Opening the Mailbag With Sabaa Tahir

First Draft Episode #280: Sabaa Tahir

Sabaa Tahir is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes series, which comes to a much-anticipated conclusion with the release of A Sky Beyond the Storm on December 1st.

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On the Remember Reading podcast, discover the tales behind these beloved children’s book classics. Hear from award-winning authors like Meg Cabot, Katherine Paterson, and Tiffany Jackson, and guests as they uncover the unique story behind each story.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• Hear Sabaa’s first episode of First Draft here!

• My tweet about revising as ironing, which many people responded to with wonderful visual metaphors of their own!

• Washington Post reporter Emily Wax-Thibodeaux wrote the article that inspired Sabaa to write An Ember in the Ashes.

• The Writer’s Home Companion: An Anthology of the World’s Best Writing Advice from Keats to Kunitz by Joan Bolker

• “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop (poem)

• Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. White

• Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go by Les Edgerton

• Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose

• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

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