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<p>Listen along as <i>The Story Seeds Podcast</i> host Betsy Bird chats with Tracey Baptiste (New York Times bestselling author of MINECRAFT: THE CRASH, as well as the Caribbean adventure series THE JUMBIES.) They go behind the scenes and talk about what it was like virtually working and collaborating with 12 year old Amalia on Episode 7 “Barking Up the Right Tree” to grow her story seed about an athletic girl named Joy and her magical relationship with the oak tree in her backyard. </p><p>In this bonus episode, Tracey shares her writing tips and shares a cool creativiity hack: how to take two very different things and bringing them together to create something entirely new in your writing!</p><p> Books mentioned in this episode: <a href="https://amzn.to/304bb1s">Minecraft The Crash</a> and <a href="https://amzn.to/2XW7ZC5">The Jumbies</a> series by Tracey Baptiste.<a href="https://amzn.to/2XU26p7"> The Night Gardener</a> by Jonathan Auxier. <a href="https://amzn.to/2zVqHC2">The Lie T...