All Episodes
First Draft with Sarah Enni — 396 episodes
Hiatus Announcement With Traci Thomas of The Stacks
Simple Pleasures and Sinister Undertones With Nina LaCour
Dreams and Ghosts With Samira Ahmed
Writers and Friends With Kristin Dwyer
Embrace the Funny With Shannon Hale
Moms Don't Have Time to Chat With Zibby Owens
Determinism is the Only Answer With Adrienne Celt
Let Your Heroines Be Horny With Elissa Sussman
Finishing an Unfinished Thing With Mac Barnett
The State of the Library With Amanda Oliver
Chasing the Feeling With John Cho
Live in the Awkward With Kate Spencer
Two Kinds of Fears with Seth Meyers
A Tightrope of Self-Belief With Jennifer E. Smith
We Only Get The Hunks We Get With Rebecca Serle
Sabaa Tahir's Little Brain Pets
Acts of Hope With Abdi Nazemian
Adam Rubin's Reality is Subjective
Mess Stuff Up With Jon Scieszka
Things Have to Happen With Swan Huntley
Your Publishing Journey Is Not Your Personal Journey With Ibi Zoboi
Why the Bodega Doors Opened For Jacqueline Woodson
Workshop of Joy With Lamar Giles
Reclaiming Authenticity With Varian Johnson
It Can't Be a Soundbite With Kekla Magoon
Artists Have to Remember With Jodi Picoult
Bolts of Lightning With Karen M. McManus
Chloe Gong Spends Time With a Second Chance
A Fraid of Ghosts With Oliver Jeffers
World Core With Roseanne A. Brown
Another Spin at the Wheel With Garth Nix
Every Day is Christmas Eve With Helen O'Hara
Arguably Achievable Perfection With Benjamin Dreyer
Proof That We're In a Simulation With Elissa Sussman and Arielle Jovellanos
What You Don't Know With Ayana Gray
Singin' in the Cemetery With Kendare Blake
The First Draft Patreon With Sarah Enni
Miserable and Magical With Christine Riccio
Practical But Impetuous With Jennifer Niven
Stephanie Perkins is Not a Thomas Kinkade Painting
Destined For Genre With Sarah MacLean
Never Too Late For a List With S. K. Ali
The Buzzy Feeling With Chandler Baker
The White Claw of YA with Margot Wood
The Four Step Plan With Kerry Winfrey
Vienna Waits For You With Isaac Fitzsimons
The Medium is the Message With Ben Zhu
Blackout: Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon
The Truth Behind the Lies With Tanaz Bhathena
Other Possibilities For Our Lives With Doree Shafrir
Intangible Humanity With Chris Appelhans
Treat the Book Like a Moment With Casey McQuiston
Angry Grown Women With Sarah Kuhn
The Places Language Cannot Go With John Green
Keep You For You With Nicola Yoon
Gap Year of Writing With Camryn Garrett
Level, Plumb, and Square With Chris Grabenstein
The JV Team is Saving the World With Victoria Aveyard
Secret 90s Action Movies With Morgan Matson
Podcast and Writing With Sara Zarr
An Impossible Year With Emma Straub
Writing For the Lone Reader With Jon Klassen
The Emotional Woodchipper With Brittney Morris
Marla Frazee Had a Love Story She Needed to Tell Herself
An Everyone Problem With Laurie Devore
Hierarchies of Value With David Arnold
History is a Process With Cassandra Clare
The Perfect Kind of Accident With Ransom Riggs
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired With Mary H.K. Choi
Questions and Obsessions With Anna Carey
Subtext and Ghosts With Loan Le
Fun is Important With Catie Disabato
The Acquisition of Possibility With Matt de la Peña
Elise Bryant Never Does Anything Half-Assed
A Lucky Rebel With Kristin Cashore
Allowing Yourself to Change With Angie Thomas
Pillars of Change With Koa Beck
Genres of Hustle With Dylan Meconis
Making The Imagination Central With Matthew Burgess and Cátia Chien
The Power in Creating Reality With David Levithan
Opening the Mailbag With Sabaa Tahir
The Research is Everywhere With Gretchen Rubin
27 Drafts With Elizabeth Eulberg
Writing The Summer We Didn't Get With Leah Johnson
Painting Impossibilities With Oliver Jeffers
Shooping Together With Carson Ellis
International Settings (A Mighty Blaze Panel)
Therapy on the Page With Justin Reynolds
Queer Love Stories (A Mighty Blaze Panel)
Owning the Audience of One WIth Arvin Ahmadi
Grief and Trauma in YA (A Mighty Blaze Panel)
The Theme Song of Your Interests With Anne Helen Petersen
Opening the Mailbag With Lilliam Rivera
