First Draft Episode #359: Traci Thomas

Traci Thomas is the creator and host of The Stacks Podcast, a show about books featuring interviews with authors and book lovers. New episodes out every Wednesday!

In this episode, we discuss my choice to put First Draft on indefinite hiatus, effective immediately.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Hear Sarah Enni’s episodes of The Stacks, here and here

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First Draft Episode #358: Nina LaCour

Nina LaCour is the bestselling and Michael L. Printz Award-winning author of five critically acclaimed young adult novels, including: We Are Okay, and Hold Still. She joins to talk about her first picture book, Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle, and her debut adult novel, Yerba Buena.

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• Hear Nina’s previous appearances on First Draft, here and here!

• Hear Sarah Enni on Nina’s podcast, Keeping a Notebook, here!

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First Draft Episod #357: Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed is the bestselling author of Love, Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, and Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds, as well as a Ms. Marvel comic book mini-series. She joins us to talk about her latest YA contemp, Hollow Fires.

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First Draft Episode #356: Kristin Dwyer

Kristin Dwyer is the debut author of YA romance, Some Mistakes Were Made.

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First Draft Episode #355: Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale is the New York Times best-selling author of over thirty children's and young adult books, including graphic novel memoirs Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever, and multiple award winners The Goose Girl, Book of a Thousand Days, and Newbery Honor recipient Princess Academy.

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First Draft Episode #354: Zibby Owens

Zibby Owens is the founder of the podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, and new publishing company Zibby Books, as well as author of picture book Princess Charming and forthcoming memoir, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature.

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First Draft Episode #353: Adrienne Celt

Adrienne Celt is a cartoonist and author of The Daughters, Invitation to a Bonfire, as well as cartoon collection, Apocalypse How? An Existential Bestiary. She joins to talk about her latest, End of the World House.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle (the animated movie)

• The Loft Cinemas in Tucson, AZ

• Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment, which covers aesthetics and teleology

• French feminist philosopher Hélène Cixous, author of The Third Body

• French philosopher Paul-Michel Foucault, author of The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences

• Love Among the Lampreys, Adrienne’s webcomic

• Stanford Continuing Education creative writing courses

• Story Studio, writing center in Chicago

• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

• Emma Patterson at Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents Inc., Adrienne’s literary agent

• Russian Doll (TV show)

• Groundhog Day (movie)

• Being John Malcovich (movie)

• The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje

• Arrival (movie)

• Valentines For People You Are Committed to Destroying in Secret (cartoons by Adrienne)

• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nobokov

• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

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First Draft Episode #352: Elissa Sussman

Elissa Sussman is the author of adult romance Funny You Should Ask, and YA novels Drawn That Way, Burn, and Stray. 

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• Elissa’s previous interviews on First Draft here and here (with illustrator jovellanos.com">Arielle Jovellanos)

• Kate Spencer is the co-host of the award-winning podcast Forever35, and author of the memoir The Dead Moms Club. She joins to talk about her first novel, In a New York Minute.

• Jennifer E. Smith, author of YA novels The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between and more. She’s here to talk about her first picture book, Creature of Habit (with illustrator Leo Espinosa), and her first adult novel, The Unsinkable Greta James.

• “Chris Evans: American Marvel,” by Edith Zimmerman for GQ

• “Tom Hiddleston on Taylor Swift, Heartbreak, and Great Bolognese,” by Taffy Brodesser-Akner for GQ

• “The Full Tatum,” by Jessica Pressler for GQ

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First Draft Episode #351: Mac Barnett

Mac Barnett, two-time Caldecott Honor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of picture books like Extra Yarn and Sam and Dave Dig a Hole with illustrator Jon Klassen, and the Jack book series with illustrator Greg Pizzoli. Mac joins us to talk about The Great Zapfino, his new picture book with illustrator Marla Frazee (hear her First Draft interview here).

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

• David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest and A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

• The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka, illuistrated by Lane Smith

• Wanda Gág, author of Millions of Cats

• Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight, Moon (hear Mac and other writers talk about Margaret Wise Brown and Goodnight Moon on this Remember Reading podcast episode)

• The Far Side by Gary Larson

• Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

• Mystery Science Theater 3000

• Billy Twitter and His Blue Whale Problem by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Adam Rex

• Dinotopia, A Land Apart From Time by James Gurney

• 826LA and its Time Travel Mart

• Dave Eggers, author of The Circle, What is the What, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and founder of McSweeny’s and the 826 Literary non-profit

• No Country For Old Men (movie)

• Dear Genius by Ursula Nordstrom

• Steven Malk, Mac’s literary agent with Writer’s House

• The Picture Book Manifesto

• “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children,” by Julie Bosman for the New York Times

• Carson Ellis, author and illustrator of bestselling picture books Home and Caldecott Honor book Du Iz Tak?, talks about her newest picture book, In the Half Room.

• The Horn Book Magazine

• Marla Frazee, two-time Caldecott Honor-winning author and illustrator of The Boss Baby, A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, All the World, and many more. She joins us to talk about the Farmer series: The Farmer and the Clown, The Farmer and the Monkey, and The Farmer and the Circus, out now. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Jon Klassen, Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the I Want My Hat Back series, who is back with a book he wrote and illustrated: The Rock From the Sky. Hear his First Draft interviews here and here.

• The Real Dada Mother Goose: A Treasury of Complete Nonsense by Jon Sciezka and illustrated by Julia Rothman

• cover-reveal-the-three-billy-goats-gruff-by-mac-barnett-and-jon-klassen.html"> The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen

• The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Shawn Harris

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• Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Children’s Literature and New York Times bestselling author best known for picture books with illustrator Lane Smith, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and more. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Ben Zhu. author, illustrator, and founder of Gallery Nucleus, talks about his debut picture book, Dessert Island. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Oliver Jeffers, visual artist, climate activist, and author and/or illustrator of several New York Times bestselling picture books, including The Day the Crayons Quit, How to Catch a Star, The Fate of Fausto, and Here We Are, joins us to talk about his newest picture book, There’s a Ghost In This House. Hear his First Draft interviews here and here.

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First Draft Episode #350: Amanda Oliver

Amanda Oliver, former librarian and author of OVERDUE: Reckoning with the Public Library.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Reza Aslan, professor at U.C. Riverside’s MFA program and author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

• Claire Comstock Gay, author of weekly horoscopes for New York magazine’s The Cut, and her debut book about astrology, Madame Clairevoyant’s Guide to the Stars,

• Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit

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• Ibi Zoboi, New York Times bestselling author of National Book Award Finalist American Street, Pride, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich and co-author with prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of Punching the Air. She joins us to talk about her first work of non-fiction Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Kekla Magoon, award-winning author of many novels and nonfiction books for kids and teens, including How It Went Down, The Season of Styx Malone, and her newest, Revolution In Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Helen O’Hara, film critic, editor-at-large for Empire magazine and co-host of the Empire film podcast, talks about her newest non-fiction, Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and RIse of Women in Film and its accompanying podcast, Women vs Hollywood With Helen O’Hara. Hear her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #349: John Cho

John Cho, actor, producer, writer, and author of debut middle grade novel, Troublemaker, with Sarah Suk.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong

• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

• Sarah Suk, author of Made in Korea and the forthcoming The Space Between Here and Now

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• Seth Meyers, host of Late Night with Seth Meyers and former head writer for Saturday Night Live, talks about his debut picture book, I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared with Rob Syegh. Hear his First Draft interview here

• Jacqueline Woodson, 2020 MacArthur Genius fellow, National Book Award winner, Newberry, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King winner, former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Red at the Bone, Another Brooklyn, Before the Ever After and many, many more. She joins us to talk about her picture books with Rafael López, The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Maurene Goo, author of Somewhere Only We Know, The Way You Make Me Feel, I Believe in a Thing Called Love, and Since You Asked. Listen to her First Draft interviews here, here, and here.

