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17: Double Trouble, with guest authors Amy Spalding and Justina Ireland

3/19/2018

It's a jam-packed double episode featuring two authors whose YA books are polar opposites... except for the fact that they are both TERRIFIC... and they both have the same release date! Amy Spalding is on hand to discuss her new rom-com THE SUMMER OF JORDI PEREZ (AND THE BEST BURGER IN LOS ANGELES), and also to do a deep dive into the hamburger-based culinary traditions of L.A. Justina Ireland joins me to talk about her blood-spattered alt-historical novel DREAD NATION, Mark Twain, and how to kill a man with a grass trimmer. Never say we don't teach you anything on the Literaticast!

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Show Notes

* The Literaticast has a Patreon! Throw in a buck, and you can be the first to ask questions... and you just might win great books. Including the books featured on this very episode!

* I'm on twitter! Amy Spalding is on twitter!Justina Ireland is on twitter! WE'RE ALL ON TWITTER!

* Amy's author website -- * Justina's author website

* The In-n-Out Secret Menu Items, ranked

* The Two Bossy Dames newsletter - you can subscribe for free, or get bonus content with a paid subscription. (It is SO GOOD, gang)

* From the NYT: Black Kids Don't Want to Read About Harriet Tubman All the Time

* The Hamline MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults

* Writerly Resources: Justina tweetly opines about novel openings and the Promise of the Story

* Writerly Resources 2: Books by Donald Maas including WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL

* Writerly Resources 3: The AbsoluteWrite message board

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16: Rights, Italian style, with guest agent Kathleen Ortiz

3/10/2018

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Every year in Spring, children's agents descend on a small city in Italy for the largest international children's-only book fair in the world. But it's not all gelato-nomming and prosecco-swilling! I give a crash course in what translation rights even are, and then superagent Kathleen Ortiz from New Leaf Literary joins me to talk about what exactly goes on at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. (Though, off the record, if you want to talk to me about gelato, I do also have a lot of opinions on that subject.) Plus, we talk about some upcoming titles in self-promotion corner, and as always, share our current obsessions.