First Draft Episode #309: Casey McQuiston

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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