It's gettin' kinda hectic
A cover reveal, plus an in-person giveaway!
Okay, first of all, if you’ve never heard the absolute banger referenced in the subject line—or haven’t listened to it since aerosol hairspray was outlawed—go watch the video and get your shot of ‘90s nostalgia.
Now, on to book things!
Traditional publishing moves slowly until it doesn’t. It took me literal years to write my latest book, which seemed like forever, but things are picking up! My last couple of weeks have been spent reviewing copy edits and taking my final opportunity to make sentence- and paragraph-level changes, all while traveling and holding down a day job and everything else that makes up a life. It’s a lot!
Marketing and publicity won’t really get going for another several months, but showing you the cover is the beginning of my efforts to entice you into buying and/or reading my weird, feminist, body-swapping story about a very toxic friendship.
Isn’t this cover perfectly eerie? Can’t you just feel Mary’s hatred and hunger for vengeance?
WHEN I’M HER is out March 26, 2024.
More about WHEN I’M HER:
How far would you go to get even with the woman who ruined your life?
In this electrifying thriller, a young woman gets everything she’s ever wanted—and everything she doesn’t—when she swaps bodies with her sworn enemy.
Though polar opposites, Mary and Elizabeth are as close as can be—until the night Elizabeth makes an irrevocable mistake and leaves Mary to take the blame. Years later, Elizabeth seems to have forgotten Mary exists.
Mary hasn’t forgotten her.
She follows Elizabeth’s every move online, obsessed with paying her back for the betrayal that cost Mary her dreams. Now Mary has found a way to switch bodies with Elizabeth, and she’s got a plan to steal her charmed life. Her career. Her looks. Her husband.
They do say living well is the best revenge.
Or is it? The more Mary uncovers about Elizabeth’s life, the more she realizes she may have made a deadly mistake. And she’ll need the help of her worst enemy to stay alive.
(More) author updates and a giveaway
I’ll be attending Steamy Lit Con in Anaheim later this month! You might be thinking, “Uh, Sarah, your books aren’t romances,” and you’d be right! However, there’s always a chance that could change - I love reading romance, and I have lots of magical idea apples that involve happily-ever-afters, enemies to lovers, second chances, and only one bed.
I’m acting as assistant to the lovely and talented Lynn Painter. If you’re at the con, come say hi at table M116! I’ll be giving away as many signed paperback copies of my debut novel, THE OTHER ME, as I can fit in my carry-on, so if you mention you’re a newsletter reader, you might snag one!
Reading/watching/listening
SILVER NITRATE by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
I saw BARBIE this weekend! I saw BARBIE this weekend!
If you enjoy my ramblings, you might like my books!
The Other Me, which PopSugar called a “Black Mirror-esque rabbit hole,” is an inventive page-turner about the choices we make and the ones made for us.
When I’m Her asks the question: How far would you go to get even with the woman who ruined your life?
