First Draft Episode #220: Rick Yancy, Cindy Pon, Justin Reynolds, and Sarah Enni LIVE at YA-Hoo Fest

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YA-Hoo Fest kicked off with this LIVE recording of the First Draft with Sarah Enni on Sept. 21, 2019. Hear writers talk about plotting the end of humanity, domed Chinese playgrounds, reef-keeping, the universal experience of grief. Featuring: Rick Yancey, New York Times bestselling author of the Fifth Wave series, the Monstrumologist series, and more; Cindy Pon, Want and its sequel Ruse, the Silver Phoenix series and more; Justin A. Reynolds, debut author of The Opposite of Always; and Sarah Enni, author of Tell Me Everything.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• Storming Area 51 is something I cannot ever talk about enough. Did you know it is obliquely tied to delonge-ufo-research.html">Tom Delonge, former guitarist for Blink 182?!?!

• The Fermi Paradox concerns the probability of there being intelligent life in the universe

• The Stephen Hawkings quote that begins The Fifth Wave is, “If Aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.”

• Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man’s Tour of Duty Inside the IRS is Rick Yancey’s memoir all about working at the IRS

• The movie Groundhog Day  is a classic, you should watch it!

• William Goldman is an esteemed screenwriter (of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men and The Princess Bride) and novelist (of The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, Marathon Man and more).

• The Roger Ebert review of The Fifth Wave movie

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