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First Draft Episode #348: Kate Spencer

Kate Spencer is the co-host of the award-winning podcast Forever35, and author of the memoir The Dead Moms Club. She joins to talk about her first novel, In a New York Minute.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Kate’s first First Draft interview

• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

• Twilight by Stephenie Meyers

• Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ruby Dixon

• Plane Baes

• Song Exploder podcast

• Seth Meyers, host of Late Night with Seth Meyers and former head writer for Saturday Night Live, talks about his debut picture book, I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared with Rob Syegh. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Sweet Bobby podcast

• @90sArtSchool

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• Doree Shafrir, co-host of the Forever35 podcast and author of Startup, joins us to talk about her debut memoir, Thanks For Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue, talks about their latest queer rom-com, One Last Stop. Hear their First Draft interview here.

• Jennifer E. Smith, author of YA novels The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between and more. She’s here to talk about her first picture book, Creature of Habit (with illustrator Leo Espinosa), and her first adult novel, The Unsinkable Greta James. Hear her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #347: Seth Meyers

Seth Meyers, host of Late Night with Seth Meyers and former head writer for Saturday Night Live, talks about his debut picture book, I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared with Rob Syegh.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant, the first book in the Babar series by Jean de Brumhoff

• Spider Man: The Short Halloween written by Seth Meyers and Bill Hader

• Richard Scarry, author and illustrator of Trucks, A Day at the Airport, Cars and Trucks and Things That Go! and many more

• Jill Benjamin, Seth’s writing partner from his Improv Olympic days

• Documentary Now! on IFC

• Watership Down (movie)

• The Secret of NIMH (movie)

• The Black Cauldron (movie)

• The Hobbit (movie)

• Seth Meyers on Sesame Street (with The Count and with Elmo)

• Sandra Boynton, author and illustrator of picture books like Snuggle Puppy: A Little Love Song, Barnyard Dance!, Pajama Time! and many more.

• Where’s Waldo by Martin Handford

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• Jill Twiss, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo and Emmy winning comedy writer on Last Week Tonight. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of many young adult novels, including The Fault in Our Stars and Printz-winning Looking For Alaska, joins to discuss his new essay collection, The Anthropocene Reviewed. He is also one half of the vlogbrothers on YouTube and co-creator of educational series Crash Course. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• John Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Children’s Literature and New York Times bestselling author best known for picture books with illustrator Lane Smith, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and more. Hear his First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #346: Jennifer E. Smith

Jennifer E. Smith, author of YA novels The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between and more. She’s here to talk about her first picture book, Creature of Habit (with illustrator Leo Espinosa), and her first adult novel, The Unsinkable Greta James.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Hear Jennifer E. Smith’s first First Draft interview

• Illustrator Leo Espinosa

• St. Vincent (musician)

• A League of Their Own (movie)

• Katie Lovejoy, screenwriter for The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

• Vanessa Caswill, director of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

• The cast of the movie includes: Hayley Lu Richardson, Ben Hardy, Rob Delaney, Jameela Jamil

• This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith

• Field Notes on Love, which Jenn is adapting for the screen with Lauren Graham

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• Rebecca Serle, New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years, The Dinner List, and more, talks about her new novel, One Italian Summer. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Emma Straub, New York Times-bestselling author of The Vacationers, Modern Lovers, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married, talks about her most recent novel, All Adults Here, out in paperback now. She and her husband own Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Catie Disabato, author of The Ghost Network and the new adult contemporary novel U Up? Hear her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #345: Rebecca Serle

Rebecca Serle, New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years, The Dinner List, and more, talks about her new novel, One Italian Summer.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Rebecca’s first First Draft interview

• Leila Sales, author of

• “The Case for Cancelling Everything,” by Yascha Mounk for The Atlantic

• The Brave Little Toaster (movie)

• Honey I Shrunk the Kids (movie)

• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

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• Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-seven novels, including My Sister's Keeper, Nineteen Minutes, Small Great Things, and two young adult novels with daughter Samantha van Leer, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She joins to talk about her latest, Wish You Were Here. Listen to her First Draft episode here.

• Emma Straub, New York Times-bestselling author of The Vacationers, Modern Lovers, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married, talks about her most recent novel, All Adults Here, out in paperback now. She and her husband own Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic. Listen to her First Draft interview here.

• Catie Disabato, author of The Ghost Network and the new adult contemporary novel U Up? Listen to her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #344: Sabaa Tahir

Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Ember in the Ashes series talks about her new contemporary YA, All My Rage.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Don’t miss Sabaa’s first First Draft interview, and her second First Draft interview!

• “The Ghosts of Our Motel,” by Sabaa Tahir for Vox

• The Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir

• Nina LaCour, Printz-winning author of We Are Okay, and other contemporary YA titles like Everything Leads to You and Hold Still. Host of the Keeping a Notebook podcast and creator of the Slow Novel Lab and Writing Together. Hear Nina’s first First Draft interview, and her second First Draft interview.

• Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give, On the Come Up, Concrete Rose, and co-author of Blackout.

• Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star talks about her new YA, Instructions For Dancing and her brand new publishing venture: co-publisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color. Hear her first First Draft interview, and her second First Draft interview.

• Jandy Nelson, Printz-winning author of I’ll Give You the Sun and The Sky is Everywhere.

• Maurene Goo, author of Somewhere Only We Know, The Way You Make Me Feel, I Believe in a Thing Called Love, and Since You Asked. Hear her first First Draft interview, her second First Draft interview, and her third First Draft interview.

• Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shadow and Bone series, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology, and adult contemporary fantasy novel, Ninth House. Hear her first First Draft interview here, her second First Draft interview here, and her third First Draft interview here.

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• Garth Nix, New York Times bestselling author of Sabriel, returns to the Old Kingdom series with his latest YA fantasy, Terciel & Elinor. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Roseanne M. Brown, New York Times bestselling author of YA fantasy novels A Song of Wraiths and Ruin and its sequel, A Psalm of Storms and Silence. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and its sequel Our Violent Ends. Hear her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #343: Abdi Nazemian

Abdi Nazemian, screenwriter and author of Stonewall Honor book Like a Love Story talks about his most recent YA, The Chandler Legacies.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Abdi’s first First Draft interview

• TIME’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time

• Rebecca Serle, author of The Dinner List, In Five Years, and the forthcoming One Italian Summer

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

• The White Lotus (TV show)

• The Gilded Age (TV show)

• Ordinary Joe (TV show now streaming on Hulu and Peacock)

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

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• David Levithan, editorial director at Scholastic and the author of many young adult novels, including Boy Meets Boy, Every Day, and co-author with Rachel Cohn of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Catie Disabato, author of The Ghost Network and the new adult contemporary novel U Up? Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue, talks about their latest queer rom-com, One Last Stop. Hear their First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #342: Adam Rubin

Adam Rubin, New York Times bestselling picture book author known for Dragons Love Tacos, Those Darn Squirrels!, Robo-Sauce and more with illustrator Daniel Salmieri, about his new collection of middle grade short stories, The Ice Cream Machine.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• “Weird Al” Yankovic

• Monty Python

• Mr. Bean

• The Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson (find the first collection, The Far Side, here)

• Calvin and Hobbes, cartoon by Bill Watterson (check out the first collection, Calvin and Hobbes)

• Klutz Books, like Juggling For the Complete Klutz, created by John Cassidy

• Exploratorium books like The Art of Curiosity

• Upright Citizens Brigade

• Improv Olympic

• Leo Burnett advertising agency

• Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Children’s Literature and New York Times bestselling author best known for picture books with illustrator Lane Smith, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and more. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Good Night, Good Night Construction Site

• Adam and Dan’s Robo-Sauce video

• High Five by Adam Rubin and illustrated by Daniel Salmieri

• Gladys the Magic Chicken by Adam Rex illustrator Adam Rex

• El Chupacabras by Adam Rubin with illustrator Crash McCreery

• Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park

• Kurt Vonnegut (author of Slaughterhouse Five and more) lecture about The Shapes of Stories

• Illustrator Charles Santoso

• Cartoonist Liniers

• Illustrator Emily Hughes

• Illustrator Nicole Miles

• Seaerra Miller, illustrator

• Improvise: Scene From the Inside Out by Nick Napier

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• Jon Klassen, Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the I Want My Hat Back series, who is back with a book he wrote and illustrated: The Rock From the Sky.

