Ep 136: Kirsten Hubbard

Kirsten Hubbard, author of YA novels Like Mandarin and
Wanderlove, as well as middle grade novels Watch the Sky, Race
the Night, and most recently, Secrets of Topsea: A Friendly Town
That’s Almost Always By the Ocean (as Kir Fox, co-written with
Michelle Schusterman, as M. Shelley Coats), talks about the time
both of our lives simultaneously blew up, and how we helped each
other rebuild. Also: how having a twin means she’s always written
for an audience, the pleasures of re-reading, and writing with
ADHD.


 


Kirsten Hubbard Show Notes


Maurene Goo (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here)


Egmont USA closing


Kaitlin Ward (listen to her First Draft interview here)


Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar


Welcome to Night Vale (podcast)


New Leaf Literary, and agents Jo Volpe, Suzie Townsend, and
Kirsten’s current agent, Jordan Hamessley


Sarah Davies at Greenhouse Literary


Roald Dahl


YA Highway