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Writers, take note! Author Kayla Cagan gives insight into her writing process (including the publishing phase), as well as navigating writer's block with really practical ways to overcome it. Guest host, Juliana Finch, and Kayla provide resources and places to start when writing doesn't feel great or accessible BIO:  Kayla Cagan (she/her) is the Young Adult Author of PIPER PERISH and ART BOSS from Chronicle Books. PIPER PERISH received universal praise and starred reviews from ALA Booklist, as well as being an Amazon Bestseller, a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Month, and made the Indie Next Choice list. PIPER PERISH was also picked as a Spirit of Texas High School Reading Program selection and was a nominee for the Overdrive Book Selection. Her second book, ART BOSS, was called “an engaging portrait of the artist as a young woman” by Kirkus Review, and “an automatic pick-up for fans” by Booklist. Both books were selected for Mule Design's Quarantine Book Club series in 2020. Her short plays and monologues have been published by Applause Books and Smith and Kraus. She has also contributed comics and essays to assorted collections, including Girl Crush Zine, Womanthology, and Unite and Take Over: Stories Inspired by the Smiths. She is happily married to screenwriter Josh A. Cagan and they live in California. Instagram at @kayla_cagan_writer Resources Kayla mentioned: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com/ (Jacob Krueger Studio) https://www.loyaltybookstores.com/ (Loyalty Bookstore) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/magic-lessons-with-elizabeth-gilbert/id1138081319 (Big Magic Podcast/Magic Lessons) LISTEN TO ASBX AUDIO DRAMAS:https://artistsoapbox.org/masterbuilder/ (Master Builder) https://www.thenewcolossuspodcast.com/ (The New Colossus) https://artistsoapbox.org/declaration-of-love/ (Declaration of Love audio anthology) https://artistsoapbox.org/audio-dramas/asbx-shorts/ (ASBX Shorts) CONNECT AND FOLLOW: Artist Soapbox on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/artist_soapbox (@artist_soapbox) Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/artistsoapbox/ (artistsoapbox) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/ (https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/) CONTRIBUTE: Soapboxers are the official patrons of the Artist Soapbox podcast. http://www.patreon.com/artistsoapbox (Get on the Soapbox with us at Patreon )or make a one-time donation via Ko-fi at https://ko-fi.com/artistsoapbox (https://ko-fi.com/artistsoapbox) or via PayPal at https://www.paypal.me/artistsoapbox?ppid=PPC000628&cnac=US&rsta=en_US(en_US)&cust=A55YE26SQPDL8&unptid=bcec7a46-337d-11e8-9bbe-9c8e992da578&t=&cal=cb540804e2cda&calc=cb540804e2cda&calf=cb540804e2cda&unp_tpcid=ppme-social-user-profile-created&page=main:email&pgrp=main:email&e=op&mchn=em&s=ci&mail=sys (PayPal.Me/artistsoapbox.) If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please consider our non-profit https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/soapbox-audio-collective (Soapbox Audio Collective).

Today's spells were written by a friend of mine, Kayla Cagan -- a great writer, playwright and a thoughtful observer of the world we live in.   Kayla Cagan’s first book, PIPER PERISH received universal praise, was selected as an Amazon and Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Month, and was a Spirit of Texas High School Reading Program 2018 pick. Her second book, ART BOSS, was called “an engaging portrait of the artist as a young woman” by Kirkus Review and "a great read for any artist aspiring to greatness" by the American Library Association's Booklist. Her short plays and monologues have been published by Applause Books and Smith and Kraus and are performed in high schools across the country. She has contributed comics and essays to assorted collections, including Girl Crush Zine, Womanthology, and Unite and Take Over: Stories Inspired by the Smiths.    You can find her online www.kaylacagan.com and on Instagram: @kayla_cagan_writer Happiness Spells is a five minute list of happy and positive things, set to gentle music. Some serious. Some not so serious. A collection of thoughts, daydreams, feelings and reveries. Headphones on. There's nothing else like it. This episode of Happiness Spells was written by Kayla Cagan, arranged, recorded and produced by Amanda Meyncke in Temecula, CA. The music in this episode is by Chris Zabriskie, used under a cc license. Find Happiness Spells on Instagram or visit our site to send me a message.