• Ben Zhu, author, illustrator, and founder of Gallery Nucleus, talks about his debut picture book, Dessert Island.

• Oliver Jeffers, visual artist, climate activist, and author and/or illustrator of several New York Times bestselling picture books, including The Day the Crayons Quit, How to Catch a Star, The Fate of Fausto, and Here We Are, joins us to talk about his newest picture book, There’s a Ghost In This House.

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First Draft Episode #341: Jon Scieszka

Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Children’s Literature and New York Times bestselling author best known for picture books with illustrator Lane Smith, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and more.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

• Jacqueline Woodson, 2020 MacArthur Genius fellow, National Book Award winner, Newberry, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King winner, former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Red at the Bone, Another Brooklyn, Before the Ever After and many, many more. She joins us to talk about her picture books with Rafael López, The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Dr Seuss, author of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, Green Eggs and Ham and more

• Go, Dog, Go by P.J. Eastman

• Franz Kafka, author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle, and more

• Jack London, author of The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and more

• Edgar Allen Poe, author of The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, and more

• Jon’s Science Verse

• The Astronuts, Jon’s series with Steven Weinberg

• baumbach-dead.html">Jonathan Baumbach, author of The Pavilion of Former Wives, Dreams of Molly and many more

• Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity’s Rainbow, Inherent Vice, and The Crying of Lot 49

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and more

• Carlos Fuentes, author of Aura, The Death of Artemio Cruz, and more

• Charles McGrath, former editor of The New York Times Book Review and former deputy editor of The New Yorker. He is currently a writer at large for The New York Times

• Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

• Boy: Tales From Childhood and Going Solo are autobiographical books written by Roald Dahl

• Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita

• Oliver Jeffers, visual artist, climate activist, and author and/or illustrator of several New York Times bestselling picture books, including The Day the Crayons Quit, How to Catch a Star, The Fate of Fausto, and Here We Are, joins us to talk about his newest picture book, There’s a Ghost In This House. Listen to his First Draft interviews here and here.

• Battle Bunny by Mac Barnett and Jon Scieszka

• Matt de la Peña, author of seven critically acclaimed young adult novels including Mexican Whiteboy and Newbery Medal–winning author of Last Stop on Market Street talks about his newest collaboration with illustrator Christian Robinson, Milo Imagines the World. Listen to his First Draft interview here.

• Adam Rubin, author of Dragons Love Tacos, Those Darn Squirrels, Robo-Sauce and more with Daniel Salmieri

• The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (TV show)

• Jon’s autobiography, Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka

• Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood, a memoir by Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet

• Monty Python

• Saturday Night Live

• Jon Klassen, Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the I Want My Hat Back series, who is back with a book he wrote and illustrated: The Rock From the Sky. Listen to his First Draft episodes here and here.

• The Far Side cartoon by Gary Paulsen

• Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson

• Guys Read

• Kate DiCamillo, is one of six people to win two Newbery Medals, for her novels The Tale of Despereaux and Flora & Ulysses, and author of Newbery Honor book Because of Winn-Dixie, National Book Award finalist The Tiger Rising, as well as New York Times bestselling novels The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Magician’s Elephant, the Mercy Watson series, and more. DiCamillo was the U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2014 and 2015. Her most recent novel, Beverly, Right Here completes the trilogy of Raymie Nightingale and Louisiana’s Way Home.

• Dog Man by Dave Pilkey, author of Captain Underpants

• Shannon Hale, author of Princess Academy, The Goose Girl, Austenland and more

• Adele Griffin, two-time National Book Award honoree and author of almost thirty books for Young Adult and middle grade readers, including The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone, The Becket List, and Sons of Liberty and Where I want to Be. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Lisa Brown, illustrator of The Phantom Twin, The Airport Book and more

• Katherine Paterson, author of The Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved, and more

• Dave Shannon, author and illustrator of No, David!

• Loren Long, author and illustrator of Otis, Little Tree, and many more

• The Treehouse books (The 13-Story Treehouse all the way to The 143-Story Treehouse) by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton

• The Rijksmuseum, the museum that has Rembrandts available online

• Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of critically acclaimed books, including National Book Award finalist Ghost, Newberry and Printz-honored Long Way Down, Coretta Scott King Honoree As Brave as You, and his latest, middle grade Look Both Ways, which was just named to the National Book Award Longlist for Young People’s Literature. Listen to his First Draft interviews here and here.

• Walter Dean Myers, author of Monster, The Glory Field, Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary

• Gene Luen Yang, former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and author and illustrator of American Born Chinese

• The Rabbit hOle’s Explor-A-Storium

• The Real Dada Mother Goose: A Treasury of Complete Nonsense by Jon Scieszka and Julia Rothman

   

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First Draft Episode #340: Swan Huntley

Swan Huntley is the author of adult literary novels The Goddesses, We Could Be Beautiful, and her newest, Getting Clean With Stevie Green.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• “The Sociopath Who Loved Me Enough,” by Swan Huntley in AutoStraddle

• Drinking: A Love Story by Carolyn Knapp

• Anne Hood, New York Times bestselling author of The Book That Matters Most, The Obituary Writer, and the upcoming Fly Girl, taught writing at the New School, where Swan discovered the Novel Template

• Election by Tom Perrotta

• The Artist’s Way by Julie Cameron

• The MacDowell Colony

• Yaddo

• Swan’s cards!

• Tarot For Change by Jessica Dore is the Tarot book I keep talking about!

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• Catie DiSabato, author of The Ghost Network and the new adult contemporary novel U Up? Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Mary H. K. Choi, New York Times bestselling author of Emergency Contact and Permanent Record and Yolk. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network, talks about her latest feminist thriller, The Husbands. Hear her First Draft interview here.

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Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times bestselling author of National Book Award Finalist American Street, Pride, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich and co-author with prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of Punching the Air. She joins us to talk about her first work of non-fiction Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler.

Jacqueline Woodson is a 2020 MacArthur Genius fellow, National Book Award winner, Newberry, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King winner, former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Red at the Bone, Another Brooklyn, Before the Ever After and many, many more. She joins us to talk about her picture books with Rafael López, The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly.

First Draft Episode #337: Lamar Giles

Lamar Giles, author of the acclaimed novels Fake ID, Endangered, Overturned, Spin, Not So Pure and Simple. He joins us to talk about his middle-grade series The Last Last-Day-of-Summer, Last Chance for Logan County, and and The Last Mirror on the Left.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman

• The Bunnicula series by James Howe and Deborah Howe

• Misery and It by Stephen King

• Danielle Steele, author of The Butler, Flying Angels, Complications, and more.

