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 Sign up for the First Draft Newsletter!