Ep 134: Sara Saedi

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 Brooke Bowman She's All That (movie) M. Night Shyalaman Tom Jacobson (producer) The Goodwin Games (TV show) How I Met Your Mother (TV show) Carter Bays Craig Thomas Scott Foley 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)