News from Sarah Painter

  • Authors for Japan

    My lovely friend, YA author Keris Stainton, has done a very good thing indeed. In order to raise money for the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal, she has set up an online auction for book-related goodies. A host of generous authors responded immediately to Keris’s idea (overwhelming her slightly, I think!), offering brilliant prizes – including signed…

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  • Book News: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

    Eep! I couldn’t be more excited about this book. I first discovered Laini in her capacity as a visual artist via a Cloth Paper Scissors profile of her covetable Laini’s Ladies line. Next, I read the rather wonderful Blackbringer (which my daughter loved, too) and began reading her gorgeous and inspiring blog. Her forthcoming book Daughter…

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  • Behind the book cover

    Anyone who used to read my posts on Trashionista will know that I’m a little bit obsessed with book covers. The good, the bad and the ugly; how they get chosen and designed and how the authors feel about them. And why (oh why) does fiction by women get stuck…

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