Sara grew up outside a tiny town in southern Iowa. On her first birthday, she was more interested in the cards than the presents — a theme that continued throughout her childhood, as she read everything that she could get her hands on.
She read her first romance novel (Brave the Wild Winds by Johanna Lindsey) at the age of twelve, and she was utterly hooked. Never mind that the main characters had sex on a horse (something the twelve-year-old Sara had never even realized was in the realm of possibility) — the characters were entertaining, the settings were lushly drawn, and the happily-ever-after was more appealing than anything in the classic works of literature she was trudging through.
Fast forward to 2003. Sara graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems (aka cognitive science), a minor in history, and absolutely no idea what to do with her life. She fell into a job with an advertising company that led her to spend six months working in India. As she sat in an outdoor cafe in India, sweating in the sweltering heat and listening to the strange combination of Britney Spears and mooing water buffalo, she realized that her real dream was to write romance novels.
Now, Sara lives in San Francisco, working during the day and writing at night. She is pursuing publication for her first novel, One Night to Seduction, and she’s starting on her second book. She’s also having an exciting year — One Night to Seduction (formerly titled An Inconvenient Marriage) won a 2009 Golden Heart® award for best unpublished manuscript in the Regency category!
