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Finding the Magic Book Podcast

Tricia Copeland

What makes you love a book? I find my favorite stories are those where I"m crying with the MC, celebrating their victories, and screaming at their missteps. Welcome to Finding the Magic, a podcast all about books, plots, characters, and the authors that create them. I write young adult fantasy and sci-fi dystopian, as well as fun and inspiring romances. Listen in as I highlight books and authors from these genres as well as mysteries, thrillers, and horror. Find me and intro to my books at

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S5 E33 with Author Alison McBain

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2025/06/20

Diversity is one of Alison McBain's passions. With dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship, a Japanese-American mother and a B.A. in African history and classical literature, she has an eclectic background and a wide range of experience. She grew up in California and moved to the East Coast in her mid-twenties. Recently, she moved back to Alberta, where she is raising her three daughters.She started her writing career at age four with a "self-published" horror story about the monster in the

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S5 E32 with Christian Author Barbara M. Britton

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2025/06/17

BarbaraM. Britton not only loves to write about the Bible, but she has also taught Bible stories for over thirty years. She is multi-published in Christian Fiction where she brings little-known Bible stories to light, or she makes you swoon with her sweet romances. She has a nutrition degree from Baylor University but loves to dip healthy strawberries in chocolate. Barbara lives in Wisconsin with her husband of almost four decades and an indulged cat. Her sons are grown but they still come home and

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2025/06/14

Hemie Yao published her debut novel of the series, The Untold Truth of Club 門神, at the age of twelve in 2023. Daughter of a Chinese immigrant, she lives in New Hampshire and grows up in a mixed culture background. She loves to immerse herself in nature, art, and fictional worlds.At a young age, she loved to write short stories she never got around finishing. One day she found a book series that inspired her to write-and finish-a story of her own that surrounded Chinese Mythology and started her goal

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S5 E31 with S. A. Schneider, Fantasy Author

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2025/06/13

S.A. Schneider has a wolf, so of course he writes middle grade fantasy, wouldn’t you? Since his Lego and action figure days, he’s crafted worlds and stories within those worlds. This pursuit continues to his books today. Now he shows kids, and their parents, the joy of writing as a lifelong pursuit and how to turn it into a career. Not just books, but video game stories! He wants others to join him in fantastical worlds and possibly even delve into creating their own. Enjoy the adventure!!Find S.A

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00:22:59

S5 E30 with Romance Author Savannah Carlisle

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2025/06/10

Savannah Carlisle writes heartwarming romance novels with idyllic beach settings. Her stories transport readers to fun and quirky small towns where friends feel like family. So, if you’re ready for a mental vacation, you’ve come to the right place!⁠Savannah jokes that she's living her own Hallmark movie because she's a former big city corporate attorney who now lives in the small beach town of Fernandina Beach writing romance novels.When she isn't busy at her laptop writing her next

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S5 E29 with Vampire Fantasy Author Dan Klefstad

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2025/06/06

From Dan.... My latest novel, Fiona’s Guardians, is about humans who work for a beautiful manipulative vampire. This book was adapted by Artists' Ensemble Theater for their Mysterious Journey podcast. It's available on Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. I'm now writing the sequel in Louisville, Kentucky.Find Dan and his books here: https://www.goodreads.com/goodreadscomdan_klefstad

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S5 E28 with Thriller Author J.M. Mitchell

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2025/06/03

J.M. Mitchell grew up in Texas, now lives in Colorado, and spent the years in between on some of America’s most cherished landscapes—Yosemite, Grand Canyon and Zion National Parks. He had a long career with the National Park Service, retiring as Chief of the agency’s Biological Resource Management Division, where he worked on the technical and sometimes politically charged issues facing the National Parks. In addition to his novels, his writing has appeared in scientific and conservation journals,

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S5 E27 with Fantasy Author D. S. McColgan

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2025/05/30

From D. S. McColgan ....I grew up in a village not far from the Swiss Alps, surrounded by forest and mountains. Now I live in Wales with my wonderful husband and my daughter.I write cosy yet dark fantasy with historic fairy tale vibes. My stories are populated by interesting, authentic characters and have a message to share alongside the fantastical elements.My favourite books are by Nina Blazon, Naomi Novik, Brandon Sanderson, V. E. Schwab, Elizabeth Wheatley and many others.Start her series here:

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00:42:20

S5 E26 with Sci-fi Author M. A. Wall

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2025/05/27

From Sci-fi Author M. A. (Max) Wall: I have been affiliated with the military for most of my life. I curse, I can be abrupt, and I save flowery wording for pissed off people and pretty metaphors. I have no problem with people poking holes in the science of a speculative fiction story, and I’m a scientist that has spent most of my career *asking* people to point out the flaws in my work. That being said, I do not look forward to the added trolls upsetting people that just want to enjoy a good book,

