First Draft Episode #205: Kendare Blake, Somaiya Daud, and Sarah Enni at the University Bookstore in Seattle

Pantsing and world building with Kendare Blake, author of the Three Dark Queens trilogy and Anna Dressed in Blood; Somaiya Daud, author of Mirage; and Sarah Enni, author of Tell Me Everything and host of this podcast! This episode is audio from the March 2019 event at The University Bookstore in Seattle, Washington.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• Kendare wore a Jeff Goldblum T-shirt in honor of Tell Me Everything!

• Sarah wanted Sudden Cove, the town in Tell Me Everything to feel like a Stars Hollow (from the Gilmore Girls) of the west coast, or like Pawnee from Parks and Recreation.

• The Bigfoot Discovery Museum is real, Sarah did go there with fellow YA and MG author Kirsten Hubbard (author of Wanderlove, Watch the Sky, Race the Night and more -- listen to her First Draft interview here!)

• The purveyor of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum was a man who looked just like George R. R. Martin, author of the Game of Thrones series

• The Bees by Laline Paull, is a book from the point of view of bees

• Somaiya is inspired by Star Wars (especially the prequel trilogy, The Phantom Menace) and the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, but she also really loves The Silmarillion.

• MoPOP, a modern art museum in Seattle that hosted the Star Wars costume exhibit when it was in town

• Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera also explores the world of a matriarchy

• Somaiya uses Scrivener to organize her extensive historical documents that she writes before she drafts her books

• Aeon Timeline is timeline software Somaiya paid for to create a 1,000-year history of the world of her book

• I get to discuss Yucca Mountain, where we should be sending all of America’s radioactive waste!

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