First Draft Episode #200: Special Anniversary Episode 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! People Featured, and Links and Topics Mentioned, In This Episode Podcasts I listened to obsessively, which inspired me to start this podcast, include Fresh Air with Teri Gross, WTF with Marc Maron, and You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes Veronica Roth, author of the Divergent series, Carve the Mark duology and the forthcoming short story collection, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future (listen to her First Draft podcasts here, here, and here) Kayla Cagan, author of Piper Perish and Art Boss (listen to her First Draft interview here) Will Hines, author of How to be the Greatest Improviser on Earth (hear his First Draft episode here) Sara Farizan, author of Here to Stay, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, If You Could Be Mine (hear her First Draft interview here) Kass Morgan, author of The 100 series and Light Years (stay tuned for her episode of First Draft!) Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Beasts Made of Night, Crown of Thunder, and War Girls series Tochi recommends playing narrative video games, like God of War, Assassin's Creed, or Red Dead Redemption Leigh Bardugo, author of the Shadow and Bone series and Six of Crows duology, and the forthcoming adult novel, Ninth House , and more (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here) Josh Gondelman, author of the forthcoming memoir Nice Try, writer and producer of “Desus and Mero” and Emmy-winning writer for “Last Week Tonight on John Oliver” (hear his First Draft interview soon!) Maris Kreizman, author of Slaughterhouse 90210 and host of LitHub’s The Maris Review podcast Ryan Graudin, author of the Wolf by Wolf, Invictus, The Walled City, and more (hear her First Draft interview here) Sabriel by Garth Nix Jason Reynolds, author of Look Both Ways, the Track series, Long Way Down, As Brave As You, All American Boys, and many more (stay tuned for his episode of First Draft) The New Yorker The Newberry Award; The National Book Award; The Pulitzer Prize Stephanie Garber, author of the Caraval series (listen to her First Draft episode here) Elana K. Arnold, author of A Boy Called Bat, Damsel, What Girls Are Made Of, Infandous, and more (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here) Lance Rubin, author of Denton's Little's Deathdate, Denton's Little's Still Not Dead, and Crying Laughing (listen to his First Draft episode here) Freedom (computer app) Deep Work Work by Cal Newport Courtney Summers, including Sadie, Cracked Up to Be, This Is Not a Test, Fall for Anything, All the Rage, Some Girls Are (hear her First Draft episodes here and here) “Real Romance,” The New Yorker profile about Nora Roberts Mary H. K. Choi, author of Emergency Contact and Permanent Record (stay tuned for her episode of First Draft) The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) and Dia:Beacon Bridget Tyler, author of The Pioneer and The Survivor (listen to her First Draft episode here) Scientific American, which Veronica just subscribed to Samantha Mabry, author of A Fierce and Subtle Poison and All the Wind in the World (listen to her First Draft episode here) Elissa Sussman, author of Stray and Burn (listen to her First Draft interview here) Abdi Nazemian, author of Like a Love Story, The Authentics, and The Walk-In Closet (listen to his First Draft interview here) Madonna, the queen of Abdi’s book The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Morgan Matson, author of he Date, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour, The Unexpected Everything, and more! (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here) Julie Buxbaum, author of Tell Me Three Things, What to Say Next, and Hope and Other Punchlines (listen to her First Draft interview here) Danielle Paige, author of Dorothy Must Die, Stealing Snow and Mera: Tidebreaker (listen to her First Draft episode here) David Yoon, author of Frankly in Love (stay tuned for his episode of First Draft!) Zan Romanoff, author of Look (due Spring 2020) and A Song to Take The World Apart and Grace and the Fever (listen to her First Draft interview here) Writing Workshops LA Francesca Lia Block, author of Weetzie Bat, The Thorn Necklace, and so many more (listen to her First Draft episode here) Aminah Mae Safi, author of Not the Girls You're Looking For and Tell Me How You Really Feel (listen to her First Draft interview here) Alex London, author of Black Wings Beating, Proxy, The Wild Ones series and more (listen to his First Draft episodes here and here) Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay, The Disenchantments, Everything Leads to You, Hold Still and more (hear her First Draft episodes here and here), and listen to Nina’s podcast, Keeping a Notebook Hamline University’s MFA program The Slow Novel Lab, Nina LaCour’s online course on writing Lilliam Rivera, author of Dealing In Dreams and The Education Of Margot Sanchez, (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here) Pseudonymous Bosch, aka Raphael Simon (author of the The Name of This Book is a Secret and the Bad Magic series, and more) and Shane Pangburn, who together created The Unbelievable Oliver and the Four Jokers (stay tuned for their First Draft episode!) Amy Lukavics, author of Daughters into Devils and The Ravenous (listen to her First Draft episode here) Maurene Goo, author of Somewhere Only We Know, I Believe in a Thing Called Love and The Way You Make Me Feel and Since You Asked (Listen to Maurene’s first, second, and third episodes of First Draft) That time Maurene interviewed Sarah Enni for this podcast! (The Sarah Enni episode of First Draft ) Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator of Everyone’s an Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too;  Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. 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Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish exceptions: her famous alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet memes, she has asthma, and sometimes people spontaneously burst into tears when they recognize her. Abbi has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11. On that fateful day, she was captured in what became an iconic photograph: in the picture, Abbi (aka "Baby Hope") wears a birthday crown and grasps a red balloon; just behind her, the South Tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing. Now, fifteen years later, Abbi is desperate for anonymity and decides to spend the summer before her seventeenth birthday incognito as a counselor at Knights Day Camp two towns away. She's psyched for eight weeks in the company of four-year-olds, none of whom have ever heard of Baby Hope. Too bad Noah Stern, whose own world was irrevocably shattered on that terrible day, has a similar summer plan. Noah believes his meeting Baby Hope is fate. Abbi is sure it's a disaster. Soon, though, the two team up to ask difficult questions about the history behind the Baby Hope photo. But is either of them ready to hear the answers? Hope and Other Punchlines author Julie Buxbaum is in conversation with novelist and playright Kayla Cagan.

