First Draft With Sarah Enni

Sabaa Tahir, NY Times bestselling author of the An Ember in the Ashes series, shares spooky happenings in the desert hometown, waxes poetic about good journalistic writing, and talks giving suffering children a happy ending in her books, being an eight-year overnight success, and writing books in elbows of time.   Sabaa Tahir Show Notes The Shannara series by Terry Brooks Dragon Riders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey Ansel Adams (photographer) Stranger Things (TV show) Seven Daughters and Seven Suns by Barbara Cohen and Bahija Lovejoy The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy "Living a Half-Life While Waiting for Those Lost," the Washington Post story about women in Kashmir Image of Liberian child soldier wearing a teddy bear backpack, Georges Gobet/Getty Images Holly Goldberg Sloan Margaret Stohl (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here) Melissa de la Cruz George R. R. Martin “gardener or architect” Shannon Hale All the President’s Men (film) When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi My Left Foot (movie)