<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[sarasartagne]]></title><description><![CDATA[sarasartagne]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:10:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.sarasartagne.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Ain't no sunshine... literally.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Given the dreadful weather we're having in the UK, I thought it would be good to spread a little sunshine. My lovely new covers for the English Garden Romance  series are now up and running! Just look at these beauties, designed by the wonderful Jen Moon. And it's not just the covers that are new - The Garden Plot  now contains some BONUS content! (Basically, how we get from Book 1 to Book 2, featuring Jonas, Sam, Magda, Lisbeth, a storm, and a stray cat... It may also include a ring, but I...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/ain-t-no-sunshine-literally</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6973c53caa29322cefcc95ac</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:09:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_21ec8625be9b49f4bc51886fe9aba60b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starting with a bang? Or a whimper?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was rather hoping for a gentle slide into 2026, but catching sight of the news put paid to that. I've done a good job of avoiding the headlines for much of this year, but I got sloppy over one mince pie too many.  Anyway - welcome to my first message of 2026. I hope you've had a fabulous start to the year. Because I want to connect with more people, more often, I'm going to be posting slightly more regularly and hopefully get to know you a bit better. I hope you'll stick around to read my...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/starting-with-a-bang-or-a-whimper</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696114fce434ecc89aa8715d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:00:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_e9440dfbec7946de9816ed9d6a7d3742~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allie Cresswell is our guest blogger!]]></title><description><![CDATA[A huge welcome to a fellow indie-author, Allie Cresswell, who writes contemporary and historical fiction. I wrote in the June newsletter...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/allie-cresswell-is-our-guest-blogger</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68a5ffcbe3204b0513707c14</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:00:34 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[In with the new...]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm very fond of my first contemporary romance series. The kind of fondness reserved for old boyfriends with whom, once, you were very...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/in-with-the-new</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6888bd003f524736c9e52d13</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:51:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_fbc4fffa6bfa4ddc89c078dffc0f7201~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bit of a wobbly]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's hard, the first draft of a new book. Like a having a baby, my average gestation period for a new novel is about nine months, so it's...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/a-bit-of-a-wobbly</link><guid isPermaLink="false">686fad08317698044abf76b9</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:07:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_2f492ee590564b93b46f53a7e17aa790~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet Maddy! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[An interview with Maddy James Maddy James is the main character in my next novel. I thought it might be nice to introduce her before you...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/meet-maddy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6849acfe3f129b86dcb59bed</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:41:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_3e39307a5f274a53a395b5445a02c29a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another setting for a book....?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A photo I took while in Corfu, Greece. It may make an appearance on a book cover soon! I’m just about to go on holiday to Madeira, and...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/another-setting-for-a-book</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6816687ea29e072712501694</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 19:43:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_9f1962e63c5d4682a04b7fcb3b634105~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Ted Lasso says... be curious]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's a scene in the wonderful Ted Lasso TV series where he's challenged by an antagonistic, pain-in-the-rear Englishman (Rupert) to a...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/as-ted-lasso-says-be-curious</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67f79818fbaf671dbf932939</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:33:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_1491b74f0c5e46129372b8b90f0cf7ad~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking a (small) bow]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nervewrackingly putting myself out there Okay, I admit it. When I released The Garden Plot  in May 2020, I was hugely  excited, but...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/taking-a-small-bow</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6076fbc1cc163d00157a4454</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:24:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_763d78aaaf624daca83090b4fc23a1fd~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrate good times - come on!]]></title><description><![CDATA[(spot the lyric....) In these cold dark times, sometimes there doesn't seem much to celebrate. I'm of the view that if it there's nothing...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/celebrate-good-times-come-on</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f85f79618a3400017a815b8</guid><category><![CDATA[romance]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:20:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_6260105522c54285ae2c9285d80fd21b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ta-daaaah!]]></title><description><![CDATA[If any of you read my previous post, you'll know that while not suffering as much as some people, lockdown has caused me some stress]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/ta-daaaah</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f52786724c1b90017c5816a</guid><category><![CDATA[romance]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2020 18:43:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_556da35c0216471c8de9c5c63fe263b1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone else feeling the strain?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We’ve done it all, haven’t we? Baked bread, manicured the lawn, emptied cupboards and sorted out photographs. We’ve listened to history...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/anyone-else-feeling-the-strain</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f2950d7d072370018ce103c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2020 12:13:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_3d80d292a1484c69a36db2e61d6161b4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_750,h_498,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love in the time of Coronavirus?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I imagine the title to this post will have been used many time in the past few months, so forgive me if you’ve seen it before. The point...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/love-in-the-time-of-coronavirus</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f29500d8908db0017ea90f0</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2020 12:12:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_fbc9836bfdf04ff0af6e46131f557e7e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_750,h_557,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Becoming real]]></title><description><![CDATA[A novel was rising out of the mist…. It’s been a while, but I have been busy - drafting a short story inspired by my holiday in Vencie...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/becoming-real</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f2bc8bdd1fd9c0017421ca8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a27d24_f1190c96167d44929779fb686f290e73~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_658,h_466,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning into a rhinoceros]]></title><description><![CDATA[Having completed The Garden Plot, I’ve started to look at a cover for the e-book. This was done on the cheap – actually, done on the...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/turning-into-a-rhinoceros</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f2bc9de3f2eb00017f5569f</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2019 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_16fa9939ce86405f819d358d7936fa99~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_750,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we 'Friends'?]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are a few people I knew, growing up, who I don’t see any more. For whatever reason, they have disappeared from my life. I was...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/are-we-friends</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f2bca92f3453d0017b6e387</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:18:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_89a7345147cb44fc9243376c739ca6d4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_750,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do it NOW!]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Friday, I shared this tweet. What my tweet didn’t say was the reason that I actually DID get off my bum and start the new book was a...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/do-it-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f2bcb7a7e1c9c0017e6e631</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2019 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_9dc774e9a0b74d238f077b4702f5d4c4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_750,h_471,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to have friends/2]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ll be honest, it had been a pretty dire day. I’d slept badly. Then I missed my train because I miscalculated the time it would take on...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/you-ve-got-to-have-friends-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f2bcbfef804960017f7c19c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_43d2850d634d48b6a61c866d0aa22b5f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_640,h_426,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are all reviews created equal?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Having finally finished the ‘difficult second book’, I gave it to my partner to read. It had taken eighteen months to write, she was...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/are-all-reviews-created-equal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f2bcc5c879ad5001735792b</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_e4bf91ad7c344c9b9b2394c8c22fa9d7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_750,h_432,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of finishing?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been writing my second book for more than a year. Which is fairly slow, although I have been editing and refining the first book...]]></description><link>https://www.sarasartagne.com/post/fear-of-finishing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f2bccc1f4f8ac00178d24e6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2018 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9354d5_a77622a656244d7abdcf0d161a48b913~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_640,h_243,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sara Sartagne</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>