Track Changes Bonus Episode: The Don't Ask Me Where I'm From panel, feat. Author Jennifer de Leon, Agent Faye Bender, and Editor Caitlyn Dhlouhy

First Draft Episode #267: The Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From
Team: Author Jennifer de Leon, Agent Faye Bender, and Editor
Caitlyn Dlouhy

A conversation between the entire team behind debut young adult
novel Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From: author Jennifer de Leon,
Literary agent Faye Bender, partner and founder of The Book
Group, and Caitlyn Dlouhy, Vice President & Editorial
Director–Caitlyn Dlouhy Books at Simon & Schuster.


This conversation was held as part of A Mighty Blaze’s YA
Weekend, and many thanks to Joseph Moldover (author of Every Last
Breath) for all the help putting that entire celebration
together.


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Francisco X. Stork, author of Illegal, Marcelo in the Real
World, and more




Natalie C. Anderson, author of City of Saints and Thieves and
Let’s Go Swimming on Doomsday




Desmond Hall, debut author of forthcoming YA novel Your
Corner Dark




2020–2021 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature,
Jason Reynolds, whose many books include All American
Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely [listen to his First
Draft interview here]), As Brave as You, For Every One,
the Track series, Look Both Ways, Stamped: Racism,
Anti-Racism, and You and Long Way Down, which received a
Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King
Honor. Listen to his First Draft interviews here and here.




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