Welcome to the reading rift, I am your host Lydia Legacy and today I have the privilege of speaking with TL Combs about her newest book The Forsaken Crown. In this episode we will get to know author TL Combs, talk about self publishing, and discuss what does it cost to be kind, and complex relationships in books.

📖 Background: Professional chef to farm life to writing

📖 Early reading & Inspo

📖 Writing: Biggest challenge and favorite parts

📖 Publishing misconceptions

📖 Book Elevator pitch, Origin Story, tetherbeasts and more!

📖 Are feelings weakness or strength?

📖 Marriage & relationships: complications in multi-cultural relationships & hard work

📖 Lessons from main characters

Author: T L Combs

Book: The Forsaken Crown

#bookish #bookgirly #romantasy

Links:

Website: https://www.authortlcombs.com/

Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/author_tl.combs?utm_source=linktree_profile_share

Get the book: https://amzn.to/4uYTM62

Welcome to the reading rift, I am your book bestie Lydia Legacy and today I have the privilege of speaking with K R Paul about her newest book The Ballad of Ashes and Spring.

In this spoiler free episode we will get to know author K R Paul, talk about self publishing, and discuss common romance themes that K R Paul writes differently and also discuss a topic that's been on my mind lately of the relationship between service members and vets and the creative arts. Stay tuned for a great episode!

1. Background, Military, Cosplay
2. Early reading
3. Writing journey
4. Publishing misconceptions and advice
5. Book pitch
6. Main characters: What do you want people to learn from your relationship between your FMC and MMC?
7. Romance: What issues in romance books did you want to fix in your book?
8. Military and Vets and the use of the arts

Links:

Get the book: https://amzn.to/4t6HPK9

Website: https://authorkrpaul.com/about/

Welcome to the Reading Rift, I am your host Lydia Legacy and today I have the privilege of talking to author Megan Jauregui Eccles!

For listens in today’s episode we will get to know the author and spoiler free details about her book, Sing the Night which released on March 10th 2026 and then we will talk about what it means to be relentless and how to handle the challenge of learning things you’ve always believed to no longer be true. This is going to be an amazing interview so stick around.

1. Author bio and background
2. Publishing path
3. Book details
4. What does it mean to be relentless
5. What do you do when you’ve learned something and it changes how you see life
6. Author goals and details

I hope you enjoyed the episode. Below are links to the author and the book.

Megan links: https://www.meganjaureguieccles.com/links

Sing the Night good reads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239399529

Sing the night Amazon: https://amzn.to/4bJGov4

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