Sarah Zettel

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

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I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#california #i #myself #sacramento

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

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I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

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I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

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My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#back #bowl #brand-new #every #every night

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#butler #course #disturbing

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#fantasy #lord #lord of the rings #movie #movie set

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

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I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

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