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Hello all,

I have so much Whatever After news!

1. Whatever After #5: Bad Hair Day (ages 7-12) is now in stores! This time, the magic mirror sucks Abby and Jonah into the story of Rapunzel. Very bad things happen to Rapunzel’s hair. Read all about it HERE! 

2. If you haven’t read any of the books in the series yet, the eBook of Whatever After #1: FAIREST OF ALL is currently on $1.99 until the end of the month. You can get it on Amazon, B&N or Google. 

3. Whatever After hit the New York Times bestselling series list last week! It was my first time on the New York Times list as an author, and   I couldn’t be more excited. Thank you readers and booksellers! You are the best!

4. And finally…I have big news about Whatever After book 6! Here’s a little teaser:

       Don’t miss Abby and Jonah’s next adventure, when they fall into the FREEZING tale of The Snow Queen!

Look for:

Whatever After #6: COLD AS ICE this January!

Excited?

And don’t worry! I’m still writing Whatever After: BEAUTY QUEEN. Abby and Jonah will visit (and mess up) the story of Beauty and the Beast next. BEAUTY QUEEN is now Whatever After #7 and will be in bookstores May 2015. 

Happy reading!

XO Sarah

Hi guys, I am right now doing a Q&A with Elizabeth Eulberg on Goodreads! Come ask questions!
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

Hi all,

Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a lovely holiday. I did–but then my plane home got cancelled (that’s canceled for you Americans) due to fog and we had to wait three days to get on another one because of bad weather. But now I’m back in New York!

So, I’m sorry for the delay (see above), but for anyone who wants to vote on the title for WHATEVER AFTER #6 you have until tomorrow to do so! Perhaps you are wondering, 6? What about 5? If that’s what you are wondering, you should know that WHATEVER AFTER #5 is called BAD HAIR DAY and will be out this May! You can pre-order it here. But back to 6. In book 6 Abby and Jonah fall into the story of Beauty and the Beast. What happens? Um…I don’t know yet! But they will certainly mess the story up. It’ll be fun! And adventurous! And Jonah will wish he had ketchup!

You can vote right on .

More soon!

XO

Sarah

Hi all,

A few of you have asked if there’s a way to get a signed copy of DREAM ON, the new WHATEVER AFTER book for the holidays. I am happy to report that there now is.

You can now order a signed copy of DREAM ON or signed copies of the whole set (all four books) from Books of Wonder, my local indie bookstore. I’ll be stopping by the store on pub day (Nov 26th) so make sure to order the books in the next two weeks to secure your copies. Just in time for Hanukkah and Christmas!

Here are the links:

Signed DREAM ON. Signed set.

Also– I have two upcoming events.

The first is in Long Island. On Friday, Friday November 22, 2013  at 7 PM, I’ll be reading from signing SINK OR SWIM (and hopefully DREAM ON–if the copies are at the store in time. It doesn’t come out until a few days later). Holly Kowitt (THE LOSER LIST) will be there, too.

The second is in Chicago. I’ll be at Naperville, at Andersons Bookshop.  on December 4th at 7 pm. Address: Anderson’s Bookshop Naperville, 123 W Jefferson Ave, Naperville, Illinois.

Thirteen days until DREAM ON comes out! More soon!

XO

Sarah

 

 

Hi all,

I hope you are having an amazing fall!

I have a lot of news!

I am on now on Instagram and Wattpad. I am obsessed with both of them. Follow me on Instagram to see pics of upcoming covers, author friends, and family.

On Wattpad, I’m currently serializing my teen e-novella A NICE FLING IS HARD TO FIND for free. (You can also buy the whole thing on Amazon and B&N.)

As for books:

WHATEVER AFTER #4: DREAM ON  will be in stores on November 26th! WHATEVER AFTER #2: IF THE SHOE fits will be out in paperback that same day. I am currently writing WHATEVER AFTER #5: BAD HAIR DAY and that will be out this May.

For older readers, my new YA is finally almost here. DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT will be in stores this March. I’m going on tour! I don’t know where yet. I will post when I do. Here’s the cover!

   XO

Sarah

 

Hi all,
The cover for DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT is now up on Goodreads! Don't Even Think About It...

It's my next YA and it comes out this March. Click the link to read all about it!
XO
Sarah

Hi all!

Today is the last day to enter the  TEN THINGS WE DID (AND PROBABLY SHOULDN’T HAVE) contest! So act fast if you want to enter to win a new NOOK and a Nook cover that has been signed by 20 authors.

Here is a picture of the Nook cover:

Whose signatures are those?

