Readers on Writers presents Sara Zarr

Readers on Writers presents Sara Zarr

Sara Zarr is the acclaimed author of eleven books, a creative writing teacher and coach, and host of the This Creative Life podcast. While she's often in her home town of San Francisco and Pacifica, CA, she currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and cat. A SONG CALLED HOME is Sara's tenth book and first middle grade novel. Inspired by her own San Francisco childhood, it follows fifth-grader Lu Emerson through some big life changes and challenges, and her father's unresolved issues with addiction and instability. The NEW YORK TIMES called A Song Called Home "deeply affecting and achingly authentic." Sara and Ferdelle discuss creating a reality for your characters, trauma and emotional experiences and healing through writing, and, being on set as an author when your book is being turned into a film, and also their love of Northern California.

Readers on Writers Presents Nicki Pau Preto

Nicki Pau Preto is winner of the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards. She is a fantasy author living just outside of Toronto, Canada. She studied art and art history in university and worked as a graphic designer before becoming a writer full-time. She is the author of the YA fantasy Crown of Feathers trilogy and the forthcoming Bonesmith, and The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents will be her middle grade debut. WINGS OF SHADOW, the final book in her YA fantasy trilogy Crown of Feathers, is available now from Margaret K. McElderry Books. Ferdelle and Nicki discuss plot writing, gush over fantasy fiction, the best writing environments for your personality type, Canadian accents, and problem solving in life and in story telling. Ferdelle gets surprised by how she was chosen to narrate Sparrow in Wings of Shadow.