Tonight we celebrate one of our own with an incredible first-novel rollout! Velvet Heaven is the first in a triology of novels written by Soroya Biela, our guest tonight. Sorora is 40, born and raised in Warren, Michigan. She graduated from Wayne State University in 2012 with a BA in English.

Tonight’s show will try to sidestep politics a bit and instead concentrate on the joy of writing, especially sexy-vampire-novel-writing.

From Soroya’s blog: “My classes at Wayne State were heavily concentrated in creative writing, including several graduate level courses which I completed as an undergrad. I have participated in dozens of fiction writing workshops, and have even completed a play, entitled Apple Pie, which is set in the 1950s and deals with the intriguing subject of the secret lives of lesbian housewives.”