🎙️ Welcome back to The Mythic Mic Podcast, where books become works of art, printers develop personalities, and missing out on one special edition can inspire an entire business.

This week, host Sara Santillan sits down with Sheree, the artist and owner behind Perfectly Edged, to discuss sprayed edges, collector editions, and building one of the most recognizable businesses in the bookish community.

Sheree shares how her search for a Fourth Wing special edition led her to experiment with spraying her own books, and how encouragement from a lifelong friend convinced her to begin selling them. She opens up about moving from hand-sprayed edges to professional printing, teaching herself digital design, growing through social media, and reaching the point where her husband left his job to join the business full time.

We also dive into the work behind every Perfectly Edged design, from creating artwork and running test prints to wrapping, clamping, printing, and preparing books for customers. Sheree discusses commissions, preorder planning, discounted seconds, artist collaborations, rep applications, and the challenges of choosing titles that will support the time and expense required. She also shares her dreams of creating a full publisher special edition and perhaps opening her own bookshop one day.

🎨 How does a single edge design move from an idea to a finished collector’s book?
📚 What does it take for an artist-led business to thrive in an increasingly crowded special-edition market?
✨ And how did one missed copy of Fourth Wing help launch Perfectly Edged?

This is a must-listen for special-edition collectors, Bookstagrammers, indie authors, aspiring bookish entrepreneurs, and anyone fascinated by the art and business behind beautiful books.

🔥 IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:
✨ How missing out on a Fourth Wing special edition inspired Perfectly Edged.
✨ Learning to hand-spray books and turning a hobby into a business.
✨ Moving from manual spraying to professional edge printing.
✨ The artwork, testing, wrapping, clamping, and printing behind each design.
✨ Why creating a single custom book can take several hours.
✨ What happens to books with misprints, scratches, or imperfect edges.
✨ How authors can commission artwork or printed edges for their books.
✨ Using preorders and batch printing to manage inventory and turnaround times.
✨ Choosing which popular, traditional, and indie titles to feature.
✨ Janet, the enormous printer responsible for the company’s edges and headaches.
✨ Collaborating with artists, including the Hurricane Wars project with Bluelyboo.
✨ What Sheree considers when selecting Perfectly Edged representatives.
✨ Social media growth, changing algorithms, and building customer loyalty.
✨ The cost and risk involved in producing a complete special edition.
✨ Sheree’s dreams of working directly with a publisher and opening a bookshop.
✨ Balancing art, business ownership, motherhood, marathon training, and writing.
✨ Throne of Glass ambitions, favorite designs, licensing challenges, and rapid-fire questions.

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📚 Perfectly Edged – @PerfectlyEdged

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🎙️ Welcome back to The Mythic Mic Podcast, where cursed kingdoms, deadly enemies, and enough sexual tension to make murder complicated collide.

This week, host Bethany Amanda sits down with fantasy author Stacey Marie Brown to discuss her newest fantasy, White Raven, a dark, Viking-inspired adventure packed with lost magic, forced proximity, found family, deadly secrets, and two enemies who genuinely might kill each other before they ever admit they want each other.

Stacey takes us behind her fourteen-year writing career, from leaving her retail job after being told to choose between work and her first author event to building a career that now spans urban fantasy, paranormal romance, contemporary romance, and high fantasy. We talk about following creative obsession instead of staying neatly in one genre, why success is an ever-moving target, and the advice she gives writers who are still trying to figure out exactly how they're “supposed” to write.

Then we enter the world of White Raven, where a centuries-old curse has stripped the land of its magic and fractured the realm into eternal day, night, and dusk. As a deadly Shadow Rift slowly consumes what's left, Wrennlyn, the White Raven, is believed to possess the blood capable of restoring the magic everyone desperately wants to control.

Unfortunately for her, the Night King wants that power too.

🖤 What if your blood was the only thing capable of restoring magic to a dying world?
⚔️ What happens when you're kidnapped by the enemy you've been taught to fear your entire life?
🔥 And how do you fall for someone when you're still seriously considering killing them?

If you love true enemies-to-lovers, Viking-inspired fantasy, forced proximity, found family, cursed kingdoms, morally complicated characters, deadly journeys, vicious banter, and cliffhangers designed to make you suffer, this episode is for you.

