{"id":60306,"date":"2016-05-23T15:12:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T04:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=60306"},"modified":"2017-08-31T10:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T23:04:19","slug":"sarah-j-maas-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2016\/05\/23\/sarah-j-maas-chats\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things you didn&#8217;t know about Sarah J. Maas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If strong and smart heroines are what you like reading about then you can&#8217;t go past the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/throne-of-glass-by-sarah-j-maas\/series2932.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Throne of Glass<\/a> series by\u00a0Sarah J. Maas. (If you&#8217;ve somehow missed the news, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/2016\/05\/13\/book-cover-revealed-empire-storms-book-5-throne-glass-series-sarah-j-maas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the cover of book 5 has just been revealed!<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Sarah is\u00a0a feminist always conscious of including women in positions of power throughout the series; a series that&#8217;s the perfect introduction to the fantasy genre for teenagers. It has fully-realised fantasy worlds, complex political intrigue, betrayal, destiny, magic, unbelievable twists and turns and page-turning plots. What more could you want?<\/p>\n<p>Have a listen to what Sarah has to say about her books and influences:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What was Sarah&#8217;s favourite book to write?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><iframe title=\"Q&amp;A with Sarah J. Maas: Part 1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4WmHcgVHNoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">What is Sarah&#8217;s favourite part of writing?<\/h1>\n<p><iframe title=\"Q&amp;A with Sarah J. Maas: Part 2\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cRJy4flswVo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Why did Sarah write A Court of Thorn and Roses?<\/h2>\n<p><iframe title=\"Q&amp;A with Sarah J. Maas: Part 3\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pzzKm1evlR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Why does Sarah love writing fantasy novels?<\/h1>\n<p><iframe title=\"Q&amp;A with Sarah J. Maas: Part 4\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1P2_gGAaqkc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">What influences Sarah&#8217;s world building?<\/h1>\n<p><iframe title=\"Q&amp;A with Sarah J. Maas: Part 5\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c0B_8-Cl8hM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If strong and smart heroines are what you like reading about then you can&#8217;t go past the Throne of Glass series by\u00a0Sarah J. Maas. (If you&#8217;ve somehow missed the news, the cover of book 5 has just been revealed!). Sarah is\u00a0a feminist always conscious of including women in positions of power throughout the series; a series that&#8217;s the perfect introduction to the fantasy genre for teenagers. It has fully-realised fantasy worlds, complex political intrigue, betrayal, destiny, magic, unbelievable twists and turns and page-turning plots. What more could you want? Have a listen to what Sarah has to say about her books and influences: What was Sarah&#8217;s favourite book to write? What is Sarah&#8217;s favourite part of writing? \u00a0Why did Sarah write A Court of Thorn and Roses? Why does Sarah love writing fantasy novels? What influences Sarah&#8217;s world building?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":60392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[16,24,6676,34,53,85],"tags":[6782,6799,6780,6791,6644],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SocialMediaImage19.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60306"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60365,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306\/revisions\/60365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}