The moment Sarah-Kate Lynch worked out that travelling to France and Italy and Ireland and England and New York and Charleston, SC, to make things up about people could be a job, she applied for it and got it.

She also writes two columns for New Zealand Woman's Day and hosts a book club in Next magazine plus you can find her on Facebook as Sarah-Kate Lynch - Writer or follow her on Twitter. It's a miracle she gets time to write any books at all what with all that social networking but she is currently hard at work on novel number eight.

She lives with her husband and her dog and tries very hard not to get them muddled up although one of them is always in the doghouse.

Happy 2012!

Still working on The Uncommon Courtesy of Sugar Honey Wallace and hope to have it finished by - oh, look, is that the time? Must dash.

In the meantime, check out what I have been doing on my holidays by clicking on the "travel stories" link above: this week, despite a life long hate-hate relationship with Lycra, I'm on my bike in Central Otago.

Or visit my Truly Brand New Blog which, now that I've found it again, I have resolved this year to update more often even though I think there might only be two people who read it - but I suppose you only need one!

Love and Kisses

SK


US cover of Dolci di Love

Australian/New Zealand Cover of Dolci di Love
This is the cover of the Down Under version of Dolci di Love. It came out at the beginning of March in New Zealand and went to #1 on the bestseller list, then came out in Australia in May. I love the heart shape. I showed it to my friend Tree and she said, "Oh, it's like your character has put together the puzzle of life and found love."

House of Daughters


House of Daughters is my latest book to be published in the US. It is rather cleverly the story of three estranged sisters who inherit a rather crumbling champagne house in France. The cleverness comes with having had to drown myself in champagne while researching the story. Oh yes, I can be quite tireless when duty requires it.

I spent six weeks in Champagne finding out how champagne is made and why that one doesn't taste like that one. Or does it? Hang on, perhaps I had better try it again. No it is different. Or is it? Just one more go. More different this time. Or less? Not sure.

You get the drift.

During my travels I was lucky enough to be a guest of Veuve Cliquot, Moet & Chandon and even wangled a lunch out of Remy Krug at Krug Champagne.

However, my favourite discovery was the House of Tarlant, a small boutique champagne house, much more like my fictional House of Peine, because it is all run by one family and they grow all their own grapes.

The Tarlants now sell my book from their winery near Epernay so I am assuming I got everything right. Although of course they speak French and the book is written in English.

Books by Sarah-Kate Lynch

Fiction
When Sugar Wallace arrives in Manhattan with nothing but a hive full of bees, a mysterious past and an insistence on good manners, life starts to change for all her needy neighbours and, finally, with the help of a doorless doorman and a certain busy Queen, even for Sugar herself.
When childless Lily Turner finds out her perfect husband has a secret family in Tuscany she goes there to find him but gets tangled up with an underground league of Italian widows hell-bent on mending broken hearts - including hers.
Florence Dowling believes rotten things happen in threes so when she loses her job and her husband in the space of a single day, she knows there's worse to come. (Available in New Zealand only.)
US version of The House of Peine. Mathilde, Clementine and Sophie have nothing in common except the champagne that runs in their blood. But is that enough?
Three estranged sisters battle it out among the vineyards of France when they inherit a failing Champagne House.
Life turns sour for a high-falutin' restaurant critic when her romantic Venetian honeymoon turns into a nightmare.
“Witty, charming, faithfully passionate to its subject and emotionally adept. If only this book was a man.”
-Sunday Star Times
“In the spirit of Chocolat...a tender love story told through the medium of cheese.”
-Publishers Weekly
“A cross between Bridget Jones’s Diary and Waking Ned Devine, this is a romantic and rollicking good read.”
-Next Magazine
Short Stories
A collection of entertaining, powerful & thought-provoking short stories by some of the finest contemporary writers in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Non-Fiction
A smorgasbord of columns from the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly’s favourite columnist.

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