On Inspiration: Interview with Sarah Woodbury

My first guest of 2020 is the wonderful Sarah Woodbury. With over a million books sold to date, Sarah is the author of more than forty novels, all set in medieval Wales. Although an anthropologist by training, and then a full-time homeschooling mom for twenty years, she began writing fiction when the stories in her head overflowed and demanded that she let them out. While her ancestry is Welsh, she only visited Wales for the first time at university.  She has been in love with the country, language, and people ever since. She even convinced her husband to give all four of their children Welsh names. Sarah is a member of the Historical Novelists Fiction Cooperative (HFAC), the Historical Novel Society (HNS), and Novelists, Inc. (NINC). She makes her home in Oregon.

You can connect with Sarah on Facebook, Youtube or via her website.

You can buy Sarah’s extraordinary list of books on Amazon.

What or who inspired you to first write? Which authors have influenced you?

I wrote my first novel just to see if I could. It involved elves and orcs and magic stones. Basically, it was Lord of the Rings fan fiction. I’m actually not a huge fantasy reader normally, but my children always have been, and I was looking to connect with them. That book will never see the light of day. Fortunately the next books were better