Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Angela Montoya. Angela Montoya lives in Northern California with her family. When she isn’t with her partner, two children, goats, chickens, and dogs, you can find Angela co-hosting the podcast, Of the Publishing Persuasion. Her debut novel, SINNER’S ISLE, has received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly and trade reviews from Booklist and The Bulletin.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

• creepy parrots
• the debut experience
• Angela's publishing journey
• the therapy of writing a book
• visual inspiration as a basis for worldbuilding
• Ghabiba's method for finding the name of the unknown (or as Courtney likes to call it, "the thingy")
• the power of idea collaboration in the birth stages of a story
• cup filling with podcasting
• keeping sight of why we write, words of wisdom from Angela's dad
• the cat that stole Angela's heart
• the place to go for cave cheese

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A warm thank you to Deore for our musical number. You can find more of her creative work on Spotify.

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