Sweaters & Chai: Latest episodes and upcoming events for First Draft and Sarah Enni
Hey there!
There's a new look for the First Draft with Sarah Enni newsletter. I hope you like it! In this edition:
Blurbs! We got blurbs!
Some of the recent episodes of First Draft
Podcast recommendations
Book recommendations
Plenty of links for you to pre-order TELL ME EVERYTHING!
🎉Blurbs! 🎉
Blurbs are quick supportive shouts from published authors to show their love for new books. I'm lucky enough that several incredible authors gave my debut book, TELL ME EVERYTHING, some love with a blurb. Here are two of them, from New York Times bestsellers Veronica Roth and Morgan Matson!
I'll be sharing more of the blurbs TME has gotten over the next few months 😍
🎧 Recent First Draft Episodes 🎧
Laini Taylor
Laini Taylor is a National Book Award finalist for Lips Touch Three Times, New York Times bestseller for the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, and Printz Honoree for Strange the Dreamer and its sequel, Muse of Nightmares, out now!
Listen to our interview here, on iTunes, or on Spotify!
Tochi Onyebuchi
Tochi Onyebuchi, author of CROWN OF THUNDER, the second book in the BEASTS MADE OF NIGHT series--which is out now--talks about the audacity of new writers’ ideas, writing himself and his family into a book for the first time, and being an award-winning witness.
Listen to our interview here, on iTunes, or on Spotify!
Sam Maggs
Sam Maggs, author of A FANGIRL’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: A Handbook for Geek Girls and WONDER WOMEN: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History, talks about her most recent book, GIRL SQUADS, a non-fiction collection of 20 female friendships that changed history.
Listen to our interview here, on iTunes, or on Spotify!
Nic Stone
Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of DEAR MARTIN, talks about her newest young adult novel, ODD ONE OUT, out October 9! Nic talks about lies of imagination versus lies of convenience, “high taste” readers, and the benefits of eavesdropping.
Listen to our interview here, on iTunes, or on Spotify!
🚀 Upcoming Events 🚀
YALLFest
Fri. Nov 9, 2018 to Sat. Nov 10, 2018
Blue Bicycle Books (map)
I'll be attending the annual YALLFEST festival in Charleston, S.C., signing early copies of TELL ME EVERYTHING and asking other authors tons of questions!
The schedule is TBD but when it's up you can find all my events here!
Kayla Olson
Friday, November 16, 2018
7:00 PM 8:30 PM
Vroman's Bookstore (map)
Join me and Kayla Olson, author of SANDCASTLE EMPIRE, as we talk about her newest YA, THIS SPLINTERED SILENCE!
Check out the event and pre-order the book here!
📻 Podcast Recommendations 📻
Wild Thing Believe in Bigfoot? ME TOO. Host of this awesome (and science-based) podcast, Laura Krantz, spent a year in the woods and in the lab, trying to answer that question. Per the show's description: What she found might surprise even the staunchest non-believer. HE'S REAL! The Los Angeles Times called it "Serial for Sasquatch" and have more enticing words ever been written? Methinks NO!
Punch Up the Jam Thank goodness Demi Adejuyigbe, podcast rockstar from the Gilmore Guys, is back! He, with a new co-host, the hilarious Miel Bredouw, discusses classic songs and punches them up. I loved the episode with my pal and host of Yo Is This Racist, Andrew Ti, where they modernized Baby Got Back!
📚 Book Recommendations 📚
After hearing Alex London talk about the origin story of his latest, the excellent YA fantasy, BLACK WINGS BEATING, I had to read H IS FOR HAWK by Helen Macdonald, the book that started down the path of researching falconry and basing on a world around worshipping birds of prey. Macdonald's book is part recounting of her time training a goshawk, part memoir of dealing with the grief of her father's death, and part look back at the time T. H. White—author of Arthurian classic THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING—spent training a goshawk and coping with his repressed homosexuality and abusive childhood. The book is unbelievably beautiful and riveting.
💅 ICYMI 💅
