In this episode, we talk to Portland author Jasmine Gower, who has the amazingly good fortune to play auntie to not one but three sweet cats. Jasmine has exuded authorial authority since she was FIVE YEARS OLD and decided to make her own books—we're talking covers made of cereal boxes and the whole shebang! Jasmine discusses her recent graduation with a degree in book publishing and her take on why marketing their own work terrifies so many authors (and how to make it less scary). She also shares her unusual path to landing an agent (Jasmine’s is the inimitable Laura Zats of Red Sofa Literary and the Print Run Podcast). We also talk about queer and disabled representation in her fantasy novel, Moonshine—as well as in the book world at large—and why it matters so much.

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