Episode 16 - April Sunshine
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Sitting down with April Sunshine, author of Sparrow (Into the Grey Book 1), a cozy fantasy about identity, friendship, and the courage to choose your own path. We talk about process, what it's like to release a book when you're out of the country, support systems, what to look forward to in the series, and the trend of smut in fantasy. Toward the end, we opened our Zoom up to some of April's friends and family for a Q&A session and a virtual toast to the novel.
Magic always has a price
For nineteen years, Sparrow thought she knew who she was: just another human in a magic-free world, living a perfectly ordinary life. Until her parents vanish without a trace—and with them, the memories of the traumatic event that stole them from her.
Thrust into a hidden realm of Elves and Fae, Sparrow discovers her "normal" life was nothing but a carefully-crafted illusion. Now she must navigate this strange new world, where ancient powers clash and nothing is quite as it seems. As she unravels the truth of her heritage, Sparrow finds herself drawn deeper into a centuries-old conflict between light and darkness.
But the real danger isn't the battle raging around her—it's the war within. As the seductive call of the Nefarie grows stronger, Sparrow must decide who she truly is: the human she thought she was, or something far more extraordinary. In a realm where light and dark and the shadowy grey between vie for her soul, friendship might be the strongest magic of all as she is forced to choose between uncovering the mysteries of her past or giving into the grey forever.
A spellbinding tale of identity, friendship, and the courage to choose your own path—in a world where nothing is black and white, and everyone has something to hide.
Theme music is Morning by LiQWYD