• The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds

• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

• Unwind by Neal Shusterman

• Reality Check by Peter Abrahams

• Fallen Angels by Walter D

• WitSec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program by Pete Earley

• Dennis Lahane, author of Shutter Island, Mystic River, A Drink Before the War and many more

• yeh-named-publisher-of-crown-books-for-young-readers.html">Phoebe Yeh, v-p, publisher, Crown Books for Young Readers

• Ellen Oh, author of Finding Junie Kim, Spirit Hunters, and The Dragon Egg Princess (Hear her First Draft interview here)

• Kwame Alexander, Newberry-winning author of The Crossover and publisher of the alexander-book-imprint.html">Versify imprint

• We Need Diverse Books

• children-s-job-moves-december-2016.html">Jody Corbett, Senior Editor at Scholastic

• Dapo Adeola illiustrated The Last Last-Day-of-Summer and Last Chance for Logan County

• Derick Brooks illustrated Lamar’s most recent middle-grade book, The Last Mirror on the Left

• Duck Tales (TV show)

• Joy Revolution, the imprint started by bestselling writers Nicola Yoon (#1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star talks about her new YA, Instructions For Dancing - hear her First Draft interviews here and here) and David Yoon, author of Frankly in Love, Super Fake Love Song, and Version Zero (hear his First Draft interview here)

• Steven Barnes, New York Times bestselling fantasy and sci-fi writer and screenwriter

• Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451

   

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• Varian Johnson, award-winning author of The Parker Inheritance, Twins, The Great Greene Heist, joins us to talk about his most recent middle-grade, Playing the Cards You’re Dealt. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Chris Grabenstein, ew York Times bestselling author of the Lemoncello series, the Wonderland series, the Haunted Mystery series, and The Island of Dr. Libris. He is also the co-author, with James Patterson, of the #1 Bestsellers I Funny, House of Robots, Max Einstein and many others. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give and On the Come Up talks about her latest book, Concrete Rose, and more. Hear her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #336: Varian Johnson

Varian Johnson, award-winning author of The Parker Inheritance, Twins, The Great Greene Heist, joins us to talk about his most recent middle-grade, Playing the Cards You’re Dealt.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Then Again Maybe I Won’t, and Iggie’s House by Judy Blume

• Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers

• Virginia Hamilton, author of The People Could Fly: Black American Folktales, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, and more

• Sara Crowe, Varian’s literary agent at Pippin Properties

• Andrew Karre, Executive editor at Dutton Books for Young Readers

• Cheryl Klein, editorial director at Lee & Low and formerly at Scholastic, and author of The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

• Holes by Louis Sachar

• Ally Carter, New York Times bestselling author of the Gallagher Girls series, the Heist Society series, the Embassy Row series, Not If I Save You First, Dear Ally: How Do You Write a Book?, and a new middle grade series that kicks off with Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor. (Hear her First Draft interview here)

• Kate Messner, author of Over and Under the Snow, All the Answers, Capture the Flag, and many (MANY) more

• The Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program

• Sharon Darrow, author of Trash, The Painters of Lexieville and more

• Rita Williams-Garcia, author of One Crazy Summer, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground, Like Sisters on the Homefront, and more

• Tim Wynne-Jones, author of Blink & Caution, The Uninvited, and more

• Nick Thomas, Varian’s editor at Scholastic, currently senior editor at Levine Querido

• in-conversation-varian-johnson-and-shannon-wright.html">Shannon Wright, illustrator of Twins

• Jenne Abramowitz, executive editor at Scholastic

• What Were the Negro Leagues? by Varian Johnson

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

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• Kate DiCamillo, one of six people to win two Newbery Medals, for her novels The Tale of Despereaux and Flora & Ulysses, and author of Newbery Honor book Because of Winn-Dixie, National Book Award finalist The Tiger Rising, as well as New York Times bestselling novels The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Magician’s Elephant, the Mercy Watson series, and more. DiCamillo was the U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2014 and 2015. Her most recent novel, Beverly, Right Here completes the trilogy of Raymie Nightingale and Louisiana’s Way Home. Listen to her First Draft episode here.

• Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give and On the Come Up talks about her latest book, Concrete Rose, as well as the upcoming Blackout. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Chris Grabenstein, New York Times bestselling author of the Lemoncello series, the Wonderland series, the Haunted Mystery series, and The Island of Dr. Libris. He is also the co-author, with James Patterson, of the #1 Bestsellers I Funny, House of Robots, Max Einstein and many others. He joins to talk about his newest middle grade series, Dog Squad. Listen to his episode of First Draft here.

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First Draft Episode #335: Kekla Magoon

Kekla Magoon is the award-winning author of many novels and nonfiction books for kids and teens, including How It Went Down, The Season of Styx Malone, and her newest, Revolution In Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People.

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• Norma Fox Mazer, author of The Missing Girl, Good Night Maman, Missing Pieces, and many more

• Vermont College for Fine Arts’ MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults

• Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (listen to this excellent interview with him on The Stacks podcast)

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

• Blackbirds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert, author of Pointe, Little & Lion, The Only Black Girls in Town, and The Voting Booth. Hear Brandy’s First Draft interviews here, here, and here!

• African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History by Tracey Baptiste

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• Jason Reynolds, three-time National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and author of All American Boys (co-written with Brendan Kiely [listen to his First Draft interview here]), As Brave as You, For Every One, the Track series, Look Both Ways, Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Hear his First Draft interview here, and his appearance with Christina Hammonds-Reed, author of The Black Kids, here.

• Kim Johnson, college administrator and mentor of student activists, on her debut author of This is My America.

• Koa Beck, former editor-in-chief of Jezebel and co-host of “The #MeToo Memos” on WNYC’s The Takeaway, discusses her debut non-fiction work, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind. Hear her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #334: Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-seven novels, including My Sister's Keeper, Nineteen Minutes, Small Great Things, and two young adult novels with daughter Samantha van Leer, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She joins to talk about her latest, Wish You Were Here.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (TV show)

• Breathe: A New Musical original cast recording on Spotify

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (movie)

• The English Patient (movie)

• Brandon Taylor’s newsletter, Sweater Weather, and the essay in which he talks about what trend might come out of the pandemic, “Bobos in IKEA”

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

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• Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling author of romance novels, including Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, A Rogue By Any Other Name, and many more, talks about Bombshell, the first book in her new Hell’s Belles series. Sarah also co-hosts the Fated Mates romance podcast.

• Jennifer Niven, Emmy Award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including YA novels All the Bright Places, Holding up the Universe, Breathless, and Take Me With You When You Go (with David Levithan).

• Rebecca Serle, television writer, producer, and New York Times bestselling author of six books, including When You Were Mine , The Edge of Falling, The Dinner List, and her newest, In Five Years, out now. She co-developed the hit TV adaptation of her YA series, Famous in Love.

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First Draft Episode #333: Karen M. McManus

Karen M. McManus is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of young adult thrillers, including the One of Us Is Lying series (now a Peacock TV show), Two Can Keep a Secret, The Cousins, joins to talk about her latest, You’ll Be the Death of Me.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Stephen King, author of thrillers like It, The Shining, and Carrie (and, uh, lots more)

• Agatha Christie, author of And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, and Death on the Nile.

• Lois Duncan, author of I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Duncan, and Down a Dark Hall

• Mary Higgins Clark, author of Where Are the Children?, Two Little Girls in Blue, and You Belong to Me

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

• Only Murders in the Building (TV show)

• Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss and the horror novel There’s Someone Inside Your House (watch the Netflix film adaptation Oct. 6!) talks about her newest scary book, The Woods Are Always Watching. Hear her First Draft interview here!

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• Courtney Summers, author of Cracked Up to Be, This is Not A Test, All The Rage, Sadie, and The Project. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.

• Tiffany D. Jackson, author of thrillers Allegedly, Monday’s Not Coming, Let Me Hear A Rhyme, Grown, and White Smoke. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.

• Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author of feminist thrillers Whisper Network and The Husbands. Hear her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #332: Chloe Gong

Chloe Gong is the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and its sequel Our Violent Ends.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene

• The Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon

• Fallen by Lauren Kate

• Delirium by Lauren Oliver

• Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzgerald

• Wattpad

• The Mortal Instruments series (first book: City of Bones) by Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shadowhunter Chronicles, the forthcoming Sword Catcher duology, and co-author of the Magisterium series. Her most recent Shadowhunter novel, Chain of Gold, kicks off the Last Hours trilogy. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.

