Mostly Book Talk
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Mostly Book Talk
Episode 42 - Rock the Vote! with Nadia Shireen
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In this episode we talk with Nadia Shireen about the mad and upredictable world of Grimwood and book five in the series, Rock the Vote! which has recently come out in paperback.
Listen in to find out where Nadia gets her ideas from, how she writes, why illustrations are so important and what Titus's best cake would be.
Nadia can be found on Instagram here
Her Grimwood books can be found here: