Jasmine Guillory, debut author of The Wedding Date (out Jan. 30!), on being an extroverted writer, using the notes app to take the pressure off starting a new book, the importance of stillness, and how romance novels can instruct us about affirmative consent.
Jasmine Guillory Show Notes
Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber
The “Shoe” books, starting with Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
Amy Spalding (listen to her First Draft interview here)
Jennifer Laughran, agent with Andrea Brown Literary Agency
NaNoWriMo’s Camp NaNoWriMo
Holly Root (literary agent)
Bridesmaids (movie)
Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
The Ripped Bodice romance bookstore
The Ripped Bodice's diversity survey in EW and in The New York Times
Kate Hart’s breakdown of YA covers in 2011 (click around her archives for many other posts Kate put together on YA covers and deals)
The Proposal, Jasmine's next book