Sarah Andre

Hi! I’m SARAH ANDRE, a speech pathologist turned romance writer. I’ve also been a travel agent, rooms control supervisor at a Marriott convention hotel, a rep in mutual fund customer service and cold call sales. In looking for my passion, I stumbled upon it quite by accident. Just before boarding a plane for a trip to Italy in 2004, I bought a spiral notebook. I do not recall any conscious thought of “I am going to write a novel.” (Insert angels trumpeting.) 🙂 Just bought it and got on-board.

As soon as the plane took off I opened that notebook and out flowed pages of a story, as if it had been in me forever and was finally released! Passengers slept those eight hours and I wrote by the tiny seat light–just me and one lone flight attendant left awake. I named my first hero after that flight attendant.

Within the first sentence I knew I was writing a romance. Me! Who’d read Kathleen Woodiwiss, Victoria Holt and Rosemary Rodgers as a teen, but had long since gravitated to mysteries, suspense and thrillers. My other shock was that I wrote in a stream of conscious manner. Thus, my pantser self was born. (Pantser: I write by the seat of my pants. I do not plot. I do not know what happens beyond a sentence or two. So if I’m surprised by my characters or plot twists, I know you will be too.)

I remember in second grade, standing beside my parents while my teacher said, “Sarah will be a writer. She knows the structure of a story, which is unheard of at this age.” And she proceeded to show them a story I’d written of a girl in danger who climbs a tree and gets stuck. A German Shepard climbs up and rescues her. The End.

How that caught my teacher’s eye dumbfounds me, but the point is: at the time I was the middle child between two brothers, and writing suddenly made me special. Look at the beaming smiles of my proud parents! Ever since then I dabbled: junior high and high school I wrote romantic fantasies of guys I had crushes on. Declared creative writing one of my majors at Ohio Wesleyan University. (The other was International Studies, and I minored in History and German.) And then life got in the way. Writing a novel was always something I would do when “I had the time.”

The pages I wrote on that Italian trip did turn into my first romance (still my husband’s favorite and he reads all of my books.) However this story is what we writers call “a starter novel.” It’s the book buried underneath my bed never to see the light of day. But boy did it ignite my passion!

I joined RWA in 2005 (still appalled that I wrote romance, this was not what I’d planned with all my daydreams of being a writer.) My second novel captured the attention of my agent in 2009, and she tried unsuccessfully to sell it to the NY traditional publishers in 2010. In 2011 I was a Golden Heart finalist, the most prestigious award for unpublished writers. My third novel gave me another Golden Heart final in 2014, and that was the year I signed with Entangled Publishing to debut Locked, Loaded and Lying. And the rest is history!

Nowadays I live in serene Southwest Florida with my husband and two naughty Pomeranian boys: Bo and Taz. I love yoga, reading, exercising to loud alternative rock and a whole lotta silence to daydream!

On the Web

• Website [1]

Books

• Capturing The Queen - 2017
• From Florida With Love: Sunrise & Stormy Skies - 2016
• Incendiary Attraction - 2021
• Locked, Loaded, & Lying - 2015
• Savage Trick, A - 2019
• Tall, Dark And Damaged - 2016

Recognitions

• 2017 RITA Award Finalist - Romantic Suspense, Tall, Dark And Damaged