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Episode Synopsis
YA Best Selling Author Talks Writing & Publishing Hosted by Steven Zhou and Youngjoo Ahn with Youngjoo's Artsy Gifts segment and a farewell to Steven as he leaves to work in China. Our hosts audition a new field reporter, Ryan Sim, presenting interviews from professionals with a segment called Pro Parlay. Move over, zombies, vampires, and werewolves, and make way for witches. Melissa de la Cruz is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for teens including The Au Pairs and Blue Bloods series. Today she releases, The Serpent's Kiss, the newest novel in the New York Times bestselling Witches of East End. Melissa has worked as a fashion and beauty editor for The New York Times, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Allure, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, CosmoGirl! and Seventeen. She has also appeared as an expert on fashion, trends and fame for CNN, E! and FoxNews.
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