Ep 96: Renée Ahdieh

Renée Ahdieh, New York Times best-selling author of The Wrath and
the Dawn series, and whose new series kicks off with the release
of Flame in the Mist, out May 16, joins me to talk about
straddling two worlds poorly, finding the music in language,
fearless internet personas, id books, and publishing as a
‘pride-swallowing siege.’ (Plus, a cameo from Sarah Nicole Lemon,
author of Done Dirt Cheap!)


 


Renee Ahdieh Show Notes


Explosions in the Sky


Sheherazade Op. 35, a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov


Nas


The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting


Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene


Sarah Nicole Lemon


J.K. Rowling


Star Wars score by John Williams


Gustav Holst’s The Planets


The Imperial March by John Williams


Mars, Bringer of War by Gustav Holst


Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better,featured in Annie, Get Your
Gun


Tool


Metallica


Human Bell


Mogwai


Godspeed You Black Emperor


Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon


The 30-second bit of "Blue Moon" by Beck, which I wanted to write
a book about


"S&M" by Metallica


"The Black Album" by Metallica


FictionPress


The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding


The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger 


The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins


Twilight by Stephenie Meyer


The Babysitter’s Club by Ann M. Martin


The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice


Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoyevsky


Zorro by Isabel Allende


Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez


Get Out (movie)


13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher (and the Netflix Show)


Chekhov’s Gun


Bluebeard


Sir Richard Burton


The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy


The Song of the Lioness series by Tamara Pierce


Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare


Mulan (movie)


A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi


Sengoku and Muromachi periods of Japanese history


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