First Draft Episode #244: Zan Romanoff

Zan Romanoff, journalist and author of A Song to Take the World Apart, and Grace and the Fever, whose newest YA novel, Look, is out now!

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• Listen to Zan Romanoff’s first First Draft interview here, as well as her Mailbag episode where she answers listener questions (you can watch that episode on First Draft’s IGTV, too)!

• Catie DiSabato, author of The Ghost Network, helped Zan enormously in her capacity as a public relations professional to promote Grace and the Fever

• Sarah Burnes is Zan’s literary agent — and mine!! Listen to me chat with Sarah about my debut, Tell Me Everything, on this very special episode of First Draft!

• Zan has written quite a bit about the Kardashians, and you can find all of it here!

• British magazine The Gentlewoman asked Zan to interview Karina Longworth, who podcast You Must Remember This is a must-listen. Zan reviewed Karina’s book, Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood and found inspiration within that for Look

• Zan’s editor, Jessica Dandino Garrison

• Zan was interviewed by NPR about the “Decade of Celebrity,” and the Kardashians specifically

• Brandy Colbert, author of The Voting Booth, The Only Black Girls in Town, and many more books (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here), told Zan to keep a scene in Look that I really loved!

• Zan is going to be part of Bellatrist’s Instagram book club and Quarantine Book Club

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