• Divergent by Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent series, the Carve the Mark duology, and the short story collection, The End and Other Beginnings, talks about her first adult fantasy novel, Chosen Ones. Listen to her First Draft interviews here, here, and here.

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• The Diviners by Libba Bray, uthor of New York Times best-selling series A Great and Terrible Beauty, Printz award-winner Going Bovine, and genuinely terrifying historical paranormal The Diviners, and more.

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• Garth Nix, New York Times bestselling author of Sabriel, returns to the Old Kingdom series with his latest YA fantasy, Terciel & Elinor. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Roseanne A. Brown, New York Times bestselling author of YA fantasy novels A Song of Wraiths and Ruin and its sequel, A Psalm of Storms and Silence. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Kendare Blake, New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series, Anna Dressed in Blood, and more, talks about her new historical thriller, All These Bodies, and her upcoming YA novel set in the universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, In Every Generation. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.

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First Draft Episode #331: Oliver Jeffers

Oliver Jeffers, visual artist, climate activist, and author and/or illustrator of several New York Times bestselling picture books, including The Day the Crayons Quit, How to Catch a Star, The Fate of Fausto, and Here We Are, joins us to talk about his newest picture book, There’s a Ghost In This House.

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• Hear Oliver’s first First Draft interview here

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• Jon Klassen, Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the I Want My Hat Back series, as well as the illustrator of Sam and Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett; The Dark by Lemony Snicket; House Held Up by Trees by Ted Kooser; Cats' Night Out by Caroline Stutson. Hear his episodes here and here.

• Matt de la Peña, author of seven critically acclaimed young adult novels including Mexican Whiteboy and Newbery Medal–winning author of Last Stop on Market Street talks about his newest collaboration with illustrator Christian Robinson, Milo Imagines the World. Hear his episodes here.

• Carson Ellis, author and illustrator of bestselling picture books Home, Caldecott Honor book Du Iz Tak?, and In the Half Room. Hear her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #330: Roseanne A. Brown

Roseanne A. Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of YA fantasy novels A Song of Wraiths and Ruin and its sequel, A Psalm of Storms and Silence.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Animorphs by K. A. Applegate

• The Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter, New York Times bestselling author of the Gallagher Girls series, the Heist Society series, the Embassy Row series, Not If I Save You First, Dear Ally: How Do You Write a Book?, and a new middle grade series that kicks off with Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor. (listen to her FIrst Draft interview here)

• All American Girl, The Princess Diaries and Avalon High by Meg Cabot

• The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielson

• A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

• Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes series. (Hear her First Draft interviews here and here)

• Entangled Publishing

• Pitch Wars

• The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl

• Quressa Robnson, literary agent at Nelson Literary Agency

• Kristin Daly Rens at Balzer + Bray

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• Ayana Gray, author of Beasts of Prey, which is being adapted into a Netflix film.

• Kendare Blake, New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series, Anna Dressed in Blood, and more, talks about her new historical thriller, All These Bodies, and her upcoming YA novel set in the universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, In Every Generation.

• Garth Nix, New York Times bestselling author of Sabriel, returns to the Old Kingdom series with his latest YA fantasy, Terciel & Elinor.

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First Draft Episode #329: Garth Nix

Garth Nix, New York Times bestselling author of Sabriel, returns to the Old Kingdom series with his latest YA fantasy, Terciel & Elinor.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Ragwitch by Garth Nix, his first book

• Jill Grinberg, President and founder of Jill Grinberg Literary Management, Garth’s agent

• Newt’s Emerald, Garth’s regency romance with a fantasy twist

• Shade’s Children, Garth’s dystopian series

• The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

• The Tombs of Atuan, the second in Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea series, which began with A Wizard of Earthsea

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• Kristen Cashore, New York Times bestselling author of the Graceling series, including Graceling, Fire, and Bitterblue, as well as Jane, Unlimited. She has returned to her fantasy world for her newest novel, Winterkeep.

• Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Queen series, talks about the first book in her new YA fantasy series, Realm Breaker.

• Ayana Gray, debut author of Beasts of Prey, which is being adapted into a Netflix film.

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First Draft Episode #328: Helen O’Hara

Helen O’Hara, film critic, editor-at-large for Empire magazine and co-host of the Empire film podcast, talks about her newest non-fiction, Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and RIse of Women in Film and host of its accompanying podcast, Women vs Hollywood With Helen O’Hara.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Care Bears Movie (movie)

• My Little Pony: The Movie (movie)

• Black Panther (movie)

• Captain Marvel (movie)

• Terri White, former editor of Empire and author of Coming Undone: A Memoir

• Twilight (movie)

• Chris Hewitt, co-host of the Empire podcast

• Notting Hill (movie)

• Helen’s other books about movies: Best Movies of the 80s and The Superhero Movie Book

• Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema by author.html">Maya Montañez Smukler, (Ph.D., Cinema & Media Studies, UCLA) heads the research and study center at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

• Shelley Stamp, film historian, professor at UCSC, and author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood and Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon

• Karen Ward Mahar, professor of history and the co-director of the American Studies Program at Siena College, and author of Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood

• The Best Pick podcast

• The Golden Compass (movie)

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (movie)

• Reservoir Dogs (movie)

• Home Alone (movie)

• Ava DuVerney directed Selma, A Wrinkle in Time, and many more films

• Squid Game (Netflix TV show)

• Parasite (movie)

• Becoming by Michelle Obama

• Wonder Woman (2017 movie)

• Jurassic World (movie)

• Petit Maman (movie)

• On the Basis of Sex (movie)

• Shut Up and Sing (documentary)

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• Janet Varney, Emmy-Nominated actor, comedian, writer, producer, and podcaster. She has appeared in dozens of TV shows, including You’re the Worst, Take My Wife, Burning Love, Stan Against Evil, and Fortune Rookie, and the voice of Korra in The Legend of Korra. She is also the co-founder, creative director, and producer of SF Sketchfest: the San Francisco Comedy Festival (now in its 19th year!), and hosts The JV Club podcast.

• Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, the comedians, actors, and screenwriters behind TV shows Best Friends Forever and Playing House. Jessica can be seen on the Netflix comedy Space Force, and Lennon starred in and directed episodes of Bless This Mess.

• Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, media mavens, co-hosts of the phenomenal Call Your Girlfriend podcast, and debut co-authors of friendship memoir Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close.

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First Draft Episode #327: Benjamin Dreyer

Benjamin Dreyer, vice president, executive managing editor and copy chief of Random House, and New York Times bestselling author of Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style and Dreyer’s English (Adapted for Young Readers): Good Advice for Good Writing.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• “dreyer-english-grammar-writers-writing.html">Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer,” by Sarah Lyall in The New York Times

• Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting and Surviving Your First Book by Courtney Maum (hear Courtney weigh in on the traditional publishing process in Track Changes: Publishing 101)

• #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge, Olive Again, and the recent release Oh William!

• Shirley Jackson, author of The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery, and more

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• Track Changes Bonus: Publishing From Every Angle 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). Listen here!

• Arthur Levine, legendary children’s book editor, including of series such as Harry Potter and The Golden Compass. Formerly President and Publisher at Arthur A. Levine Books at Scholastic, Arthur founded independent publishing house Levine Querido.

• Amanda Maciel, executive editor at Scholastic as well as author of YA novels Tease and Lucky Girl, talks about how writing books made her an author-friendly editor, staying emotionally available during revisions, and the trouble with accepting that you have an impact on other people. Listen to the episode here!

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First Draft Episode #326: Elissa Sussman and Arielle Jovellanos

Elissa Sussman and jovellanos.com">Arielle Jovellanos, author and illustrator, respectively, of YA contemporary novel Drawn That Way. Elissa is also the author of Burn, Stray, and the upcoming adult novel, Funny You Should Ask. Arielle illustrated Evil Thing, a Cruelle de Ville backstory novel written by Serena Valentino, as well as graphic novel Black Star, written by Eric A. Glover.