Sarah Enni, debut author of TELL ME EVERYTHING and usually the host of the First Draft podcast, answers questions from past First Draft interviewees about craft and ego, staying on schedule, Bob Costas’ pink-eye story, the evolution of her interview style, Hammer the cat’s origin story.   Sarah Enni bonus episode show notes Maurene Goo (listen to her First Draft episode here) Nic Stone, author of DEAR MARTIN and ODD ONE OUT (listen to her First Draft podcast here) Kristen Kittscher, author of WIG IN THE WINDOW and TIARA ON THE TERRACE (listen to her First Draft podcast here) Bullet journal Allie Brosh’s comics about procrastination Shane Pangburn (listen to his First Draft podcast here) Kate Hart, author of AFTER THE FALL (listen to Kate Hart’s First Draft interview here) Bob Costas Tochi Onyebuchi, BEASTS MADE OF NIGHT and CROWN OF THUNDER (listen to his First Draft podcast here) The Deftones, lead singer Chino Moreno The Darkness, “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” Victoria Aveyard, author of the RED QUEEN series (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here) Margaret Stohl, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES and CATS VS. ROBOTS (listen to her First Draft episode here) Jasmine Warga, author of HERE WE ARE NOW and (listen to her First Draft episode here) Libba Bray, author of THE DIVINERS (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here) Pod Save America (podcast) Danielle Paige, DOROTHY MUST DIE and STEALING SNOW (listen to her First Draft episode here) Arrested Development Stephanie Kuehn, author of CHARM & STRANGE (listen to her First Draft podcast here) “Welcome to New York,” by Taylor Swift Peter Stone, author of THE PERFECT CANDIDATE (listen to his First Draft episode here) Kumail Nanjiani (actor, Silicon Valley) Sabaa Tahir, author of the EMBER IN THE ASHES series (listen to her First Draft episode here) Sam Maggs, author of GIRL SQUADS and more (listen to her First Draft episode here) Alison Cherry, author of RED and PROS OF CONS and more (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here) Pod Save America (podcast) NPR Politics podcast (podcast) The Daily (podcast) Keep It (podcast) Serial (podcast) S-Town (podcast) Subscribe to Sarah’s newsletter Beth Revis, author of the ACROSS THE UNIVERSE series and the GIVE THE DARK MY LOVE series (listen to her First Draft podcast here) The Bigfoot Discovery Museum Kitchen’s Temple Jeff Goldblum Leigh Bardugo, author of the SHADOW AND BONE and SIX OF CROWS series, and her upcoming book, NINTH HOUSE (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here) Kaitlin Ward, author of WHERE SHE FELL (listen to her First Draft podcast interview here) Brandy Colbert, author of LITTLE AND LION and THE REVOLUTION OF BIRDIE RANDOLPH (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here) Aminah Mae Safi, author of the upcoming TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL (listen to her First Draft interview here) Kayla Cagan, author of PIPER PERISH and ART BOSS (listen to her First Draft interview here) Susan Dennard, author of the WITCHLANDS series (listen to her First Draft interview here) Ameriie, editor of the BECAUSE YOU LOVE TO HATE ME anthology and she recently released two albums, 4 AM MULHOLLAND and AFTER 4 AM Sara Farizan, author of HERE TO STAY (listen to her First Draft interview here)

