Ep 106: Sabaa Tahir

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)


Sarah Henning