Soul Research With Tiffany D. Jackson
Let's Get Political (A Mighty Blaze Panel)
Wasting a Fine Lawyer's Brain With Martha Brockenbrough
Track Changes: Marketing and Publicity (Part 2), and Defining Success
Castle Envy With Katherine McGee
Track Changes Bonus Episode: Publishing From Every Angle (Panel)
Writing Infinity Jokes With Jill Twiss
Track Changes Bonus Episode: The Don't Ask Me Where I'm From panel, feat. Author Jennifer de Leon, Agent Faye Bender, and Editor Caitlyn Dhlouhy
Hooked on Libraries With Adele Griffin
Track Changes: Marketing and Publicity (Part 1)
Using the Skills of Friendship With Arthur Levine
Christina Hammonds-Reed and Jason Reynolds
Defining the Line With Morgan Jerkins
Opening the Mailbag With Brandy Colbert
Track Changes: Inequality in Publishing
It's a Woo Woo Thing With Kim Johnson
Falling Onto the Earth With Alaya Dawn Johnson
Digital Native Lit With Hank Green
Track Changes: After the Book Deal
The Friendship Canon With Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
Popcorn Origin Stories With Ally Carter
The Anne of Green Gables Litmus Test With Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair
Track Changes: Contracts
Borrow to Make With Elizabeth Acevedo
What's On Robyn Schneider's Mind Oven
Julian Winters
Track Changes: Advances (Part 1)
Trust Your Gut With Liara Tamani
Dr. Somaiya Daud
Hold Your Square With Jason Reynolds
Track Changes: Selling Your Book (Part 2)
99 Pages But There Can Only Be One Lev A.C. Rosen
Pseudonymous Bosch and Shane Pangburn
Track Changes: Selling Your Book (Part 1)
Reignite Your Pilot Light With Candace Bushnell
Track Changes: Publishing in the Time of COVID
A Low Chuckle is Enough With John Hodgman
Track Changes: Agents: Who They Are, What They Do, And How to Get One
A Perversity of Spirit With Rufi Thorpe
Opening the Mailbag with Justin A. Reynolds
Fun and Cool and Weird With Claire Comstock Gay
Track Changes: Publishing 101
Jennifer De Leon
Edan Lepucki
Veronica Roth
Track Changes Trailer
It's Complicated, It's Complicated, It's Just Complicated with Zan Romanoff
The Answer is More With Tochi Onyebuchi
Cassandra Clare
Choose Your Own Adventure With Jolenta Greenberg and Kristin Meinzer
Fake It Til You Make It With Erin Lee Carr
The Golden Age of Tone with Ben Blacker
Sarah Watson Requests a Bathtub
A Call to Action with Rebecca Serle
You Are Part of a Larger Conversation with Somaiya Daud
Jollying Yourself Along With Kate DiCamillo
Love and Life in the Time of Bouncy Houses with Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed
Being Your Own Gatekeeper with Maggie Levin
Maureen Johnson is On the Case
Opening the Mailbag with Marie Lu
Knife Crime Mattress Apartment with Miranda Popkey
Chani Nicholas Performs the Planets
The First Capybara in Space with Stuart Gibbs
Courtenay Hameister Asks: What is Objective Truth, Anyway?
Opening the Mailbag with Tahereh Mafi
Integrating All Your Selves With Libba Bray
Cool is a Construct with Tim Baltz
Amanda Montell is a Foul-Mouthed Feminist Nerd
Weird Relationships With the Truth with Ryan La Sala
Opening the Mailbag with Zan Romanoff
Steaks or GTFO with Rick Yancy, Cindy Pon, Justin Reynolds, and Sarah Enni
Distracting Yourself Out of Heartbreak with Janet Varney
The Virtue of Saying Yes with Kyle Flynn
A Fragile Tension with Ruta Sepetys
Making Out in the Anti-Gravity Room with Kass Morgan (a.k.a. Mallory Kass)
An Angry Kind of Hope with Leigh Bardugo
Holding Your Square with Jason Reynolds
A Seething Undercurrent of Rage with Renee Ahdieh
Writing Catharsis With Jen Wang
A Gentle Language with Gabby Rivera
Preferred Ways of Failing with Josh Gondelman
Writing Out of Unconditional Love with David Yoon
Going to Tahiti with Mary H. K. Choi
Sexy First Responders with Sara Farizan, Katie Cotugno, and Sarah Enni
Real Life Villains with Stephanie Perkins and Sarah Enni
Ghosts Eating Waffles with Kendare Blake, Somaiya Daud, and Sarah Enni
Layer Cakes of Love with Siobhan Vivian, Kami Garcia, Stephanie Kate Strohm, and Jessica Brody
Ambition and Acceptance with D.C. Pierson
Shedding False Humility with Simon Curtis
Ep 201: Gaby Dunn
Special 200th Episode!