###Topics of discussion include: baffling personalities & try-hards; choking on privilege & dying of honor; how great it would be to get a rose from a boy, whichever boy, it doesn't matter; balloons, anonymous roses, orange juice & other failed romantic gestures; the immersive theater sensation Snoop No More; keeping poundcake in your briefcase: a metaphor???; "Franklin's pants!" interjects Molly; Linus: the Banner to PigPen's Hulk. Kayla Cagan is a writer. Piper Perish is her debut YA novel, and its companion Art Boss will be released by Chronicle Books October 2018. She has contributed comics, plays and essays to assorted collections, including Girl Crush Zine, Womanthology, and Unite and Take Over: Stories Inspired by the Smiths. Kayla lives with her husband Josh and their chihuahua Banjo near that Starbucks. No, the other one. http://kaylacagan.com Ben Soileau is the co-founder of Waffle Media, our home and native land. He is co-host of Waffle's COLUMBOYS, which endeavors to lovingly analyze every single episode of one of the 20th Century's most important works of art, Peter Falk's COLUMBO. Ben is an expert on gentleman's fashion, and has helped suit some of the geek community's pillars of dudeness, including John Roderick, John Hodgman, and Wil Wheaton. He lives in Seattle with his partner Molly Lewis, and their cat Sumi, who would like to take this opportunity to say "Hiss". http://waffle.media/ Blandishment by Ken Plume. Podcast art by Lar DeSouza. Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown is available for your home viewing on the Peanuts 1970s Vol. 2 DVD collection. (Amazon) Peanuts Gallery is a proud member of Waffle Media.

The Red Rocks West Equity Playhouse in Boulder, Colorado has a lot of stuff going for it. An ambitious lighting designer, a meddling costume designer, the son of Nic Cage, an a diva of an actress who is amazing, as long as she can get the night off from waitressing at the local diner. This production of "Kittens" is going to go off without a hitch—unless something goes wrong. Nothing will go wrong. Right?

Stephanie Sabol, Executive Director, Brand Management at Penguin Young Readers, talks about The Penguin Hotline, and writer friends share their most recommended books.  Stephanie Sabol and Book Recommendation Episode Stephanie Sabol The Penguin Hotline Who is Bruce Springsteen? by Stephanie Sabol The Who Was? series Where is the Solar System? What Was the Titanic? Jeff Kinney Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore The Graceling series by Kristin Cashore Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Turtles All the Way Down by John Green Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Alex and Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz Once and for All by Sarah Dessen The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr Warcross by Marie Lu (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here) Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson American Street by Ibi Zoboi I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez Here We Are: Feminism For the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen Suspect by Robert Crais Vanguard (Genesis Fleet book #1) by Jack Campbell Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor Looking for Alaska by John Green The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett World Without End by Ken Follett  A Column of Fire by Ken Follett Grant by Ron Chernow Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy Hallelujah Anyway by Annie Lamott Bird by Bird by Annie Lamott Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul by Jeremiah Moss Vanishing New York, the blog by Jeremiah Moss Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer, Ella Morton, Dylan Thuras Los Angeles, Portrait of a City Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable: Fifty Years of New York Magazine by The Editors of New York Magazine The Education of Margot Sánchez by Lilliam Rivera (listen to her First Draft interview here) Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson (listen to her First Draft episode here) Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon (listen to her First Draft episode here) Valley Girls by Sarah Nicole Lemon A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones (listen to her First Draft interview here)  White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg Gray Wolf Island by Tracey Neithercott On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marcheta These Vicious Masks by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas Allegedly by Tiffany Jackson How to Break a Boy by Laurie Devore Winner Take All by Laurie Devore Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers (listen to her First Draft interview here) Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser Light Years by Emily Ziff Griffin (listen to her First Draft interview here)  Sun in Days by Meghan O'Rourke The Dark Dark: Stories by Samantha Hunt Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés Piper Perish by Kayla Cagan (listen to her First Draft interview here) Marlena by Julie Buntin Gem & Dixie by Sara Zarr (listen to her First Draft interview here) The Turner House by Angela Flournoy Insecure (TV show) Mirage by Somaiya Daud (listen to her First Draft interview here) Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli Die for Me by Amy Plum (listen to her First Draft interview here) The Power by Naomi Alderman Pierre François: 5th Grade Mishaps by Laurie Ann Stephens A Song to Take the World Apart by Zan Romanoff (listen to her First Draft interview here) Grace and the Fever by Zan Romanoff Ship It by Britta Lundin Ten by Gretchen McNeil (listen to her First Draft interview here) I’m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl by Gretchen McNeil  #MURDERTRENDING by Gretchen McNeil The Hearts We Sold by Emily Lloyd-Jones The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here) I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry (listen to her First Draft interview here) Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

