Sara Raasch's Blog, page 329
June 19, 2015
Hi! I read Snow Like Ashes not long ago and just saw the ask you answered about the chakram. I had no idea it was a real weapon! Super cool! I looked it up and saw it was from India. I had pictured the Autumn peoples as Native American/Canadian and given t
In my head, the Autumn Kingdom has a culture inspired by a blend of Indian/Middle Eastern (hence the chakram). Book 3 explores their kingdom a lot more though, so next year I’ll have all kinds of in-depth goodies about the mysterious fourth Season Kingdom! (Hint: They’re my favorite. Don’t tell Winter.)
Hi! I read Snow Like Ashes not long ago and just saw the ask you answered about the chakram. I had no idea it was a real weapon! Super cool! I looked it up and saw it was from India. I had pictured the Autumn peoples as Native American/Canadian and given t
In my head, the Autumn Kingdom has a culture inspired by a blend of Indian/Middle Eastern (hence the chakram). Book 3 explores their kingdom a lot more though, so next year I’ll have all kinds of in-depth goodies about the mysterious fourth Season Kingdom! (Hint: They’re my favorite. Don’t tell Winter.)
Summer Join the Blizzard Contest!
WINTERIANSSSSSS!
Summer is HERE! Bring on the heat! Bring on the sun! BRING ON THE PRIZES!
Some of you may have noticed the ICE LIKE FIRE Character Profiles I’ve been posting over the past few months, introducing you all to the crazy kingdoms you’ll come to meet in SNOW LIKE ASHES’ sequel. Well, all that info will now come in handy, as the Summer Join the Blizzard contest is a QUIZ!
No, it’ll be fun! I promise! And, better still, it’ll be EASY!
Behold: here is all the information you will need to pass this quiz with flying colors. Every correct answer gets you an entry into the contest. Plus, there are a few non-question entries – the typical Twitter follow, Tumblr reblog, etc. EASY PEASY.
But what are you working so hard for??
Why, none other than the FIRST and ONLY signed and ANNOTATED ARC of ICE LIKE FIREEEEE.
That’s right, lovelies – this will be the ONLY annotated ARC of ICE LIKE FIRE. There will be another annotated finished copy, but as far as ARCs go, this is it. UNIQUE. SPECIAL. RARE. It is all those things and more.
Plus, you’ll win swag along with your piece of the SLA Blizzard, as per usual.
Contest runs June 19-July 2, with the winner announced July 3. Open internationally.
GO, GO, GO!!
June 18, 2015
"Someday we will be more than words in the dark."
- Sara Raasch (Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1))
Hi Sara! I absolutely adore your book Snow Like Ashes and I am beyond excited to read Ice Like Fire. I am an aspiring author. I am working on the 5th draft of my independent novel and I am also working on the second draft *shudders because revision is scar
You have two novels going at once? And you’re thirteen? Am I talking through some kind of space-time continuum to Young Author Sara? Because that’s exactly the type of person I was. *high fives*
So, it’s fitting then to give the kind of advice I would have given to Young Author Sara, which is:
This industry will throw a lot of rejections at you, but if you want it, persistence is the only difference between a published author and an unpublished author.
Hi!! *fangirling* I just wanted to say I absolutely loved SNOW LIKE ASHES! I was also wondering if you could tell me a little bit about how you pick your character names and kingdom names, because they are fantastic? (PS: props to whoever designed your boo
Usually, character/place names come based on what type of culture each kingdom has – for instance, the Kingdom of Ventralli’s culture has a lot of Venetian/Italian cultural influences, so all of the people from that kingdom have Italian-inspired names.
Other characters in SLA got their names because they were named as such way back when I was a wee authorling and first wrote the draft when I was twelve. Meira has been Meira for more than half my life. Which is terrifying and awesome.
