Stories to Love

62. Setting out to write a joyful book with Gloria Chao

February 14, 2023
Stories to Love
62. Setting out to write a joyful book with Gloria Chao
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Episode 62 of the Stories to Love podcast is up! Here with me today is Gloria Chao

Gloria Chao is an acclaimed author and screenwriter. Her novels include American Panda, Our Wayward Fate, Rent a Boyfriend, and When You Wish Upon a Lantern. Her award-winning books have received starred trade reviews; were Junior Library Guild, Indie Next List, YALSA Teens’ Top 10, and Amelia Bloomer List selections; and were featured on the “Best of” lists of Seventeen, Bustle, Barnes & Noble, PopSugar, Paste Magazine, Booklist, Chicago Public Library, Bank Street, and more.

After a brief detour as a dentist, she is now grateful to spend her days in fictional characters’ heads instead of real people’s mouths. When she’s not writing, you can find her on the curling ice, where she and her husband are world-ranked in mixed doubles.

Visit her tea-and-book-filled world at GloriaChao.wordpress.com and find her on Twitter and Instagram @GloriacChao.

In this episode we discussed how Gloria set out to write a hopeful book in WHEN YOU WISH UPON A LANTERN balancing writing grief and hope. She talked about the sense of belonging while writing her small town setting. We dipped into her transition from health care to authoring, her involvement in NaNoWriMo writers board. And we even talked about her current hybrid system of drafting, and writing college stories within the YA space. 


Links discussed:
First year Orientation - anthology
This Time it's Real by Ann Liang
If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang
Julian Winters  - As You Walk On By
Never Vacation With Your Ex - Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

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