First Draft Episode #162: Tiffany D. Jackson
Tiffany D. Jackson—author of Allegedly, whose latest book, Monday’s Not Coming, is out now! Her next book, Let Me Hear a Rhyme, is due out May 21, 2019!—talks about still considering herself a newbie writer, the allure of horror stories, and being honest about the emotions of publishing.
LINKS AND TOPICS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Tiffany decided that she wanted to be a screenwriter and convinced her parents to buy her the writing software Final Draft
Tiffany’s grandmother bought her Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field and she studied it cover to cover
Did a pre-college program at UCLA called Summer Discovery which was her first experience with screenwriting
There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins was the last horror book she read that she considered mind-blowing
Get Out (movie)
Interned at National Geographic and was offered a job within a week of her graduation and learned a lot about documentary television
Saw an article about a girl who was convicted of murder at nine-years old and couldn’t get it out of her head, it then inspired Allegedly
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