🔥 IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:
✨ How Stacey chooses what genre to write next, and why creative obsession will always win over staying safely in one publishing lane.
✨ Using contemporary romance as a creative “refresh button” when the magic, worldbuilding, and action of fantasy start leading toward burnout.
✨ Stacey's fourteen-year career and the author event that forced her to choose between her retail job and writing.
✨ Why success remains an ever-moving target, even after building a long-term writing career, and why authors don't need massive platforms or viral fame for their work to matter.
✨ Building a Viking-inspired world fractured by a 199-year-old curse into realms of eternal day, night, and dusk, and the Shadow Rift slowly draining the life from the land.
✨ Writing true enemies-to-lovers where the characters don't simply exchange insults before giving in to attraction.
✨ Exploring prejudice, inherited hatred, and what happens when Wrennlyn discovers the people she was taught to fear have families, children, struggles, and humanity just like her own.
✨ Stacey's signature balance of darkness and humor, including Munch, a tiny root creature with an unfortunate habit of eating clothing, and Fluffy, the decidedly unfriendly undead horse.
✨ Why Stacey embraces being a “cliffhanger queen,” what readers lose when they wait for an entire series to release before starting it, and the joy of theorizing together while waiting for the next book.
✨ Pantsing, following the muse, letting characters derail your plans, and why trying to force herself into someone else's writing process only leads to writer's block.
✨ Plus: fictional men who would be terrible real-life boyfriends, the characters Stacey would never invite to holiday dinner, and possibly the most unexpected author Google search we've ever heard on The Mythic Mic.

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👤 Sara Santillan – @the_magical_quill
📚 Stacey Marie Brown – @StaceyMarieBrown

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Welcome back to The Mythic Mic Podcast! This week, host Bethany Amanda and co-host Amara are joined by book influencer and content creator Jaimee Johnson, known as ThtGrlReads, for an unfiltered conversation about Bookstagram, brutally honest reviews, paid partnerships, viral content, and the books actually worth the hype.

Jaimee takes us behind the account to talk about how a lifelong love of reading turned into a massive online platform, why she never planned on becoming a full-time creator, and what readers don't always see behind the polished world of book influencing. From the loneliness and cliques that can exist behind the scenes to the assumption that paid reviews can't possibly be genuine, Jaimee gets candid about what it actually means to turn talking about books into a career.

Then we get into the books. Jaimee shares the reads she thinks deserve WAY more attention, her current God-tier favorites, why Zodiac Academy will always have a special place on her shelf, what makes a good bully romance, and why romantasy desperately needs to stop following the same blueprint. We also talk reading slumps, emotional damage, why she prefers going into books completely blind, and the kind of plot twist capable of making her physically put a book down and recover.

And if you've ever wondered how to actually grow a bookish social media account, Jaimee is sharing the strategy behind the chaos: say something worth reacting to, hook people immediately, stop sanding off the weird parts of your personality, and give people a reason to remember you, not just the book you're holding.

📚 Can a paid book review still be completely honest?
🔥 Are viral romantasy books starting to follow the exact same formula?
👀 And is the secret to growing online simply being weird enough that people can't scroll away?

If you love unfiltered book opinions, underrated romantasy recommendations, Bookstagram drama, chaotic reading habits, controversial takes, and finding out what really happens behind the scenes of a major bookish platform, you don't want to miss this episode.

🔥 IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:

✨ How Jaimee went from lifelong fantasy reader and fitness creator to building ThtGrlReads and making book content her primary career.
✨ Why some of her earliest viral content came from creating the recommendation videos she wished already existed.
✨ What readers don't see about influencer culture, including loneliness, creator cliques, follower counts, and the weirdness of realizing someone only wants to make content with you because you have the biggest platform.
✨ The assumption that paid partnerships mean dishonest reviews and Jaimee's rule that she reads a book first, turns down partnerships for books she doesn't like, and only promotes books she can genuinely recommend.
✨ Her advice for aspiring creators: find gaps in existing content, develop something you're known for, have an opinion people can actually debate, and never waste the first five seconds of a video.
✨ Why the parts of yourself you're tempted to edit out because they're “too weird” might actually be exactly what makes people want to follow you.
✨ Jaimee's chaotic approach to choosing her next read: recommendations, author pitches, pretty covers, viral emotional damage, or simply seeing someone crying on the internet.
✨ The underrated romantasy books and series she thinks deserve more attention, including Dominion, the Flame Cursed Fae trilogy, and the Bewitched series.
✨ Her God-tier reads, from Zodiac Academy and Anathema to Kissed by the Gods, The Bone Season, and more.
✨ Why “why choose” works better for her when the relationships are surrounded by a genuinely deep fantasy story and why spice without enough story or buildup can kill the payoff.
✨ Whether romantasy is becoming too formulaic, why readers deserve more than the same story in a different package, and the kinds of ambitious fantasy twists Jaimee wants authors to take more chances on.
✨ Plus: bully romance, controversial book opinions, a 36-pound watermelon, and why Jaimee insists she's not actually mean.

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👤 Bethany Amanda – @BethanyinFantasyland
👤 Sara Santillan – @the_magical_quill
📚 Jaimee Johnson – @ThtGrlReads

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