OUT OF OUR MINDS: Wild Stories by Wild Women

by Sarah Bates, Carmi Cosmos

Seventeen curious tales about everyday people careening through life to catch you off guard, make you smile, maybe cringe; make you want more.

140 pages, Paperback

First published October 10, 2005

About the author

I worked in advertising for over 20 years, first as a production manager, then as an account executive and finally as an copywriter. After that I free-lanced copywriting. My clients included a book packager, the local chamber of commerce, a travel newsletter and a weekly newspaper where I covered business and schools. I now write fiction full time.

My short fiction has appeared in the Greenwich Village Literary Review, the San Diego North County Times (now the Union-Tribune) and the literary magazine Bravura. I am the author of Twenty-One Steps of Courage, an Army action novel published in 2012 and co-author of the 2005 short story collection, Out of Our Minds, Wild Stories by Wild Women. I was an English Department writing tutor at Palomar College in California for ten years and continue to privately tutor both academic and creative writing students.

I have seven awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Pro Chapter, a 2013 Finalist Award, Military Category, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and am the 2nd Place Finalist in the Unpublished Novel category of the 2015 San Diego Book Awards for The Lost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.