First Draft Episode #321: Stephanie Perkins

Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss and the horror novel There’s Someone Inside Your House (watch the Netflix film adaptation Oct. 6!) talks about her newest scary book, The Woods Are Always Watching.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

Hear the live episode where Stephanie and Sarah Enni talk about Sarah’s debut, Tell Me Everything, at Malaprops Bookstore in Asheville, N. C.
Hear Sara Zarr and Sarah Enni discuss the job of podcasting
Acuity Scheduling is the software that I am using to schedule interviews
Kerry Winfrey, author of romantic comedies Waiting For Tom Hanks, Not Like the Movies, and her newest, Very Sincerely Yours. She is also the author of YA novels Love and Other Alien Experiences and Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It. Hear our conversation here.
Jane Friedman, publishing expert and author educator, wrote The Business of Being a Writer and the Hot Sheet newsletter (a must for all writers IMHO!)
Charles Dickens, author of A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, and more
Jane Austen, author of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma and more
NaNoWriMo, a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month (read Steph’s 2015 Pep Talk for NaNoWriMo here!)
Kate Testerman, agent and founder of kt literary
Julia Straus-Gabel, President and Publisher, Dutton Children's Books, Penguin Random Houes, profiled in “Her Stinging Critiques Propel Young Adult Bestsellers,” in The New York Times and “Meet the Editor: Julie Strauss-Gabel,” in Publisher’s Weekly
John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of many young adult novels, including The Fault in Our Stars and Printz-winning Looking For Alaska, joins to discuss his new essay collection, The Anthropocene Reviewed. He is also one half of the vlogbrothers on YouTube and co-creator of educational series Crash Course. Hear his First Draft interview here.
Gayle Forman, author of If I Stay, Where She Went, and many more
Booklist online magazine
Around the Writer’s Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer’s Resistance by Roseanne Bane
Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of many books, including the And I Darken trilogy, the Slayer series, the Camelot Rising trilogy, and her upcoming adult debut, Hide.
Fear Street, a series by R. L. Stine
Scream (movie)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (movie)
My Favorite Murder (podcast)
Henry Gayden, screenwriter who wrote Shazam and the adaptation of There’s Someone Inside Your House
Creep (movies)
The Overnight (movie)
Stranger Things (TV show)
Elizabeth Gilbert, National Book Award finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of non-fiction works Eat, Pray, Love, Big Magic: Creative Living Without Fear, The Last American Man, and novels City of Girls, The Signature of All Things and more.

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Rebecca Serle, television writer, producer, and New York Times bestselling author of six books, including When You Were Mine , The Edge of Falling, The Dinner List, and her newest, In Five Years, out now. She co-developed the hit TV adaptation of her YA series, Famous in Love. Hear her First Draft interview here.
Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shadow and Bone series, the Six of Crows duology, and the King of Scars duology, discusses her first adult novel, Ninth House. Hear her First Draft interviews here and here.

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