Sarah Burr

@sarahburr.com

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Writer, mom, cat lover Author of 5 series: Math Pirates Funny Math Stories Preemie Sibling Gobbled (YA) The Bridge to Nowhere (Paranormal Romance) sarahburr.com Querying a contemporary fantasy: Sunrise Psychiatric (vampires) The Bridge to Nowhere

Cover of The Bridge to Nowhere by Sarah Burr. Silhouettes of a woman and a man playing a guitar above a bridge with strange, ghostly light coming off it and in front of a flowery Dia de Los Nuertos skull.

Mazikeen (calico cat) on the bed, legs tucked under her

Mutant, the Hemingway cat, ignores the documentary, Inside the Mind of a Cat, which is playing on the TV behind him. He grooms himself, looks off to the side (toward the window,) and scratches.

Photo of the Rio Grande Horge Bridge by Bokang.

Mazikeen, a tabby cat, on top of a fridge.

Mood board for Sunrise Psychiatric: a man sits on a couch with his head in his hand, a grave stone, a child’s mobile of stuffed toys, a man sits on the floor in a hallway as a doctor rushes toward him, a girl lays on a cot crying tears of
blood, a syringe with powdered drugs on a spoon, a wine glass containing water and blood

Large white, brown, and black striped cat on cat shelves with a couch and a painting of a tree.

List of people following with symbols instead of pictures

Mood board for Sunrise Psychiatric: a man sits on a couch with his head in his hand, a grave stone, a child’s mobile of stuffed toys, a man sits on the floor in a hallway as a doctor rushes toward him, a girl lays on a cot crying tears of
blood, a syringe with powdered drugs on a spoon, a wine glass containing water and blood

Mood board for The Bridge to Nowhere, New Mexico, clockwise from upper left: travel trailer in the desert, man playing guitar, a woman holding a little girl’s hand, a ghostly woman in white, a couple embracing at sunset, the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, women and girls in face paint for El Dia de los Muertos, a woman crossing a bridge.

Mood board for Sunrise Psychiatric: a man sits on a couch with his head in his hand, a grave stone, a child’s mobile of stuffed toys, a man sits on the floor in a hallway as a doctor rushes toward him, a girl lays on a cot crying tears of
blood, a syringe with powdered drugs on a spoon, a wine glass containing water and blood

Mood board for The Bridge to Nowhere, New Mexico, clockwise from upper left: travel trailer in the desert, man playing guitar, a woman holding a little girl’s hand, a ghostly woman in white, a couple embracing at sunset, the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, women and girls in face paint for El Dia de los Muertos, a woman crossing a bridge.

Photo of the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge with the title of my book: The Bridge to Nowhere, New Mexico overlaid.

Mood board for Sunrise Psychiatric: a man sits on a couch with his head in his hand, a grave stone, a child’s mobile of stuffed toys, a man sits on the floor in a hallway as a doctor rushes toward him, a girl lays on a cot crying tears of
blood, a syringe with powdered drugs on a spoon, a wine glass containing water and blood

Mood board for The Bridge to Nowhere, New Mexico. Clockwise from top left: a travel trailer in the desert, a man playing a guitar, a woman holding a little girl’s hand, a ghostly woman in white, a couple embrace at sunset, the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, women and girls in Día de los Muertos face paint, a woman crossing a bridge.

Mood board for Sunrise Psychiatric: a man sits on a couch with his head in his hand, a grave stone, a child’s mobile of stuffed toys, a man sits on the floor in a hallway as a doctor rushes toward him, a girl lays on a cot crying tears of
blood, a syringe with powdered drugs on a spoon, a wine glass containing water and blood

Emotional Mastery 31: The Emotional Mirror Exercise in the Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Mass

Mazikeen (calico cat) in front of wrapped presents and small tree

girl on cot Photo by Елизавета Крылова on Unsplash

Wood and steal pedestrian bridge

Mazikeen peeking out of a wool blanket.

