Sara Saedi, author of NEVER EVER and its sequel, THE LOST KIDS (out today!), as well as YA memoir AMERICANIZED: REBEL WITHOUT A GREEN CARD, talks about her earliest boy-meets-girl story, how being the child of immigrants made her write her first screenplay, soap operas as writing boot camp,the blessing of living in the time of email, and putting a narrative onto your own life.
Sara Saedi Show Notes
Cocktail (movie)
Rain Man (movie)
The Babysitter’s Club by Ann M. Martin
She’s All That (movie)
Tom Jacobson (producer)
The Goodwin Games (TV show)
How I Met Your Mother (TV show)
Jess Regel at Foundry Literary
"The Silicon Valley Suicides," by Hanna Rosin in The Atlantic
Perfect Strangers (TV show)
iZombie (TV show)
John August (listen to his First Draft interview here)
Launch, the podcast about John’s book
Rob Thomas (iZOmbie, Veronica Mars)