First Draft Episode #295: Laurie Devore

Laurie Devore, author of How To Break a Boy and Winner Takes All, talks about her latest contemporary YA, A Better Bad Idea.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

Lurlene McDaniel, author of Don’t Die, My Love, Six Months to Live, and Breathless
The Gemma Doyle series, made up of: A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing, by Libba Bray, author of Printz award-winner Going Bovine, and genuinely terrifying historical paranormal The Diviners, and more. Hear her First Draft interview here.
The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shadowhunter Chronicles, the forthcoming Sword Catcher duology, and co-author of the Magisterium series. Hear her first interview on First Draft in support of Chain of Gold, and hear her talk about its follow up, Chain of Iron, and answer listener questions here!
Absolute Write
Diana Fox, literary agent and founder of Fox Literary, who is Laurie’s literary agent
“Gunpowder and Lead” and “Kerosene” by Miranda Lambert
Mind the Gap documentary, directed by Bing Liu

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