This episode is brought to you by Revision Season, a seven-week virtual master class in novel revision led by award-winning author Elana K. Arnold. The Fall 2021 Session of Revision Season will run Oct 10 – Nov 28, and enrollment is now open!

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Hear Elissa’s First Draft interview here

• Glen Keane, 38-year veteran of Walt Disney Feature Animation and creator of Disney characters such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Beast, Tarzan, and Rapunzel.

• Howard Ashman, Oscar-winning lyricist, playwright, and stage director who wrote the lyrics for The Little Mermaid

• Frederator, an independent animation and media studio who produced Adventure Time, Bee and PuppyCat, and Bravest Warriors

• Pendleton Ward, creator of Adventure Time

• LAIKA studios, an animation production studio that created Coraline (movie)

• The Avengers (movie)

• Chris Evans, actor who portrays Captain America

• Babs Tarr, American illustrator and comic book artist who drew a run for Batgirl for DC

• Annie Wu, American illustrator and comic book artist who drew a run of Hawkeye for Marvel

• Janelle Asselin, former editor of DC comics

• Kevin Wada, illustrator

• Fresh Romance, the anthology which includes Arielle’s comic, “School Spirit”

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan

• The Heroes of Olympus by RIck Riordan

• Elizabeth Bewley, literary agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.

• Waking Sleeping Beauty (documentary)

• Janet Sung, illustrator, designer, colorist

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• Chris Appelhans, writer and director of Netflix animated movie Wish Dragon, and illustrator of picture books Sparky! (written by Jenny Offill) and A Greyhound, a Groundhog (written by Emily Jenkins).

• Sarah Kuhn, author of the Heroine Complex series, Shadow of the Batgirl with Nicole Gaux for DC Comics, the Star Wars audiobook original Doctor Aphra, talks about her new young adult novel, From Little Tokyo, With Love.

• Jon Klassen, Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the I Want My Hat Back series, who is back with a book he wrote and illustrated: The Rock From the Sky.

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First Draft Episode #325: Ayana Gray

Ayana Gray, debut author of Beasts of Prey, which is being adapted into a Netflix film.

Today's episode of First Draft is brought to you by Tonight We Rule the World by Zack Smedley, out from Page Street Publishing on October 5th.

And by Revision Season, a seven-week virtual master class in novel revision led by award-winning author Elana K. Arnold. The Fall 2021 Session of Revision Season will run Oct 10 – Nov 28, and enrollment is now open!

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• As Told By Ginger (movie)

• Pete Knapp, literary agent with Park & Fine Literary and Media

• stacey-barney-named-associate-publisher-of-nancy-paulsen-books.html">Stacey Barney, associate publisher of Nancy Paulsen Books

• Scrivener, writing software

• Beth Phelan, literary agent with Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency and founder of DiverseVoices Inc., (which is #DVpit / #DVart, DVcon, DVdebut and DVmentor)

• #MSWL is a twitter hashtag agents and editors use to let writers know what they are looking for.

• Pitch Wars

• Circe by Madeline Miller

• The Inklings interviews on Ayana’s website

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• Kendare Blake, New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series, Anna Dressed in Blood, and more, talks about her new historical thriller, All These Bodies, and her upcoming YA novel set in the universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, In Every Generation. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.

• Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nebula-winning author of YA novels The Summer Prince, Love is the Drug, and Trouble the Saints. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Kristin Cashore, New York Times bestselling author of the Graceling series, including Graceling, Fire, Bitterblue, and Winterkeep, as well as Jane, Unlimited. Hear her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #324: Kendare Blake

Kendare Blake, New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series, Anna Dressed in Blood, and more, talks about her new historical thriller, All These Bodies, and her upcoming YA novel set in the universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, In Every Generation.

This episode is brought to you by The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino, out from Page Street Press now!

And by Revision Season, a seven-week virtual master class in novel revision led by award-winning author Elana K. Arnold. The Fall 2021 Session of Revision Season will run Oct 10 – Nov 28, and enrollment is now open!

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Hear Kendare’s previous episode of First Draft here, and watch the Tell Me Everything University Bookstore (Seattle, WA) event featuring Sarah Enni, Kendare, and Somaiya Daud, author of YA sci-fi book Mirage and Court of Lions.

• Antigoddess by Kendare Blake

• Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss and the horror novel There’s Someone Inside Your House (watch the Netflix film adaptation Oct. 6!) talks about her newest scary book, The Woods Are Always Watching.

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

• Murder in the Heartland (movie)

• Natural Born Killers (movie)

• Capote (movie)

• Infamous (movie)

• Interview With a Vampire by Anne Rice

• Jocelyn Davies, editor at Disney

• disney-launches-an-adult-imprint.html">Kieran Viola, director of editorial for Disney Hyperion

• Roswell (TV show)

• LOST (TV show)

• Cobra Kai (TV show)

• Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of many books, including the And I Darken trilogy, the Slayer series, the Camelot Rising trilogy, and her upcoming adult debut, Hide. Listen to her First Draft interview here.

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• Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shadowhunter Chronicles, the forthcoming Sword Catcher duology, and co-author of the Magisterium series. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.

• Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes series, and the fothcoming All My Rage. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.

• Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Queen series, talks about the first book in her new YA fantasy series, Realm Breaker. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.

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First Draft Mini-Episode: First Draft Patreon With Sarah Enni

Creator and host of First Draft, Sarah Enni, announces the launch of the First Draft Patreon, a way listeners can help support the show by pledging $5 or $10 a month. In exchange for that monthly donation, supporters will gain access to an exclusive community forum, get monthly video chats with Sarah, get 15% off First Draft merchandise, and get a shoutout at the top of a First Draft episode and on the First Draft supporter page.

If you sign up to support First Draft before Oct. 1, 2021, you will receive a Super Special Supporter Pack, which includes a personal note from Sarah Enni, First Draft swag (bookmark, pin, and sticker), and a surprise book! Sign up to get yours today!

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• The First Draft Patreon page

• The publishing infographics I create and try to share each week

• Callie Wright, freelance audio producer and editor

• Track Changes

• Donate to First Draft on PayPal

• Donate to First Draft on Venmo

• Follow First Draft on Instagram and Twitter

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First Draft Episode #323: Christine Riccio

Christine Riccio, New York Times bestselling author of Again, But Better and Better Together and creative force behind PolandBananasBooks, her BookTube channel with more than 400,000 subscribers, and co-host of Booksplosion, the largest book club on YouTube.

This episode is brought to you by Laura Sibson’s Edie in Between, a modern-day Practical Magic about love, loss, and embracing the mystical, available now.

And by The Lost Girls: A Vampire Revenge Story by Sonia Hartl, out from Page Street Publishing now.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Christine shared her perspective on promoting books on BookTube in the Track Changes Marketing and Publicity (Part 1) episode

• Booksplosion is the book club Christine cohosts with Katytastic and Jesse The Reader

• Sasha Alsberg, New York Times bestselling co-author with Lindsay Cummings of Zenith: The Androma Saga series (listen to their First Draft interview here) and creator of YouTube channel abookutopia

• The Parent Trap (movie - 1961) (movie - 1998)

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• Margot Wood, founder of Epic Reads, talks about her debut young adult novel, Fresh. Hear her interview here.

• Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of queer rom-coms Red, White, and Royal Blue and One Last Stop. Hear their First Draft interview here.

• Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of Save the Date, The Unexpected Everything, and more answers listener questions about life, writing, and her new YA, Take Me Home Tonight. Hear her First Draft interviews here, here, and here!

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First Draft Episode #322: Jennifer Niven

Jennifer Niven is the Emmy Award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including YA novels All the Bright Places, Holding up the Universe, Breathless, and Take Me With You When You Go (with David Levithan).

