Track Changes Bonus Episode: Panel Conversation With Abigail Hing Wen, author of Loveboat Taipei; Literary Agent Joanna Volpe of New Leaf Literary & Media; and Alvina Ling, VP and Editor in Chief at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

A conversation between an author, agent, and editor to cover the ins and outs of the publishing process. The panel features Abigail Hing Wen, debut author of Loveboat Taipei; agent Joanna Volpe, president and literary agent at New Leaf Literary & Media; and Alvina Ling, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief at Little Brown Books for Young Readers (and co-host of the Book Friends Forever podcast).

This conversation was held as part of A Mighty Blaze’s YA Weekend, and many thanks to Joseph Moldover (author of Every Last Breath) and Jennifer de Leon (author of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From) for all the help putting that entire celebration together.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• This is My Brain In Love by I. W. Gregorio

• Stephen Barbara, literary agent at Inkwell Management

• Holly Black, The Cruel Prince series, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and many more (hear her First Draft interview here)

• Laini Taylor, author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series and the Strange the Dreamer series (hear her First Draft interview here)

• Brandy Colbert, author of The Voting Booth, The Only Black Girls in Town, Little & Lion, and more (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here, and her mailbag episode here)

• Emily X. R. Pan, author of The Astonishing Color of After (listen to her First Draft interview here)

• Samira Ahmed, author of Internment

• Kirsten Pettit, Executive Editor at HarperChildren’s

• Alvina Ling contributed to the Track Changes episode After the Book Deal: What Next?

• Adam Silvera, author of They Both Die at the End, Infinity Son, and History is All You Left Me (hear his First Draft interview here)

• Lea Salonga, singer, actress, and the voice of Jasmine in Disney’s animated Aladdin

• Black Brother Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes

• Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams

• Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in writing for children’s and teens

• Kathi Appelt, author of The Underneath and The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp

• We Need Diverse Books

   

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