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Sarah Beth Martin

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Sarah Beth Martin is the author of In the Vanishing Hour and The One True Ocean (Encircle Publications). Her short fiction and essays have appeared in literary journals, magazines and blogs, including Cicada, West Wind Review, and Women Writers, Women's Books, among others. She started the literary journal Foliage, for which she worked as editor and publisher. She lives in coastal Maine, where she is finishing her third novel. ...more

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Sarah Beth Martin It all began with the place—Norumbega Park in Newton, Massachusetts, which inspired my fictional town. When my father told me about the park, and that…moreIt all began with the place—Norumbega Park in Newton, Massachusetts, which inspired my fictional town. When my father told me about the park, and that a glorious ballroom once existed where a hotel stood along the Charles River, I was hooked. He also told me his chilling account about finding a body while canoeing the river, and my novel was born. It grew into my own story, but the setting was inspired by this familiar landscape from my childhood. (less)
Sarah Beth Martin I would go to Manderley and explore the rugged coastline and “choked wilderness” of Daphne du Maurier’s exquisite Rebecca.
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October Giveaway

Thank you to all who entered my Goodreads giveaway for In the Vanishing Hour. Five winners have been chosen, and the books will ship tomorrow.

I wanted to reach out and send my appreciation to all of you for taking the time to enter. It means the world to me that readers have an interest in the story and world I have created.

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“She wanted to go in, to be swallowed up in the magic mist at the end of the hall. Inhaling deeply, she smelled the sweet perfume of enchanted men and women, and imagined what it was like to be Gwen Mann.”
Sarah Beth Martin, In the Vanishing Hour

“It was strange letting her body do such things, while her mind hovered outside somewhere, just on the outside of her skull. Strange for things to be fuzzy, always out of reach, whether doorknobs or flowers or her own baby. She was no longer intact or in control.”
Sarah Beth Martin, The One True Ocean

“He wanted to believe nothing had happened, that their night on the river ended like any other night.”
Sarah Beth Martin, In the Vanishing Hour

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“She wanted to go in, to be swallowed up in the magic mist at the end of the hall. Inhaling deeply, she smelled the sweet perfume of enchanted men and women, and imagined what it was like to be Gwen Mann.”
Sarah Beth Martin, In the Vanishing Hour

“He wanted to believe nothing had happened, that their night on the river ended like any other night.”
Sarah Beth Martin, In the Vanishing Hour

“Thoughtful, innovative, this mother was; she always had the solution. So on the stickiest of nights, when the varnished wood chairs sweated and moths panted against my window screen, I would crawl into my smooth white bed of ice cream.”
Sarah Beth Martin, The One True Ocean

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