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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).
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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, and The Rock From the Sky. Listen to his First Draft interviews here and here.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life, by George Saunders
The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak
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Carson Elllis, 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. Listen to her First Draft interview here.
Oliver Jeffers, visual artist, illustrator of The Day the Crayons Quit, and author and illustrator of How to Catch a Star, The Fate of Fausto, and Here We Are talks about his newest picture book, What We'll Build. Listen to his First Draft interview here.
Matthew Burgess and CΓ‘tia Chien, artist and illustrator respectively, of picture book The Bear and the Moon. Matthew is a poet, picture book author, and Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College. Catia is a visual artist, illustrator, and founder of A Thousand Worlds, a picture book directory that connects readers to beautiful picture books written and illustrated by BIPOC authors and illustrators. Listen to their First Draft interview here.
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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.
Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:
Hadestown (musical)
The Royal We and its sequel The Heir Affair, by Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks, the writing duo otherwise known as Fug Girls. Hear their First Draft interview here.
Louise Rettison, author of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson and many more YA novels
Eddie Izzard, actor and comedian
A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hilary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein
My Date with The President's Daughter (movie)
Chasing Liberty (movie)
Derry Girls (TV show)
Happy Endings (TV show)
New Girl (TV show)
Veep (TV show)
Parks and Recreation (TV show)
How I Met Your Mother (TV show)
VIcki Lame, editor at St. Martin's Press
The You're Wrong About podcast's series about Princess Diana
Susie Q (movie)
Doctor Who (TV show)
LOST (TV show)
TVTropes.org
Oceans 11 (movie)
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett (hear her First Draft interview here)
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian (hear his First Draft interview here)
"I'm Not Your Hero" by Tegan and Sara
10 Things I Hate About You (movie) co-written by Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith, hear her First Draft interview here
Elana K. Arnold, author of YA books Damsel, What Girls Are Made Of, Infandous, and Middle Grade series A Boy Called Bat, and many more. Listen to her First Draft interviews here and here.
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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.
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.
Leah Johnson, talks about her bestselling debut novel, You Should See Me In a Crown, and the forthcoming Rise to the Sun. Hear her First Draft interview here.
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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.
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IGN.com
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show)
Alert Nerd
Matt Springer, one of the founders of Alert Nerd
Chris Stewart, one of the founders of Alert Nerd
Backstage magazine
Fresh Romance, an anthology to which Sarah contributed
Crazy Rich Asians (movie)
Editor Jenny Bak
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Maurene Goo, author of Since You Asked, I Believe in a Thing Called Love, The Way You Make Me Feel, and Somewhere Only We Know. Hear her interviews here, here, and here!
Loan Le, editor at Simon & Schuster's Atria Books and debut author of A Phα» Love Story.
Elise Bryant, debut author of Happily Ever Afters.
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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.
Today's episode is brought to you by JAY'S GAY AGENDA, a moving and hilarious sex-positive queer teen rom-com from debut novelist Jason June, out from HarperCollins now.
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Hank Green's First Draft interview discussing A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, the sequel to his #1 New York Times bestselling debut, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. Hank is, along with his brother John Green, the CEO of Complexly, co-host of the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel and the Dear Hank and John podcast, and is also co-founder of VidCon, DFTBA Records, and Crash Course. Listen to his First Draft interview here.
The Babysitter's Club by Anne M. Martin
Fallen Angels and Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Where the Red Fern Goes by Wilson Rawls
Sula and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner
Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird
J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye
Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak, Chains, and memoir Shout
Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Locomotion, Another Brooklyn, and many many more.
Harvey (movie)
Booklist
The Looking For Alaska mini-series in Hulu
"The Anthropocene Reviewed Reviewed," an episode of John's podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed
"On Being Ill" by Virginia Woolf
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
"Hank Reviews Everything" video on the Vlogbrothers channel
Katrina Vandenberg, poet
Claude Glass
Superleague (official website, woof) explained so well in this New York Times review and this podcast episode of The Daily, as well as the three-episode breakdown of Men In Jackets (ep 1, ep 2, ep 3)
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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.
Maureen Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of of several YA novels, including 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Suite Scarlett, The Name of the Star, and Truly Devious: A Mystery. She has also done collaborative works, such as Let It Snow (with John Green and Lauren Myracle), and The Bane Chronicles (with Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan).
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.
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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 co-founding Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color.
This episode is brought to you by Melanin in YA, a database comprised of Black YA authors, literary agents, editors, industry professionals, and influencers. A resource for everyone involved in traditional YA publishing, Melanin in YA provides bi-monthly news round ups of book deals, cover reveals, and more. Check it out at melanininya.com, or follow Instagram: @melanininya / Twitter @melanin_ya.
Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:
Nicola's first First Draft interview here
Jodi Reamer, agent at Writer's House who now represents NIcola and David
Big (movie)
Before Sunrise (movie)
Barbara Marcus, head of Random House Children's Books
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David Yoon, author of Frankly in Love, Super Fake Love Song, and Version Zero.
Adam Silvera, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Infinity Reaper, Infinity Son, They Both Die at the End, More Happy Than Not, History Is All You Left Me, and What If It's Us with Becky Albertalli (hear her First Draft interviews here and here).
Tahereh Mafi, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award nominated author of the Shatter Me YA fantasy series, YA contemps An Emotion of Great Delight and A Very Large Expanse of Sea, middle grade books Furthermore and Whichwood. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.
