LOOK👏AT👏HER👏 VOIDWALKER, my spicy romantasy in a sweeping new world, arrives AUGUST 19! A smuggler crossing the Void between worlds, caught in a cutthroat coup. A carnivorous immortal lord with everything to lose. A temptation, for how sweet the monster’s fangs might feel...

From the author of the Sunday Times-bestselling #ThePhoenixKeeper, comes a sizzling fantasy romance in a sweeping new world 😈 Walk the void on 19 August 2025. Pre-order VOIDWALKER by @authorsamaclean.bsky.social: geni.us/VoidwalkerHB Illustration: @fdasuarez.bsky.social Design: Rachael Lancaster

Pinterest. I swear to god. Don't walk in here with that "review your reports and violations" nonsense for an image I pinned because YOU showed it to ME. I need all these pictures of shirtless men for ART 😭

Do you ever find the perfect announcement song for a book that's like, five releases in the future, so now you've got to sit on it for the next few years like

Look at all these lovely cozies 🥰

I finally did it. I bought lavender syrup. Let the winter of lavender matcha lattes begin.

I really wish my cat's single brain cell could process that chomping on the plastic christmas tree makes him throw up. But alas.

VOIDWALKER 2025 😇 (love me a monster boi who is utterly pathetic for the MC)

Do I REALLY need to look at my Spotify Wrapped when I already know it's going to be filled with nothing but edgy monster smut bait??? Delightfully, this is an amalgamation of playlists from all three different books I've been working on 🤣 (#1 and 5 are VOIDWALKER, #2 and 6 are Voidwalker sequel 😇)

🚨VOIDWALKER CHARACTER ART🚨 I’ve been drawing VOIDWALKER art for over a year, and I finally get to start sharing it! Drumroll please, as I introduce:

This thread is focused on contemporary romance, but a lot of the points hit home for why romantasy feels like such a feast or famine genre to me, why a ship either falls flat, or turns me feral for days.

Today, I'm thankful for . . . all of YOU! 🥰 All the readers who've picked up The Phoenix Keeper, and all the reviewers who have shared your wonderful thoughts on the book. I get to write and share more stories because of YOU supporting me and believing in my words. So truly, thank you ❤️

Watching Arcane finale. Me: I need at least one couple to survive this show. My very straight boyfriend: I don't think Jayce and Viktor count as a couple. Me: . . . Him: . . . Me: . . . Him: They're just good bros. Ok, buddy. Whatever you say.

It's truly the best and worst feeling to be in the middle of revisions, but also constantly inundated with fun new ideas for this book (and for the other book I'm drafting, setting those aside as a December treat...)

Calm morning, enjoying how the sunlight falls on the bookshelves, working on revisions for my third book. Can you believe 2024 is almost over? I feel like I still have so much I want to read, so much I want to write. Here's to a productive weekend 🥰

My grocery store has put all the cold medicine into one of those locked cabinets. Including the saline spray. I have to summon an employee to unlock the saline spray for me. The saltwater. The regular water with regular salt in it.

The most humbling part of edits is when you have a brilliant idea for a new sentence, you find the perfect place to add the words, you pat yourself on the back for being an editing genius. Only to keep reading and discover you previously drafted the same sentence, nearly word for word a page later.

Have you read THE PHOENIX KEEPER and wonder how my next book compares? Are you new to both? Well look no further!

Loving the vibes over here as everyone migrates, but I'm not seeing nearly enough cats. Show me your cats! 🐈‍⬛️❤️

When it's a good edits day, and this book is feeling 🔥🔥🔥 Y'all won't see this one until 2026, but trust me, were COOKING.

We're introducing ourselves again? I'm Sarah! The (still can't believe I can say this) Sunday Times bestselling author of The Phoenix Keeper, a cozy fantasy about a magic zoo. My next book, Voidwalker, is a monster romantasy (Aug 2025). I'm bi, an ecology professor, and have two fluffy tuxedo cats

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New book baby's first 100 adds on Goodreads! 🥳 It's still surreal to see my book (and my second book now???) appear on Goodreads, to see that placeholder cover with my name and title on it, to see real readers adding it to their lists.

