Sara J. Henry's Blog, page 4

On the go

I've been very lax in posting here as I've been on the go (and cannot post on here from my iPad, alas) ... first a lovely appearance at the library in Fair View, Vermont (thank you, ladies!) followed by the wonderfulness that is Booktopia-Vermont, at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center. This past Tuesday a book club on the shores of Lake Champlain in Plattsburgh, New York (yes, it is fun to discuss LEARNING TO SWIM watching the waves crash outside!) with a brief stopover in Lake P...

And here's a review of A COLD AND LONELY PLACE in New Zealand

It's kind of fun to see your book reviewed in far-flung places - like Manawatu, New Zealand.







If for some reason the New Zealand link doesn't work, here's the article in another paper. (The original version appeared in the Sun Sentinel.) And here's a bit of the text:

"Most of us thrive on human contact. But for others who have been
wounded by the people they love most, isolation in a cold and lonely
place may seem like paradise.

"That sense of severing all previous
ties and never truly...

I'm a bestseller! (OK, there are several caveats)

But, yes, one of my books is a bestseller, at Cellar Door Books in Riverside, California, during the month of March, that is. Here are the top ten:





1. Learning to Swim, Sara J. Henry


2. Iron-Hearted Violet, Kelly Barnhill

3. The Little Russian, Susan Sherman

4. New Moon’s Arms, Nalo Hopkinson

5. Gods and Warriors, Michelle Paver

6. Warm Bodies, Isaac Marion

7. Devil’s Star, Jo Nesbo

8. Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seus...

I particularly like the line: "Sara J. Henry is not a normal author"

A review I cannot resist quoting:

It’s so rare when an author’s second book lives up to the promise of
their first, especially when that second book is a sequel. Sara J.
Henry, though, is not a normal author, so I immediately knew that A Cold and Lonely Place, Henry’s second Troy Chance novel after Learning to Swim, would be good. What I didn’t realize is that it would be gripping, gorgeous, and wonderfully atmospheric.



Henry writes the atmosphere of upstate New York well in A Cold and Lone...

You can sample my new book here ...

If you can't wait to get your hands on a copy, here are the first four chapters of A COLD AND LONELY PLACE.

A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry - Excerpt by Crown Publishing Group

Heading out on my cross-country driving book tour (yes, this is somewhat insane)

First stop: Murder by the Book in Houston! Feb. 21.



And now I head out on my mad cross-country book tour (which all seemed quite sensible when I conjured this up in the dead of winter). But here is roughly where I will be and when:


Feb. 21, Murder by the Book, Houston, Texas, 6:30 pm 
Feb. 23, A Real Bookstore, Fairview, Texas, 7 pm 
Feb. 27, Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, Arizona, 7 pm 
March 1: Mysterious Galaxy, Redondo Beach, CA, 7:30 pm 
March 3: Cellar Door Books, Ri...

At PBS, Sara talks about writing, taking that novel out of the drawer, and pushing through

This is from Mountain Lake PBS, filmed a week or two ago.

Wherein Sara explains how she gave up the lonely life of a soil scientist to become a writer

The beginnings of a new Ice Palace - photo by Scott F. Carroll

It took
exactly twelve weeks to decide I wanted to make a living writing –
the twelve weeks I spent working as a soil scientist in Gainesville,
Florida. I was twenty, with a boss who told me every Friday, “Only
thirty-five years to retirement.” Maybe that was his way of hinting
that this was not the career for me (kids, the career that seems fun
in college may not be anything close to fun when you’re
doing it forty hours a wee...

A sneak peek at a bit of A COLD AND LONELY PLACE - and a chance to win a free copy

Over at Dru's Book Musings, I've posted some bits from A Cold and Lonely Place that show what a day in the life of the main character might be like.

I don’t much like going to bars. I’ve never seen the logic in drinking
to excess—it makes people act stupid and feel bad later. But plenty of
locals here drink hard and regularly, and many vacationers seem to think
it’s a requirement for stepping foot in town. More than once I’ve
hollered out my bedroom window at two a.m. at firemen here fo...

We are pleased to be joined today by Sara J. Henry, author of the Troy Chance series of mysteries ...

I'm over at Bolo Books ...

BOLO Books: Along with
your incredible characters, you are able to make a setting come alive.
Both novels include locations in Upstate New York as well as scenes in
and around Canada. I know that you know these places intimately, but I
wonder if you set the stories there because you knew the places so well
or because that is where they had to be set. To the reader, it seems as
though these stories could only happen there, but that is probably not
true. How wer...