First Draft Episode #250: Rufi Thorpe

Rufi Thorpe, author of The Girls from Corona del Mar and Dear Fang: With Love, talks about her new novel, The Knockout Queen.

This episode was sponsored by HIGHLAND 2, a better way to write, and by didnt-ask-for-this.html">We Didn’t Ask For This, the newest novel by Adi Alsaid, out from Inkyard Press April 7 (listen to his First Draft interview here).

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• “Perversity of Spirit,” Rufi’s essay about what it takes to be a writer in Poets&Writers

• California State Summer School for the Arts

• Philosopher and novelist praise-of-iris-murdoch.html">Iris Murdoch was an inspiration for Rufi

• The author, poet, and screenwriter Raymond Obstfeld taught a community college class that really broke fiction open for Rufi

• Molly Friedrich, literary agent at XXX, who represents Rufi

• Clueless (movie)

• The O.C.

• Zan Romanoff discussing her most recent novel Look on First Draft

• “If You've Ever Felt Insecure About Your Looks, Author Rufi Thorpe Has Some Important Advice” by Rufi in PopSugar

• RuPaul’s Drag Race

• Rocky Horror Picture Show (movie)

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