm kidding! We're all about those books!).

Blogger and Indie author Jo Michaels interviews UTOPiAcon attendee Christina Benjamin. She's the author of the award-winning young adult series The Geneva Project.  It’s a timeless tale of a young girl’s adventure to find friendship, love and her true identity.  Along the way she discovers mysteries, legends, creatures and that anything is possible. Book 3, Lies was recently released. You can find it on Amazon here.

Christina was born in GA, grew up in PA, and now lives in FL. She strongly believes in finding what makes you happy and doing it.  Her hope for The Geneva Project is that one day, with each book she sells, she can donate one book to a school or program in need of reading material for children.

Find out more about Christina on her website here.

Blogger and Indie author Jo Michaels interviews UTOPiAcon veteran Stacey Rourke live on air. She's won the following:

RONE Award for Best YA Paranormal Work of 2012 for Embrace, a Gryphon Series Novel

Young Adult and Teen Reader voted Author of the Year 2012

Turning Pages Magazine Winner for Best YA book of 2013 & Best Teen Book of 2013

Stacey Rourke is the author of the award winning YA Gryphon Series as well as the chillingly suspenseful Legends Saga. She lives in Michigan with her husband, two beautiful daughters, and two giant dogs. She loves to travel, has an unhealthy shoe addiction,  and considers herself blessed to make a career out of talking to the imaginary people that live in her head.

Stacey can be found on her website here. Her most recent release is Steam, book 3 of the Legends Saga. You can check it out on Goodreads here.

Info on the Once Upon a Book Author Signing here.

Host Jo Michaels, of the Jo Michaels blog, and award-winning author Tia Silverthorne Bach discuss UTOPiAcon and the revelations had at the conference. Tia is the author of the young adult paranormal shifter series The Tala Prophecy that includes Chasing Forgiveness--nominated for best companion novella at the 2015 Utopia awards ceremony. You'll learn how she found out about the conference, what she learned from it, and why she plans to keep going back each year. We'll also discuss the anthologies she's been a part of the last two years that started with Fractured Glass.

Give Tia a follow on Facebook and Twitter.

Links to all the books I'll be talking about today are below. I know you love to be read to, so hang on to your hats and let's get grooving with the reading! ***NOTE: I'm only reading the first little bit, the same thing you can read for free on Amazon or another platform.*** I do hope you'll take a chance on some of these awesome books.

Unwilling - Kindle Edition $2.99  ~  Soul Rebel - Kindle Edition FREE  ~  Don't Call Me Kit Kat - Kindle Edition $2.99  ~  Shadow Blues - Kindle Edition $0.99  ~  I, Zombie - Kindle Edition $3.99.

Join host Jo Michaels, of the Jo Michaels blog, and author Amy Evans as they discuss books, writing, and UTOPiAcon! Amy will regale you with stories from the inside track of the conference, talk about her amazing young adult books that center on dolphins, and discuss her experiences with writing, publishing, and Utopia. Amy's Dolphin Prophecy series includes the novels Clicks and Echoes. Her new adult title is Pink Jellybean Kisses. Certain to keep you on your toes, this interview will go all the way to the trenches and back up!

You can find Amy here: Facebook and Twitter

If you'd like to donate to the GoFundMe fund raiser, you can do so here.

#UtopiaResolutions started as a blog feature, co-hosted by Maria Pease of The Paisley Reader, and Ashley Bodette of Book Junkie: Not-So-Anonymous.  The feature allows authors, bloggers, editors, cover models, designers, publicists, and any UtopYA attendee to share the resolutions they've made for the year between the 2015-2016 conferences.  Although the blog feature continues to run, it has also evolved into a Blog Talk Radio Show!

This week, Ashley is interviewing author BJ Sheldon.  To view her original #UtopiaResolutions guest post on the blog, click HERE.

Follow BJ:

Website

Blog

Twitter: @BJSheldonAuthor

Instagram: BJSheldonAuthor

Pinterest: BJSheldonAuthor

Amazon Author Page

P.S.  If you are attending Utopia Con and are interested in a guest post for our #UtopiaResolutions blog feature, sign up via the google doc HERE.

Join host Jo Michaels, of the Jo Michaels blog, and Janet Wallace, founder of the premier writer's conference for women, Utopia, as well as the ever amazing Social Deviants, a social media marketing intensive that will take your brand to a whole new level, as they discuss what to expect out of the Utopia conference in 2016, how it all started, and why you should be involved. We'll chat about a myriad of topics that'll have you rethinking your strategy in life, and tell you how one woman changed her stars, only to alter the universe for so many others. Be inspired. Be brave. Make it happen, whatever it may be.