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Camryn Garrett, author of Full Disclosure, talks about her new YA, Off the Record.
This episode is brought to you by Melanin in YA, a database comprised of Black YA authors, literary agents, editors, industry professionals, and influencers. A resource for everyone involved in traditional YA publishing, Melanin in YA provides bi-monthly news round ups of book deals, cover reveals, and more. Check it out at melanininya.com, or follow Instagram: @melanininya / Twitter @melanin_ya.
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R.J. Palacio, author of Wonder
Sarah Dessen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Once and for All, Just Listen, The Truth About Forever, The Rest of the Story, and many more. Hear her First Draft interview here.
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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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.
Brittney Morris, author of Slay and Miles Morales: Wings of Fury talks about her newest speculative YA, The Cost of Knowing.
Morgan Jerkins, author of essay collection This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, talks about her new book, social history and memoir Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots.
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Chris Grabenstein is the 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, out now!
Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:
Mad Magazine
Rocky & Bullwinkle (TV show)
The Twilight Zone (TV show)
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
American Heritage magazine
Bruce Willis (actor)
Kathy Kinney (comedic actor)
Jane Brucker ((comedic actor)
James Patterson is the world's bestselling writer, known for the Alex Cross series, the Women's Murder Club series, the Michael Bennett series, and many more
Cheers (TV show)
Michael Bay (producer, director)
Woody Harrrelson (actor)
Orlando Jones (actor, writer)
On Writing by Stephen King
Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider, and Pop Goes the Weasel are some of the nursery-rhyme-themed James Patterson books that inspired Chris to name his first detective novels after carnival rides
Shine by Chris and J.J. Grabenstein
Robin Williams (actor, comedian)
Jim Henson (creator of The Muppets)
Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of mysteries and urban fantasy novels, including the Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasies (which inspired the True Blood TV show), the Aurora Teagarden mysteries, the Lily Bard mysteries, the Harper Connelly urban fantasies, the Midnight, Texas novels, and the Gunnie Rose books, set in an alternate history America.
Beth Hughes, illustrator of Dog Squad
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
How to Write a Mystery edited by Lee Child
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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.
Stuart Gibbs, New York Times bestselling author of the Spy School series, the FunJungle series, the Moon Base Alpha series, and The Last Musketeer series. His newest series kicked off in 2019 with Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation.
Soman Chainani, New York Times bestselling author of the School for Good and Evil series, which will be a Netflix series.
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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.
This episode was brought to you by the six-month Picture Book Writing and Illustration Online Course offered by author Zanni Louise & illustrator Anna Pignataro. First Draft listeners get a 20% discount on the course. Learn more, and sign up with the 20% discount, by clicking this link!
Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:
Hear Victoria's other First Draft interviews here and here.
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, beginning with The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Crusader Kings (video game)
Scrivener (word processing software)
Legend of Zelda (video game)
Merriam-Webster's Visual Dictionary
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Sabaa Tahir, New York Times bestselling author of the An Ember in the Ashes series. Hear her episodes here and 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, as well as adult novel, Ninth House. Hear her episodes here, here, and here.
Susan Dennard, New York Times bestselling author of the Something Strange and Deadly series and The Witchlands series.
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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.
This episode was brought to you by the six-month Picture Book Writing and Illustration Online Course offered by author Zanni Louise & illustrator Anna Pignataro. First Draft listeners get a 20% discount on the course. Learn more, and sign up with the 20% discount, by clicking this link!
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Hear Morgan's previous episodes of First Draft, here and here!
Big (movie)
Toy Story 3 (movie)
Good Will Hunting (movie)
Morgan's Spotify, and the Take Me Home Tonight official playlist
Stephen King's On Writing
The Penderwicks series, beginning with The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy, by Jeanne Birdsall
Richard Schiff, The West Wing
Rep. Adam Schiff
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Jenny Han, New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before and the The Summer I Turned Pretty series.
Jennifer E. Smith, author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Geography of You and Me, and Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between, and the upcoming picture book, The Creature of Habit.
Maurene Goo, author of The Way You Make Me Feel, I Believe in a Thing Called Love, Somewhere Only We Know, and more. Listen to her episodes here, here, and her interviewing Sarah Enni here!
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Podcast chat! A conversation with Sara Zarr, National Book Award finalist author of eight novels for young adults, most recently Goodbye from Nowhere, about her creative writing podcast, This Creative Life.
Listeners can get two audiobooks for the price of one at Libro.fm when you use promo code FirstDraftPod at checkout!
Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:
Hear Sara's first First Draft interview here.
Hear Sarah on This Creative Life here.
I also outlined all the equipment I use for podcasting in this TechCrunch article, "How I Podcast."
Terry Gross, host of NPR's Fresh Air podcast
Marc Maron, host of the WTF podcast
Pete Holmes, host of the You Made it Weird podcast
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, . Hear her episodes of First Draft here and here.
LibSyn, the podcast hosting service
Patreon
Sara is no longer using SubStack to distribute her podcast, which she discusses in this episode of This Creative Life: "Substack and Failure."
Sara's book Courageous Creativity: Advice and Encouragement for the Creative Life
GarageBand
Best Self Co. Six-Month Journal
Acuity Scheduling
Doodle
Krista Tippett, host of the On Being podcast
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Audacity
Shure microphones
Adobe Audition
Zoom H2N
Zoom H6N
AirTable
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