Finding the Magic Book Podcast

Dr. Katherine Hutchinson-Hayes is an editor, author, speaker, podcaster, and educational consultant. She is Embolden Media Group's production editor and a Word Weavers International member, serving as an online chapter president and mentor. She belongs to EFA (Editorial Freelancers Association, FWA (Florida Writers

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Aislinn Brophy, the author of How to Succeed in

According to the laws of Boston’s Witch Council, Luna is

SPELLS TO FORGET US is witty, heartfelt, and filled with more than just magic as these two star-crossed lovers keep finding their way into each other’s complex orbits, even as the universe pulls them apart.

Find the book here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203956636-spells-to-forget-us

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Noted Canadian non-fiction author and long-time CBC columnist Mark Morton makes his debut as a novelist with The Headmasters, coming February 6 from Shadowpaw Press; a gripping, provocative post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult tale that asks the question, “How do you learn from the past if there isn’t one?”

Sixty years ago as The Headmasters opens, something awful happened. Something that killed everyone except the people at Blue Ring, a research facility in northern Ontario. Something that caused the Headmasters to appear. But young Maple doesn’t know what is was. Because talking about the past is forbidden.

Everyone at Blue Ring has a Headmaster. They sink their sinewy coils into your skull and control you, using your body for backbreaking toil and your mind to communicate with each other.

When someone dies, their Headmaster transfers to someone new. But so do the dead person’s memories, and if one of those memories surfaces in the new host’s mind, their brain breaks. That’s why talking about the past is forbidden.

Maple hates this world where the past can’t exist and the future promises only more suffering. And she hates the Headmasters for making it that way. But she doesn’t know how to fight them – until memories start to surface in her mind from someone who long ago came close to defeating the Headmasters.

But whose memories are they? Why aren’t they harming her? And how can she use them to defeat the Headmasters? Maple has to find the answers herself, unable to tell anyone what she’s experiencing or planning—not even Thorn, the young man she’s falling in love with.

Thorn, who has some forbidden secrets of his own . . .

Find Mark on Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/47923519.Mark_Morton

Arthur Slade was raised on a ranch in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is the author of thirty one novels including *Amber Fang, The Hunchback Assignments, Dragon Assassin* and *Dust.* His work has sold over half a million copies and won the Governor General’s Award (Canada) and Le Grand Prix d’Imaginaire (France). He is also the author of several comic books and a graphic novel. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada. Visit him online at

From J. Alexander Cohen...

I always wanted to write. I loved the Peanuts comics where Snoopy would tap out stories on his typewriter, defying physics sitting perched atop his doghouse. From the age of 14 I took writing seriously and spent my evenings on Dad’s Selectric in the basement, followed by my home computer.

I wrote my first good novel, Bear Like Me, in 1999, and it was published in 2003. It took from age 14 to age 31 for my writing to get good enough to be published. From 2003 to 2019, my writing was on hiatus while I was helping Mom out with Dad and his mild cognitive impairment…later, Alzheimer’s.

I’ve been very fortunately that all of my jobs have involved writing in one way or another: legal editor, CD-ROM editor, freelance writer, technical writer, marketing writer, court reporter, blogger and so on.

It’s been a checkered career, but all that experience has been great grist for the fiction writing mill.

I started writing seriously again after major surgery in 2020. My first project was a podcast, The Lavender Tavern. You can find out about my other writing work on the rest of this site.

My latest novel, Talio’s Codex, is out now.

Sam Beck is a writer and illustrator living in Toronto, and the author of the fantasy trilogy VERSE. She has worked with publishers like Dark Horse and Vault Comics on multiple series spanning across science fiction, fantasy and horror. When she's not working on her comics, you can find her admiring the forests of northern Ontario.

Find Sam on her website: https://sambeck.ca/

Twitter | @sambeckdraws

Billions of years ago, on one of the first-ever Earths, a boy named Skylar will walk away from his home for the last time. Beset by dreams where he flies through the early universe as a sentient starship, he will never be safe if his secret

#1 New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing, she spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, hanging out with her husband, her Border Jack Apollo,  Border Collie Artemis, six judgmental alpacas, two rude goats, and five fluffy sheep.

In early 2015, Jennifer was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a group of rare genetic disorders that involve a

Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Tor,

Jennifer has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Reviewers Choice Award for Wait for You, the 2015 Editor’s Pick for Fall With Me, and the 2014/2015 Moerser-Jugendbuch- Jury award for Obsidian. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA. Her adult romantic suspense novel TILL DEATH was a Amazon Editor’s Pick and iBook Book of the Month. Her young adult contemporary THE PROBLEM WITH FOREVER is a 2017 RITA Award Winner in Young Adult Fiction. Her novel STORM AND FURY was chosen for the 2020-2021 Florida Teens Read List. Her adult fantasy FROM BLOOD AND ASH

She is the owner of ApollyCon and The Origin Event, the successful annual events that features over hundred bestselling authors in Young Adult, New Adult, and Adult Fiction, panels, parties, and more.

Find Jennifer and her books on her website here: https://jenniferlarmentrout.com/

Historical epic fantasy author Angela R. Hughes believes in the power of storytelling. Her ambition to write stories that grip and inspire readers led her to study Celtic mythology and live for a time in Ireland, where she fell in love with the history and landscapes of “the Emerald Isle,” Wales, Scotland, and England. When she isn’t traveling or researching Arthurian legend, Angela is chatting with fellow fantasy nerds over coffee or spending time with her family at home in Waco, Texas.

Find her and her books at https://angelarhughes.com/