author – Sarah T Wright

Heavenly Cupcakes!

To celebrate World Baking Day I decided to channel my inner Nigella.

I swapped my pen for my wooden spoon and got to work in the kitchen.

Fifteen minutes later, I was looking less Domestic and more Dishevelled Goddess after having furiously beaten all the ingredients together in a big bowl.

How on earth did Nigella make baking look so sexy? Disgruntled Goddess questioned as I dolloped the uncooperative mixture into the cupcake cases.

Once baked, I seductively sashayed over to the oven (because that’s what Nigella would’ve done).

Opening the oven door, the heavenly smell of freshly baked buns filled the kitchen.

All that was left for me to do, was to drizzle on the icing sugar and voilà!

Angel inspired buns to go with my angel inspired book.

Bookstagram Tour

Anna’s F-Plan went on a Bookstagram Tour earlier this month.

Cartoon girl driving car and book review

I was delighted with the wonderful reviews it received!

Cartoon of girl driving car and book review

Thank you to my publishers, Cranthorpe Millner for organising this book tour and a huge thank you to all the lovely bookstagrammers who took part!

Book Authors’ Bible

How do I get published? I asked God and Google for help.

My plea and prayers were answered when up popped the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook on the screen in front of me.

The quote on the front cover promised to unlock the door to the world of publishing. Hallelujah!

It was full of hope and helpful articles on how to submit to literary agents and publishers, whose names and addresses were all listed.

This was fantastic!

All I had to do now was choose which lucky literary agent/ publisher was going to have the privilege of publishing my book.

Decisions, decisions….

Writing a book is like climbing a small mountain. It is tough, challenging. It takes time and a great deal of effort. When you finally make it to the top, all you want to do is plant a flag, rest your weary bones on the nearest available boulder and pop the Prosecco!

Unfortunately, that is when you find out that writing your book was just like making it to base camp. You still had Everest to climb!

A naive, newbie novelist, I was about to set off on the next stage of my author’s journey on the path to publication.

Finally finished!

After writing my book I took a self-congratulatory tour to Smugsville. Where I continued to pat myself on the back and praise myself for having finally finished my first novel.

I had written 90,000+ words. That was a lot! I’d arranged them into neat little sentences that I then had turned into paragraphs and proceeded to position perfectly on over 300 pages.

I was an author! Yay!

Soon I would be a New York Times best-selling author!

Soon I would be hanging out with JK Rowling.

Soon Stephen Spielberg would be on the phone wanting to buy the film rights.

Very soon I realised that for any of that to happen my book had to be on a bookshelf, in a bookstore and not on the desk in front of me!

Very, very soon I realised I had no idea how I was going to get it there!