First Draft Episode #309: Casey McQuiston
Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue, talks about their latest queer rom-com, One Last Stop.
Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:
- Hadestown (musical)
- The Royal We and its sequel The Heir Affair, by Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks, the writing duo otherwise known as Fug Girls. Hear their First Draft interview here.
- Louise Rettison, author of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson and many more YA novels
- Eddie Izzard, actor and comedian
- A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hilary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein
- My Date with The President’s Daughter (movie)
- Chasing Liberty (movie)
- Derry Girls (TV show)
- Happy Endings (TV show)
- New Girl (TV show)
- Veep (TV show)
- Parks and Recreation (TV show)
- How I Met Your Mother (TV show)
- VIcki Lame, editor at St. Martin’s Press
- The You’re Wrong About podcast’s series about Princess Diana
- Susie Q (movie)
- Doctor Who (TV show)
- LOST (TV show)
- TVTropes.org
- Oceans 11 (movie)
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett (hear her First Draft interview here)
- Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian (hear his First Draft interview here)
- “I’m Not Your Hero” by Tegan and Sara
- 10 Things I Hate About You (movie) co-written by Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith, hear her First Draft interview here
- Elana K. Arnold, author of YA books Damsel, What Girls Are Made Of, Infandous, and Middle Grade series A Boy Called Bat, and many more. Listen to her First Draft interviews here and here.
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