First Draft Episode #287: Elise Bryant

Elise Bryant is the debut author of Happily Ever Afters.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• The Bailey School Kids series by Marcia Thornton Jones and Debbie Dadey

• Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries series, Size 12 is Not Fat, All American Girl and many more

• Sarah Dessen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Once and for All, Just Listen, The Truth About Forever and many more. Hear her First Draft interview about The Rest of the Story.

• Megan McCafferty, author of Sloppy Firsts: A Jessica Darling Novel, Bumped, The Mall, and more

• The Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate

• Faye Kellerman, author of the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novels, beginning with The Ritual Bath

• Sue Grafton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Kinsey Millhone series, beginning with A is For Alibi

• Even Stevens (TV show)

• Lizzie Maguire (TV show and movie)

• J. D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye

• Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road and Big Sur

• Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, author of Howl

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Days of Solitude

• Teach For America

• Monster by Walter Dean Myers

• March, the graphic novel by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin

• 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. Hear his First Draft interviews here and 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.

• Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, Dear Justyce, Odd One Out, Jackpot, and Clean Getaway. Hear her First Draft interview here.

• Lamar Giles, author of Fake ID, SPIN, Not So Pure and Simple, and The Last Last-Day-Of-Summer and more

• Madcap Retreats

• Katherine Locke, author of The Girl With the Red Balloon, who offers editorial services

• Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary is Elise’s literary agent

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

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• Leah Johnson, debut author of You Should See Me In a Crown, and the forthcoming Rise to the Sun

• David Yoon, debut author of Frankly in Love and Super Fake Love Story

• Christina Hammonds-Reed, debut author of The Black Kids, is in conversation with 2020–2021 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Jason Reynolds

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