WBZ's Laurie Kirby speaks with young adult author Kayla Cagan about her debut novel "Piper Perish".

YA authors Kayla Cagan & Amy Spalding (& Banjo L. Cagan, silently) join us for a spirited roundtable about 1973's There's No Time For Love, Charlie Brown — a salty indictment of pop art, in which we learn about the disappointments of the public school system, as well as the theory of transitive kissing. Topics of discussion include: getting Charlie Brown title cards tattooed on your butt; Peanut People™; the phrase "when they stopped aging"; jokes about New Math (do they hold up?) ; a long line of toilet cloggers; The Most Depressing Speech We've Heard In A Charlie Brown Special; Kayla offers a Magoo-ish theory; the Great Meatlump Situation (playing tonight at 8pm, $5 at the door); Jazz: Musical Improv?; Joseph Cool, of the Carolina Cools; being mistaken for a basketball with glasses; We're Up All Night To Get Marcy; The Manic Pixie Little-Red-Haired-Girl; the theory of transitive kissing; sliders. Kayla Cagan is a writer. Piper Perish is her debut YA novel, with a 2nd novel on the way from Chronicle Books in 2018. She has contributed comics, plays and essays to assorted collections, including Girl Crush Zine, Womanthology, and Unite and Take Over: Stories Inspired by the Smiths. Cagan lives with her husband Josh and their chihuahua Banjo near that Starbucks. No, the other one. http://kaylacagan.com Amy Spalding is the author of several young adult novels including Kissing Ted Callahan (& Other Guys), The Reece Malcolm List, and the forthcoming Summer of Jordi Perez. She grew up in St. Louis, but now lives in the better weather of Los Angeles. By day, she manages the digital media team for an indie film advertising agency. By later day and night, Amy writes, performs, and pets as many cats as she can. https://www.theamyspalding.com https://tinyletter.com/thecheckin Banjo L. Cagan is six feet, four inches tall, and looks as if he was chiseled from solid marble by the hand of a god. A single look from him has been known to make grown men weep, as if they were staring into the center of infinity itself. Time and light bend around him, and as previously stated, he is tall and handsome. Check out @Shmuel510's Peanuts quiz on Learned League: https://learnedleague.com/oneday.php?peanuts Audio blandishment by Ken Plume. Peanuts Gallery is proud to be part of Waffle.Media.

Martha's guests this week are Meredith Maran, Kayla Cagan, and Mark Lukach.

