The Picky Bookworm

Kalea Ellison joins The Picky Bookworm this week to talk her life as a kid lit author, editor and book coach. She was such a joy to chat with and I'm so excited to share our conversation with you!

Kalea's Books

Sometimes I Imagine https://www.amazon.com/Sometimes-I-Imagine-Kalea-Ellison/dp/B0D1JDPGR7/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1FLPXTCFOLQ7K&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ukijzFVtLC4u0nqrNXZOoLcndQ83RFrNoYHy1-f4kgz7rFEuD_ck9tdLeujZv6HhTBiRTYJYMz00OFOeP9tNK5GvNa20P1DIn2cw5jpYh2U.bJaPeu32oKN1GLUMYX2WssOzDuHtCDZSdPulu0KsRsg&dib_tag=se&keywords=kalea+ellison&qid=1738939816&sprefix=kalea+ellison%2Caps%2C120&sr=8-2

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sometimes-i-imagine-kalea-ellison/1145234697

Sometimes I Dream https://www.amazon.com/s?k=kalea+ellison&crid=1FLPXTCFOLQ7K&sprefix=kalea+ellison%2Caps%2C120&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sometimes-i-dream-kalea-ellison/1143010635

Hang out with Kalea online

http://www.kaleaellison.com/

http://www.facebook.com/kalea.e

https://instagram.com/kalea_ellison

https://tiktok.com/kalea_ellison

Thanks so much for joining us this week! I hope you enjoy our chat as much as we did! Until Next Time, Friends!

The Picky Bookworm is proud and honored to welcome Carly Rush to the podcast! Carly is a local DJ and morning show host, but she's also a fellow bookworm, so she's a welcome addition to the show, and was so much fun to chat with!

Carly and her co-host, Cliff, have the opportunity to support a ton of different causes, and we got to talk about one coming up soon for Tulsa CASA, an agency that helps advocate for kids in the foster system.

If you want to donate to Tulsa CASA, you can do so at tulsacasa.org, and as an added incentive, if you donate and send me proof of your donation, I'll give you that amount off the price of editing, if you also hire me as an editor. The discount is up to $250 off your editing, so do what you can! They can always use your help!

Carly's Socials

website: 929theriver.com

All social media is under @929therivertulsa

Carly's facebook: facebook.com/carly.rush.voice

If you want to check out the morning show, and you don't live in the Tulsa area, you can download the app on Android or iOS! just look for 929theriver, and download the app! Cliff and Carly are on mornings 6-10, Central Time.

Carly's favorite authors

Ann H. Gabhart https://www.amazon.com/stores/Ann-H.-Gabhart/author/B001JP7YQI?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

Lee Strobel https://www.amazon.com/stores/Lee-Strobel/author/B001H6KH8G?pd_rd_w=X479l&content-id=amzn1.sym.78f2affb-7cb9-4034-a202-130468a5a689:amzn1.sym.78f2affb-7cb9-4034-a202-130468a5a689&pd_rd_wg=LyIMA&pd_rd_r=a85ec89c-4456-44bc-a504-da942b4df700&qid=1738429372&cv_ct_cx=Lee+Strobel&ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

I think that's it, so leave a comment and let us know what you thought of today's episode. Don't forget to subscribe!

Welcome back, friends! This week on The Picky Bookworm, Daniel Mazur joins me to talk about his books, and gives insight into why he wrote them. His hope with his books is to give encouragement to anyone who has gone through or is going through the same thing.

Daniel doesn't call himself an "author," even though he has written and published two books. He does, however, have a website where you can check out his books, and he has an email address that he always answers where you can keep in touch. He enjoys making new friends, just as I do, so feel free to send him an email if you have any questions or comments for him! His email address is [email protected]

Dan's Socials

Website: http://corvalues.net/

Twitter: twitter.com/CValues79958

Facebook: facebook.com/corvalues

YouTube: (218) CORValues - YouTube

Instagram: instagram.com/corvaluesbook

The video of this podcast episode is available on Dan's Youtube channel, so be sure to go check that out as well!

Until Next Time, Friends!

Hey, friends! Welcome back!

I've been a fan of James Bow ever since I read The Night Girl years ago. For some reason, I was never able to find him on social media, to tell him how much I loved Perpetua and her gang of goblins, but apparently that's because I was looking in the wrong place. I'm never on Facebook, and that's one of the places he's most active.

Anyway, James emailed me a few weeks ago, and asked me to read and review his new book, The Sun Runners, and of course it got added to my Amazon wishlist. Haven't read it yet, but it's on the list. And, of course, I invited James to come chat on the podcast! I wanted a chance to fangirl over The Night Girl, and give him a chance to tell you all about his new book. So, here we are :) I hope you enjoy!

James' Books (All are available, or will be available through Shadowpaw Press)

The Sun Runners https://shadowpawpress.com/product/the-sun-runners/

Tales From The Silence (Anthology) https://shadowpawpress.com/product/tales-from-the-silence/

The Night Girl (Re-release May 25) https://shadowpawpress.com/product/the-night-girl/

The Picky Bookworm's review of The Night Girl

Hang out with James on Social

Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/bowjamesbow.ca

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/james.bow

Website https://bowjamesbow.ca/

Miscellaneous https://bowjamesbow.ca/2024/12/28/fiction-special.shtml

https://bowjamesbow.ca/2024/12/22/the-new-night-g.shtml

Thanks so much for hanging out with us this week, and I hope you enjoy my chat with James as much as I did! Until Next Time, Friends!

