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Latinx Young Adult Author and Agent Sandra Proudman in Conversation with Dr. Elisabeth Paige
Dr. Elisabeth Paige interviews YA author and literary agent Sandra Proudman about her debut YA fantasy Salvación and her work in publishing for her podcast, Mindful, Happy Kids: Embracing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Sandra introduces her upcoming books, including the YA dystopian "The End of Us" (out in October) and another standalone YA fantasy with Wednesday Books, "Lost and Darling Things," a Peter Pan retelling (coming next fall), and describes her role at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency and her commitment to representing diverse and underrepresented creators, including many Latinx voices. She shares her non-“unicorn” writing path throu...
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Mindful Happy Kids, created and narrated by Dr. Elizabeth Page, consists of interviews with children's authors and poets and illustrators, musicians of all types, and yoga and mindfulness practitioners. Dr. Page also reads from her own children's books on compassion, gratitude, mindfulness and yoga. The puppy and doctor page practice
meditations or pet centered meditations which are recorded as part of the videos. Hello, Sandra Proudman. Welcome to the show. Hi, thank you so much for having me. I love Sebastian. I thought it was interesting and fun and adventurous and scary at times
and gross at times. I love to hear that. I think that's my favorite thing in the world to hear right now. It's when folks enjoy the book. So thank you for your time and for reading it. Yeah, it was fantastic. And I would love for you to spend a couple moments introducing
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