![]() ![]() It sounded like a cliché, but the more I listened, the more I understood what they meant. They talked about funny things like writing rituals and the most absurd things they’d done for research, but they often came back to the importance of telling their own stories. Sitting in the at-capacity room with eager fans ready to soak in knowledge from these women felt like an almost spiritual experience. The first time I came across Ahdieh’s name was about a year ago when I was scouring the Internet late one night for good summer reads by women of color, featuring characters that looked like me. The three fantasy fiction writers drew an audience of tween girls, women of all ages, and a number of men, which took up the entire back room of the bookstore. Renée Ahdieh, a UNC-Chapel Hill grad and New York Times best-selling author, was hosting a book signing for her new YA book, Flame in the Mist, along with two other successful, female, Asian authors, Roshani Chokshi and S. People shook their coats and closed their umbrellas as they sought shelter in Flyleaf Books. ![]() Jae-Jonesīy six-thirty last Wednesday evening, the rain had picked up its pace. ![]() In conversation with Roshani Chokshi and S. ![]()
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