Renée Ahdieh First Draft with Sarah Enni

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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