An Everyone Problem With Laurie Devore

First Draft Episode #295: Laurie Devore

Laurie Devore, author of How To Break a Boy and Winner Takes All,
talks about her latest contemporary YA, A Better Bad Idea.


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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




Lurlene McDaniel, author of Don’t Die, My Love, Six Months to
Live, and Breathless




The Gemma Doyle series, made up of: A Great and Terrible
Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing, by Libba Bray,
author of Printz award-winner Going Bovine, and genuinely
terrifying historical paranormal The Diviners, and more. Hear
her First Draft interview here.




The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times
bestselling author of the Shadowhunter Chronicles, the
forthcoming Sword Catcher duology, and co-author of the
Magisterium series. Hear her first interview on First Draft
in support of Chain of Gold, and hear her talk about its
follow up, Chain of Iron, and answer listener questions here!




Absolute Write




Diana Fox, literary agent and founder of Fox Literary, who is
Laurie’s literary agent




“Gunpowder and Lead” and “Kerosene” by Miranda Lambert




Mind the Gap documentary, directed by Bing Liu




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Arvin Ahmadi, author of
Down and Across, Girl Gone Viral, and his latest, How it All
Blew Up.




Tiffany D. Jackson, author
of Allegedly, Monday’s Not Coming, and Let Me Hear A Rhyme,
talks about her new book, Grown.




Robyn Schneider, author of
The Beginning of Everything, Extraordinary Means, Invisible
Ghosts, and You Don’t Live Here.




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