2023 was ... transformative I sold my debut adult cozy fantasy. And while we've been quietly accruing a *mountain* of news that can't be announced yet, I can safely say that I'm watching all my dreams come true, and it is a FEELING 🥹 2024 is going to be an incredible year 🥰

I have never been so *viscerally* aware of how many ellipses are in my books as I am while doing copy edits right now 😵‍💫

It's my birthday, and there are cover shaped things in my inbox 👀

There's always one week where the burnout *really* hits. Where I officially shift into survival mode for the rest of the semester. This is that week. I feel it.

Like, I've been ruining my characters' lives for the entire book, sure. But I'm REALLY ruining their lives in this climax...

I have acquired my first Smol Pumpkin™️ of the season. Let the fall begin.

Interrupting my normally scheduled book ramblings to bring you: Mantis friend!!!

One Dark Window was one of my top reads last year. Two Twisted Crowns is a MASTERFUL follow-up, easily another favorite this year. The stunning prose. The clever magic system. The monster girls. The god-tier simp energy that is Elm Rowan. 🙌 Don't miss this one!

✨GollanczFest is returning March 2024✨ Check out this amazing author lineup! And flower crowns! Plus, a little birdie tells me, there will be some fantastic phoenix features aflight at the festival 🔥 Don't miss out! More info at: bit.ly/gollanczfest2024

It's so weird working on a book three years down the pipeline because what do I TALK ABOUT here?? I could tell you my characters are having an extremely rough time right now fighting an angry pseudo-angel over a piece of glowing antler but you don't even KNOW THEM.

Last night, my boyfriend accidentally nudged a rug with his foot, spooking our two cats so bad that one ran into a wall and the other vanished into the bedroom. Truly, such fearsome predators.

Once again lamenting over my placeholder chapter titles. I have zero clue what this chapter SHOULD be titled, only that it probably shouldn't be THIS 😂😭

Opened up my doc to write for the first time today, only to discover ... I already wrote 286 words of zero draft? At some point this morning? In a haze I completely forgot about?? It would seem 7am Sarah decided a character is getting shot through the chest with an arrow. 7am Sarah had no chill.

Received some monstrously exciting book mail from @orbitbooks.bsky.social this week 😈 Excuse me while I vanish into one of my most anticipated reads of the year 👑👑

Yesterday, someone was stabbed at my college. The number of student messages I got saying they didn't feel safe coming to class, but worried about missing the quiz, has me livid actually. No. Honey. Mental health is more important than cell structure, and I'm so sorry if anyone told you otherwise.

I don't need Spotify wrapped. I know it's just Castlevania Bloody Tears Epic Version repeated 9000x on my commute as I choreograph the climactic battle of a book I might write five years from now.

I feel like I need unique content to post here, yet all I can come up with is "at least there's no monthly fee?"

Awaiting the day when an industry professional inevitably has words with me about my chapter titles. But for now I'm just having a great time.

Do you ever pick up a book, and it welcomes you in with a soft smile, a big hug, a delicious little treat of banter and rivalry and pining glances? Then all of a sudden you look down and somehow your heart is shredded and bloody in your hands? So I finished Divine Rivals ...

Today, out there in the real world, a person was asking about my debut book, and they asked how many chapters is in it. Not word count. Not page count. How many CHAPTERS. And my brain made dialup noises.

It's raining outside. I've got a jar of matcha. And I have the entire day free to relax and draft a very steamy chapter 😌

Confidently declaring this "egguin" one of my best purchases of 2023. I feel no need to explain.

One of my favorite nooks on my new bookshelves! I finally got my little Folk of the Air light hooked up, and it's so cozy and nice and I love it 😌

Just casually screaming about ✨multiple vague things✨ on this lovely Friday

The first three avocados I opened were black and rotten inside. The fourth was not ripe enough. All four felt exactly the same on the outside. Avocados are a masochist's fruit.

There may come a day, for the sake of diversity, where I write a relationship that doesn't involve at least one (1) hopeless simp. Today is not that day. 80k of drafting done 😤💪

New office view! In our old place, our cats always fought to be near me while I'm at my desk, and there was no space for them 😭 Now, they have a snug cushion next to me. Monty also loves the view, up on the second floor where he can survey his domain like a proper tyrant 😌