Writing The Summer We Didn't Get With Leah Johnson

First Draft Episode #277: Leah Johnson

Leah Johnson talks about her bestselling debut novel, You Should
See Me In a Crown, and the forthcoming Rise to the Sun.


This episode is brought to you by Everything I Thought I Knew, by
Shannon Takoaka, out from Candlewick Press now.


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Leah’s essay, “How Young Adult Literature Taught Me to Love
Like a White Girl,” appeared in Electric Lit.




The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson




Sarah Neal-Estes, director of PRX’s American Student Radio




Radiolab podcast network




The “24 Hours at the Golden Apple” episode of This American
Life




“Picture Day” on This American Life




Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert (hear her First Draft
episodes here, here, and here)




Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan




I reference the Marketing and Publicity (Part 2) where I
discuss boundaries in promo


 




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