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Today\u2019s episode is a special one for two reasons. My special\nguest is not only a children\u2019s book author, she\u2019s a teen author with a birthday\ncoming up in two weeks.\nShanti Hershenson\u2019s first two novellas\nwere published when she was in the sixth grade, although her writing journey\nstarted long before then. Ever since she could hold a pencil, marker, or\ncrayon, she was creating stories. They started from pictures, mere scribbles,\nand eventually, turned into captivating tales. She lives in California with her\nparents, sister, and furry friends. Besides writing, she enjoys skateboarding,\nBeyblading, free-running, falconry, and of course, reading. She writes in a\nvariety of genres, including Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction,\nalthough she mostly sticks to Sci-Fi. She advocates for anti-bullying, and you\nmay find her at open mic-nights, performing her spoken word poem Needles &\nThorns, which is about the struggle of bullying in middle schools.\nShanti\u2019s featured book is entitled: Helipads in Heaven.\nWorld-renowned author Dillon Hershkop has everything she wants in life,\nbut getting there hasn\u2019t been easy. Now thirty years old, she has achieved\nalmost everything she dreamed of as a young girl: A dazzling career, a devoted\nfan base, and a picture-perfect family\u2014but despite all of this, she is also\npainstakingly bored.That is why, when Dillon receives the\nopportunity to become the test subject for a time-traveling experiment hosted\nby JPL\u2019s brand new Center for Experimental Science, she seizes the opportunity\nto explore La Ca\xf1ada\u2014and the places she grew up around\u2014without any immediate\nreservations. In exchange, she can write a brand new memoir both about time\ntravel and the nearly forgotten experiences that shaped her into the talented\nwoman she is today. That is, if she returns.Dillon is soon thrown head-first as an adult\nspectator into the complicated world of her ten-year-old self\u2014fondly nicknamed Goose\u2014from\nher love of helicopters, writing, and all things Elton John, to her unreceptive\nfourth-grade teacher, Ms. Vincent, her sourly judgemental classmates, and the\nmissed opportunities of a fourth-grade writer with a smothered voice.As she observes the childhood she does not\nentirely remember, she begins to realize that there are reasons for the holes\nin her memories\u2014things she must not remember, because if she does, it may\nbecome impossible to stand back and watch the oil of her bottled-up trauma be\npoured into a fire from a distance. And if she goes against the direct orders\nof the laboratory, the effects of tampering with a nearly unknown science may\npermanently disrupt the fabrics of time, space, and Dillon\u2019s existence.From the teenage author of You Won\u2019t Know Her\nName,\xa0Helipads in Heaven\xa0is a deep and heartwarming\nadventure of time travel, childhood ambitions, and at the core, a love letter\nto unique children and those who dare to dream.\nPurchase link:\nhttps://www.amazon.com/Helipads-Heaven-Shanti-Hershenson-ebook/dp/B0C97X49B6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2E564HUJXFRRD&keywords=Helipads+in+Heaven+by+Shanti+Hershenson&qid=1696259960&sprefix=helipads+in+heaven+by+shanti+hershenson%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1\nConnect\nwith Shanti at the following links:\nhttps://www.shantihershenson.com/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/shantihershenson/?hl=en\nhttps://www.pinterest.com/shantihershenson/\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@shantiwhowrites\nhttps://twitter.com/ShantiHersh