Ghosts Eating Waffles with Kendare Blake, Somaiya Daud, and Sarah Enni

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Somaiya uses Scrivener to organize her extensive historical
documents that she writes before she drafts her books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