Bear nativity scene

Frito pie and a Waterloo Mojito Mocktail.

Spotify Wrapped
Top Artists: 1. The Mountain Goats 2. Mcfly 3. Gabrielle Aplin 4. Ed Sheeran 5. Noah Kahan
Top Songs: 1. Family Feud by FINNEAS 2. You’re Not Special by McFly 3. Play It Safe (Sydney Opera House 50th Anniversary) by Tim Minchin 4. Dragonball by McFly 5. Enduring the Dream - Single Edit by LostAlone

Minutes Listened: 2,418

The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface by Donald Maas— The cover shows a silhouette of a person formed from tree branches.

The Dreamer Trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater: Call Down the Hawk, Mister Impossible, and Greywaren.

Cover of Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: a Math Adventure by Cindy Neuschwander Illustrated by Wayne Geehan. A knight stands by a stump in front of a castle

Cover of Lives of Unforgetting: What We Lose in Translation when We Read the Bible by Stant Litore. Two hands hold a bowl of food.

Steelheart, Firefight, and Calamity by Brandon Sanderson

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

Cover of Red, White & Royal Blue: a prince and the first son leaning.

Spines of Mrs. Pollifax novels:

Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish
Mrs. Pollifax Innocent Tourist
Mrs. Pollifax Pursued
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha
Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax

Cover of A Psalm for the Wild Built: a Monk and Robot Book— on a dirt road in the woods, a monk sits drinking tea on a cart and a robot looks at butterflies.

Banana Bread
1 C yellow sugar
1/2 C. Butter
2 egg yolks beaten
2 T. Buttermilk
1 T. soda
1/4 t. Salt
1 3/4 C. Whole wh. flour
1 1/2 C. Bananas - mashed
1/3 C. nuts - chopped
2 egg whites - beaten

Cover of Born a Crime by Trevor Noah: a woman walks by a wall featuring a chipped mural of Trevor Noah

The cover of Turtles All the Way Down by John Green featuring an orange spiral.

A calico and white and brown striped cat

Cover of The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson: a boy’s hand drawing circular designs in chalk while a girl looks on. A castle type building is reflected on the pavement.

Cover of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir—an astronaut attached to a feather falls through space

Our (mostly his) calico cat, Mazikeen.

Mazikeen (cat) beside Hereafter Lies: R.I.P. by Elijah B. Wilder—a man walking casting a shadow of a reaper.

The cover of Ride A Purple Pelican by Jack Prelutsky: two children wave from the back of a purple pelican as it soars over a city.

Cover of Dog On It by Spencer Quinn. View from behind of a man and dog in the front seat of a car driving down a dirt road.

Cover to Math Pirates: The Complete Quest for the Pickled Pearl. A mermaid holding a map sits on a rock on a beach. A pirate boy and three chickens stand nearby.

Cover Legends and Lattes green orc makes coffee while pink succubus serves cake.

Highlighted passage: “Showing is all that’s needed here. That’s important to remember if your characters are dark, tormented, suffering, or insane. The painful emotional lives of such characters need to become tolerable for readers. Humor and objective showing create a safety zone. In that zone readers can process their own response to emotional conditions that are extreme.

To put it simply, when character emotions are highly painful, pull back.”

Cover of The Tightrope Walker. Inside of a shop with a note saying someone believes they’re going to be murdered.

Kid’s crochet kit and crochet hook with (badly) crocheted stitches.

Math Pirates books surrounded by other math books and games at Samizdat Bookstore and Teahouse.

The Artist’s Way 30th Anniversary Edition by Julia Cameron, pictured on a quilt

The cover of Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki— a fish swimming in starlight.

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wreade cover. A young woman in a red dress with a sword at her waist stands face to face with a dragon.

Five chickens with a little snow.

Cover of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green.

5 chickens in snowy yard under still mostly green trees