Ep 152: Jessica Spotswood

Jessica Spotswood, author of the CAHILL WITCH CHRONICLES, WILD SWANS, and THE LAST SUMMER OF THE GARRETT GIRLS, as well as editor of A TYRANNY OF PETTICOATS, THE RADICAL ELEMENT, and of TOIL & TROUBLE: 15 TALES OF WOMEN AND WITCHCRAFT, which comes out August 28!

 

Jessica Spotswood Show Notes

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Michele Volanksy, Dean of Dramaturgy at Washington College

The Laramie Project (play)

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Ira Glass’s quote on creativity

Tiffany Schmidt

Jessica’s Reddit AMA about editing anthologies

Slasher Girls and Monster Boys edited by April Genevieve Tucholke

Beth Revis (listen to her First Draft interview here)

Andrea Creamer

Marie Lu (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here)

Saundra Mitchell

Carrie Ryan

Caroline Tung Richmond (listen to her First Draft podcast here)

Lindsay Smith (listen to her First Draft podcast here)

Robin Talley (listen to her First Draft podcast here)

Y. S. Lee

Kekla Magoon

Leslye Walton

Tess Sharpe