Sarah Winters's Blog

Almost two years ago I discovered Pronoun in my search for a stable, user friendly aid to publishing. Since then I've had great success with their system and enjoyed publishing my first book. Sadly, my time with Pronoun is coming to an end. MacMillan, a major publishing house, has decided to close the doors on Pronoun and it's With the demise of Pronoun, I will lose my ebooks off all their current platforms, and with them, many of my reviews. Thankfully I've already started the transfer process and decided to take this time to do a final revision of A Demon in My Bed before I repost it. In the end, I apologize for any bumps that might pop up in the next two months and hope you'll stick with me during this transition. I promise to bring the Sons of Sariel back even better than before!

I am a very slow writer. I work full time, have an energetic puppy, family I love to be with and friends I love to see. Procrastination might very well be my middle name.And yet, I love writing.This week, fate got together with mother nature and gave me a strangely uneventful vacation. I rarely take vacation and had been planning this week off for most of the year. A friend from Florida was supposed to come up so I could show him the Island and we planned on doing a whole bunch of things. With the on set of Harvey and Irma his flights were cancelled and I ended up with a week and no major plans.So I've been writing. I've gotten up every morning and gotten at least a thousand words in. At this point I have less than 8000 words left to reach the end of the rough draft of the tentatively titled, The Demon at my Back. I'm so excited! Plot points have changed, Murmur has taken the reins a few times and there's more than one new angel on the block! This is going to be a good one!I don't want to give away too much but I think Seir and Alexis are going to be steamy!Now, no more procrastinating! I'm going to go write! :p

     It’s April again and I’ve finally come full circle. Back in April 2015 I sat down with an idea in mind. I wanted to finish something. I admit I can be a bit of a procrastinator, putting off less than desirable tasks until I absolutely must do them, so this was a serious endeavor.     I was going to finish writing a novel.     My original goal was 50,000 words. I had only ever written short stories and fan fictions so sitting down to undertake a 50k word count was a daunting challenge. I remember sitting down April 2, 2015 (because I procrastinated starting too) and telling myself, “You write all the time. You love writing. Just write something you want to read.”     For an entire month I wrote. Some days I managed 4000 words, some days I squeaked past with a meager 500. I wrote without knowing how things were going to end. I wrote without knowing what my antagonist’s motivation was. I wrote thinking that for an Incubus, my hero was not as sexually active as I thought he’d be. By some stroke of luck, come the end of April I had the first, terribly rough draft of Verrin and Cass’s book, A Demon in My Bed and had surpassed my 50k goal by a few thousand.     I was thrilled. I was stunned. I was so crazy excited to have accomplished something I always wanted. I work in a bookstore, peddling novels for a living, and always knew that writing the story down was the hard part. Millions of people say they want to write a book, go on and on about doing it, but never actually accomplish the task. And here I was, now an official novelist.     It was definitely a celebratory moment.     It was also the start of a journey that would engulf friends, gain me unexpected supporters, make me re-evaluate my life goals and want to cheer on the people I met with the desire to write hidden within them.     Two years later, it’s April again. I’m taking part in Camp NaNoWriMo once more. I’m neglecting the dirty dishes in the sink, having epiphanies in the shower and talking dialogue through with my dog. I’m still on the journey. I’m still learning. I’m still writing the story that started in book one that April and I will continue working on it till my characters are done talking.      Thankfully, they have no desire to shut up any time soon.