Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay, winner of the 2018 Printz Award, and other contemporary YA titles like Everything Leads to You and Hold Still, joins me to talk about how she's expanding her teaching role with The Slow Novel Lab, and an exciting new podcast venture called Keeping a Notebook.

Nina LaCour Show Notes

Nina LaCour's first First Draft interview

Lorde's album Pure Heroine

We Are Okay

Nina's interview on Yin Chang's podcast, 88 Cups of Tea

Alfred Hitchcock

The Castle of Otranto, a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole

Virginia Woolf

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

Frida Kahlo (Artist)

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

Keeping a Notebook (and the episode featuring Sarah Enni)

The Slow Novel Lab

"On Keeping a Notebook" by Joan Didion

Sara Zarr's podcast This Creative Life

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

Save the Cat

SquareSpace

MailChimp

Nina's short story in the Foreshadow YA online YA anthology collection

Writing the Breakout Novel: Worksheets by Donald Maass

Hamline low residency MFA program