Author Archives: Sarah Beach

About Sarah Beach

Now residing in Las Vegas, I was born in Michigan and moved to Texas when 16. After getting my Masters degree in English, I moved to Hollywood, because of the high demand for Medievalists (NOT!). As a freelance writer and editor, I find that Nevada offers better conditions for the wallet. I love writing all sorts of things, and occasionally also create some artwork.

Apocalyptic Writing in Fantasy

(Originally posted on LiveJournal) As I’ve been re-reading what is written of The Ring of Adonel, and working on the rewrites/polishes, I’ve also been thinking about some of the choices I made in the story. Particularly the scope of it. … Continue reading

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Books are wonderful

So, Saturday, I once again ventured into the LA Times Festival of Books. On one of the warmest days we’ve had in Southern California in a while. With my usual luck, I managed to park in the furthest west parking … Continue reading

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Books, books, books!

This coming weekend on the UCLA campus is the annual LA Times Festival of Books. In past years, I’d take note that it was happening, but I wouldn’t haul myself over there to check it out (it’s FREE — well, … Continue reading

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Website Update April 19, 2008

Continuing in my efforts to get the website more active again, I’ve added the first of some new (well, new to the website) materials. First off, there’s a PDF file of my Robin Hood/Green Arrow paper. It was written in … Continue reading

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Bothersome Synchronicity

(Originally posted on LiveJournal) I’ve been planning for a long time to do my own version of the Lady Godiva legend. About five years or so, at least. I’d originally planned to make it a screenplay. But since it’s a … Continue reading

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Next step toward being published

My artist, Tim Tobolski, has delivered the art for the cover of The Scribbler’s Guide to the Land of Myth. It’s everything I wanted it to be.  Check it out —

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Website Update April 8, 2008

Well, the first of some major updates has been completed on the ScribblerWorks site. I’ve changed message boards for one thing. www.scribblerworks.us/phorum Yeah, it does require registration to post, but these days, it’s become necessary to combat spammers. The new … Continue reading

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James A. Owen at Storyopolis

I left Wizard World LA early on March 15, because author and artist (and friend) James A. Owen had a gallery show at Storyopolis (in Studio City), with artwork from his novels Here, There Be Dragons and The Search for the Red Dragon. The … Continue reading

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Finally, a report of Wizard World LA

So, here I am, only a few weeks behind the wave, getting around to a brief report of my excursion to Wizard World LA in mid-March. Friday, March 14, I took the day off-work, in order to go down to … Continue reading

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Late Night Ideas

(Originally posted on LiveJournal) Now, I’d catnapped through part of the evening yesterday (I haven’t really been getting enough sleep on weeknights). And then at the very end of the evening, I was reading a story about storytelling, which was … Continue reading

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