New Client: Tamatha Cain

So pleased to announce that I’m now representing Tamatha Cain! Tamatha’s book, Sarina Miracle, is a YA historical. I first met Tamatha at a Writing Day Workshops conference. Her  beautiful writing is definitely something to be celebrated.

Tamatha Cain is a former musician and bandleader. Her work has appeared in national and international publications. Awards include: 2024 Historical Novel Society First Chapters Short List (in progress), 2022 Florida Book Award, 2020 Royal Palm Literary Award, and grand prize in The Experience Poetry Competition. She writes reviews for Southern Literary Review, and is a member of the Historical Novel Society, Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and Women Writing the West. She is a wife and mother of three and lives in a hundred-year-old bungalow in North Florida. You can find out more at: tamathacain.com

Here’s the book blurb:

Unable to sit still for long, seventeen year old Sarina Miracle grew up running–from her Indian Mama’s expectations, her American missionary Papa’s lessons, and especially from the suspicious gaze of strangers. So when she commits an impetuous act of treason at the Maharaja’s palace during the Prince of Wales’ highly-anticipated visit, she does what comes naturally. She runs.

What follows is an unexpected journey around the world, from Bombay to London to New York City and beyond, carrying Mama’s precious set of handpainted Ganjifa cards with her. Sarina heads west, using the escape as a chance to search for V.J. Singh, a brilliant and handsome young man, Papa’s student, from whom there has been no word since he left to find work in distant San Francisco.

Sarina joins forces with the wily and endearing Celine, an aspiring Harvey Girl also on the run from her own life as a card shark. Over one remarkable year, between two very different Christmases (one in an Indian palace and one beneath the world’s first outdoor Christmas lights in Colorado), Sarina experiences a new and changing world as a young woman of two races, with two homelands, but no true home.

When she learns Papa faces punishment for the crime she left behind, can she keep running–all the way back to the opposite side of the world–before he suffers the retribution meant for her? And will she find herself along the way, or lose herself to a world bigger and wider than she could have imagined?

Editors: We should talk!