The podcast is taking a (much needed!) break for the remainder of 2020. Thank you to all the authors who have visited with me on the podcast during the past two years. You've been generous with your time and advice, and I wish you continued success on your writing journey. And, thank you to everyone who has downloaded episodes and listened to the authors tell their stories. If you haven't listened to all 99 episodes, now is the time to catch up and find a new book to read. I wish everyone a happy, healthy and safe holiday season. Good luck with the remainder of 2020, and best wishes for a wonderful 2021!

In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Megan Fuentes discusses her new series that blends romance with historical fiction. In her Love Affairs at the World’s Fairs series, Megan’s stories take place at various World’s Fairs. The first two books, In Barcelona With You and In Buffalo with You, are out now, with Book 3 to be unveiled in spring of 2021. Megan loves historical settings for her stories and the challenge of getting her characters out of tricky situations without the use of modern technology. She chooses her World’s Fairs carefully. Some are successful ones, others are disasters, but all of them create interesting and unique backdrops for her romantic storylines. So far, she’s planning a total of 19 books for her series. Megan had her first published story at age 18, but technically she was selling books long before that. She got her start as an author of comic books, which she created and sold to family and friends when she was in the third grade. In this episode, Megan discusses her writing journey, why she is such a big fan of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and the secret identity she uses to write in another favorite genre: fantasy-bent fairy tales.

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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Mathieu Cailler discusses his debut novel titled, Heaven and Other Zip Codes. It is a contemporary story about the fracturing of a family. Told from four different points of view--that of a lonely wife, her unfaithful husband, their awkward son and his tutor--this novel explores family, guilt, manipulation, betrayal and love. Heaven and Other Zip Codes is Mathieu’s first novel, but he is the author of five other books including a short story collection, two poetry collections and two children’s books. Mathieu’s work has appeared in a variety of publications, such as The Saturday Evening Post and the Los Angeles Times, and he’s received numerous awards, including a Shakespeare Award, a Short Story America Prize and a New England Book Award. In this episode, Mathieu discusses his writing journey, how switching up his work in various forms and genres keeps him energized as a writer, and how his path to becoming a published author began as a teenager writing jokes for standup comedy.

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​In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author A.M. Bochnak discusses her dystopian fantasy novels in The Magical Bond series. Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the series are out now, with Volume 4 on the way. The Magical Bond series is actually a series of episodes or novellas, with 2 to 3 novellas in each Volume. It is an epic post-apocalyptic, dystopian story about an alternate world where magic is the norm. However, the fate of magic is under threat from evolution, and Angelique’s heroine just might be key to reversing magic’s downfall. Angelique is a world-builder, as readers will find in this series. She can spend years building the worlds for her novels before ever writing a single word of the manuscript. In fact, as she finishes Volume 4 of The Magical Bond series, Angelique is also working on two other series. For one of them, her Gods of Dragons series, she has been world-building since 2014. In this episode, Angelique discusses her writing journey, how important it is for her to have trusted editors who have a stake in making her books the best they can be, and why the feedback she receives from readers makes all the hard work worthwhile.

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