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Sunday, September 11, 2016 2:17:06 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Movie updates! Other updates!:
Sara said, " Believe it or not, though the original news still feels somewhat recent, the Story of a Girl movie starts shooting this very week. THIS VERY WEEK! And I wanted to let you know that YOU can be there vicariously, through the wonders of social..." more
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 1:03:15 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Story of a Girl movie news:
Sara said, " Remember that time Kyra Sedgwick’s production company optioned the film rights for Story of a Girl? I know it was nearly ten years ago, but it’s been quietly simmering all this time thanks to the diligence and faith of Ms...." more
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 1:16:21 AM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Gem & Dixie, exhibits A & B:
Sara said, " I know I’ve been talking about this forever, and there have been creative and business delays and cryptic updates to the point that some of you might have been thinking, Poor Sara, she’s deluded herself into thinking she has..." more
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 12:13:57 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Summer Workshop in CA – apply now!:
Sara said, "In what is basically a dream come true, I’ll be teaching a workshop this summer in one of my favorite places in the world (Monterey) with one of my favorite people in the world (Matt Kirby). The faculty also includes agent Rachel Orr and..." more
Monday, April 25, 2016 3:47:06 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled My YALLWEST schedule, and a new short story:
Sara said, " Yes, I, along with thousands of other authors, am headed to Santa Monica this weekend for YALLWEST! Or maybe it only seems like thousands. Anyway, it’s going to be a good time. We’ll see how long I last before my inevitable..." more
Thursday, April 7, 2016 8:11:37 AM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled My Festival of Faith & Writing Schedule:
Sara said, "For the first time since 2009 I’m headed to the Festival of Faith & Writing at Calvin College! I’m excited, and if you’ve been to this festival you know why. When I’m not being an adoring audience member to headliners..." more
Saturday, March 26, 2016 10:16:12 AM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Healthy Adult Behavior, An Update – This Creative Life ep 52:
Sara said, " Yes, a new podcast episode! Or is it? No guest, no theme song, no editing, and not my usual microphone because it’s currently in a box somewhere in a stack of boxes, like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders. Just an update for..." more
Friday, March 4, 2016 9:01:23 AM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Upcoming Appearances – hither and also yon, and where I’m not:
Sara said, "Where I’m not right now: on the podcast, on twitter. I’m going through three major life events at once at the moment, plus one vicariously, and feeling at the limits of my mental and physical (and, often, emotional) capacities! Not to..." more
Thursday, February 11, 2016 3:18:09 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Launching for 2016: Manuscript Consulting:
Sara said, "It was only a matter of time before my fate came to claim me! I can’t escape the teaching destiny. My mom is a teacher, my dad was a teacher, my sister is a teacher, my husband is a teacher, his mom was a teacher, his sister is a teacher, our..." more
Monday, February 1, 2016 4:01:19 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Happy 2016! Podcast updates, book updates, elbow updates!:
Sara said, "Well well well. It’s been awhile! I kicked off my 2016 by taking a month away from all forms of social media, and tried to be generally minimal on the computer. Partly because I was putting the final touches on my next book and wanted total..." more
Monday, December 28, 2015 4:21:57 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Documentarian and Adoptee Advocate Angela Tucker – This Creative Life ep 51:
Sara said, " “Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.” Frederick Buechner said that, and it’s a quote I thought of when prepping to talk to Angela Tucker, the subject of the documentary Closure,..." more
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 9:07:30 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Daniel Kraus – This Creative Life ep 50:
Sara said, " 50! Episode 50! I’m so happy to celebrate this milestone with my guest Daniel Kraus, whose most recent book, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books for 2015 shortly after we..." more
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 5:04:01 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Jeanne Murray Walker and Ambition – This Creative Life ep 49:
