We'd like to thank you.
Here at SARA, we are actual people. I know, right? Epically amazing. We have soccer-mum cars, mortgages, dust bunnies under the bed and 'it's a bit small' pay packets. We're people you see on the street, likely wearing trackies and sporting something lunchy on the fronts of our t-shirts, as we ate at the computer.
We're extremely normal.
Well, except for the fact that we're constructing steamy sex scenes in our heads about sixteen hours of the day, and a further four hours are spent wondering where to leave the body that became dead in chapter two so that the hero can find it, thus perform consequent heroic deeds and ergo, get the girl.
That leaves four hours for sleeping, toting kids to sports (and reading whilst waiting in the car!) and writing blog posts.
You may have noticed we haven't posted good news for a while, a phenomenon we can link back directly to the fact that there are sadly only twenty-four hours in a day. It's not because AWESOME THINGS haven't happened...
But thanks for sticking with us. We love you for it. No-one said it better than Sahvage: truly, madly, deeply.
So, we are very pleased to bring you NEWS!!
Liana Skrzypczak is one of our newer members, and hel-lo!, girl be making WAVES! Liana is very excited to have been awarded the shared-winner gong for the Hachette Mentoring Program for her dystopian YA manuscript, Gold, along with another Adelaide writer, Rose Hartley.
Congratulations, Liana! Check out her super-cute blog at the link above.
Harlequin author Elizabeth Rolls has a new book coming out in February In Debt To The Earl.
But wait, there's more...
A follow-up book is in the pipeline, too. Rejoice, historical fans!
HOLD ON TO ME
A Boys of Summer novel – Out December 14th in shops and ebook
Can she learn to trust him and love again? Stella wasn’t looking for love and especially not from a younger man… When Stella Ryan’s successful life in Sydney crumbled, she returned flat broke and broken hearted to the beachside town she’d once called home. Five years on, she’s opened a boutique and rebuilt her life in the tourist haven of Port Elliot. Luca Morelli has been working flat out to establish his own building company in the city and doesn’t have time to be driving back and forth to the beach to do a small job in a shop that was almost destroyed in a fire. But he soon changes his mind when he meets the glamorous owner. Before long, Stella and Luca find that a working relationship isn’t the only thing developing between them. But the closer they get, the ghosts of Stella’s past come back to haunt her once more. Can she ever believe a man again? And if she can, is the much younger Luca Morelli the man she can trust with her heart?
Lilliana Rose has been a busy writer/poet! Not only has she recently released Soul Dancer, but she's also had a cover nominated for Best Cover at the AusRom Reader's Choice Awards for Chasing Dust Storms. Vote for it here...
In a world where Soul Dancers are enslaved, Zarifah must over come corruption and lead the other dancers to freedom. Forced to harvest emotions from patrons each night she becomes addicted to happiness, which threatens to get in the way of a forbidden relationship with fellow dancer Torin and stop her from challenging the Regulators, the emotionless humans who feed on the emotions harvested.
Check out what the other SARA's have been up to at the SARA website member page, or stalk us a bit on Facebook and Twitter. We'd love that!
Finally, I leave you with a familiar set of... eyeballs. Our very own Erotic Fiction author Kyoko Church talks to the very swanky Adelaide Hills Magazine about sex and shame.
The future of the Soul Dancers depends on Zarifah being a leader, but she may not be the saviour the followers had hoped for.
Until next time, we wish you very happy reading!
Emmeline. x
