S02E24-062 Pink, Sun and Sleeping Beauty with Poppy Solomon

Guest Bio

Poppy Rose Solomon's novels are inspired by both her coastal childhood in Queensland and her love of escaping into magical worlds. Her debut series is four-book YA fantasy saga Woken Kingdom. She's also a professional editor and loves to help other authors cultivate their voice and tell their story. You'll often find her posting rosy-filtered pictures or yapping about publishing on social media. Find her at Poppy's Pages Editing .com or @PoppysVintageBooks. 

Links

Contact Poppy

Website: http://www.poppyspagesediting.com  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poppysvintagebooks/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@poppysvintagebooks

Things you can enter

TREASURE CHEST GIVEAWAY

From Poppy: 1 e-copy of Woken Kingdom and d1 e-copy of How to edit your own novel. 

Treasure chest Give-away 3: (open 30/07/2025 closes 8/10/2025)

 https://www.bushlandcastleproductions.com/treasure-chest 

Contact the Team

Finding Elara Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FindingElara

Discord: https://discord.gg/Ap8EWpPn

BCP Website: www.bcpcreative.com.au

BCP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bcp.creative/

BCP facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577758720164

Contact Dianna

Website: www.dlnix.com

Facebook: (DL Nix) https://www.facebook.com/Faepatriantales

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findingelara/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@findingelarapodcast

Sponsor Info

Shadow Lair: https://ko-fi.com/findingelara

Empowered Words: https://empoweredwords.com.au/ 

Link for 70s Novella series: 

https://www.bushlandcastleproductions.com/living-in-the-70s 

Show Notes

• Worldbuilding early in the story.
• Take a long time
• Hand draw maps and gets artist friend Haylee Buswell to digitise. (@h.bpencil)
• Props to contemporary writers.
• Chose not to name Woken Kingdom world.
• 6 territories in WK world.
• Would bring love interest from book 2 into our world.

Quotes By Poppy

Practice, Love your craft

Fast Fire Questions

1. What’s you favourite Colour? Pink
2. Would you rather draw a Sun or a Moon? Sun
3. Would you prefer to live near the beach or a river? Beach
4. Dream Holiday Destination? New York
5. Favourite Fairy Tale? Sleeping Beauty

Linking to Elara

DL: Can you tell me Self-Editing milestones to implement rewards and increase motivation?

         Trust Future you.

Julz: How do you treat religion? Do you go monotheistic or multiple?

         Doesn’t touch religion in the woken kingdom series but recommends you do solid research and approach it respectfully.

Izzy: How do you find something unique when everything has already been done before? How do you draw inspirations instead of copying an idea because there is a fine line between drawing inspirations and copying.

         It is hard! Develop your voice and confidence. Focus on your craft, Practice. Love your thing and the doubt will not be there because it will be uniquely you.