This episode is brought to you by Laura Sibson’s Edie in Between, a modern-day Practical Magic about love, loss, and embracing the mystical, available now.

And by The Splendor by Breeana Shields, out from Page Street Publishing now.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• niven-carl-sandburg-biographer-dies-at-75.html">Penelope Niven, biographer and author of Carl Sandburg: A Biography and Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet, Thornton Wilder: A Life, Steichen: A Biography, memoirist (Swimming Lessons: Life Lessons From the Pool, From Diving In to Treading Water) and co-author of James Earl Jones’s autobiography, Voices and Silences.

• The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger

• Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven, Missoula, and more

• Carl Sandburg, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (for Cornhuskers and Complete Poems) and biographer (for his four-book series, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years).

• Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club and Books For Living: Some Thoughts on Reading, Reflecting, and Embracing Life, and co-author of Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better with Dave Shipley

• Jennifer’s original agent, John A. Ware, who passed away in 2013. Read obituary-john-a-ware.html">his obituary in Publisher’s Weekly.

• Jennifer’s current agent, Kerry Sparks at the Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency

• David Levithan, editorial director at Scholastic and the author of many young adult novels, including Boy Meets Boy, Every Day, and co-author with Rachel Cohn of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares.

• Ava Dellaira, author of Love Letters to the Dead and In Search of Us. Listen to her First Draft interviews here and here.

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• Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star talks about her new YA, Instructions For Dancing and her brand new publishing venture: co-publisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.

• Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of YA contemporary novels, including Save the Date, The Unexpected Everything, and Take Me Home Tonight. Hear her First Draft interviews here, here, and here.

• Mary H. K. Choi, New York Times bestselling author of Emergency Contact, Permanent Record and Yolk. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.

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First Draft Episode #321: Stephanie Perkins

Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss and the horror novel There’s Someone Inside Your House (watch the Netflix film adaptation Oct. 6!) talks about her newest scary book, The Woods Are Always Watching.

This episode is brought to you by Laura Sibson’s Edie in Between, a modern-day Practical Magic about love, loss, and embracing the mystical, available now!

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Hear the live episode where Stephanie and Sarah Enni talk about Sarah’s debut, Tell Me Everything, at Malaprops Bookstore in Asheville, N. C.

• Hear Sara Zarr and Sarah Enni discuss the job of podcasting

• Acuity Scheduling is the software that I am using to schedule interviews

• Kerry Winfrey, author of romantic comedies Waiting For Tom Hanks, Not Like the Movies, and her newest, Very Sincerely Yours. She is also the author of YA novels Love and Other Alien Experiences and Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It. Hear our conversation here.

• Jane Friedman, publishing expert and author educator, wrote The Business of Being a Writer and the Hot Sheet newsletter (a must for all writers IMHO!)

• Charles Dickens, author of A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, and more

• Jane Austen, author of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma and more

• NaNoWriMo, a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month (read Steph’s 2015 Pep Talk for NaNoWriMo here!)

• Kate Testerman, agent and founder of kt literary

• Julia Straus-Gabel, President and Publisher, Dutton Children's Books, Penguin Random Houes, profiled in “barbed-pen-behind-the-best-sellers-of-young-adult-fiction.html">Her Stinging Critiques Propel Young Adult Bestsellers,” in The New York Times and “meet-the-editor-julie-strauss-gabel.html">Meet the Editor: Julie Strauss-Gabel,” in Publisher’s Weekly

• John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of many young adult novels, including The Fault in Our Stars and Printz-winning Looking For Alaska, joins to discuss his new essay collection, The Anthropocene Reviewed. He is also one half of the vlogbrothers on YouTube and co-creator of educational series Crash Course. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Gayle Forman, author of If I Stay, Where She Went, and many more

• Booklist online magazine

• Around the Writer’s Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer’s Resistance by Roseanne Bane

• Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of many books, including the And I Darken trilogy, the Slayer series, the Camelot Rising trilogy, and her upcoming adult debut, Hide.

• Fear Street, a series by R. L. Stine

• Scream (movie)

• I Know What You Did Last Summer (movie)

• My Favorite Murder (podcast)

• Henry Gayden, screenwriter who wrote Shazam and the adaptation of There’s Someone Inside Your House

• Creep (movies)

• The Overnight (movie)

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• Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue, talks about their latest queer rom-com, One Last Stop. Hear their First Draft interview here.

• Rebecca Serle, television writer, producer, and New York Times bestselling author of six books, including When You Were Mine , The Edge of Falling, The Dinner List, and her newest, In Five Years, out now. She co-developed the hit TV adaptation of her YA series, Famous in Love. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shadow and Bone series, the Six of Crows duology, and the King of Scars duology, discusses her first adult novel, Ninth House. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.

   

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First Draft Episode #320: Sarah MacLean

Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling author of romance novels, including Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, A Rogue By Any Other Name, and many more, talks about Bombshell, the first book in her new Hell’s Bells series. Sarah also co-hosts the Fated Mates romance podcast.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Anne Rice, author of Interview With the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat

• Sarah Rees Brennan, author of Unspoken, The Demon’s Lexicon, and In Other Lands and more

• Carrie Ryan, author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Daughters of Deep Silence, and more

• Aprilynne Pike, author of Wings, Glitter, and more

• Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, co-authors of Beautiful Creatures

• Dr. Jennifer Lynn Barnes, professor studying fiction and the brain, and also author of The Inheritance Games, The Naturals, Little White Lies and more

• Nora Roberts, author of Visions in White, The Next Always, and Year One also publishes as J.D. Robb, author of the In Death series

• Bella Andre, author of The Look of Love, Game For Seduction, and more

• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister

• Sadie Doyle, author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why

• Mona Altahawy, author of Seven Necessary Sins of Women and Girls

• Gangs of London by Ryan McDonald

• Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants by Brian McDonald

• Peaky Blinders (TV show)

• Sophie Jordan, author of Firelight, Foreplay, and more

• Tessa Dare, author of The Duchess Deal, Romancing the Duke, and more

• Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape

• A Hunger Like No Other, first in the Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole

• Christina Lauren, author of The Unhoneymooners, The Soulmate Equation, and Beautiful Bastards

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• Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue, talks about their latest queer rom-com, One Last Stop on this episode of First Draft.

• Rebecca Serle, TV writer, producer, and New York Times bestselling author of six books, including When You Were Mine , The Edge of Falling, The Dinner List, and In Five Years. Listen to her First Draft interview here.

• Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author of domestic feminist thrillers Whisper Network and The Husbands. Listen to her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #319: S. K. Ali

S. K. Ali is the New York Times bestselling author of Morris Award Finalist Saints and Misfits and its sequel Misfit in Love, Love From A to Z and its forthcoming sequel, Love From Mecca to Medina, and picture book The Proudest Blue. She also co-edited, with Aisha Saeed, the middle grade anthology Once Upon an Eid.

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• Aisha Saeed, New York Times bestselling author of Written in the Stars and Amal Unbound, co-author with Becky Ablertalli of Yes No Maybe So (hear their First Draft interview here).

• Elise Bryant, author of Happily Ever Afters. Listen to her First Draft interview here.

• Loan Le, editor at Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books and debut author of A Phở Love Story. Listen to her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #318: Chandler Baker

Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network talks about her latest feminist thriller, The Husbands. She is also the co-author with Wesley King of YA novel Hello (From Here), out September 7!

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

• Lauren Oliver, New York Times bestselling author of Panic, the Delirium series, and Before I Fall

• John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of many young adult novels, including The Fault in Our Stars and Printz-winning Looking For Alaska, joins to discuss his new essay collection, The Anthropocene Reviewed. He is also one half of the vlogbrothers on YouTube and co-creator of educational series Crash Course. Listen to his First Draft interview here.

• Gayle Forman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay and Where She Went, as well as We Are Inevitable, Frankie & Bug, and many more.

