Live in the Awkward With Kate Spencer

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First Draft Episode #348: Kate Spencer

Kate Spencer is the co-host of the award-winning podcast Forever35, and author of the memoir The Dead Moms Club. She joins to talk about her first novel, In a New York Minute.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Kate’s first First Draft interview

• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

• Twilight by Stephenie Meyers

• Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ruby Dixon

• Plane Baes

• Song Exploder podcast

• Seth Meyers, host of Late Night with Seth Meyers and former head writer for Saturday Night Live, talks about his debut picture book, I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared with Rob Syegh. Hear his First Draft interview here.

• Sweet Bobby podcast

• @90sArtSchool

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• Jennifer E. Smith, author of YA novels The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between and more. She’s here to talk about her first picture book, Creature of Habit (with illustrator Leo Espinosa), and her first adult novel, The Unsinkable Greta James. Hear her First Draft interview here.

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