Debut YA Paints the Perfect Portrait of A Teen Artist Bursting to Break Out! ★“Cagan tells Piper’s story with amazing authenticity… soulful reading for any artistic teen with a dream.” —Booklist, starred review “A character readers will remember.”—Kirkus Reviews “Will embolden budding teen artists.”—School Library Journal Piper Perish inhales air and exhales art. The sooner she and her best friends can get out of Houston and get to New York City, the better. Art school has been Piper’s dream her whole life, and now that senior year is halfway over, she’s never felt more ready. But in the final months before graduation, things are weird with her friends and stressful with three different guys, and Piper’s sister’s tyrannical mental state seems to thwart every attempt at happiness for the close-knit Perish family. Piper’s art just might be enough to get her out. But is she brave enough to seize that power when it means giving up so much? Debut author Kayla Cagan breathes new life into fiction in this dynamic, utterly authentic work featuring interior art from Rookie magazine illustrator Maria Ines Gul. Piper will have readers asking big questions along with her. What is love? What is friendship? What is family? What is home? And who is she as a person when she’s missing any one of these things? Kayla Cagan is a writer and playwright. She received her BFA in Theater from Stephen F. Austin University. She lives in Los Angeles. This is her first book --

Kayla Cagan, whose debut novel PIPER PERISH is out now, on fighting the green monster, the ultimatum that led to her first book deal, and how she wrote a book one day at a time (30 minutes a day).   Kayla Cagan Show Notes Eugene O’Neill Leave it to Beaver (TV show) Dukes of Hazard (TV show) Choose Your Own Adventure Sweet Valley High The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Emperor's New Clothes The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Stephen F Austin State University Samuel Beckett (playwright) The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel The Zoo Story by Edward Albee  Marsha Norman (playwright) Christoher Durang David Lindsay-Abaire (playwright) David Auburn (playwright) Robert Hass (poet) Maria Ines Gul (illustrator) Rookie magazine     John Cusick at Fiolio (literary agent)     Writing as a Way of Healing by Louise DeSalvo On Writing by Stephen King Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes author Kayla Cagan to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss her journey as a storyteller and what it's been like to see the response to her new book PIPER PERISH.

Hey there, friend!  First off, how are ya? Great? Good to hear! This week, we’ve got the very kind and talented Kayla Cagan here to talk about her dog Banjo and her brand new book Piper Perish! For the love of God, we’re finally doing a Mutt Minute on the Pomeranian! We’ve also got a bone chilling Dog Hero story, but don’t worry, it’ll leave your heart warm.   Thank you for listening! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe!  Leave us a voicemail with your Dog Victories and Dogsasers at (323) 250 - 3315! Too much pressure leaving a voicemail? We get it. Send us an email instead at canipetyourdogpodcast@gmail.com!

Today Angela interviews Kayla Cagan, author of the great YA novel PIPER PERISH, releasing March 7 on Chronicle Books! Topics covered include: inspirational quotes, Houston, Texas, deleting dogs, and how creation is the best defense against despair. The song is called "Now Is The Time!" Check out Kayla Cagan: http://kaylacagan.com Pre-order her book: http://amzn.to/2mjf8Ip or at your local bookstore! Watch the video for this song, back the band’s kickstarter and so much more: http://thedoubleclicks.com

Authors and voracious readers, Kayla Cagan and Amy Spalding, share their love of Young Adult novels. Amy also has a lot to say about nuns. Thanks, as always, to Molly Lewis for our theme music.

Special guest Kayla Cagan joins us as we review 1968's He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown, in which Snoopy is an irredeemable sociopath with little to no consequences. Don't believe us? See for yourself! Topics of discussion include: a nesting doll full of bad decisions; what NOT to do when your dog is setting sink fires & kicking people in the taint; the first appearance of Roy (the light of Molly's life); Peppermint Patty's unflinching certainty that Snoopy is not a dog, but a human boy with a big nose; the problem of holding Snoopy accountable for his gratuitous and violent outbursts when he lives as both dog and person, and can therefore not be strictly held to either set of social mores; a round of expressed glands, on the house! This week's guest Kayla Cagan is on Twitter as @KaylaCagan. Kayla can currently be found running social media for the LA Festival Of Books (April 9-10), at @LATimesFOB and #Bookfest. Her novel Piper Parish will be available from Chronicle Books in the spring of 2017. Questions? Comments? Dump them into our asking box. He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown is available for your home viewing on DVD, iTunes, and YouTube. This episode was reblandished in May 2017 by Ken Plume - asitecalledfred.com/kenplume

Writer and theater professional Kayla Cagan loves Grease 2. A movie featuring songs about sex in nuclear bunkers and a guy named Brad! Learn how the movie taught Kayla to laugh at sex, eat french fries aggressively, and just be … Continue reading →