News

February 2012

*French rights are sold for The Violets of March

*Womansday.com praises The Bungalow, saying the book is “extraordinarily real” and a “true page-turner”

*The Bungalow remains on the Neilson Bookscan bestseller list for 7 weeks in a row!

*New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster declares The Bungalow her “favorite book of the year”!

January 2012

*In its first week on sale, The Bungalow hit #3 on Bookscan’s romance bestseller list!

*Sarah is now represented by Dana Borowitz at United Talent Agency, who will oversee TV/film interest in her books.

December 2011

*Penguin will send Sarah on a national book tour in January and February. Stay tuned for tour dates.

*Orders for The Bungalow continue to pour in, necessitating several additional pre-publication printings.

*Turkish rights are sold for The Violets of March.

*The Violets of March, and Sarah’s third novel, Blackberry Winter, sell at auction in Italy.

*Due to continued orders from booksellers, The Bungalow goes to press for a third and fourth pre-publication printing.

*Kroger’s and Sam’s Club will also both be carrying The Bungalow.

*A significant order of The Bungalow is placed by Penguin Canada, making the book widely available in book stores across Canada, as well as at NewsGroup (a “Reader’s Pick”) and Walmart stores (where The Bungalow will be a featured selection).

*Large print rights for The Bungalow are sold.

*The Bungalow will be available at Costco.

*The Bungalow is a “Recommended Reading” pick by Target, beginning in the month of January.

November 2011

*Polish rights are sold for The Violets of March to Znak, Krakow (who also publishes novels by Emily Giffin and Lauren Hillenbrand).

*Sarah’s debut novel, The Violets of March, is selected as a Best Book of 2011 by the prestigious Library Journal.

*Blackberry Winter, Sarah’s third novel, is moved up again! The new publication date is September 27, 2012. It will be a lead Fall 2012 title for Penguin (Plume).

*Orders for The Bungalow are so great that it goes back to press for a second printing (pre-publication).

October 2011

*The Violets of March is sent back to press for a seventh printing.

*Sarah is invited to be a featured author at the King County Library’s Literary Lions Gala 2012. Seattle’s King County Library System is the largest library network in the country and recently one the national “Library of the Year” award. Keynote speak for the event is #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, with book reviewer extraordinaire Nancy Pearl as emcee.

*Woman’s Day magazine declares The Violets of March a “must-read” for fall and calls the book absorbing and says “readers will be enthralled”.

*Condensation rights are sold to Reader’s Digest for The Bungalow.

September 2011

*Sarah’s next two books, Blackberry Winter and The Last Camellia, are sold to Penguin (Plume).

*The Violets of March is a SheReads September Book Club pick.

*Audio rights are sold for The Bungalow, again to Listen and Live Audio.

*The Bungalow is a Pulpwood Queen 2012 Book Club Pick.

July 2011

*The Violets of March is featured in Coastal Living and FIRST for Women magazines.

May 2011

*German rights to Sarah’s second novel, The Bungalow, are sold to her publisher in Germany, Heyne Verlag (a division of Random House).

*Redbook magazine declares Violets “engrossing” and chooses as a must-read in their May issue.

*Costco Connection magazine picks Violets as a May Book Buyer Fiction pick.

April 2011

*The Violets of March goes back to press for a third printing before it’s release date.

*The German version of The Violets of March, which will be debuting in hardcover, was chosen for the cover of the Heyne Verlag (division of Random House in Germany) fall catalog! To see the beautiful cover, click here.

*The Violets of March is reviewed favorably by Publisher’s Weekly, and RT Book Reviews gives a 4-star review and calls the book “an endearing tale,” adding that readers are sure to be “captivated”.

*Spanish rights for The Violets of March are sold to the publisher Ediciones B

*Audio rights are sold for The Violets of March to Live & Listen Audio, Inc.

February 2011

*Book club rights are sold for The Violets of March (and, a special edition hardcover will be printed!)

*The Violets of March is chosen by Target for their Emerging Author program.

January 2011

*Sarah’s second novel, The Bungalow, is sold, again to her editor, Denise Roy, at Penguin (Plume).

*The book trailer for The Violets of March is featured as the “trailer of the day” in the ShelfAwareness newsletter!

*The Violets of March is praised by Jodi Picoult!

December 2010

*The editor-in-chief of Plume declares, in the cover letter accompanying the summer catalog, that The Violets of March is the original novel on the list with the “strongest commercial potential!”

*The Violets of March receives early praise from such renowned novelists as Beth Hoffman, Sarah Pekkanen, and Kelly O’Connor McNees. (Earlier praise came from the fabulous Claire Cook and Allison Winn Scotch.)

November 2010

*The publication date of The Violets of March is moved up from August to May (April 26 to be exact) after a successful showing and lots of enthusiasm at the Penguin quarterly sales conference.

February 2010

*Sarah sells The Violets of March, at auction, to Penguin (Plume). Shortly after, she sells the German rights to The Violets of March in a whirlwind 6-way auction to Heyne Verlag, a division of Random House, which plans to publish the book in hardcover in the fall of 2011 for their prestigious “Diana” list.