First Draft Episode #306: Nicola Yoon

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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First Draft Episode #305: Camryn Garrett

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.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• 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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First Draft Episode #304: Chris Grabenstein

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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First Draft Episode #303: Victoria Aveyard

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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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.

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 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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