Sarah Jae-Jones's guest appearances

Sarah Jae-Jones

First Draft with Sarah Enni

Minorities in Publishing

Ibi Zoboi

Elizabeth Acevedo

Brendan Kiely

Jason Reynolds

Morgan Jerkins

Liara Tamani

Samira Ahmed

Lilliam Rivera

Renée Watson

Rhoda Belleza

Nic Stone

Samantha Mabry

John Hodgman

Danielle Paige

Andy Weir

OwlTail

Let’s break it down with Sarah Jae-Jones, debut author of WINTERSONG, podcaster at large with the PubCrawl Podcast, and former editor at St. Martin’s Press, as she talks about learning to write to avoid Korean school, the possible titles for her memoir on publishing, evil threshold magic, and the not-entirely-nice ways that publishing surprised her.   Sarah Jae-Jones Show Notes Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Kongji and Patzzi Pride and Prejudice (BBC miniseries) Goosebumps by R.L. Stine Sesame Street Kristin Nelson’s blog Pub Rants JJ’s podcast co-host, Kelly Van Sant Al Zukerman, chairman of Writer’s House Simplenote Dropbox Scrivener Marie Lu (listen to her First Draft interview here!) JJ’s blog post about writing the sequel

Let’s break it down with <a href="https://twitter.com/sjaejones" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Sarah Jae-Jones</a>, debut author of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24763621-wintersong?ac=1&amp;from_search=true" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">WINTERSONG</a>, podcaster at large with the <a href="http://www.publishingcrawl.com/category/pubcrawl-podcast/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">PubCrawl Podcast</a>, and former editor at St. Martin’s Press, as she talks about learning to write to avoid Korean school, the possible titles for her memoir on publishing, evil threshold magic, and the not-entirely-nice ways that publishing surprised her. Sarah Jae-Jones Show Notes <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8127.Anne_of_Green_Gables?ac=1&amp;from_search=true" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Anne of Green Gables</a> by L.M. Montgomery <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongji_and_Patzzi" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Kongji and Patzzi</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Pride and Prejudice</a> (BBC miniseries) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125553.Welcome_to_Dead_House?ac=1&amp;from_search=true" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Goosebumps</a> by R.L. Stine <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063951/?ref_=nv_sr_1" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Sesame Street</a> Kristin Nelson’s blog <a href="http://nelsonagency.com/pub-rants/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Pub Rants</a> JJ’s podcast co-host, <a href="https://twitter.com/bookishchick" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Kelly Van Sant</a> <a href="https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/AZuckerman/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Al Zukerman</a>, chairman of Writer’s House <a href="https://simplenote.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Simplenote</a> <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/business/landing-t66fl?_tk=sem_b_goog&amp;_camp=sem-b-goog-us-eng-top-exact&amp;_kw=dropbox|e&amp;_ad=176044705183|1t1|c&amp;gclid=CjwKEAiAz4XFBRCW87vj6-28uFMSJAAHeGZbj1sdqWa7OPhZEx8oK3nrxA-fi7XhnheaRNjaaKRjYRoC6IXw_wcB" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Dropbox</a> <a href="https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Scrivener</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Marie_Lu" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Marie Lu</a> (<a href="http://firstdraftwithsarahenni.tumblr.com/post/99343677471/marie-lu-is-the-author-of-the-new-york-times" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">listen to her First Draft interview here</a>!) JJ’s <a href="http://www.publishingcrawl.com/2016/10/21/writing-under-contract/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">blog post about writing the sequel</a>

Ep 87: Sarah Jae-Jones

Jenn speaks with former YA trade editor and debut author of Wintersong Sarah (JJ) Jae-Jones via Skype about the realities of being in trade publishing, her expectations as an editor turned author, the difficulties of intersectionality when it comes to the diversity discussion, and also how defensiveness doesn't help progress. 

Jenn speaks with former YA trade editor and debut author of Wintersong Sarah (JJ) Jae-Jones via Skype about the realities of being in trade publishing, her expectations as an editor turned author, the difficulties of intersectionality when it comes to the diversity discussion, and also how defensiveness doesn't help progress.

Episode 35: Interview with Sarah Jae-Jones