heading out for the west coast ( with apologies to Dylan)

Was so excited you had a new book, but waited till we were in Italy to read. We returned to England yesterday having left a few chapters to help with the transition.
Finished it today and was so moved at the end googled your name to see if i could email a thankyou…lo and behold came across your podcasts about the novel and your site. Isnt technology great.
Anyway thankyou…on so many levels your book was just wonderful. Will pass onto all my friends as i have done your previous books ( having read all of them!).
Hope you have a good holiday ….your book certainly helped me to find some spiritual relief whist on mine.

Hi Panny,

Thanks so much for your posting. I wanted to let you know that there is indeed CD available. I worked very closely with an early music group in England while I was researching Sacred Hearts. There name is Musica Secreta. Because the collaboration was so fruitful they decided to record a CD of all the music as it is featured in the book. If you go to the home page you should find a link to a podcast abut the group and their work with me and a link to their site where you can buy thr CD. It is quite wonderful.
very best
Sarah

You are a great inspiration to me.

I hope you have a relaxing and restorative vacation.

Best,
Erika

Love all of your books and was checking daily for Sacred Hearts to be released. I’m afraid I’ll have to wait for the paperback because the $32+15%tax Canadian is a little steep. And since I’m in whining mode, why did they make the book so small and thick? I found it difficult to open in the bookstore, whilst mauling it and to read it I would have had to have snapped the spine complete back and probably lost pages as a result.

I can’t wait until I get to read it though. I loved your first two books set in Italy (my favourite country).

Our on-line book discussion group will be discussing SACRED HEARTS starting in January.
If any of Sarah’s fans here would like to join us, please e-mail me at savvysuz@gmail.com and I’ll provide the link to open the door to our Cafe!
We are set to private to avoid spammers, etc.)

Also, Sarah, we are ALL so hoping you’ll pop in for a spell too!

Many of us first met with you on-line in the BNU group!

Thanks, Susanne

Dear Suzanne,
I’m hosting our book club this Thursday, January21, -the book being Sacred Hearts. I’ve tried to find discussion questions or ideas but have had no luck.
Do you have any discussion questions or ideas I could use or do you know where I can find some?
Thank you,
Marie Kontos

Hi sarah,
just heard your slot on Saturday Live. Thanks for your comments on the way in which the women of an earlier era were able to create for themselves a certain space and freedom within the confines of a society where the odds were so stacked against them. I believe that this remains the paradigm for where the female psychic energy still is in the world: embattled and forced to find and operate within whatever space a male-sided world is pressured into conceding. (The difference I have from some more traditional feminist views is that for me, what matters is not whether a given individual does or does not wear a skirt [cf margaret thatcher], but whether the energy being deployed is basically promoting or denying emotional movement.)

Anyone who doubts that the female side of the psyche is still incarcerated should perhaps consider the position of children in the modern world. I am sure that jesus was not kidding when he said “Of such is the kingdom of heaven’, but the psychological implications of this seem largely still to escape us, even 2000 years later. So, I appreciate your reflections on the past all the more for my judging that they still have a real relevance for us contemporary people.
best wishes
Peter

I just purchased a kindle and this is the first book I got for – I LOVED Birth of Venus. I am only on Chapter 9 and really liking it so far. What I logged onto your website for was to see if you are working on any new historical fiction right now? Please DO!

Hi Brandon,
You’re right. I am useless at u tube. Trying to get better but only so many hours in a day.
I think when I first started writing I needed to structure stories quite carefully because otherwise I easily got scared that I would get lost. But the more I have written, the more I have realised that getting lost is part of the process, and sometimes you only find out what you want to write about, or who a character is by putting them in situations that you – and them – have not expected, so they start having to talk and walk for themselves. I hope this make sense. Writing is a scary business. I don’t think people say that enough. So if you failing, it may be en route to succeeding. Keep going.

Not only should there be an edit feature, but I should log on more often to respond. I have made a late new year”s resolution to do just that.

At the moment I am what is delicately called “resting”. Which actually means I am hurtling all over the world still publicising Sacred Hearts. When that process ends this summer I am hoping the fallow field which is. at present, my mind, will have picked up some seeds along the way. For once in my life I am not fretting about it. Sometimes the best ideas come when you are absolutely not trying……
Thanks for your kind words about Birth of Venus. I hope Sacred Hearts does not disappoint.

Bonnie, It feels terrible not to have replied to this before., but the web site got clogged up with spam, and I got clogged up with life and the rest is history!. Thank you. Interestingly, I have got Stones in the River but never read it. I will take it on the plane with to Australia. You can never have too many good books on a plane. Thanks for taking the time to write.

Sarah