First Draft Episode #221: Zan Romanoff and Sarah Enni open the mailbag!

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Zan Romanoff, author of A Song to Take the World Apart, Grace and the Fever, and the forthcoming Look (out March 31, 2020) joins Sarah Enni to answer listener questions. Have a question about writing or creativity for Sarah Enni or her guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• Make sure to listen to Zan’s first appearance on First Draft, here!

• My cat Hammer!

• The Bluebeard story

• A question from Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of Save the Date, The Unexpected Everything, and more (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here)!

• A question from Elissa Sussman, author of Burn and Stray (listen to her First Draft interview here)

• Kate O'Shaughnessy is the author of The Lonely Heart of Maybelle Lane, a middle grade novel coming out March 3, 2020

• I reference the wisdom that Cindy Pon (author of Want and its sequel Ruse, the Silver Phoenix series and more) and Justin A. Reynolds (debut author of The Opposite of Always; and Sarah Enni, author of Tell Me Everything) both agreed on this First Draft LIVE from YA-Hoo Fest episode that they don’t know if a book is going to be a book until they’re written 40,000 words

• I turned off my brain and enjoyed RuPaul’s Drag Race

• Zan is obsessed with Apple TV’s new series, Dickinson

• I want to watch it because I approve of the way John Mulaney rips on Henry David Thoreau

• The way Zan feels about Dickinson is the way I felt about Booksmart, which is the same spot that was tickled by The O.C.

• Ava Dellaira, author of Love Letters to the Dead and In Search of Us. Listen to her episode of First Draft here

• Zan just read Brandy Colbert’s The Voting Booth, coming out July 7, 2020 (listen to her episodes of First Draft here and here), and Robyn Schneider’s You Don’t Live Here (coming out June 2, 2020)

• Sarah is about to read Topics of Conversation: A Novel by Miranda Popkey (coming out January 7, 2020), and Medallion Status: True Stories by Secret Rooms by John Hodgman (I loved Vacationland: True Stories From Painful Beaches as well), and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

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Have a question about writing or creativity for Sarah Enni or her guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998.

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