Hi! I'm Sarah! I'm a YA and NA fantasy author. π₯πΉ If you like A Court of Thorns and Roses and the Fourth Wing, you would LOVE my books. Wanna check one out? I'll send you my short story, Rapacity! Here's what it's about: "18-year-old Catalina has one purpose: marry her fiance, then murder him. But all bets are off when she strikes a bargain with the trickster demon prince and discovers her fiance is planning to murder her too."
My morbid TikTok experiment
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I have a confession: I have been trying to lose followers on TikTok. It started off organically. I just wasn't posting enough to make myself grow and people naturally trickle off if you're not around. Then, as I watched the numbers drop lower and lower, it morphed into a morbid sort of curiosity: If I get below 1,000 followers, will I lose the link in bio feature? (The link in bio feature is only available to people with over 1,000 followers and I was hovering right around 1,115.) (Also, I realize I could just Google this information, but running my own test was much more thrilling.) And so for months, I have been watching the numbers tick down. 1,113... 1,112... 1,111... 1,110... I would go weeks without looking at TikTok and then randomly pop on. Oh, excellent. Two more people. They have fallen like flies. πππ And then, the moment I was waiting for arrived. I logged into the app and... ...saw that I had.... . . . . . 1,001 followers. Fine. It wasn't the moment I'd been waiting for, but it was close. I didn't even think to screenshot it because I didn't think that would be the closest to victory I'd ever get. (Spoiler alert: It was). Because when I logged in next time, I had... 1,008 followers. I frowned and refreshed the page. 1,110 followers. 1,111... 1,112... 1,113... 1,114.... "NO!" I screamed. "THIS IS GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION!" And then I realized what was happening. Six months ago, I sponsored a giveaway. And I submitted "follow me on TikTok" as a way for people to get an extra entry. And I had forgotten about it. Until now. π€¦ I was complaining to my friend, Alex, that I would have to redo MONTHS OF WORK and she said: "I think the link in bio stays but you just lose the ability to click it until you get your account back up over 1,000." Well. Now that's been spoiled. While I haven't been trying to grow on TikTok, I have been actively growing this newsletter. We just hit 1,000 of you a few weeks ago. (To those of you who hang out on Instagram, this is old news). So hi. If you like reading my emails (and I know a lot of you do because you tell me) would you tell a friend? Below I'll drop the link to Rapacity, where they can sign up. You can just click it and copy/paste the URL into a text message with a little note like this one:
I love Sarah's newsletters and I think you would love them too π₯° π₯° https://www.sarahpagestories.com/serpentgreen
(Yes, you can copy and paste that.) Or just send the URL with no note. Be mysterious. We can vibe that way too. The link only if you want to be mysterious:
I'm asking this because word of mouth is super important, especially for an indie author like me. I don't have the resources of a big publishing house behind me. But I have you. I think that's better. π Also... Speaking of being indie... My friend, Alex (yes, the same Alex who spoiled my TikTok experiment), and I are starting a series of Instagram lives where we talk about book marketing and publishing. Because...
In this first one, we're talking about author newsletters (I know, that's kind of meta) and worldbuilding. If you're an author, be sure to tune in on... βFRIDAY APRIL 5 at 6:00 PM MSTβ(If you click the above link, I'll send you some reminders the day of. Do not click the above link if you don't want the reminders).On another note, I got the first round of proofreading edits back on Illusion of Stars. YAYA! I've been going through and accepting the edits and actually found myself laughing out loud at some parts. Guys. I'm SO excited to share this book with you. I honestly think you're going to love it. β Here's a legitimate question though... Do you like your love interests to be dark-haired? Or does hair color even matter to you?Because, um, Erik is blond. π³ (The above is a real question. If you respond and tell me, I'll pick one of you and send a $5 Amazon or Starbucks giftcard. I am asking because I am doing β¨research β¨ for β¨things β¨. β And because this email was... a lot more than normal and I will blatantly admit that I am breaking the cardinal rule of keeping it to just one call to action, I'll summarize it for you:
β Best, Sarah β P.S. - If you want to check out the giveaway that RUINED IT ALL, click here. P.P.S. - HERE is this week's book fair. It's all about Fantasy and Adventure. P.P.P.S. - Last time's winner was Leza S. Leza, hit me up and tell me if you want $5 to Amazon or Starbucks. |
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Hi! I'm Sarah! I'm a YA and NA fantasy author. π₯πΉ If you like A Court of Thorns and Roses and the Fourth Wing, you would LOVE my books. Wanna check one out? I'll send you my short story, Rapacity! Here's what it's about: "18-year-old Catalina has one purpose: marry her fiance, then murder him. But all bets are off when she strikes a bargain with the trickster demon prince and discovers her fiance is planning to murder her too."
My phone ran out of storage space. This isn't unusual. Most of you have probably had this issue at one point in time. What is unusual is that I've only had this phone for 6 months. It's basically a brand new phone. When I saw the little notification I clicked out of the reel I was in the middle of making, sighed, and tapped the little notification to see if I could clear up some storage space. Was it photos? No. Was it videos? Also no. The culprit was Instagram. Taking up 10 GB of space. And...
So in true Sarah fashion, it seemed like a good idea to make the kissing scene in Illusion of Stars spicier and NOT SHOW ANYONE until the book was published. I forget what originally gave me the idea. I was working on finalizing the book (after it had gone through copy edits and three rounds of proofreading) and somehow hit my head and awoke with a spicier kissing scene. I told this to a few choice friends: "Send it to me." -My friend and book coach Jourdan Gandy "Send it to me." -Alex...
Okay Reader, You know those book fairs I'll sometimes link to in my emails? Well, I got a bee in my bonnet: what would happen if I actually hosted one?My reasoning was as follows: 1. I like aesthetics 2. I wanted to play godSo I set up my own book fair booth, put out a call for submissions and... waited. Do you know what happened? Chaos. *Buzz* You have a new submission: Surprise Pregnancy with Seven Aliens *Buzzzzzz* You have a new submission: Kid Max - Superhero in Outer Space *BUZZZZZZ*...