S4 E10: Akshaya Raman & A Bed Full of Snakes

Happy New Year! Claribel & Kat discuss some fun news in their
author careers and chat about new year and resolutions. Then they
interview debut author, Akshaya Raman about her highly
anticipated Fantasy, The Ivory Key. How she dealt with doubt
during her query journey  and how she made writing friends.


ABOUT AKSHAYA: Akshaya Raman fell in love with
writing when she wrote her first story at the age of ten. Though
she graduated from UC Davis with a degree in biology, she gave up
pursuing a career in science to write books. She is a co-founder
and contributor to Writer’s Block Party, a group blog about
writing and publishing, and has served on the planning teams of
several book festivals. She lives in the Bay Area with an actual
scaredy cat, and in her free time, she enjoys baking, traveling,
and watching too much reality TV.


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MENTIONS


Fave "untraditional" success stories:


• S4 E7 Emiko Jean & We Don't Need
Permission to Write


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#UghJay!


• S1 E23: Karen M McManus & The Haunted
Airbnb


• Halloween Bonus: Holly Black &
Black Pond Revelations and Weird Stuff


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