Romance author Dana Hawkins joins us to talk about Minnesota bakeries and her new book, I Will Always Love You (Maybe) from Storm Publishing.

I Will Always Love You (Maybe)

Cold Spring Bakery

@d.hawkinsauthor on Instagram

Dana Hawkins website

Tropes and Trifles, a Twin Cities Romance-Specialist Bookshop

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Is it a Minnesota podcast without a 1991 Halloween Blizzard story? Professor Andrew Elfenbein speaks with us about his first year in Minnesota, his work and colleagues at the University of Minnesota, and his humorous MM romantasy The Quyre (Tales of the Pine Rapids Fairies Book 1) from Dreamspinner Press.

The Quyre

Andrew's Substack

Andrew Elfenbein on Facebook

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher

Immigrant Defense Network trainings

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In the first episode of Read Minnesota Books, host Deborah Copperud interviews award-winning Minnesota author Kao Kalia Yang about her new picture book, The Blue House I Loved, from University of Minnesota Press.

The Blue House I Loved

Yang's Letter From Minnesota on LitHub

Birch Bark Books, Louise Erdrich's Minneapolis bookstore

Wild Rumpus bookstore in Minneapolis

@kaokaliayang on Instagram

Kao Kalia Yang's website

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