• Miss Snark

• Absolute Write (whose forum is back up now!)

• The Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrator’s Blue Boards forum

• Full Fathom Five, the book packaging company run by James Frey

• Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky

• I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time by Lisa VanderKamp

• Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star talks about her new YA, Instructions For Dancing and her brand new publishing venture: co-publisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color. Listen to her First Draft interviews here and here.

• Kristen Wiig has bought the rights to adapt The Husbands

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• Rufi Thorpe, author of adult novelsThe Girls from Corona del Mar, Dear Fang: With Love, and The Knockout Queen. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Koa Beck, former editor-in-chief of Jezebel and co-host of “The #MeToo Memos” on WNYC’s The Takeaway, discusses her debut non-fiction work, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Catie Disabato, author of The Ghost Network and the new adult contemporary novel U Up? Hear her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #317: Margot Wood

Margot Wood, founder of Epic Reads, talks about her debut young adult novel, Fresh.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Margot Wood, founder of Epic Reads, gave incredible marketing advice on the Marketing and Publicity episode of Track Changes, the First Draft miniseries that explains the ins and outs of traditional publishing in the U.S. (listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify)

• Johnny Tremaine by Esther Hoskins Forbes

• Aminah Mae Safi, author of Not the Girls You’re Looking For, Tell Me How You Really Feel, This is All Your Fault, and Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix. Listen to her First Draft interview here.

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

• Divergent by Veronica Roth,

• Simon Versus the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertali

• Jo Volpe, literary agent and President of New Leaf Literary & Media, who represents Margot. She also appeared on the Contracts episode of Track Changes.

• Emma by Jane Austen

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• Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Morris Award-winning Simon Versus the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Leah on the Off Beat, Kate in Waiting, and The Upside of Unrequited, and co-author with Aisha Saeed of Yes, No, Maybe So (hear Becky and Aisha’s First Draft interview here) and co-author with Adam Silvera of What if it’s Us and Here’s to Us (hear Adam’s First Draft interview here).

• Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent series, the Carve the Mark duology, and the short story collection, The End and Other Beginnings, talks about her first adult fantasy novel, Chosen Ones. Hear Veronica’s First Draft episodes here, here, and here.

• And if you liked what Margot had to say about marketing, be sure to check out the entire Track Changes mini-series!

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First Draft Episode #316: Kerry Winfrey

Kerry Winfrey, author of romantic comedies Waiting For Tom Hanks, Not Like the Movies, and her newest, Very Sincerely Yours. She is also the author of YA novels Love and Other Alien Experiences and Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Superfudge by Judy Blume

• The Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop

• George Saunders, author of Tenth of December: Stories, Lincoln in the Bardo, and A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life, and many more short stories and collections.

• Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, and many more short stories and collections.

• Marla Frazee is the two-time Caldecott Honor-winning author and illustrator of The Boss Baby, A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, All the World, and many more. She joins us to talk about the Farmer series: The Farmer and the Clown, The Farmer and the Monkey, and The Farmer and the Circus, out now.

• Kerry’s writing for HelloGiggles

• Year of Romantic Comedies

• Kerry’s review of You’ve Got Mail for Year of RomComs

• John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of many young adult novels, including The Fault in Our Stars and Printz-winning Looking For Alaska, joins to discuss his new essay collection, The Anthropocene Reviewed. He is also one half of the vlogbrothers on YouTube and co-creator of educational series Crash Course. Listen to his First Draft interview here.

• Harvey (movie)

• Playing House (TV show) features one of Kerry’s favorite romantic leading men performances from Keegan Michael-Key. She wrote about his performance here. I spoke with Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, comedians, actors, and screenwriters behind Playing House, in this interview.

• Angela Velez, author of the forthcoming Lulu and Milagro’s Search for Clarity.

• Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of romance novels The Wedding Date, The Wedding Party, While We Were Dating, Party of Two, and The Proposal. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Trainwreck (movie)

• Christian Robinson, illustrator of Caldecott Honor, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, and the Newbery Medal-winning and #1 New York Times bestseller Last Stop on Market Street, written by Matt de la Peña (listen to his First Draft interview here), and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Bench, written by Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex. His solo projects include Another and You Matter.

• Carson Ellis, author and illustrator of Caldecott Honor book Du Iz Tak?, as well as Home, In the Half Room, and many more. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Mac Barnett, two-time Caldecott Honor-winning author of Extra Yarn and Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, both illustrated by Jon Klassen (listen to his First Draft interviews here and here) and dozens more children’s books, including the Kid Spy series (illustrated by Mike Lowery), CIrcle (also illustrated by Jon Klassen), and the Jack books (illustrated by Greg Pizzoli).

• Twister (movie)

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• Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue and One Last Stop. Listen to their First Draft interview here.

• Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything, The Sun Is Also a Starand Instructions For Dancing, and co-publisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color. Listen to her First Draft interview here.

• Rebecca Serle, television writer, producer, and New York Times bestselling author of six books, including When You Were Mine , The Edge of Falling, The Dinner List, and her newest, In Five Years. Listen to her First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #315: Isaac Fitzsimons

Isaac Fitzsimons is the debut author of The Passing Playbook.

This episode was brought to you by Vision Season, a seven-week, virtual master class in tending your creative garden with award-winning author Elana K. Arnold (hear her First Draft interviews here and here). The Fall course of Vision Season will run from August 8th to September 25th. To learn more about Vision Season and to sign up for the Fall course, visit elanakarnold.com.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe

• Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

• The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Md.

• I am J by Cris Beam

• “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” by Elvis Presley

• Jazz Jennings, author of Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen and start of “I Am Jazz” (TV show)

• Changing the Game (documentary)

   

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• Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue, talks about her latest queer rom-com, One Last Stop. Hear their First Draft interview here.

• Leah Johnson, author of You Should See Me In a Crown, and the forthcoming Rise to the Sun. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Arvin Ahmadi, author of Down and Across, Girl Gone Viral, and his latest, How it All Blew Up. Hear his First Draft interview here.

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First Draft Episode #314: Ben Zhu

Ben Zhu, author, illustrator, and founder of Gallery Nucleus, talks about his debut picture book, Dessert Island.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

• enni.squarespace.com/audio-episodes/2021/7/15/daniel_krall_illustration">Dan Krall, illustrator for Samurai Jack

• Chris Appelhans, writer and director of Netflix animated movie Wish Dragon, and illustrator of picture books Sparky! (written by Jenny Offill) and A Greyhound, a Groundhog (written by Emily Jenkins).

• Dan Santat, Caldecott Award-winning author and illustrator of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, as well as After the Fall, Are We There Yet?, and The Guild of Geniuses, among many more.

• How to Draw the Marvel Way by John Buscema and Stan Lee

• Astro Boy (movie)

• Dave Masters, who taught animation at Rowland High School before leaving to become head animation trainer at Warner Bros.

• Chuck Jones, animator, filmmaker and voice actor, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Shorts.

• Kevin Chen, founder of Concept Design Academy

• Call of Duty

• Medal of Honor

• Jon Klassen, Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the I Want My Hat Back series, who is back with a book he wrote and illustrated: The Rock From the Sky. Hear his First Draft interviews here and here.

• Wish Dragon, written and directed by Chris Appelhans (hear his First Draft interview here)

• Du Iz Tak? a Caldecott Honor book written and illustrated by Carson Ellis, who also wrote and illustrated Home and In the Half Room. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Drawing on Walls: A Keith Haring Story written by Matthew Burgess and illustrated by Josh Cochran. Matthew is a poet, picture book author, and Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College who wrote The Bear and the Moon, illustrated by Cátia Chien. Hear their First Draft interview here.

• Arree Chung, award winning author and illustrator of Mixed: A Colorful Story, Ninja!, and Out!, as well as founder of Storyteller Academy.