First Draft Episode #302: Morgan Matson

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.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• 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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