First Draft With Sarah Enni

Dr. Somaiya Daud is the author of Mirage and its forthcoming sequel, Court of Lions (out August 4, 2020). Check out the cover reveal from Court of Lions and read an excerpt at Tor.com, as well as a conversation between Somaiya and I about how the theme of lost cultures functions in the series. Somaiya has also answered questions on a February 28, 2020 mailbag episode, and was featured on the July 5, 2014 episode (the very first First Draft episode ever). Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode Somaiya Daud’s first interview with First Draft Podcast Throughout her writing career Somaiya’s writing become more genre forced aka more “J. R. R. Tolkien and less William Gibson.” When cosplaying form the Victorian era they say that no one would cosplay Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens you would cosplay Emma by Jane Austen Somaiya did her Masters thesis on The Arabian Nights by Muhsin Mahdi (Editor), Husain Haddawy (Translator) Somaiya’s dissertation is on Historiography and Translation Theory Chelsea