Ep 199: Robin Wasserman
Ep 198: Jonny Sun
Ep 197: Linda Holmes
Ep 196: Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith, Amy Andelson, and Emily Meyer
Ep 195: Jennifer Donnelly
Ep 194: Abdi Nazemian
Ep 193: Kate Spencer
Ep 192: Lindsay Smith
Ep 191: Ryan Graudin
Ep 190: Stephanie Garber
Ep 189: David Iserson
Ep 188: Ally Condie
Ep 187: Will Hines
Ep 186: Alfred Gough and Miles Millar
Ep 185: Rhett Miller
Ep 184: Bridget Tyler
Ep 183: Jon Klassen
Ep 182: Lilliam Rivera 2.0
Ep 181: Soman Chainani
Ep 180: BONUS Sarah Enni Q&A
Ep 179: Sarah Enni
Ep 178: Amanda Maciel
Ep 177: Sarah Burnes
Ep 176: Susan Dennard
Ep 175: Robin LaFevers
Ep 174: Renée Watson
Ep 173: Roshani Chokshi
Ep 172: Tracey Neithercott
Ep 171: Melissa Albert
Ep 170: Sarah Dessen
169: Elana K. Arnold 2.0
Ep 168: Nina LaCour 2.0
Ep 167: Peter Stone
Ep 166: Holly Black
Ep 165: Robin Talley 2.0
Ep 164: Andy Weir
Ep 163: The Ripped Bodice owners, Bea and Leah Koch
Ep 162: Tiffany D. Jackson
Ep 161: Laini Taylor
Ep 160: Tochi Onyebuchi
159: Sam Maggs
Ep 158: Nic Stone
Ep 157: Alex London 2.0
Ep. 156: Sara Farizan
Ep 155: Nova Ren Suma
Ep 154: Courtney Summers 2.0
Ep 153: Somaiya Daud
Ep 152: Jessica Spotswood
Ep 151: Julian Winters
Ep 150: Katie Cotugno
Ep 149: Emily X. R. Pan
Ep 148: Brendan Kiely
Ep 147: Adrienne Young
Ep 146: Caroline Kepnes
Ep 145: Aminah Mae Safi
Ep 144: Maurene Goo
Ep 143: Morgan Matson 2.0
Ep 141: Francesca Lia Block
Ep 140: Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
Ep 142: Becky Albertalli
Ep 139: Victoria Aveyard
Ep 138: Britta Lundin
Ep 137: YALLWEST producers Shane Pangburn and Tori Hill
Ep 136: Kirsten Hubbard
Ep 135: Maret Orliss
Ep 134: Sara Saedi
Ep 133: Ava Dellaira 2.0
Ep 132: Amy Spalding
Ep 131: Alex R. Kahler
Ep 130: Farrah Penn
Ep 129: Tomi Adeyemi
Ep 128: Lianne Oelke
Ep 127: Dhonielle Clayton 2.0
Ep 126: Amy Andelson and Emily Meyer
125: Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings
Ep 124: John August
Ep 123: Jasmine Guillory
Ep 122: Sarah Tarkoff
Special Episode (feat. Kayla Olson, Courtney Summers, Michelle Schusterman, Alison Cherry, and Lindsay Ribar)
Ep 121: Michael Dante DiMartino
120: Ben Acker
119: Stephanie Sabol and Book Recommendations
Ep 118: Will Kostakis
Ep 117: Jasmine Warga
Ep 116: Maggie Stiefvater
Ep 115: Brandy Colbert
Ep 114: Liara Tamani
Ep 113: Anna-Marie McLemore
Ep 112: Leigh Bardugo 2.0
Special Ep: Fall 2017
Ep 111: Robin Benway 2.0
Ep 110: Dan Santat
Ep 109: Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin
Ep 108: Marie Lu 2.0
Ep 107: Emily Ziff Griffin
Ep 106: Sabaa Tahir
Ep 105: Jeramey Kraatz
Ep 104: Lauren Strasnick
Ep 103: Kara Thomas
Ep 102: Danielle Paige
