Sara J. Henry's Blog, page 6

It's a complete coincidence, but ...

The women on the cover of my new novel ( A Cold and Lonely Place ) and the German edition of Learning to Swim ( Ein Herzschlag bis zum Tod ) sure look as if they could be the same person.

Now, THIS is a lovely early holiday gift ...

I'm not crazy about Amazon's reviewing policy, for many reasons, but every once in a while, you discover a wonderful plum ... someone who read your book (even in an early, uncorrected galley) and, well, got it.

A beautifully written book told from the perspective of a young journalist living in an Adirondack mountain town. From the opening, when the main character sees the face of someone she knows lying beneath the ice, to the last page, the characters and the story are compelling. There ar...

What writers want. Really. All of these.

I'm trying to find one poignant bit from Lydia Netzer's (Shine, Shine, Shine) blog post on what writers really want and need, but there are too many. I'll settle for this:

As much as you feel like you've already stroked this needy author's ego
quite enough, consider the fact that probably right now the soundtrack
in their head is something along the lines of this: "That last book was a
fluke. Nothing you say makes sense. You couldn't write your way out of a
tiger moat. The things that are...

And Publishers Weekly weighs in on A COLD AND LONELY PLACE ...

You sort of know you're gonna like a review that begins, "At the start of Henry's haunting follow-up to her Agatha-winning debut" - although of course one's inner editor is shouting What about the Anthony Award?



And this is how Publishers Weekly review of my new novel, A Cold and Lonely Place, ends:



"Adding
considerably to the compulsively readable mystery that unfolds ... is
Henry's bone-deep sense of this terribly beautiful place." 



Yes, I love the Adirondacks, which is where I le...

How honored I am to have had this man in my life ...

My uncle. An amazing, inspiring video, by my cousin, Lewis W. Victor.

Not that I'd quite call it Bedford Falls ...

An early review of A Cold and Lonely Place (which comes out Feb. 5):

... Sara J. Henry has once again written a winner with her sequel, “A Cold
and Lonely Place.” Set in Saranac Lake, New York, during the Winter Carnival
Sara Henry paints a picture of a quaint little town in the likes of
Bedford Falls from It’s a Wonderful Life.
The further Troy digs the more she uncovers. The local watering hole is a
source of both information and false leads and accusations pointing in
all directions inclu...

Conversing with Hillary Jordan (WHEN SHE WOKE) Nov. 8 at Northshire Bookstore

I'll be chatting with Hillary Jordan, author of the mesmerizing WHEN SHE WOKE, at 7 pm Thursday, Nov. 8, at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont. Everyone welcome. (If you haven't yet been to this amazing bookstore, now's the time.)

"Hillary Jordan channels Nathaniel Hawthorne by way of Margaret Atwood
in this fast-paced, dystopian thriller. Unputdownable." — Valerie
Martin, author of The Confessions of Edward Day and Property

Guess I was a writer pretty early on ...

This is from second or third grade - in ink, yet. And I conscientiously self-edited, hyphenated, offered explanations (why I was looking for Alice), and used caps for emphasis. And even back then used my full author name, Sara J. Henry.



OK, it's a little overdramatic and detailed - and there's a pronoun-antecedent problem, and a period that should be a comma, but I was, what, eight?!?

I'm immensely pleased to announce ...

... that my upcoming novel, A COLD AND LONELY PLACE (Crown, Feb. 5, 2013), has been selected for the July 2013 edition of Reader's Digest Select Editions.



The other books included will be

THE ONE GOOD THING, by Adam Milne

THE HUSBAND LIST, by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly

CLOSE YOUR EYES by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen



So, yes,  way cool. (This is me being excited and happy.)

And here's a lovely little video I'll cherish

Thanks so much to Ali Karim for this video from the recent Anthony Awards in Cleveland (I was walking a bit oddly both because I was wearing dress-up shoes and because people had been tumbling off that state in alarming numbers).