Sara Raasch has known she was destined for bookish things since the age of five, when her friends had a lemonade stand and she tagged along to sell her hand-drawn picture books too. Not much has changed since then — her friends still cock concerned eyebrows when she attempts to draw things and her enthusiasm for the written word still drives her to extreme measures. Her New York Times bestselling Snow Like Ashes trilogy is available now as well as the first book in her pirate fantasy series, These Rebel Waves. None of those feature her hand-drawn pictures.