Hey friend! What's up with Sarah Enni & First Draft
Friends! I am embarking on a summer of working-my-butt-off writing the follow-up to TELL ME EVERYTHING, but in the meantime there's a TON of exciting podcast stuff to catch up on! ❤️💗❤️💗
🌴The First Draft Listener Club!
📆 Upcoming Events
🎉Book Expo America and BookCon
🎧Recent can't-miss First Draft episodes (including with the woman who wrote TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU!!!!)
✔️ Podcast Recs!
💎Plenty of links for you to buy TELL ME EVERYTHING!
🌴 First Draft Listener Club! 🌴
First Draft with Sarah Enni is approaching its five year anniversary, and 200th episode! 😱
Reaching this milestone has me thinking about better ways to engage with listeners like you, who have gotten the show where it is today. That's why I'm excited to announce the upcoming First Draft Listener Club, a premium membership community where fans of the show will get…
Audio extras like longer, unabridged episodes of the First Draft Podcast
Exclusive monthly newsletters where I'll break down what I've learned about writing, life, and podcasting from the last 5 years,
...and become part of an interactive member community, to connect with me, as well as with each other.
Click here to learn more about the First Draft Listener Club,
and to help shape what that Club will be!
Upcoming Events...
📚June 29-30 · Hollywood, CA · Leviosa Con
📚September 20-23 · Chattanooga, TN. · YA-hoo Fest!
I was able to attend BookExpo America and BookCon last month, and had a blast moderating some incredible panels, including:
(Top image): Jason Reynolds, Cassandra Clare, Julie Murphy, and Tomi Adeyemi in a discussion about "EPIC YA!" in front of 1,100 avid readers
and
(Bottom image): Karyn Parsons, Sandhya Menon, Brittney Morris, Sarah Dessen, and Morgan Matson in a conversation about contemporary YA, technology, writing about family, and ambitious moms.
It was a total thrill, as always, and keep your ears peeled for audio from my panel that included N.K. Jemisin 👀
🎧 Recent First Draft Episodes 🎧
Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith, Amy Andelson, and Emily Meyer
Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith, Amy Andelson, and Emily Meyer are the team behind Trinkets, the Netflix TV series based on Kiwi’s young adult novel of the same name. Kiwi Smith is one half of the screenwriting team behind films like 10 Things I Hate About You, Legally Blonde, Ella Enchanted, and more, and the author of young adult novels The Geography of Girlhood, and Trinkets. Amy Andelson and Emily Meyer are the writing team behind films like Step Up 3D, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List, and the young adult novel Layover, and they adapted Trinkets and are credited as co-creators of the TV show. (Hear Amy and Emily's first episode of First Draft here!)
Listen to our interview here, on iTunes, or on Spotify!
Jennifer Donnelly, author of STEPSISTER!
Jennifer Donnelly, New York Times bestselling author of A Northern Light, Revolution, These Shallow Graves, and The Tea Rose series (incl. The Tea Rose; The Winter Rose; The Wild Rose) and Waterfire Saga series (incl. Deep Blue; Rogue Wave; Dark Tide; Sea Spell), Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book, , among others, who is back with the New York Times bestselling Stepsister. Jennifer talks about being raised on bedtime stories about life under the Hitler regime; how to deep-dive into writing a historical novel; and the joy of being obsessed.
Listen to our interview here, on iTunes, or on Spotify!
Abdi Nazemian, author of LIKE A LOVE STORY!
Abdi Nazemian, TV writer, producer of films like Call Me By Your Name, and author of Like a Love Story, The Authentics, and The Walk-In Closet, talks about discovering gay icons in the time before the internet, putting all your obsessions in your work, crying in coffee shops, and writing about history from an emotional standpoint, so we can repeat the best of it.
Listen to our interview here, on iTunes, or on Spotify!
Kate Spencer, co-host of Forever35 and author of DEAD MOMS CLUB!
Kate Spencer, comedian, author of Dead Moms Club: A Memoir, essayist, and co-host of fabulous podcast Forever35 talks about the never-ending quest for confidence, exorcising grief and pain through writing, and how a podcast about serums became a podcast about feelings.
Listen to our interview here, on iTunes, or on Spotify!
🎙 Podcast Recommendations 🎙
Forever35 This feels like the right time to re-recommend Forever35, since I was able to sit down and chat with co-host Kate Spencer last month! Kate and Doree claim that Forever35 is a podcast where friends talk about serums, but they get to so much more: feminism, self-care, reading recommendations, and how we can all be a little bit more chill. I super recommend their recent episode with YA author Maurene Goo as co-host (while Doree was on maternity leave)!
Nice Try This podcast from Curbed is about a variety of attempts to create utopian societies. Full disclosure: I listened to the first one (Utopia for Whom) thinking it was about Jonestown, but it was about JAMESTOWN, and I ended up learning a lot about cannibal colonizers.
💅 ICYMI 💅
