Life of an

author

My name is Sara Barnes and I am the author of two non fiction and fiction books.

I live and work in the English Lake District and when I’m not writing you will probably find me dipping in naturally cold water somewhere out in the wilds.

author standing with hands in dungaree pockets at edge of Buttermere lake with orange hat on and green jumper

I love being outdoors in this beautiful, ever-changing landscape of mountains, lakes, tarns and waterfalls. It inspires much of my writing and moulds many of my characters.

After having wanted to be an author since starting my ‘news’ book aged six, it has taken me a lifetime of dreaming, submitting, receiving rejections, revising, recreating and resubmitting … until on a camper van trip to the west coast of Scotland the brick wall came tumbling down and I received a thumbs up for my narrative non fiction book The Cold Fix.

This was published by Vertebrate Publishing in November 2022 and is available to buy from them, Amazon and all good book shops.

This was swiftly followed by an exciting email from a major publisher, One More Chapter (HarperCollins), who loved my novel about three menopausal wild swimmers who need to find a man, which evolved into The Winter of Our Lives.