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Sarah Arthur

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Sarah Arthur is a fun-loving speaker, Christy Award finalist, and author of numerous books for teens and adults, including the bestselling ONCE A QUEEN, the first in her acclaimed Carrick Hall Novels. Among other nerdy adventures, she has served as preliminary fiction judge for Christianity Today’s Book Awards, was a founding board member of the annual C. S. Lewis Festival in northern Michigan, and co-directs the Madeleine L’Engle Writing Retreats. She lives in Lansing, Michigan with her husband and two preteen sons.

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Sarah Arthur Clean all the things. Seriously: sometimes mindless drudgery unlocks a part of my brain that freezes up if I keep forcing it to do something meaningfu…moreClean all the things. Seriously: sometimes mindless drudgery unlocks a part of my brain that freezes up if I keep forcing it to do something meaningful.(less)
Sarah Arthur Oh, gosh, Katie! Thank you for reading my book and taking the time to connect. To answer your questions: Early on I had a beta reader who told me--blu…moreOh, gosh, Katie! Thank you for reading my book and taking the time to connect. To answer your questions: Early on I had a beta reader who told me--bluntly but lovingly--"You've got to make this story stand on its own two feet." She meant that I couldn't rely on old fairytales to provide the backstory. Then, my publisher confirmed it. So over the course of about 2 weeks I sat down and drafted nearly all of the fairytale "excerpts" that you see between chapters, written in the spirit of all the stories I already loved but adding my own flair. It was SO FUN--and I'm so glad you think it works! (less)
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Announcing my debut fiction, coming summer 2023!

HERE IT IS, FRIENDS! The moment you’ve all been waiting for.

After 22 years in nonfiction, I’m now doing what I love best: writing portal fantasy for geeky 14-year-old me (eep!!). Get ready for ONCE A QUEEN, the first in a YA series, coming summer of 2023 from WaterBrook & Multnomah, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Books #2 and #3 will follow annually thereafter…and who knows after that?

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"There is so much going on in this book! Wow!! Once you have read the first book in this series, you must read this one!!! Jack is one of the main characters in this story. And you have to love Georgie! Really, there are lots of great characters. If y" Read more of this review »
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"Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for letting me review this book. It definitely reminded me of the Narnia series. How good always triumphs over evil, even when the outcome looks bleak. "
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"While I enjoyed the first book in this series, Once a Queen, I really adored this second book in the series! It delivered much more on the magical realms and creatures that I was hoping for when I picked up book one. The author is obviously much in l" Read more of this review »
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"A sequel to Once a Queen. Definitely adventure happening. This time, a different set of people are involved. Rumblings in the hills that have people wondering but a few claim it's giants. A mysterious tower appears, then disappears, under the command" Read more of this review »
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I once heard Newbery author Katherine Paterson (Bridge to Terabithia) tell an auditorium full of readers & writers, "I want to be a spy for hope." It's since become my mantra: not only as a writer but also as a reader, parent, & children/youth minist ...more
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“If only life were more on the scale of Orlando Bloom taking down the giant Oliphaunt in The Return of the King rather than the usual, tedious mall-crawl with the Abercrombie crowd! We often wish the daily grind held a greater resemblance to all those fantasy worlds we’ve come to love, don’t we? In our more desperate moments, we’re tempted to walk smack into pillars at subway stations, just to see if we end up at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. And which of us, at some point in our not-so-distant childhood (yes, let’s be honest!), hasn’t pushed aside the coats in a closet, hoping to find an entrance to another world?”
Sarah Arthur, Walking through the Wardrobe: A Devotional Quest into The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

“And that’s what we’re truly longing for. On those weekends when we’re suddenly gripped with the urge to watch all three extended editions of The Lord of the Rings, what we really want, deep down inside (besides therapy), is the assurance that there is a realm someplace where evil has been conquered once and for all.”
Sarah Arthur, Walking through the Wardrobe: A Devotional Quest into The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we seek them out-not because of what we could possible offer them, as if we're the spiritual first responders on the scene to save the day, but because we recognize how much they have to teach us about who God really is." -Quoted by Sarah Arthur, Author of The One Year Daily Grind.”
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