Hang with me and Dhonielle Clayton, co-author of TINY PRETTY THINGS and its sequel, SHINY BROKEN PIECES (out now!), as well as author of forthcoming series THE BELLES (spring ’17). She talks about weekly childhood trips to the bookstore, being a writing n00b, accidentally getting a boarding school job, and writing to arrested development.
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Dhonielle Clayton Show Notes
THE PAHNTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster
I WANT MY HAT BACK by Jon Klassen
The Hanging Garden (group of writers on Tumblr)
The Longstockings: Jenny Han, Coe Booth, Siobhan Vivian, Lisa Graff
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Pretty Little Liars (TV show)
OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck
CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grey’s Anatomy (TV show)
Victoria Marini, literary agent at ICM
THE SELECTION by Kiera Cass
WITHER by Lauren DeStefano
The Princess Bride (movie)
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA by Katherine Peterson