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Micol Ostow

Photo credit: JDZ photography

Photo credit: JDZ photography

 
 

In the 43rd episode of Truer Words, we speak with Micol Ostow about writing for Riverdale and Archie comics, making your own opportunities, and Sweet Valley High. Micol can be found on Instagram @micolostow and Twitter @micolz. Her website is micolostow.com.

Mentioned in this Episode:

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Save the Cat! Writes A Novel by Jessica Brody

Our episode with Erin Foley Chan

Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder

Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Beach Read by Emily Henry

The Turnaway Girls by Hayley Chewins

Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest

Clive Cussler

Mary Higgins Clark

Christopher Pike

R.L. Stine

Sweet Valley High

Francine Pascal

Get a portrait from the Sweet Valley High portraitist

Mean Girls movie / Mean Girls novelization by Micol

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Riverdale / Riverdale book series by Micol

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina - Sarah Rees Brennan

Sabrina the Teenage Witch series with Melissa Joan Hart

Charmed

Angel

Archie Comics

Amy Berkower

Writers House

Jodi Reamer

Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa by Micol

Alloy

Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar

MediaBistro

Stephenie Meyer 

John Green

Kami Garcia

Ally Condie

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Feed by M.T. Anderson

ttyl by Lauren Myracle

Hamline MFA

The New School

NYU MFA

David Levithan

Kathi Appelt

Uma Krishnaswami

Tim Wynne-Jones

Louise Hawes

family by Micol

So Punk Rock: And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother by Micol and illustrated by David Ostow

The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Heeb Magazine

The Devil and Winnie Flynn by Micol and illustrated by David Ostow

David Ostow in The New Yorker

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

Alex Segura / Alex on Twitter

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson

Sullivan, Who Is Always Too Loud by Micol, illustrated by Brian Biggs

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

The Worst Bestsellers Big Little Lies podcast episode

The Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Patricia Cornwall

Tana French

Marvel Cinematic Universe movies

Guardians of the Galaxy 2

Captain America

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

Kathryn Benson