Laini Taylor is a National Book Award finalist for Lips Touch Three Times, New York Times bestseller for the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, and Printz Honoree for Strange the Dreamer and its sequel, Muse of Nightmares, out now!
LINKS AND TOPICS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
John Grisham, author of A Time to Kill and The Firm
Victoria Aveyard, author of the Red Queen series (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here)
Jim di Bartolo, illustrator and Laini’s husband
SCBWI, non-profit organization for individuals who write and illustrate for children and young adults, where she found her agent through a manuscript critique
Arthur Levine, publisher at Scholastic who worked on the Harry Potter series
In the Shadows by Kiersten White and Jim di Bartolo
Strange the Dreamer was selected as a Printz Award winning book
Laini’s Ladies, wall hangings designed and created by Laini
Sarah Dessen, author of Once and for All, Just Listen, The Truth About Forever and The Rest of the Story (Listen to her First Draft episode here)
Victoria Schwab, author of the Shades of Magic series and City of Ghosts (listen to her First Draft podcast here)
Holly Black, author of Spiderwick Chronicles, The Curse Workers, Magesterium, and the Folk of Air series (Listen to her First Draft episode here)
Cassie Clare, author of the Mortal Instruments. Dark Artifices and Infernal Devices series
Sarah Rees Brennan, author of the Lyburn series and The Demon’s Lexicon series
Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners and Get in Trouble
Libba Bray, author of The Diviners (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here)
Maurene Goo, author of Somewhere Only We Know, The Way You Make Me Feel, I Believe in a Thing Called Love, and Since You Asked (Listen to Maurene’s first, second, and third episodes of First Draft)
Gentleman and Phantoms, Laini’s story which appears in the Foretold anthology
The Girl Who Woke the Dreamer, Laini’s story which appears in the My True Love Gave to Me anthology
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