Sara Dobie Bauer's Blog, page 16

I just birthed a new novel, and no one’s shocked as me

Yesterday, I finished writing a new novel. This may come as a shock considering I haven’t talked about the new project with anyone. It’s sort of like being pregnant for nine months, never growing a belly, and then, just pooping out a baby.

In order to wrap my mind around this screaming infant, I’ve decided to interview myself, because, as you’ll read, I’ve been a little multiple personality lately.

Won’t you please tell us what the new novel is about?!!!

Oh, that’s easy! It’s about this song:...

Why Spectre sucked

If you’re Daniel Craig, call me. If you’re Daniel Craig playing James Bond, it’s hard to disappoint, but well, you did. It’s not your fault entirely, and I don’t know how Hollywood works, but man, didn’t you read the script for Spectre and think, “What the hell is this?”

I’m a shallow woman, so I’ll watch Craig in just about anything—especially Bond, due to the way his body is just plain STACKED—so there was no question that Spectre in theaters would happen this weekend.

The first scene was...

The Doldrums is perfect for Harry Potter fans and beyond

Nicholas Gannon: Author in his natural environment.

I love advance review copies. For a book nerd, receiving one on my porch is like Christmas every day. Sometimes, the book is just another Fifty Shades wannabe. Then, one comes alongthat makes you hit the ceiling and shout, “EVERYONE IN THE WORLD MUST READ THIS!” That’s how I feel about The Doldrums.

As someone who still mourns the death of the Harry Potter series, I’m always looking for books that give me that same feeling: like I’m a little...

Hot vampire sex anthology, just in time for Halloween

I blame Anne Rice. I read Interview with a Vampire at an inappropriately young age, so now, mention the word “vampire,” and I’m like, “Bite me, you sexy beast.” (Especially if you look like Alexander Skarsgard.)

As you know, my vamp rom-com novelBITE SOMEBODY comes out next year. BITE SOMEBODY is funny and sweet and, yeah, sexy as hell–but mostly funny. My short story, “Forever Dead,” is not funny but scorchingly hot and now available in Cwtch Press’s Blood in the Rain: Seventeen Stories of...

Would you survive a horror film?

Back in the day, my friends used to tell me I would survive a horror movie, despite my wild appreciation for alcohol—probably because I was a virgin and had an obsessive love for scary movies.

Well, I’m not a virgin anymore, and I’ve developed a habit of wearing insensibly high heels. I also have wobbly breasts, so let’s face it: I might be first to go nowadays.

Man Crates is a new gifting company who delivers coolgifts for menin custom crates. (You’ll even need a crowbar to open it.) They r...

Cumberbatch’s Hamlet: A study in teen depression

Y’all know I’m a loud and proud Cumberbitch, so I could swoon for 500 words about last night’s Hamlet performance, but I won’t, because theBarbican Centre’s interpretation of a 400-year-old play was more than a display of Benedict’s fantastic forearms. It was a depiction (strangely) of teenage depression and suicide, despite the leading man pushing forty.

I’ve been well acquainted with Shakespeare’s tragic Danish prince since high school. And then again in college. And then again after colle...

My novel has been picked up by a publishing house

It started with a glass of whiskey on my back porch in Phoenix, Arizona. (Or maybe further back than that. Maybe when I walked the beaches of Florida in April, 2014.) I wrote a silly, little story about an awkward vampire, in love with the smell of her neighbor’s blood.

I sent the story to a literary magazine called Shimmer, and although they turned me down, the editor, E. Catherine Tobler, wrote, “There is a lot of awesome here, but the story doesn’t take full advantage of it. I almost thin...

Living in sin in Cleveland

I knew it would be bad. I didn’t know it would be this bad. In Chardon, Ohio, there’s red everywhere. It covers my neighbors’ porches. It’s even in grocery stores. People don’t hide the over-pouring of red, red, red. No, they wallow in it. They paint their bodies RED. Folks, I’ve moved to Buckeye country.

But there’s more … There’s orange and brown, like dying leaves falling from trees. Nobody looks good wearing orange and brown. Nobody. Still, there are flags of brown that shiver in the fal...

“Pieces of Me,” a poem in pictures

If you take me apart

I’m only small pieces

Pieces areparts

That make up the whole

What is my arm without my mind?

Whatare my eyes without my face?

What am I without pain?

What am I without joy?

If you take me apart

I’ll be in pieces

I’ll stay that way

Unless you put me together again …

You will b ecause you love me

And would never let me fall apart

Or stay in pieces for long

(Photos of me thanks to Ben Stadler-Ammon, Devon C. Adams, and Brandon Larkin.)

Justified, season six: Saying goodbye to Raylan Givens

Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens.

Something horrible happened to me this weekend. Truly horrible. I lost two of the most important men in my life: Raylan Givens and Boyd Crowder. I’m obviously talking about the TV show Justified.

Justified was a cop drama—sort of. It was an FX gem about bad boy US Marshall Raylan Givens and his ongoing battle with his hometown of Harlan, Kentucky, and the villains therein. It ran for six seasons, based on a short story by Elmore Leonard, “Fire in the Hole.”

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