Ep 77: Leila Howland

Leila Howland, author of NANTUCKET BLUE, THE FORGET-ME-NOT
SUMMER, and its sequel THE BRIGHTEST STARS OF SUMMER (and the
forthcoming HELLO, SUNSHINE, due out next summer!),
talks writing hiatus, learning structure from screenwriting,
and finding inspiration in well-intentioned missteps.


Leila Howland Show Notes


STUART LITTLE by E.B. White


A LITTLE PRINCESS and THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances
Hodgson Burnett 


HEIDI by Johanna Spyri


THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien 


THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame


Young Frankenstein (movie)


Sara Crowe (agent)


SAVE THE CAT by Blake Snyder


10 Cloverfield Lane (movie)


The Godfather (movie)


THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LAUNDAU BANKS by E. Lockhart


Lost It by Kristin Tracy


Bridesmaids (movie)


Elin Hilderbrand (author)


Josephine Angelini (author)


 


Kiernan Shipka (Sally Draper on Mad Men, TV show)


HELLO SUNSHINE, forthcoming book from Leila


Barnsdall Art Park


Kayla Cagan (author)


 


SUMMER IN THE INVISIBLE CITY by Juliana Romano (Leila's review
for her debut book, FIRST THERE WAS FOREVER)


Robert Hass: “Take the time to write. You can do your life’s work
in half an hour a day.”