I was interviewed for an article in the East Oregonian. An excerpt: “I don’t have a creative bone in my body,” she told a fellow Ph.D. student. In the years that followed, Woodbury proved herself wrong. The Pendleton woman has now written 21 medieval novels containing time travel, magic, treachery and adventure. The indie author has sold more than 400,000 books in the past five years. These days, one will likely find the mother of four at home typing on a computer, her 17-year-old cat, Luke, sprawled between the keyboard and the monitor. A poster near her desk proclaims, “Novelist at work. Bystanders may be written into the story.” Woodbury writes every day, at least 1,000 words. The result is a steady stream of books and a large cadre of devoted readers who eagerly await each new offering. Woodbury credits her Read more…

THE HISTORICAL FICTION BUNDLE Curated by Charlotte E. English History is made up of stories, and those stories are vast, and varied beyond compare. The Historical Fiction bundle comprises a total of ten terrific titles by top-notch authors, together representing exactly this breadth and variety of experience. These stories blend real-world historical settings with romance, adventure, fantasy and mystery to bring you whole worlds of fun! You’ll visit ancient Egypt, the Americas, the Caribbean, Great Britain and Japan; you’ll meet pirates and warriors, witches and princesses, detectives, time-travellers and more. Lousia Locke offers a trip to Victorian San Francisco with her terrific Annie Fuller mystery novels. If you’re a subscriber to the StoryBundle newsletter, you’ll get the first title, Maids of Misfortune, for free! The second book, Uneasy Spirits,is part of our basic bundle, along with four other fantastic titles. Take a walk through Read more…

One of the best parts about writing historical fiction is reading about historical events and weaving them into the story. One of the worst things about writing historical events is having to adhere to what happened in history, especially when a beloved character dies. I had to include the death of a prince of Gwynedd, Rhun, in The Lost Brother, the prior book in the, and the death was as traumatic for me as for my readers. In the end of that year died Rhun, son of Owain, being the most praiseworthy young man of the British nation, whom his noble parents had honourably reared. For he was fair of form and aspect, kind in conversation, and affable to all; seen foremost in gifts; courteous among his family; high bearing among strangers, and fierce towards his enemies; entertaining to his Read more…

Announcement! I have written a book! I realize that isn’t news, but what is news is the book I’ve written, which I have told nobody about until today … A year ago, seven authors (including me) came together to write individual books set in a shared fictional world. We shared ideas, hammered out a backstory, drew maps, adapted technology, designed cities, and invented new species. Then we wrote stories about the people and places of this new world we’d created. We wrote in different styles, in different genres, and in different forms, In fact, we had so much fun that we have opened up this world to any other author who would like to write their own stories and add to the Paradisi Chronicles canon. (our FB page is here: https://www.facebook.com/paradisichronicles; our web page is here: http://www.paradisichronicles.com/) The Paradisi Chronicles: In the Read more…

Many readers over the years have asked for a reading group guide to my books. I am happy to announce that I now have one to The Good Knight! ______________ The Good Knight By Sarah Woodbury Reading Group Guide Gwen is a young woman living in twelfth century Wales, a time nearly eight hundred years before the present. How does Gwen’s behavior play into or defy stereotypes about medieval women? Do you think her portrayal is realistic?  How do you think she would behave differently had she not been raised by an itinerant bard?  Consider her relationship with her family, with her social “superiors” (lords, knights, princes, etc.), and her participation in traditionally “masculine” spheres, such as her intelligence work for Prince Hywel, or her active role in the murder investigation. Women in this story (and in medieval period in Read more…

This month’s issue of Celtic Life has an interview with me 🙂 http://www.celticlifeintl.com/sarah-woodbury/ With two historian parents, author Sarah Woodbury couldn’t help but develop an interest in the past. She began writing historical-romance fiction when the stories in her head overflowed and demanded she let them out. Recently we spoke with her about her passion and profession. What are your own roots? My roots are in England, Scotland, and Wales. From Scotland, my most famous ancestor is my multiple great-grandfather, Donald McKay, the Boston Clipper Ship builder. He was a Highland McKay from Thurso, whose father had fought for the British during the American Revolution, but then came home to find that his family lands had been ‘cleared’. He accepted land in Nova Scotia, and then Donald moved to Boston as a young man. From Wales, my ancestors come through—among others—my Read more…

Christmas 1292. Time travel has meant many things to Meg, David, and Anna over the years, but regardless of the circumstances, it has always been about saving lives: their own, their family members’, their friends’. This time, it’s a combination of all three. Guardians of Time is the ninth novel in the After Cilmeri series. It is available at Amazon US and all Amazon stores, iBooks, Kobo, Google Play, Smashwords, and Nook.