Veronica Roth

First Draft Episode #245: Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the
Divergent series, the Carve the Mark duology, and the short story
collection, The End and Other Beginnings, talks about her first
adult fantasy novel, The Chosen Ones.


This episode was sponsored by HIGHLAND 2, a better way to write,
and by We Didn’t Ask For This, the newest novel by Adi Alsaid,
out from Inkyard Press April 7 (listen to his First Draft
interview here).


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Hear Veronica’s previous First Draft interviews: Just prior
to the Insurgent movie being released, and as Carve the Mark
was being released




Katherine Tegen, publisher of Katherine Tegen Books,
published Veronica’s young adult fictoin




Alice Munro, author of Dear Life, Runaway, and Too Much
Happiness




Me and cooking can be summed up in the Netflix series Nailed
It




Some chosen one stories that were particularly influential to
Veronica were Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling; Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien; Animorphs by KA Applegate, Narnia by C.S.
Lewis; The Giver by Louis Lowry; and Ender’s Game by Orson
Scott Card




The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe




All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders




Adam Brody of The O.C.




My most recent interview with Zan Romanoff, whose newest
book, Look, is fantastic!




MK Ultra, the government’s mind-control experimentation




Project Blue Book, the top-secret government UFO coverup




The audiobook of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders




“As Coronavirus Spreads, Publishers Struggle with When, and
How, to Move Pub Dates,” the Publisher’s Weekly article about
publishers deciding when to move publication dates in light
of COVID-19




The list of virtual events for Veronica’s The Chosen Ones
virtual tour




Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler




 


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Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author
of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture
Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator
of Everyone’s an Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too;  Michael
Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender;
John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and
frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their
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