Ep 123: Jasmine Guillory

Jasmine Guillory, debut author of The Wedding Date (out Jan.
30!), on being an extroverted writer, using the notes app to take
the pressure off starting a new book, the importance of
stillness, and how romance novels can instruct us about
affirmative consent.


 


Jasmine Guillory Show Notes


Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber


The Toast


The “Shoe” books, starting with Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild


Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery


Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace


Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)


Amy Spalding (listen to her First Draft interview here)


Jennifer Laughran, agent with Andrea Brown Literary Agency


NaNoWriMo’s Camp NaNoWriMo


Holly Root (literary agent)


Bridesmaids (movie)


Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins


The Ripped Bodice romance bookstore


The Ripped Bodice's diversity survey in EW and in The New York
Times


Kate Hart’s breakdown of YA covers in 2011 (click around her
archives for many other posts Kate put together on YA covers and
deals)


Jasmine’s NaNoWriMo pep talk


Roxane Gay


Mallory Ortberg


The Proposal, Jasmine's next book


The 2018 First Draft calendar


Kirsten Hubbard