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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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Elissa’s previous interviews on First Draft here and here (with illustrator 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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