This week, we speak with the delightful Samantha Dion Baker, artist and author of Draw Your Adventures: Making Art to Celebrate Everyday Experiences and Travel Near and Far.

This episode is sponsored by The Housekeeper’s Secret by Sandra Schnakenburg.

Enter the Mona’s Eyes Giveaway: closes September 15th, 2025

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Thank you to Europa Editions for sponsoring this giveaway.

Guest author recommendation from Jessica Francis Kane, author of Fonseca. 

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Books Discussed:

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

This Motherless Land by Nikki May

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

How to Read A Book by Monica Wood

The Guest by Emma Cline

Find Samantha Dion Baker online:

Website www.sdionbaker.com

Instagram @sdionbekerdesign

Substack @Draw Your World

Samantha Dion Baker's Skillshare Classes

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I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!