First Draft Episode #277: Leah Johnson

Leah Johnson talks about her bestselling debut novel, You Should See Me In a Crown, and the forthcoming to-the-sun.html">Rise to the Sun.

This episode is brought to you by Everything I Thought I Knew, by Shannon Takoaka, out from Candlewick Press now.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• Leah’s essay, “How Young Adult Literature Taught Me to Love Like a White Girl,” appeared in Electric Lit.

• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

• Sarah Neal-Estes, director of PRX’s American Student Radio

• Radiolab podcast network

• The “24 Hours at the Golden Apple” episode of This American Life

• “Picture Day” on This American Life

• Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert (hear her First Draft episodes here, here, and here)

• Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

• I reference the Marketing and Publicity (Part 2) where I discuss boundaries in promo

   

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