Sara said, " Jeanne Murray Walker is a poet, playwright, memoirist, and teacher. Most recently, she co-edited with Luci Shaw a book of essays on the topic of ambition by members of the Chrysostom Society. We talked about her experience as an ambitious..." more
Thursday, November 19, 2015 9:14:54 AM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Corey Ann Haydu & Adult Children of Alcoholics – This Creative Life ep 48:
Sara said, " In this Very Special Episode of This Creative Life, Corey Ann Haydu and I talk about being adult children of alcoholics and how that can play out in both the creative and business sides of our careers, in positive and negative ways. As we..." more
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 2:47:47 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Brendan Reichs – This Creative Life ep 47:
Sara said, "Have you ever thought about co-writing some books with your mom? No? Well, if your experience could be anything like Brendan Reichs’, maybe you should. Brendan is the co-author with Kathy Reichs of the Virals series–five books and a..." more
Saturday, October 31, 2015 7:48:00 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Justine Larbalestier – This Creative Life ep 46:
Sara said, " Oh my GOODNESS. That was a long and unintentional hiatus from the podcast after a long and intentional summer hiatus. Sorry! I moved my podcast to a different platform or host or whateveryoucallit so that I was not limited to a certain..." more
Friday, September 4, 2015 4:39:38 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled John Corey Whaley – This Creative Life ep 45:
Sara said, " Charlie Kaufman and Sufjan Stevens, inspiration vs. discipline, being “Corey” vs. being “author John Corey Whaley”, the upside of being a process-hacker, the difference between normal jobs and writing, imposter..." more
Friday, August 21, 2015 2:46:45 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Author Alex Sanchez – This Creative Life ep 44:
Sara said, "At long last, it’s the end of summer hiatus! We kick off this new batch of episodes with Alex Sanchez, award-winning author of numerous books for young adults, including Rainbow Boys and its sequels, Bait, So Hard to Say, The God Box, and..." more
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 11:57:21 AM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled ROOMIES paperback day:
Sara said, " This is a magical post from beyond time and space. I’m nowhere near a computer! Well maybe it’s not magic, but it is a scheduled post I wrote before my vacation, scheduled for today in particular because this is the day that my..." more
Monday, June 8, 2015 2:34:49 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Author Jennifer E. Smith – This Creative Life ep 43:
Sara said, " Another podcast already? What? It’s true! I wanted to get one more episode in the can before I took off for some travel, and though I considered making it a scheduled post in a week or so I thought–why withhold? We all..." more
Sunday, June 7, 2015 7:00:43 PM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled A Quiet Space for Writing:
Sara said, " You may have noticed there’s been a long gap for me since my last solo novel, The Lucy Variations. Well, long by some standards in the YA world and longer than my usual gaps, but not really that long in the big picture. You may have..." more
Thursday, June 4, 2015 11:42:32 AM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Author Varian Johnson – This Creative Life ep 42:
Sara said, "Varian Johnson and I go back to the era of listservs, LiveJournal, and Nokia flip phones. He’s the author of four novels for young readers–most recently The Great Greene Heist–and one on the way. In this conversation we talk about..." more
Monday, June 1, 2015 11:32:55 AM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled The Rest of the #ShortReads for May:
Sara said, "It’s June 1! Which means National Short Story Month is officially over for 2015. My goal when it started was to read a story a day for the whole month. Well, I came out 23 for 31, which isn’t bad and is about 20 more stories than..." more
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 11:23:49 AM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled Author Coe Booth – This Creative Life ep 41:
Sara said, "Coe Booth was one of the first YA writers I met when I started mingling with authors as a soon-to-be-published newbie. (I believe our first conversation was about Estelle Getty being alive or dead–she was alive, at the time.) After we met I..." more
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 11:39:36 AM
Sara Zarr wrote a blog post titled NCTE & ALAN 2016 schedule:
Sara said, " I’m very happy to be returning to NCTE and ALAN with an actual new book to talk about, hold, and sign! Here’s my schedule as it now stands–I hope to see you there: Friday, November 18 2:30-3:45pm: NCTE Session: Advocating..." more