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00:29:06

S5 E25 with Fantasy Author Edward Willett

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2025/05/23

Edward Willett is the award-winning author (under his own name and as E.C. Blake and Lee Arthur Chane) of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction for readers of all ages, including twelve novels for DAW Books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Stars, a humorous far-future space-opera heist adventure featuring an AI-uplifted talking cat who becomes a starship captain. Ed won Canada’s top science fiction award, the Aurora Award, for his second novel for DAW, Marseguro,

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S5 E24 with L. Ron Hubbard Winner Patrick MacPhee

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2025/05/20

Speculative Fiction Author Patrick MacPhee is a winner in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest earning him a trip to Hollywood for a week-long master-class workshop, an awards event and his winning story will be published in the international bestselling anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 41.The Writers of the Future Award is the genre’s most prestigious award of its kind and has now become the largest, most successful, and demonstrably most influential

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S5 E23 with Cyberpunk Author Mark Everglade

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2025/05/16

Mark Everglade has spent his life studying social conflict. He runs the website www.markeverglade.com where he reviews cyberpunk media and interviews the greats. He also runs Cyberpunk Day each year with a group dedicated to bringing dystopian fiction to a new generation. His short stories have been featured beside legendary authors like Cory Doctorow and Walter Jon Williams.

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S5 E22 with Mystery Author Ann Charles

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2025/05/13

Ann Charles—AuthorNearly Departed in Deadwood, the 2010 Daphne du Maurier Award Winner and a 2011 RWA Golden Heart Award Winner.*USA Today Best Selling Author, *Amazon Top 100 Bestselling Author*Barnes & Noble Top 100 Bestselling Author*Winner Suspense Magazine Best of 2012, 2015. 2016*Winner of Paranormal Grand Prize from Chanticleer Book Reviews and Media, *Winner of Southern Writers Best Covers ContestYou'll laugh. You'll cringe. You'll want more.Find all her books here:

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S5 E21 with YA Fantasy Author Aimee Phan

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2025/05/09

Aimee Phan was born and raised in Orange County, California. She received her BA in English from UCLA and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of two books for adults, We Should Never Meet: Stories and the novel The Reeducation of Cherry Truong. She has received fellowships and residencies from the NEA, MacDowell Colony, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Djerassi andHedgebrook. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time, USA Today and CNN.com among

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S5 E20 with fantasy author Peter Gribble

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2025/05/06

Peter Gribble is a writer and a lifelong studentof history whose work explores the intersections of knowledge, power, and the human condition. His fantasy series, “The City of the Magicians,” is set in a civilization that rejects traditional warfare. The series examines how intellect, psychological strategy, and telepathic abilities can be both a society’s greatest strength and its most dangerous vulnerability. Influenced by his childhood in postwar France—where silence about the war was as

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S5 E19 with Dystopian Author Paul G. Vecchiet

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2025/05/02

Paul G. Vecchiet is an author whose speculative fictionbridges U.S. government cover-ups, extraterrestrial phenomena, spirituality, and the future of humanity. Through his writing, Paul encourages readers to explore hidden truths and imagine new realities. A U.S. government civilian and former U.S. Air Force Civil Engineering Officer, Pauldraws from real-life experiences in his novel, “The Disclosure Paradox.”Inspired by transformative meditation experiences in2009, the novel incorporates elements

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S5 E18 with Fantasy Author James Bow

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2025/04/29

James was born in downtown Toronto on April 19, 1972 and lived there until his folks moved up to Kitchener in 1991 so he could attend the University of Waterloo. He's lived in Kitchener ever since. He's a trained urban planner has worked as a database manager, web designer, circulation manager, administrative assistant, layout designer and office manager. The one consistent thing about his varied academic and professional career has been a love of writing.

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S5 E17 with Women's Fiction Author Heather Tracy

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2025/04/22

Heather Tracy (she/her) is a travel agent by day, and a masked copy editor and writer by night. As a travel agent, she plans Nerdventures—travel for the nerd in all of us. These can be anything from visiting New Zealand to see as many Lord of the Rings filming locations as you can to visiting castles in Europe to following in the footsteps of your favorite author.As a copy editor, she’s found hundreds of typos, comma splices, and other grammatical nitpicks for Space Wizard Science Fantasy since

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S5 E16 with Young Adult Fantasy Author C.J. Hosack

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2025/04/15

CJ grew up in Southern California, loving fantasy and science fiction. She is married to her husband of thirty plus years, has four children, and has an ever-growing number of grandchildren. Adopted at eight months old, she recently found her birth parents. She has a Masters Degree in Public History from Southern New Hampshire University, and if she’s not writing, you can generally find her quilting, costuming, or traveling to spend time with those she loves. She’s a wannabe dress historian and has

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S5 E15 with Author H.M. Gooden

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2025/04/08

H.M. Gooden is a full time worker bee, mother, and writer by the wee hours of the day. She would write all the time if she had her way, but alas, life and family come first!Somewhere in the last few years she's managed to carve out just enough time to write the trilogy that has spawned it all, based on a recurring dream she had in her teens.Find H.M. and her books at https://www.hmgoodenauthor.com/

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