Hey, friends! I'm BACK! I'm so happy to be back with the Picky Bookworm podcast, and I'm thrilled to bring you a new guest this week! Tyra Sinclair is a dental hygienist by day, and a romance author by night. She loves bringing to the pages of her books the relationships she dreams about. She was such a blast to chat with, so I hope you enjoy as much as we did!

Our book recommendations

Stepbrother Dearest by Penelope Ward https://www.amazon.com/Stepbrother-Dearest-Penelope-Ward-ebook/dp/B00NVY6JPC

50 Shades of Gray by E.L. James https://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Shades-Grey-Book-Trilogy/dp/0345803485

The Orchid & The Lion series by Gabriel Hargrave

My Best Friend's Grumpy Brother https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPDT27C4

Falling for My Ex's Grumpy Brother https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218067272-falling-for-my-ex-s-grumpy-brother

Boss's Secret Off Limits Baby https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2YD3PGK

A Deal with a Grumpy Billionaire https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1CSPSL

Hang out with Tyra!

Tyra's website: tyrasinclair.com

Amazon author page https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0CXMQ8W3M

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/184Ge3XE4g/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Instagram

Newsletter (get a free book!) https://dl.bookfunnel.com/932pmq886w

Thank you to everyone who has joined me over the past years, and I'm so glad you've stuck with me through the thicks and thins. May 2025 be amazing for all of us! Until next time, friends!

Hey, friends! This week, not only do I have an author you've heard from before, but he is joined by his wife/editor! Joel Flanagan-Granneman is the author of the Servants of the Moon & Sun series, and Jay-Jay is his editor/sounding board. I loved getting to talk to the both of them, on how it is working together, and about the trust they've built together as a writing/editing team. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did!

You can find the book series on Amazon here:

We talked about other books as well, such as the Rule Series, by Kasi Blake

You can also hang out with Joel & Jay-Jay at their website, Servantsofthemoonandsun.com, where they have a newsletter and links to their books and other activities, and you can also find Jay-Jay on Linkedin. Joel is on Twitter(@Servantsand) and Bluesky, so be sure to follow him and say hi!

Until Next Time, Friends!

Hello, my wonderful friends! Thank you for joining me this week, along with my new friend, Dana Wolk! Dana and I met on LinkedIn, where we immediately hit it off, and decided we were probably going to be best friends for life. She is amazing, because not only did she manage to become a bookworm even though she had dyslexia, and reading is still a struggle for her some days, but she also got her master's degree in literacy, despite some professors telling her she shouldn't. Shame on those professors! Now, she works as a special ed teacher, with non-verbal autistic kids in the Bronx NY, and loves every minute of it.

Needless to say, Dana is one of my heroes, and I was thrilled to share some of her story with you this week. I hope you will follow her on social media and get to know her like I have. She's a lot of fun to talk to, and she also uses her word talents to write blog content for others in all sorts of industries, through her company, Sasa Media Services. Be sure to check her out!

Website: sasamediaservices.com

Twitter: twitter.com/sasamedia5

Instagram: instagram.com/sasamediaservices

Until Next Time, Friends!

Hey, friends! I had such a fun chat with Chris Farnell this week! It's been a while since we last talked, so it was amazing to catch up and find out what he's been up to! Needless to say, it's been a LOT!

Chris is working on another set of novellas for his Fermi series, so be sure to check them out! Links to both series are below.

Fermi's Progress:

Twitter:

Final Architecture Trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Lightspeed Trilogy:

All amazon links are UK, so if you live in the US, please search by the book title. Chris provided them to me, and since he lives in the UK, he is unable to provide US amazon links.

Ok, that's it! I hope you enjoy this episode, and please leave a comment or review with your thoughts! Until Next Time, Friends!

Hey, friends! Tech issues abounded this week, but the episode is finally here! Natalie Kelda joined me this week on The Picky Bookworm, and we had such a fun chat!

Natalie is a Danish author who lives in the UK currently. She has a ton of books out, many of which are based on various dreams she's had over the years. We talked about those dreams as inspiration for her stories, as well as a writing process, and the importance of making sure we get to find ways to be creative. I hope you enjoy!

Check out Natalie's books here

Hang out with Natalie:

The Crossing, by Laurie Janey

Merchants of Knowledge and Magic by Erika McCorkle

Drowned Hearts, Short Story by Karen Lykkebo

The Whisper that Replaced God

Thanks for joining us this week! Until Next Time, Friends!

Hey, everyone! Bard Lyre joins me on The Picky Bookworm this week to talk about tons of things. I tried not to, but I kind of fixated on his experiences as an English Teacher in the UK, but definitely got to talk about books, too! I hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did!

Bard's book recommendations:

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Ten Realms series by Michael Chatfield

Defiance of The Fall by J.F. Brink (aka The First Defier)

He Who Fights with Monsters by Shirtaloon (aka Travis Deverell)

Bard is a LitRPG author who has written his own book series, started on Royal Road, called Tales of Shattered Glass. It's part of the Darkhelm series, and you can find it on amazon, at the link below:

Thanks so much for joining us this week! Be sure to leave a comment with your thoughts on this week's episode, and follow The Picky Bookworm on Spotify or Apple so you'll get notified of new episodes! Until Next Time, Friends!