Tempting Talk, my novel about a gregarious radio deejay and the workaholic accountant who falls hard for her, is a finalist in the Golden Heart contemporary romance category at the 2019 Romance Writers of America® national conference. Eeeee! This is the last year for the Golden Heart awards, and simply being included in this final […]

The December holidays are full of traditions: Music. Decor. Food. Family. And if you're like me, books. Santa brought me a new Christmas book every December 24 when I was growing up, and every year, I'd pull out the old books in the weeks leading up to the big day,even when I'd advanced beyond the reading […]

I'm beyond thrilled to shout to the world that my unpublished novel Tempting Talk is a finalist in MMRWA's 2017 Best Banter Contest. Hooray, banter! Enormous thanks to the Mid-Michigan Romance Writers of America for the thoughtful judging comments on my excerpt. Curious about the book it came from? You can check out the whole series here!

Ugh, new year's resolutions. Mine are always either grandiose and destined for failure ("No more sugar ever!" LOLZ!), or they're so blandly aspirational that I can't wrap my head around them ("Be more mindful in the moment." Ooooo ... kay?) So as 2017 peeks over the horizon, I'm making some book-based pledges for the year […]

Every superhero has an origin story. Peter Parker has his spider. Jessica Jones has that car accident and those spilled chemicals. And Squirrel Girl ... actually, Squirrel Girl was born that way. But my point stands. We all have events in our past that helped shape us. They may not have given us a healing factor […]

Thank you so much for stopping by my tiny slice of the internet! My name is Sara, and I'm an author. Once upon a time, I referred to myself as an aspiring author, but the fierce, fantastic historical romance novelist K.C. Bateman put the kibosh on that, remind me that I write. I've finished a book. Therefore, I'm already […]