Nicki Pau Preto is winner of the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards. She is a fantasy author living just outside of Toronto, Canada. She studied art and art history in university and worked as a graphic designer before becoming a writer full-time. She is the author of the YA fantasy Crown of Feathers trilogy and the forthcoming Bonesmith, and The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents will be her middle grade debut.

WINGS OF SHADOW, the final book in her YA fantasy trilogy Crown of Feathers, is available now from Margaret K. McElderry Books.

Ferdelle and Nicki discuss plot writing, gush over fantasy fiction, the best writing environments for your personality type, Canadian accents, and problem solving in life and in story telling. Ferdelle gets surprised by how she was chosen to narrate Sparrow in Wings of Shadow.