{"id":5423,"date":"2016-08-31T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T02:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/31\/bestselling-author-sarah-j-maas-on-literary-fame-and-creating-her-beloved-fantasy-world\/"},"modified":"2016-08-31T10:51:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T02:51:47","slug":"bestselling-author-sarah-j-maas-on-literary-fame-and-creating-her-beloved-fantasy-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/31\/bestselling-author-sarah-j-maas-on-literary-fame-and-creating-her-beloved-fantasy-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling author Sarah J. Maas on literary fame and creating her beloved fantasy world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f195412%2fsarah_j_maas\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/ZlF-q89iYAoBVHMgEK8Qk-mpUQ8=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F195412%2FSarah_J_Maas.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Bestselling+author+Sarah+J.+Maas+on+literary+fame+and+creating+her+beloved+fantasy+world&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fsarah-maas-empire-of-storms%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fsarah-maas-empire-of-storms%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Lots of 16-year-olds dream of being professional authors one day. But sometimes those teens do grow up to become bestselling writers. Just ask <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahjmaas.com\/\">Sarah J. Maas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maas&#8217; fantasy series, <em>Throne of Glass (<\/em>runner-up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/02\/onetrueya-final\/#.TsGylgN5zqJ?utm_campaign=&amp;utm_context=textlink&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=\">MashReads YA series competition<\/a>) and <em>A Court of Thorns and Roses<\/em>, are bestsellers and fan favorites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/02\/onetrueya-final\/\">What&#8217;s the best YA series of all time? Time for the #OneTrueYA bracket final round<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Because I started this when I was a teenager, this doesn\u2019t quite feel real,&#8221; Maas told <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mashreads\/\"><em>MashReads<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;I\u2019ve worked for this since I was 16, but at the same time, when your dreams do come true there\u2019s this imposter syndrome type thing. You\u2019re like, \u2018This didn\u2019t really happen to me, people don\u2019t really mean this.\u2019&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/08\/30\/sarah-maas-empire-of-storms\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/throne-of-glass\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Throne Of Glass<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/ya-books\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Ya Books<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/books\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Books<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mashablereads\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Mashablereads<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mashreads\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Mashreads<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/lGMaXhcO2J8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of 16-year-olds dream of being professional authors one day. But sometimes those teens do grow up to become bestselling writers. Just ask Sarah J. Maas. Maas&#8217; fantasy series, Throne of Glass (runner-up in the MashReads YA series competition) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/31\/bestselling-author-sarah-j-maas-on-literary-fame-and-creating-her-beloved-fantasy-world\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[756,3145,2815,4065,3143],"class_list":["post-5423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-books","tag-mashablereads","tag-mashreads","tag-throne-of-glass","tag-ya-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}