Our guest this week is young adult author Amy Laura Ephron. Her latest book "Carnival Magic" the continued, startling, sometimes  magical adventures of Tess and Max, is a bestseller and was featured in Teen Vogue, among many other magazines and journals, and is in talks as a  film. It has been nominated for an American Library Association award, and the Grand Canyon Award to be announced in 2020. A companion to "The Castle in the Mist," (the intro to Tess and Max and their Aunt Evie,) was an Amazon Best pick, a B&N pick, and claimed a nom for a SCIBA award. 

She is the author of the bestselling "A Cup of Tea;" "One Sunday  Morning;" "White Rose;" and "Loose Diamonds," a collection of modern  essays, pieces of which appeared in Vogue and The New York Times.