Love and Life in the Time of Bouncy Houses with Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed

First Draft Episode #234: Becky Albertalli and Aisha
Saeed

Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs.
the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Leah on the Offbeat, and co-author of
What if it’s Us, and Aisha Saeed, New York Times bestselling
author of Written in the Stars and Amal Unbound, teamed up to
write Yes No Maybe So.


This episode of First Draft is brought to you by Steven Sater’s
Alice By Heart, a debut young adult novel in which the Tony
Award-winning co-creator of Spring Awakening tells the story of a
young girl who takes refuge in a London Tube station during WWII
and confronts grief, loss, and first love with the help of her
favorite book, Alice in Wonderland. Alice By Heart is out from
Penguin Random House now.


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Becky’s previous episode of First Draft




Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples




Aisha Saeed was a co-founding member of We Need Diverse Books




Jon Ossoff, the politcian whose run for a U.S. House seat
brought Becky and Aisha together and inspired Yes No Maybe
So, is running for Senate. Learn more about him and donate to
his campaign here!




Becky co-wrote another book, What if it’s Us, with Adam
Silvera (listen to his First Draft interview here)




Long Shot (movie)




Nancy Paulsen of Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin
Random House, is Aisha’s long-time editor




Donna Bray at Balzer + Bray has been Becky’s editor for her
entire career, and she edited YES NO MAYBE SO




Love, Simon (movie based on Becky’s debut novel, Simon vs.
the Homo Sapien’s Agenda)




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