Sarah Barnard

Magical Portals, Spaceships and flying cars….

Category : smashwords

Rhys Newton is 10 years old and he lives with his Mum after his Dad walked out.

But Rhys is different, although he doesn’t know it, he is sensitive to the magic that runs in Lily’s family. He can’t use it, but he can feel it, hear it, see it.

When the Darkling appears on his bed one day, Rhys has to decide whether he can help or not. Read More…

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It’s Twitter’s #samplesunday again, where, once a week, writers offer a sample of their work for readers enjoyment. Of course, we each hope you love it and might go and see what else we’ve written….

For this week, I’m sharing a half written, unpublished piece, exploring Lily’s growing up a little bit, and looking at the first time she opened a Portal between worlds, quite by accident.

I hope you enjoy it. Read More…

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That proof wasn’t quite right, the cover crop was off by just enough that it offended me and I couldn’t leave it as it was. So I tweaked it by a couple of millimetres and tried again. Read More…

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My first book aimed intentionally for younger readers, after the demands of my children who protested they aren’t allowed to read my Adult Portal Series. Read More…

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Who likes ebooks?

There are so many good things about ebooks, even for those of you, like me, who love proper printed paper books. Read More…

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Operation Ebook Drop

I used to be someone who thought that violence solves nothing and that most of the warzones in the world are unnecessary and assorted western countries have no right to send troops into less developed countries and we have no right to impose our democracy on anyone. So I had little sympathy or empathy for any of the armed forces stationed abroad beyond, “It must be hard being away from family for so long but you chose that life.” Read More…

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Operation Ebook Drop.

That sounds very military doesn’t it? Well, that’s because it is. Whether you agree with what various Peacekeeping forces are doing around the world or not the fact remains that these men and women are risking their lives for something they believe in and doing a job that takes them away from their families and friends, and they are in combat situations where their lives are threatened every day. They see friends and team mates killed and they suffer trauma.

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