A tale of two darlings
Story Darlings co-hosts Sandra Bruxvoort and Tera Palozola are high school besties from Northwest Arkansas, and they’ve always obsessed over one thing—stories.
Back in early 2020, Sandra had just launched her book blog, Story Darling, which attracted over 100K hits in its first three months. She wrote about behemoth series like Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen, After by Anna Todd, and Crescent City by Sarah J Maas.
Then, in late 2021, Sandra and Tera decided to tackle stories together. And just like that, Story Darlings was born.
Since its launch, the Story Darlings podcast has been streamed thousands of times, its early readalongs for Throne of Glass and ACOTAR still among its most popular episodes.
Buckle up—exciting new readalongs headed your way!
Meet Sandra
Sandra’s upbringing was a chaotic blend of different cultures and military life. She is a Filipina American born in Japan, and she attributes her passion for reading and writing as a coping mechanism for constantly moving around the country and visiting family overseas.
Painfully shy growing up, books were a welcome escape from the social pressures she always felt being the “new girl.”
In college, she studied math and psychology, but her truest love has always been creative writing and storytelling. After a string of marketing roles in tech, the nonprofit sector, Walmart, and Uber, she landed back in marketing at an EdTech company.
Books are her absolute favorite thing in the world. She dreams about publishing her own SFF novels one day.
Meet Tera
Tera was born and raised in Springdale, Arkansas, where she eventually met Sandra—one of her only friends at the time—during 11th grade AP Calculus.
As an awkward wallflower her entire adolescence (Tera’s words), she was often bullied and made fun of for any number of reasons. But despite the misguided cruelties young children can sometimes have, she turned out awesome!
After high school, Tera ran away to college with Sandra where she formed new friendships and studied classical physics, biology, math, and chemistry. She later earned her masters in criminal justice and is super passionate about helping children and animals in need.
Her goal is to move to Italy in a few years.
P.S. If you see Post Malone at the airport, the rule is that you have to snap a photo with him. 🤣
