A Tightrope of Self-Belief With Jennifer E. Smith

First Draft Episode #346: Jennifer E. Smith

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.


Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




Hear Jennifer E. Smith’s first First Draft interview




Illustrator Leo Espinosa




St. Vincent (musician)




A League of Their Own (movie)




Katie Lovejoy, screenwriter for The Statistical Probability
of Love at First Sight




Vanessa Caswill, director of The Statistical Probability of
Love at First Sight




The cast of the movie includes: Hayley Lu Richardson, Ben
Hardy, Rob Delaney, Jameela Jamil




This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith




Field Notes on Love, which Jenn is adapting for the screen
with Lauren Graham




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Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, and the short story
collection Other People We Married, talks about her most
recent novel, All Adults Here, out in paperback now. She and
her husband own Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic. Hear her
First Draft interview here.




Catie Disabato, author of
The Ghost Network and the new adult contemporary novel U Up?
Hear her First Draft interview here.




 


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