Sarah Potter
Sarah Potter's writing career began at school, when she penned lengthy pop-star romances and science fiction stories for her fellow students' entertainment instead of doing any work. Later, at night school, a famous horror author awarded her the class prize for writing the scariest opening to a novel. In 2010, she reached the finals in the fiction category of the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition with a dystopian romance between a beggar who had made himself intentionally legless and a girl with bad skin.
She blames her more offbeat and unhinged literary characters on her time of working in psychiatry. Her earlier jobs included kennel maid, serving in a pub, shop assistant, factory worker, and secretary, all of which proved valuable life experience; however, anything that involved mathematical calculation or the operation of money tills did not last long.
Nowadays, Sarah concentrates on her novel writing full-time. She also loves to encourage others in their creative endeavours. This includes running a once-monthly guest-storyteller slot to showcase the work of fellow authors on her blog.
She lives with her husband, son, and chocolate Labrador in a house with panoramic views over the English Channel. When not writing novels, she pens haiku and tanka poems, takes nature photographs, grapples with bindweed and snails in the garden, invents recipes, and sings mezzo-soprano.
SarahPotterWrites.com
She blames her more offbeat and unhinged literary characters on her time of working in psychiatry. Her earlier jobs included kennel maid, serving in a pub, shop assistant, factory worker, and secretary, all of which proved valuable life experience; however, anything that involved mathematical calculation or the operation of money tills did not last long.
Nowadays, Sarah concentrates on her novel writing full-time. She also loves to encourage others in their creative endeavours. This includes running a once-monthly guest-storyteller slot to showcase the work of fellow authors on her blog.
She lives with her husband, son, and chocolate Labrador in a house with panoramic views over the English Channel. When not writing novels, she pens haiku and tanka poems, takes nature photographs, grapples with bindweed and snails in the garden, invents recipes, and sings mezzo-soprano.
SarahPotterWrites.com
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Desiccation
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YA Crossover Science Fantasy
Janet Beckett is a science scholarship girl who believes there’s a rational explanation for all paranormal phenomena. There is, if you happen to meet a know-it-all hippie pixie who lives in a dimensional transcendental toadstool. Samantha Hamilton-Brown thinks she’s Queen of the Universe and can do as she pleases in her role as new head girl of Toffdene boarding school. She can, until aliens cut her reign short and screw with the minds of almost every student and teacher in the establishment. Joe Buckell is leader of a delinquent mod gang and fancies getting his end away with some hoity-toity daughters of the elite. He does, but not in the way he hopes. When desiccation threatens, you’ll do anything to survive. Sample Desiccation
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Noah Padgett and the Dog-People
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Juvenile Action and Adventure
The hall clock strikes midnight. Noah counts its chimes from one to twelve. He tells himself the ravenous clouds are just a preview to a fantasy game: that there’s no harm in checking it out. He clicks the link… Noah Padgett’s new stepmother Kate treats him as the worst inconvenience in the world and wants him to disappear out of her life, along with the nuisance puppy that his father bought him for his birthday. Her wish comes true, although too fast for her to notice. Mad entrepreneur Monsieur Percival Poodle is the self-appointed ruler of Zyx, a dimension where Canis sapiens is the predominant species. Percival likes to collect alien specimens, and two of them have just arrived in his dimension from Earth. One is a primitive four-legged chocolate Labrador and the other a human boy. Mercenary Lurcher Sergeant Salt works for the highest bidder and makes it his policy to extract maximum profit from jobs. This means selling his alien captives separately, however much distress it causes them. Fate has already stolen Noah’s beloved mum from him, replacing her with a stepmother from hell. Now it seems that Fate has struck again and stolen Noah’s beloved puppy, leaving him to languish in a high security hospital for criminally insane Canis sapiens, with no apparent means of escape. Noah Padgett and the Dog-People sample
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