Opening the Mailbag With Lilliam Rivera

First Draft Episode #281: Opening the Mailbag with Lilliam
Rivera

This week is a new mailbag episode, where I--along with a very
special guest--will answer listener questions! Joining me today
is Lilliam Rivera, author of The Education of Margot Sanchez,
Dealing in Dreams, Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit, and her
newest YA novel, Never Look Back, a retelling of the Greek myth
Orpheus and Eurydice set in the Bronx (out now)!


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Meg Medina is the New York Times bestselling and Newberry
Medalist author of Merci Suárez Changes Gears, Yaqui Delgado
Wants to Kick Your Ass, and most recently, Evelyn del Rey is
Moving Away.




Matt de la Peña, New York Times bestselling and Newberry
Medalist author of Last Stop on Market Street, Love, and
Mexican Whiteboy.




Track Changes, the podcast miniseries that explains how your
book goes from the laptop to the bookshelf




Lilliam is contributing a story to From a Certain Point of
View: The Empire Strikes Back




The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop




The National Council of Teachers of English conference




Black Orpheus (movie)




 


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