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(27:10) Darrell MacKay of Campbell River speaks directly from Kyiv during his seventh volunteer trip to Ukraine with his girlfriend Olga Buhai. MacKay has raised $140,000 through Facebook fundraising and discusses his forthcoming book "My Time With Heroes." The interview provides firsthand accounts of evacuation efforts, infrastructure challenges, and the resilience of Ukrainian people.

(7:10) JP McLean, an Eric Hoffer Award winner and three-time Literary Titan medallist from Denman Island, discusses her new book "The Never Witch" - the first in her Thorne Witch series. McLean, who has written 11 supernatural thrillers across three acclaimed series, her unique approach to urban fantasy, and how the Pacific Northwest landscape influences her writing process.

Episode Highlights & Quotes

From JP McLean: "I have always wanted to do a Bewitched on steroids type of story, but for me, if I was gonna write about witches and warlocks and magic, I had to come up with a new approach to the old trope."

From Darrell MacKay: "When I realized that was everything she owned—now that's all she had left was those five bags—so you have to respect that is her whole life in those five plastic bags."

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