Well, Barry Lyga, Bennett Madison, Michael Buckley, Adele Griffin, Lauren Oliver, Courtney Sheinmel, Alyssa Sheinmel, Robin Wasserman, Melissa Walker, Gayle Forman, E. Lockhart, Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus, Natalie Standiford, Jenny Han, Jen E. Smith,  Gordon Korman, David Levithan, Meg Wolitzer and Michael Northrop. And I’ll personalize it.

To enter to win, share ONE thing you did (and probably shouldn’t have) on my Facebook game!

Happy sharing!

XO Sarah

Hello all,

To celebrate the upcoming paperback release of Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn’t Have) in less than three weeks, I’m giving away signed bookplates!

Pre-order your copy between now and 11:59 pm Monday, June 18, 2012 (paperback pub day!) and receive a free signed and personalized bookplate!

It will look like this:

Except it will have your name on it instead of my three-year old’s. Or you can ask me to write Happy Birthday. Or happy graduation. Or whatever you’d like. I’m flexible like that. What do you do with the bookplate once I mail it to you? It’s a sticker, so you stick it right into your brand-new paperback Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn’t Have)!

Where to order? Amazon, your local indie, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million…anywhere paperbacks can be pre-ordered. To receive your bookplate, forward a copy of your receipt (or scanned receipt) of a pre-ordered Ten Things We Did paperback to [email protected] or mail a copy of your receipt to 295 Greenwich Street #187, New York, NY 10007 before July 15, 2012. Include your name, address and the name of the person you want the bookplate personalized to.  One bookplate per purchased book. Will send multiple bookplates if multiple books are purchased. Paperback pre-orders only. US addresses only.

That’s it! Happy reading!

XO

Sarah

 

Hi all,

It’s out! It’s out! It’s out!

I am so excited to tell you that the first book in my new middle grade series, WHATEVER AFTER #1: FAIREST OF ALL is now in stores.

The series is about Abby, a 10-year-old girl and her little brother Jonah who fall into fairy tales, mess them up, and have to help the characters find new happy endings.

The Story of Whatever After has been growing in my mind for a while. A really long while. Since I was two.

See, every night before bed, my mom used to tell me stories.

I had two favorite kinds.

The first kind always started with the line, once upon a time there was a little girl and her name was Sarah. Sarah, lived in Montreal, just like I did, but magic stuff happened to her. For example, sometimes Sarah could fly with the help of a magic umbrella. Sometimes she had a magic fork that could turn vegetables into chocolate.

The second kind of story also started with the line, once upon a time. But these were fairy tales. I didn’t have to be in these fairy tales, but I did like to change them up. Since I was not a fan of vegetables, when my mom told me the story of Princess and the Pea, the queen had to put M&Ms under girl’s mattress to see if she was a true princess.

As I got slightly older, and learned how to hold a pencil, my mom and I would write these stories down together and I’d illustrate them. I kept them!

A few years ago, I was going through old boxes (I always do this when I am brainstorming new ideas) and found the handmade books. The magic stuff happens to Sarah ones and the fractured fairy tales. And I thought: What if one lead to the other? What if a regular girl magically fell into a fairy tale and fractured it?

And that’s where I got the idea for my new series.

In the first book, Abby and Jonah fall into Snow White. They accidentally stop Snow White from eating the poison apple. At first they think they’re heroes. Yay! They saved Snow White! She won’t die! But then they realize that if she doesn’t die, the prince can’t save her, and she’ll never get her happy ending. Oops. Now it’s up to them to fix Snow White’s story, avoid getting poisoned, and fingers crossed, find their way home.

Scholastic even made the book a trailer! Watch it on YouTube!

Oh, and there’s a game too. Visit the Whatever After Page on Scholastic and play the “Dress-Up Abby game and read the first three chapters.

So why did I pick Snow White to be the first book?

Do you mean why was I partial to the fairy tale that featured the dark-haired girl with super pale skin? Cough, cough. Have you seen my author photo? Which princess do you think I dressed up as for Halloween?

XO

Sarah

Hi.

Guess what?

The TEN THINGS WE DID (AND PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE) eBook is only $0.99! For a limited time,  buy it on Amazon, Nook, reader, Kobo and iTunes for only $0.99.

So if you are looking for some plane reading, or beach reading, or I-have-no-homework reading you can read TEN THINGS WE DID (AND PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE) for less than a buck.

Adult readers: if you've been debating trying one of my YA titles here is your chance to get one cheap.  While it's YA, it's definitely older YA. (It's about two seventeen-year-olds who live on their own when their parents move away. Hilarity ensues.)

Happy holidays!

XO

Sarah