Ep 184: Bridget Tyler

First Draft Episode #184: Bridget Tyler

 


Bridget Tyler (find her on Twitter and Instagram, too!), debut
author of The Pioneer, comes to First Draft with Sarah Enni to
talk about adventure and sci-fi, getting outside of her own
bubble for storytelling perspective, avoiding the Leia-Han love
story trope... and in a First Draft exclusive,  Bridget
reveals the name of the sequel to The Pioneer!
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode


Return of the Jedi, episode VI of the Star Wars saga

The Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene (who was actually
numerous ghostwriters)




 


 



The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey and Todd
McCaffrey

The original Battlestar Galactica television series created
by Glen A. Larson, who also co-created The Hardy Boys/Nancy
Drew Mysteries TV series. Small world!

Hunter, a mid-eighties crime drama featuring former
American football player Fred Dryer

Game of Thrones, the HBO television series based on George
R.R. Martin’s fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire




 


 



Care Bears are fictional characters originally created for
greeting cards that branched into other media, including a
popular children’s animated series.

How Bridget Tyler almost lived out all of our Veronica Mars
fantasies

How her first pilot was 7th Heaven meets Buffy the Vampire
Slayer

Hell on Wheels, an AMC television western dramatic series
with the building of the transcontinental railroad as its focus

Matt Nix, creator of Burn Notice

Horizon is a television movie Bridget wrote

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman (listen to her First Draft
interview here) and Jay Kristoff




 


The title of the sequel to The Pioneer!



 
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