First Draft Episode #326: Elissa Sussman and Arielle Jovellanos

Elissa Sussman and Arielle Jovellanos, author and illustrator, respectively, of YA contemporary novel Drawn That Way. Elissa is also the author of Burn, Stray, and the upcoming adult novel, Funny You Should Ask. Arielle illustrated Evil Thing, a Cruelle de Ville backstory novel written by Serena Valentino, as well as graphic novel Black Star, written by Eric A. Glover.

This episode is brought to you by Revision Season, a seven-week virtual master class in novel revision led by award-winning author Elana K. Arnold. The Fall 2021 Session of Revision Season will run Oct 10 – Nov 28, and enrollment is now open!

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Hear Elissa’s First Draft interview here

• Glen Keane, 38-year veteran of Walt Disney Feature Animation and creator of Disney characters such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Beast, Tarzan, and Rapunzel.

• Howard Ashman, Oscar-winning lyricist, playwright, and stage director who wrote the lyrics for The Little Mermaid

• Frederator, an independent animation and media studio who produced Adventure Time, Bee and PuppyCat, and Bravest Warriors

• Pendleton Ward, creator of Adventure Time

• LAIKA studios, an animation production studio that created Coraline (movie)

• The Avengers (movie)

• Chris Evans, actor who portrays Captain America

• Babs Tarr, American illustrator and comic book artist who drew a run for Batgirl for DC

• Annie Wu, American illustrator and comic book artist who drew a run of Hawkeye for Marvel

• Janelle Asselin, former editor of DC comics

• Kevin Wada, illustrator

• Fresh Romance, the anthology which includes Arielle’s comic, “School Spirit”

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan

• The Heroes of Olympus by RIck Riordan

• Elizabeth Bewley, literary agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.

• Waking Sleeping Beauty (documentary)

• Janet Sung, illustrator, designer, colorist

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• Chris Appelhans, writer and director of Netflix animated movie Wish Dragon, and illustrator of picture books Sparky! (written by Jenny Offill) and A Greyhound, a Groundhog (written by Emily Jenkins).

• Sarah Kuhn, author of the Heroine Complex series, Shadow of the Batgirl with Nicole Gaux for DC Comics, the Star Wars audiobook original Doctor Aphra, talks about her new young adult novel, From Little Tokyo, With Love.

• Jon Klassen, Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the I Want My Hat Back series, who is back with a book he wrote and illustrated: The Rock From the Sky.

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