So, the first book of The Nexus is out in the world, doing its thing. It’s only book one at this point but, other than final editing and polishing, all nine books of The Nexus: Season One are done. This means I’ve recently moved on to writing the next thing. And it’s… hard. I’ve spent…
Category: Barrow City
The Lure of Shiny Objects
Ask any writer what their biggest distraction from writing is, and after “TV” and “napping” will inevitably come the same answer: the bright, shiny object of a new idea. People often ask writers, “where do you get your ideas?” The thing is, though, most of us rarely even have to think about where our ideas…
Welcome to Barrow City
If you’re new to my fictional world, you might be seeing references to Barrow City all over the website and wondering where, or what, Barrow City is. Even if you’ve read Apprentice you might be a bit fuzzy, since the Olive Tree Academy books don’t technically take place there. So I thought for my first…
The Barrow City Gazette
The Barrow City Gazette is your one-stop newsletter for all things Sara Blake! Keep up to date on Olive Tree Academy and everything else going on in Barrow City with regular (but not overly frequent, I promise) emails. Subscribers get freebies, early access to certain new content, notification of price drops on Amazon, and lots…
Apprentice Extended Preview
You can see a preview on Amazon, of course, using the “Look Inside” feature, but the below preview is a bit longer. (If you’re looking on the Amazon site, the paperback preview is a great way to see the very pretty layout of the paperback pages, but it cuts off WAY earlier than the Kindle…
Apprentice
The first book in the Olive Tree Academy series is here! Apprentice is available now on Amazon in print, Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited. Read about it below, or jump straight to the extended preview and start reading! Here’s the “official” blurb: Sofia agreed to enroll in the Psychic Arts program at Olive Tree Academy with…