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Sarah Honenberger

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I like to say I write about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Pen/Faulkner chose my third novel, CATCHER, CAUGHT, for its Writers in Schools program. It was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. My other novels include WALTZING COWBOYS, a 2009 nominee for the Library of Virginia Fiction Award, and WHITE LIES: A TALE OF BABIES, VACCINES, and DECEPTION, the story of one mother’s quest for the truth about the childhood vaccine that injured her son, and MINDING HENRY LEWIS, another river story about the unlikely alliance between the sister of a boy who drowns and her white neighbor recovering from cancer. Other prize-winning fiction has appeared in Antietam Review, New Millenium, SouthLit, Pedestal, the Ho ...more

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Catcher, Caught as Kindle Daily Deal

2100 (corrected, final figure was over 2400) copies of Catcher, Caught were sold
on the day when it was featured as Kindle Daily Deal. I'm working on the screenplay.

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	Catcher, Caught 3.61 avg rating — 653 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waltzing Cowboys 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Lies: A Tale of Babies, Vaccines, and Deception 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Blue Ridge Anthology 2011 by Sarah Honenberger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Amen, Gary D. Kessler 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skyline 2016: Prose and Poetry by Central Virginia Writers by Olivia Stowe (Goodreads Author), Sarah Honenberger (Goodreads Author), Gary D. Kessler 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.”
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message 1: by Sarah (last edited Sep 02, 2008 10:21AM)

Sep 02, 2008 10:21AM

A writer's dream, to contemplate a full shelf of books they've written and shared with enthusiastic readers. Thanks. Shine, you're no slouch yourself in the editing department. Waltzing Cowboys is much better for your close read.

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