Bridget Tyler (find her on Twitter and Instagram, too!), debut author of The Pioneer, comes to First Draft with Sarah Enni to talk about adventure and sci-fi, getting outside of her own bubble for storytelling perspective, avoiding the Leia-Han love story trope... and in a First Draft exclusive, Bridget reveals the name of the sequel to The Pioneer!
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode- Return of the Jedi, episode VI of the Star Wars saga
- The Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene (who was actually numerous ghostwriters)
- The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey
- The original Battlestar Galactica television series created by Glen A. Larson, who also co-created The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries TV series. Small world!
- Hunter, a mid-eighties crime drama featuring former American football player Fred Dryer
- Game of Thrones, the HBO television series based on George R.R. Martin’s fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire
- Care Bears are fictional characters originally created for greeting cards that branched into other media, including a popular children’s animated series.
- How Bridget Tyler almost lived out all of our Veronica Mars fantasies
- How her first pilot was 7th Heaven meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Hell on Wheels, an AMC television western dramatic series with the building of the transcontinental railroad as its focus
- Matt Nix, creator of Burn Notice
- Horizon is a television movie Bridget wrote
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman (listen to her First Draft interview here) and Jay Kristoff
- The title of the sequel to The Pioneer!
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