Ep 101: Sara Goodman
Ep 100: Jennifer E. Smith
LA Times Festival of Books, BEA, and BookCon Minisode
Ep 99: Maurene Goo 2.0
Ep 98: Kayla Olson
Ep 97: Sandhya Menon
Ep 96: Renée Ahdieh
Ep 95: Courtney Summers
Ep 94: Margaret Stohl 2.0
Ep 93: Sara Zarr
Ep 92: Arden Rose
Ep 91: Kayla Cagan
North Texas Teen Book Festival Special Episode
Ep 90: Sarah Nicole Lemon
Special Episode with Sara of Adventures in YA
Ep 89: Lilliam Rivera
Ep 88: Renée Watson
Ep 87: Sarah Jae-Jones
Ep 86: Rhoda Belleza
Veronica Roth Minisode
Ep 85: Veronica Roth
Ep 84: D.J. MacHale
Ep 83: Sona Charaipotra
Ep 82: Amie Kaufman
Special Election Episode
Ep 81: Josephine Angelini
Ep 80: Ransom Riggs
Ep 79: Tahereh Mafi
Ep 78: Zan Romanoff
Ep 77: Leila Howland
Ep 76: Jenny Han
Ep 75: Dhonielle Clayton
Ep 74: Lance Rubin
Ep 73: Lindsey Klingele
Ep 72: Julie Buxbaum
YALLWEST 2016
Ep 71: Morgan Matson
L.A. Times Festival of Books Roundup
Ep 70: Maurene Goo
Ep 69: Jessi Kirby
Ep 68: Victoria Schwab
Ep 67: Elana K. Arnold
Ep 66: A. R. Kahler
First Draft LIVE with Victoria Aveyard, Elissa Sussman, and Lindsey Klingele
Ep 65: Isabel Quintero
Ep 64: Ava Dellaira
Ep 63: Elissa Sussman
Ep 62: Kristen Kittscher
Ep 61: Amy Plum and Lenore Appelhans
Ep 60: Kendare Blake
Ep 59: The Fug Girls, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
Ep 58: Leigh Bardugo
First Draft LIVE
Ep 57: Samantha Mabry
Ep 56: Stephanie Kuehnert
Ep 55: Amy Lukavics
Ep 54: Aaron Hartzler
Ep 53: Mackenzi Lee
Ep 52: Nicola Yoon
Ep 51: C. Alexander London
Ep 50: Adi Alsaid
Ep 49: Brandy Colbert
Ep 48: Sarah McCarry
Ep 47: Nina LaCour
Ep 46: John Corey Whaley
Ep 45: Anna Carey
Ep 44: Robin Benway
Ep 43: Adam Silvera
Ep 42: Hilary T. Smith
Ep 41: Corey Ann Haydu
Ep 40: Kristin Halbrook
Ep 39: Erin Bowman
Ep 38: Amy Spalding
Ep 37: Amy Tintera
Ep 36: Veronica Roth
Ep 35: Jessica Love
Ep 34: Kiersten White
Ep 23: Kate Hart
Ep 33: Stephanie Diaz
Ep 32: Erin Jade Lange
Ep 31: Victoria Aveyard
Ep 30: Megan Shepherd
Ep 29: Margaret Stohl
Ep 28: Julie Murphy
Ep 27: Katie Coyle
Ep 26: Cynthia Leitich Smith
Ep 25: Myra McEntire
Ep 23: Alison Cherry
Ep 22: Courtney C. Stevens
Ep 21: Kaitlin Ward
Ep 20: Stephanie Kuehn
Ep 19: Libba Bray (Part 2)
Ep 18: Libba Bray
Ep 17: Natalie Standiford
Minisode Q&A
Episode 16: Cat Winters
Ep 15: Marie Lu
Episode 14: Beth Revis
Episode 13: Meagan Spooner
Episode 12: Rachel Fershleiser
Episode 11: Gretchen McNeil
Episode 10: Heidi Schulz
Episode 9: Michelle Schusterman
Minisode: Q&A
Episode 8: Kara Taylor
Episode 7: Claire Legrand
Episode 6: Ellen Oh
Episode 5: Cristin Terrill
Episode 4: Lindsay Smith
Episode 3: Caroline Tung Richmond
Episode 2: Robin Talley
Episode 1: Sumayyah Daud