Stephanie Perkins is Not a Thomas Kinkade Painting

First Draft Episode #321: Stephanie Perkins

Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and
the French Kiss and the horror novel There’s Someone Inside Your
House (watch the Netflix film adaptation Oct. 6!) talks about her
newest scary book, The Woods Are Always Watching.


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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




Hear the live episode where Stephanie and Sarah Enni talk
about Sarah’s debut, Tell Me Everything, at Malaprops
Bookstore in Asheville, N. C.




Hear Sara Zarr and Sarah Enni discuss the job of podcasting




Acuity Scheduling is the software that I am using to schedule
interviews




Kerry Winfrey, author of romantic comedies Waiting For Tom
Hanks, Not Like the Movies, and her newest, Very Sincerely
Yours. She is also the author of YA novels Love and Other
Alien Experiences and Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She
Bites It. Hear our conversation here.




Jane Friedman, publishing expert and author educator, wrote
The Business of Being a Writer and the Hot Sheet newsletter
(a must for all writers IMHO!)




Charles Dickens, author of A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas
Carol, Great Expectations, and more




Jane Austen, author of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and
Sensibility, Emma and more




NaNoWriMo, a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month (read Steph’s
2015 Pep Talk for NaNoWriMo here!)




Kate Testerman, agent and founder of kt literary




Julia Straus-Gabel, President and Publisher, Dutton
Children's Books, Penguin Random Houes, profiled in “Her
Stinging Critiques Propel Young Adult Bestsellers,” in The
New York Times and “Meet the Editor: Julie Strauss-Gabel,” in
Publisher’s Weekly




John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of many
young adult novels, including The Fault in Our Stars and
Printz-winning Looking For Alaska, joins to discuss his new
essay collection, The Anthropocene Reviewed. He is also one
half of the vlogbrothers on YouTube and co-creator of
educational series Crash Course. Hear his First Draft
interview here.




Gayle Forman, author of If I Stay, Where She Went, and many
more




Booklist online magazine




Around the Writer’s Block: Using Brain Science to Solve
Writer’s Resistance by Roseanne Bane




Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker
Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of many books,
including the And I Darken trilogy, the Slayer series, the
Camelot Rising trilogy, and her upcoming adult debut, Hide.




Fear Street, a series by R. L. Stine




Scream (movie)




I Know What You Did Last Summer (movie)




My Favorite Murder (podcast)




Henry Gayden, screenwriter who wrote Shazam and the
adaptation of There’s Someone Inside Your House




Creep (movies)




The Overnight (movie)




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Casey McQuiston, New York
Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue, talks
about their latest queer rom-com, One Last Stop. Hear their
First Draft interview here.




Rebecca Serle, television
writer, producer, and New York Times bestselling author of
six books, including When You Were Mine , The Edge of
Falling, The Dinner List, and her newest, In Five Years, out
now. She co-developed the hit TV adaptation of her YA series,
Famous in Love. Hear her First Draft interview 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,
discusses her first adult novel, Ninth House. Hear her First
Draft interviews here and here.


 




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