Sarah's Writing Blog

Word wars make for successful nano’ing

More from Lolcats How does a word war work? First you need to find a writing buddy, or someone to war with. Then you sit down together - or at home but both on msn and one of you sets a timer for 5, 10 or 15 mins, or whatever time you agree but make it [...]

Multiple projects.

I have a writing buddy. We challenge each other, we compete and we also support each other in our writing. But we write in very different ways and an email from NaNo made me think about it this morning. Dear NaNoWriMo Author, I know what you’re doing. You’re thinking about cheating, aren’t you? Ha! Caught you! Come [...]

The Sheep told me to do it…

Now, where was I…. Oh yes, Salisbury - where Peter, and new friend Colette, ended up spending the night near the cathedral and where Peter was told he was going the wrong way, by a sheep. Today they’re on the run again on stolen horses, sleeping in an abandoned cottage somewhere near Oxford, and heading roughly North [...]

It’s NaNo time again….

November is here and I’m writing like a mad thing again. It’s day nine today and the NaNoWriMo forums have slowly come back up to speed after being clogged with the surge of new sign ups and heavy load that always happens during the first week or so. Now for my first Nano in 2005 I [...]

Happy Hallowe’en

More LolCats It’s November the 1st tomorrow, NaNo begins again for another year and I write at my fastest and hopefully produce some of my best ideas. NaNo was the start of the Portal series three years ago and has helped me write different things each time since. In 2006 it was more Portal work and [...]

And it’s all in place…

The Portal Sundered is fully on Amazon.com - all there, cover image, search inside, showing as In Stock, all present and correct. All that’s missing is a sales history. Not quite all in place on the listing on Amazon.co.uk bit it’s only a couple of days behind so it won’t be long. Still waiting for it [...]

The Portal Sundered is spreading!

It is! Last week it appeared on Amazon.com and today it’s popped up on Amazon.co.uk, The Book Depository, Barnes & Noble. Nowhere has the cover image or blurb on yet and it’s yet to filter through to Tesco, Waterstones and WHSmiths. But it’s fast. The schedule is normally up to eight weeks and it’s taken three. [...]

November is approaching….

more animals No, I don’t. At the moment I am full of ideas and just taking a break until NaNo starts, at which point writing will kick off again, fast and furious - but I don’t think it’ll be another Portal book. I want to write something completely different.

The Portal Sundered is out

The long and eagerly awaited sequel to The Portal Between is now available for sale. The Portal Sundered carries on where the first book left off, with Sam on Ametsams side of the portals and Kate and Lily in our world, coping with everyday life; and a new social worker. Lily’s magic is diminished and she [...]

Win a signed copy

There is a signed, hard back, dust jacket edition of The Portal Between up for grabs on the Mumzone forums. Just answer a simple question and your name goes in the draw. One lucky winner will be drawn at random from the correct entries. There are always a heap of competitions over there so it’s worth [...]