Shelly Mazzanoble is coauthor of Welcome to Dragon Talk: Inspiring Conversations about Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Love to Play It (Iowa, 2022) and cohost of Dragon Talk, the official Dungeons & Dragons podcast. When not writing about her life as a part-time sorceress, Mazzanoble writes about parenting, reality TV, and the humorous side of middle-age life in her weekly Substack, Middle-Aged Lady Mom (shellymazzanoble.substack.com). She lives in Seattle, Washington.

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