Finding the Magic Book Podcast

"​At Creative Edge, we are a Team and a Community.  The entire organization believes strongly in collaboration, the authors, myself, and the key partnerships we have developed.  I am passionate about working in conjunction with my clients and finding innovative and creative ways to ensure that each represented client has promotional and marketing success."
​-Mickey Mikkelson: Founder/Owner of Creative Edge

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Douglas’ debut series, Cake Walk, highlights LGBTQ+ characters striving for self-acceptance and unconditional love—an invitation to see the divine in authenticity. His new series, Threads of Purpose, dives into bail reform, exploring forgiveness, redemption, and the courage to believe in second chances.

Douglas writes with compassion and moral clarity, weavinguniversal spiritual themes into contemporary stories...

Derrick Jackson joined the U.S. Air Force in 1993 and served as a jet engine mechanic on the F-15 Eagle, C-5 Galaxy, C-141 Stratofortress and C-17 Globemaster. After 10 years of service, he was recruited to become a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

His first assignments were as a criminal investigator at Tyndall AFB and Osan Airbase, Republic of Korea. He then volunteered to join OSI's Special Miss...

J. M. Shaw is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction who lives in Alberta with her husband and two young children. She’s been writing since childhood, building worlds from raw imagination and quiet observation, but it took years before she found the courage to share them. For Shaw, storytelling has always been more than a hobby; it’s a passion.
In 2019, Shaw was diagnosed with autism and ADHD, a turning point that brou...

Award-winning and bestselling author, speaker, panelist, workshop presenter and voice actor Aaron Ryan lives inWashington with his wife and two sons, along with Macy the dog, Winston the cat, and the finches Inky, Pinky, Blinky & Clyde.

He is the prolific author of the bestselling Dissonance 6-book alien invasion saga, the Christian dystopian fiction trilogy The End, the Talisman trilogy, the sci-fi thrillers Forecast, The Slide...

Lawyers assume their clients don’t tell them everything.
Elle Moore assumes she’ll never escape her past.

Desperate for a fresh start, Elle jumps at the chance to work for Watson Clarke, a prestigious law firm offering a near-free path through law school. It’s everything she’s ever wanted.

There’s one complication: Tanner Clarke, the firm’s magnetic young heir.

Elle’s mother has spent year...

Jake Lynch is an author specializing in contemporary religious fiction and action adventure novels. While writing stories is entertaining, his main mission is to help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to bring hope and healing into the world.

When he’s not writing he is usually surfing, doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and watching anime. Some of his favorite anime are Naruto, Rise of the Shield Hero, and 86.

As a local of South...

J.D. Barker is the New York Times and international best-selling author of numerous novels, including DRACUL and the wildly popular 4MK series. He is currently collaborating with James Patterson. His books have been translated into two dozen languages, sold in more than 150 countries, and optioned for both film and television. Barker resides in coastal New Hampshire with his wife, Dayna, and their daughter, Ember.

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Dorothy Gale doesn’t know where she came from. She has only the vaguest memory of her life before landing in the dull, gray world of the vast Kansas prairie.
Then a cyclone rips through the night and carries her, her dog, and the farmhouse somewhere a lot farther than Dorothy imagined. She’s in a strange land that’s apparently cursed, shrouded in shadow. And to get home, Dorothy needs to seek out a wizard, foll...

Sebastien's Our Lady of Blades releases today, May 19, 2026. 'A spirited swashbuckling fantasy about family, revenge and the price of justice' - Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic
Two divided by tragedy, united by steel. The incredible new novel in the Court of Shadows series by the bestselling author of TRAITOR'S BLADE and THE MALEVOLENT SEVEN!
Blood Week may have been banned in Rijou, but the streets still run ...

The Haunted Hearts Series

Coming soon, The Langston Watch Hotel is book 1 in The Haurnted Hearts Series. A contemportary, paranormal, close door romance series. ​

​Dr. Samantha Voss is a brilliant scientist, but she is clueless when it comes to love. After a bad breakup and losing her job, she signs on to be the voice of reason on a ghost-hunting reality TV show hosted by Clayton Barnes, a well-publicized ladies’ man and a true...

Award-winning author of Perfect Office Pact, Maria Jane believes in the power of love. Her books are filled with fun moments, sweet gestures, surprising turns, and characters searching for their happily-ever-after. Craving your next HEA read? Find all of Maria’s Perfect romances and dive into a mesmerizing love story today at mariajaneromance.com.

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Perfect Always! A sexy, fun, small town vs. bigcity ...

From Erik... Deciding to write something a little more wholesome, something my mother would appreciate, my creative mind ventured into a new field, a cozy mystery. Death in Halfmoon Bay, takes many of the elements of a modern cozy mystery but is inspired by Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. I asked myself, what would Jane Marple be like if she existed today and was a grandmother. Suzanne Rickson is happily married and has two da...

Humphrey Hawksley has reported on key trends, events and conflicts from all over the world.

His work as a BBC foreign correspondent has taken him to crises on every continent. He was expelled from Sri Lanka, opened the BBC’s television bureau in China, arrested in Serbia and initiated a global campaign against enslaved children in the chocolate industry. The campaign continues today.

His television documentaries include Th...

Deborah Wilde is a global wanderer and hopeless romantic. After twelve years as a screenwriter, she was also a total cynic with a broken edit button, so, she jumped ship, started writing funny, sexy, urban fantasy and paranormal women’s fiction books, and never looked back.
She loves writing smart, flawed, wisecracking women who can solve a mystery, kick supernatural butt, banter with hot men, and still make time for their...

Lauren Lipp is a romance author and part-time poet. Despite being a Taurus opposed to inconsistency, she attended four different universities but eventually graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English.

She was born and raised in Colorado, and still calls the mountains home. She’s never skied but does drive a Subaru so she can be considered a true native. In typical millennial fashion, she has an...

Chad Boudreaux is a Washington insider hired by the U.S. Department of Justice the night before the September 11, 2001 attacks—launching him immediately into counterterrorism work that earned him high accolades at an early age. His success in the Justice Department carried him to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where his role as Deputy Chief of Staff allowed him to work directly on significant policy, operational, a...

Award-winning author of Perfect Office Pact, Maria Jane believes in the power of love. Her books are filled with fun moments, sweet gestures, surprising turns, and characters searching for their happily-ever-afters. Craving your next HEA read? Find all of Maria’s Perfect romances, and dive into a mesmerizing love story today at mariajaneromance.com.

Find Maria on Goodreads here: MariaJane (Author of As Close to Perfect) | Good...

Aaron Starmer was born in northern California and raised in the suburbs of Syracuse, New York. Before pursuing writing full-time, he worked in New York City for over ten years as an editor for a travel bookseller and as an operations director for an African safari company. His middle grade and young adult novels have been translated into multiple foreign languages and have appeared on best of the year lists from Time Magazine, The ...