A Daily Cup of Jo

#UtopiaResolutions started as a blog feature, co-hosted by Maria Pease of The Paisley Reader, and Ashley Bodette of Book Junkie: Not-So-Anonymous. The feature allows authors, bloggers, editors, cover models, designers, publicists, and any UtopYA attendee to share the resolutions they've made for the year between the 2015-2016 conferences. Although the blog feature continues to run, it has also evolved into a Blog Talk Radio Show! The two of us were a little nervous about hosting a podcast/radio show, so we decided to do our first show the same way we start each new year of resolutions on our blogs...we hosted each other! :) As promised during the show, I am included some more information about the Debut Collective Anthologies! One VERY important thing that I forgot to mention during the interview is this: *100% of funds raised will go to publishing the anthologies and promoting the authors involved. Profits from ebooks will go to charity. Funds will be reported and itemized on the blog as they are spent. Here is the DC Anthologies blog: https://thedebutcollective.wordpress.com/ Follow the anthologies on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Debut-Collective-Anthologies/668119463288234?fref=ts P.S. If you are attending Utopia Con next year, and are interested in writing a guest post for our #UtopiaResolutions blog feature, feel free to sign up via the google doc here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xt1VrmvhyKjT2aD3mYII3hykcJasxTyYcb1zl_LNsd0/viewform

Join host Jo Michaels for an interview with book reviewer and soon to be published author Michaela Mills. We'll discuss her UTOPiAcon revelations and how she began her journey with a blog, but has continued it with collaboriation via Utopians! Coming soon, you'll see The Debut Collective; short stories that feature bravery. Not only that, but Michaela is also working on a young adult dystopian novel titled The Bunker. You can read more about it on her website here. You can find Indie-Visible: Literary Justice for All here! Her Facebook page is here. Follow her on Twitter!

An interview with author Delphina Henley. She's a veteran of the author event Utopia Con, has been there since year one, and is the author of the new adult series B3, which includes: Unless You Can be a Unicorn, and Ask Me About My Unicorn. She was on the panels Great Sexpectations and What a Difference a Year Makes at Utopia 2015. You can find Delphina on the web at: facebook.com/DelphinaHenley and delphinahenley.blogspot.com Your host is Jo Michaels of jomichaels.blogspot.com Where you can mail the books for the children: Everybody Reads Books & Stuff 2019 E. Michigan Ave. Lansing, MI 48912-3011

Join host Jo Michaels and guest, author and RAI coordinator Liz C. Long, for a discussion about Roanoke Author Invasion 2016. Date for the author signing is April 2. We'll discuss what you can expect to find, a brief schedule, and tell you about some of the authors already on the list as attendees for next year. More information can be found on the RAI website here: http://roanokeauthorinvasion.com/ This one day event will be held at the Holiday Inn Tanglewood in Roanoke, VA.

Shantella & I got to chat about everything across the board -- from a blogging perspective and a first-time AND indie author persepctive. And it was a blast! Check out all of her social media -- The Wordsmithe Blog https://thewordsmithe.wordpress.com/ The Wordsmithe FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-WordSmithe-blog/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BensonShantella