Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary is Elise’s literary agent Katherine Locke, author of The Girl With the Red Balloon, who offers editorial services Lamar Giles, author of Fake ID, SPIN, Not So Pure and Simple, and The Last Last-Day-Of-Summerand more Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, Dear Justyce, Odd One Out, Jackpot, and Clean Getaway. Hear his First Draft interviews here and here.Īngie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Giveand On the Come Up talks about her latest book, Concrete Rose, as well as the upcoming Blackout. Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of critically acclaimed books, including National Book Award finalist Ghost, Newberry and Printz-honored Long Way Down, Coretta Scott King Honoree As Brave as You, and his latest, middle grade Look Both Ways, which was just named to the National Book Award Longlist for Young People’s Literature. March, the graphic novel by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Days of Solitude Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road and Big Sur Sue Grafton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Kinsey Millhone series, beginning with A is For Alibi Megan McCafferty, author of Sloppy Firsts: A Jessica Darling Novel, Bumped, The Mall, and moreįaye Kellerman, author of the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novels, beginning with The Ritual Bath Hear her First Draft interview about The Rest of the Story. Sarah Dessen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Once and for All, Just Listen, The Truth About Forever and many more.

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