Ep 26: Cynthia Leitich Smith
First Draft with Sarah Enni
Afar - December 23, 2014 21:36 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 369 ratingsBooks Arts Business Entrepreneurship literature write youngadult book books kidlit middlegrade read reading writing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Boisterous, eloquent, and just the tiniest bit zany, Cynthia Leitich Smith, New York Times best-selling author of TANTALIZE and RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME, took me out for tacos and taught me a thing or twelve. I loved hearing her wise words on diversity in YA, paying it forward with newer writers, and writing 200 drafts of a single picture book.
Cynthia Leitich Smith Show Notes
Ming Doyle, illustrator for Cynthia’s graphic novels
Deborah Noyse at Candlewick press (editor)
SANTA KNOWS illustrated by Steve Bjorkman (edited by Mark McVeigh at Dutton)
FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER by E.L. Konigsburg