I guess it has taken me a few weeks to get used to the idea of being a podcaster. :-). This is a road I hadn't consider taking. ...until last summer when I started to think about ways to promote my new book (which was a work in progress at that time). This new book is bilingual ( We Are The Valley! / ¡Somos El Valle! ) and it launched this year in January thanks to an amazing collaboration with the Phoenix Suns and the Phoenix Mercury! But when I was working on it last year, I remember thinking about how back in 2016 when I was translating Dr. Wilson's picture book Ginger Dog or Ginger Bear? I spent a lot of time going through libraries in the San Francisco Bay Area and finding only a relatively small number of bilingual picture books. Today we have many more than back then - yay! But they're still far less in numbers than non-bilingual books. So I became more curious and researched more checking out different options including podcasts. Then, call it serendipity,... in the Fall, a fellow writer (Alicia) invited me to chat about pursuing a podcast idea that matched my idea closely. She had been blogging about bilingual picture books and wanted to expand that into a podcast somehow. She was open to including illustrators and everyone involved in the creation process as I was envisioning. I said "let's do it!" Quickly we had another brave "busy bee" join us (Silvia), a talented and more experienced writer who totally completed our team! ...and the @BilingualBookBuddies podcast & webcast was born!
These three brave, busy bees, BBB, as we playfully call ourselves behind the scenes, got to work! We knew little about creating a podcast but we learned, planned, and did all the ground work for several months until we were ready to launch our very first episode in May 2025!
It is now available at major podcasting places like Amazon, Apple, iHeartRadio, and Spotify! And the webcast is on our designated YouTube channel, airing a brand new episode every two weeks, on Wednesday.
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Estas tres abejitas trabajadoras (y valientes), BBB (por sus siglas en Inglés, Brave Busy Bees, que es como nos decimos entre nosotras), pusimos nuestras manos a la obra. Sabíamos poco sobre como hacer un podcast - jaja. Aprendimos, planificamos e hicimos todo el trabajo preliminar durante varios meses hasta que estuvimos listas para lanzar nuestro primer episodio en mayo del 2025.
¡Ya está disponible en las principales plataformas de podcasting como Amazon, Apple, iHeartRadio y Spotify! Y el webcast está en nuestro canal de YouTube, donde se emite un episodio nuevo cada dos semanas, los miércoles.