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Sarah Smith

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Boston, The United States

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Mystery, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction

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Sarah Smith has been interested in ghosts and storytelling since she was four. Her sitter told her Japanese ghost stories at night, which she retold on the schoolbus the next morning. When she heard the story of the haunted house and the Perkins Bequest, she knew she had to write about it. No one knows what became of the real Perkins Bequest. She hopes The Other Side of Dark may help solve the mystery.

The Other Side of Dark is her debut novel for young adults.

Sarah studied English at Harvard (where she hid out in the library reading mysteries) and film in London. She is the bestselling author of an adult mystery series set in Edwardian Boston and Paris; two of the books have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and one was a Lond

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Average rating: 3.5 · 1,957 ratings · 340 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Other Side of Dark 3.65 avg rating — 674 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chasing Shakespeares 3.19 avg rating — 551 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanished Child 3.54 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Knowledge of Water 3.46 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Citizen of the Country 3.55 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A King and No King (Whitehall #1.11) 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crimes and Survivors 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New Shakespearean Poem? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Safe Harbor (Whitehall #1.13) by Liz Duffy Adams (Goodreads Author), Delia Sherman (Goodreads Author), Barbara Samuel (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whitehall - Season One Volume One by Liz Duffy Adams (Goodreads Author), Delia Sherman (Goodreads Author), Barbara Samuel (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I downloaded iBooks Author and I've played around with inputting a fairly crunchy eBook I happened to have recently created, using other production tools. (That's A New Shakespearean Poem, for those of you who have been following this blog. ANSP has footnotes, verse, and all sorts of non-standard goodies.)

First, it is lovely and easy to use. I never want to use another production tool. I tried Read more of this blog post »

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Sarah Smith made a comment in the group Advanced Copies for Review & Book Giveaways — Looking for reviews for a previously published NYTimes Notable historical mystery set in Edwardian Paris topic " Thanks for your interest, Stephanie! I'm delighted to send you a .mobi file for review. First time I'm doing this--should I send it to your Kindle addr ...more "
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“I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy...it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation.”
― Sarah Smith , Chasing Shakespeares

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“God is a librarian”
― Sarah Smith, Chasing Shakespeares

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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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