Author Attempts to Keep Website Updated

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July 16, 2010

Tags: Hello? Anyone there?

This is just a quick check to see if there is anyone out there. In case you didn't realize, writers spend most of the time on their own, staring at a computer. For years this has been a one way street but now that I have worked out how to post comments, it need not be. Now, my computer could start giving something back if you were so kind as to help it along a tads. The reason I wasn't responding to earlier comments when I first started the blog was that they were rather rudely going straight into my junk file where I never saw them so could not approve them and post them. I've talked to my junk file now and told it to pull its socks up or I'll re-subscribe to the penis extension data base. That'll learn it.

It's winter where I live at Muriwai Beach, New Zealand - there's a photo if you scroll down in the Travel section of the website. It can be a bit wild on the west coast of this country but visitors say watching the wind and rain come and go is better than television. This is just as well because when there is a lot of wind and rain, there is no television.

Comments

  1. July 17, 2010 7:05 AM EDT
    Helloooo - oooo - oooooo (that was with added echo)
    - Nicki m
  2. July 19, 2010 11:16 PM EDT
    Hi Sarah!
    I am right in the midst of reading House of Peine and loving it!!! I cannot wait to go to bed of a night here on the Gold Coast to snuggle up and read your great novel... hope your NZ winter passes by quickly!
    I must say that I am completlely envious of the research trip you must have undertaken for this novel... I visited Reims and Epernay in Novemebr last year ad LOVED it!
    :-) Lisa
    - Lisa Evans
  3. July 24, 2010 3:57 AM EDT
    I'm here too! and in the midst of House of Daughters/Peine. I loved Blessed are the Cheesemakers and am definitely here!

    By the way, what about teh HUGE wrod they make you type in to make sure you aren't a computer?!
    - Shell
  4. July 24, 2010 5:12 PM EDT
    One word? I have to type two! And they're not even good words. Least ways I can see how I can steal them and use them for anything. Thanks so much for keeping me company you guys. I am inspired to post another blog or however you put it.
    - Sarah-Kate Lynch

Selected Works

Fiction
Dolci di Love
When childless Lily Turner finds out her perfect husband has a secret family in Tuscany she goes there to find him and chop him into a thousand tiny pieces – but an underground league of Italian widows hell-bent on mending broken hearts has other plans.
On Top Of Everything
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. *US readers see BOOKS page to find out about getting a copy of this book.
House of Daughters
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?
The House of Peine
Three estranged sisters battle it out among the vineyards of France when they inherit a failing Champagne House.
Eating With The Angels
Life turns sour for a high-falutin' restaurant critic when her romantic Venetian honeymoon turns into a nightmare.
By Bread Alone
“Witty, charming, faithfully passionate to its subject and emotionally adept. If only this book was a man.”
-Sunday Star Times
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
“In the spirit of Chocolat...a tender love story told through the medium of cheese.”
-Publishers Weekly
Finding Tom Connor
“A cross between Bridget Jones’s Diary and Waking Ned Devine, this is a romantic and rollicking good read.”
-Next Magazine
Short Stories
Bosom Buddies
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
The Modern Girl’s Guide to Life
A smorgasbord of columns from the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly’s favourite columnist.