Track Changes Bonus Episode: Publishing From Every Angle (Panel)

Track Changes Bonus Episode: Panel Conversation With
Abigail Hing Wen, author of Loveboat Taipei; Literary Agent Joanna
Volpe of New Leaf Literary & Media; and Alvina Ling, VP and
Editor in Chief at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

A conversation between an author, agent, and editor to cover the
ins and outs of the publishing process. The panel features
Abigail Hing Wen, debut author of Loveboat Taipei; agent Joanna
Volpe, president and literary agent at New Leaf Literary &
Media; and Alvina Ling, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief at
Little Brown Books for Young Readers (and co-host of the Book
Friends Forever podcast).


This conversation was held as part of A Mighty Blaze’s YA
Weekend, and many thanks to Joseph Moldover (author of Every Last
Breath) and Jennifer de Leon (author of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m
From) for all the help putting that entire celebration together.


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




This is My Brain In Love by I. W. Gregorio




Stephen Barbara, literary agent at Inkwell Management




Holly Black, The Cruel Prince series, The Spiderwick
Chronicles, and many more (hear her First Draft interview
here)




Laini Taylor, author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series
and the Strange the Dreamer series (hear her First Draft
interview here)




Brandy Colbert, author of The Voting Booth, The Only Black
Girls in Town, Little & Lion, and more (listen to her
First Draft interviews here and here, and her mailbag episode
here)




Emily X. R. Pan, author of The Astonishing Color of After
(listen to her First Draft interview here)




Samira Ahmed, author of Internment




Kirsten Pettit, Executive Editor at HarperChildren’s




Alvina Ling contributed to the Track Changes episode After
the Book Deal: What Next?




Adam Silvera, author of They Both Die at the End, Infinity
Son, and History is All You Left Me (hear his First Draft
interview here)




Lea Salonga, singer, actress, and the voice of Jasmine in
Disney’s animated Aladdin




Black Brother Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes




Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams




Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in writing for children’s
and teens




Kathi Appelt, author of The Underneath and The True Blue
Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp




We Need Diverse Books


 




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