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A Conversation with Shonna Slayton, Author of SPINDLE (with a giveaway!)

Welcome, Shonna! What 5 things should readers know about you? I’m always cold (bring a sweater wherever I go) I live in Phoenix, which is terribly hot, but the buildings are heavily air-conditioned….so I freeze. I’m terrible at remembering names (sorry!) I’m even worse at remembering numbers. Numbers fly right out of my head. I prefer cookies over cake unless it’s a Blackforest cake. Numbers! They’re the instrument of the devil, I’m sure of it 😉   Where did the inspiration for this book come from? I wanted to write another fairy tale similar in style to Cinderella’s Dress and…

New Release Review: CINDERELLA’S DRESS by Shonna Slayton

A new YA historical with a touch of fantasy… Cinderella’s Dress by Shonna Slayton Blurb: Being seventeen during World War II is tough. Finding out you’re the next keeper of the real Cinderella’s dresses is even tougher. Kate simply wants to create window displays at the department store where she’s working, trying to help out with the war effort. But when long-lost relatives from Poland arrive with a steamer trunk they claim holds the Cinderella’s dresses, life gets complicated. Now, with a father missing in action, her new sweetheart, Johnny, stuck in the middle of battle, and her great aunt…