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Gaby Dunn, co-author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel I Hate Everyone But You with her writing partner Alison Raskin. The sequel, Please Send Help, is out now! Gaby and Alison also host the Just Between Us podcast and YouTube channel. Gaby is also the host of the podcast Bad With Money and author of the book Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together.

For the 200th episode of the First Draft with Sarah Enni podcast, previous guests sent in answers to questions like, where do you turn for inspiration? What are you hopes and dreams at this moment in your career? What do you do besides writing that makes you a more skillful storyteller? And, of course, any advice! Listen in to hear tips, tricks, and reassurances and encouragement from dozens of bestselling and award-winning writers!

Robin Wasserman, New York Times bestselling author of adult novel Girls on Fire, as well as young adult novels The Waking Dark, The Book of Blood and Shadow, Hacking Harvard, The Cold Awakening series, the Seven Deadly Sins series. Her next novel, to come out with Scribner, is Mother Daughter Widow Wife.

Jonny Sun, Canadian author and illustrator of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too and Gmorning, Gnight!, TV writer on BoJack Horseman, screenwriter, one of TIME Magazine's 25 Most Influential People on the Internet in 2017, and a doctoral candidate at MIT and a creative researcher at the Harvard metaLAB.

Linda Holmes, pop-culture critic at NPR and co-host of the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, is out with her debut author of Evvie Drake Starts Over.

Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (Ten Things I Hate About You, Legally Blonde), Amy Andelson and Emily Meyer (Step Up 3D, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List) are the team behind Trinkets, the Netflix TV series based on Kiwi’s young adult novel of the same name.

Jennifer Donnelly, author of Carnegie Award-winning and Printz honoree A Northern Light, as well as Revolution, These Shallow Graves, and The Tea Rose and Waterfire Saga series, and her newest, New York Times bestselling Stepsister. I love what Jennifer had to say about her mother’s Third Reich bedtime stories; how to deep-dive into writing a historical novel; and the joy of being obsessed.

Abdi Nazemian, TV writer, producer of films like Call Me By Your Name, and author of The Authentics, The Walk-In Closet and his newest YA, Like a Love Story (out now!), talks about discovering gay icons in the time before the internet, putting all your obsessions in your work, crying in coffee shops, and writing about history from an emotional standpoint, so we can repeat the best of it.

Kate Spencer, comedian, author of Dead Mom’s Club: A Memoir, and co-host of fabulous podcast Forever35 talks about the never-ending quest for confidence, exorcising grief and pain through writing, and how a podcast about serums became a podcast about feelings.