Sara Creasy

Rule212 Rocks Seattle

Three more Wynter Wild books are now available on Amazon, free for Kindle Unlimited subscribers:

Natural Harmonics (#6)

When love makes sense…

Wynter and her brothers are ready to rock venues all over Seattle. No one can deny the natural chemistry Rule212 has on stage. Behind the scenes there’s tension brewing.

It’s not easy to work, play, and live together. Family means everything to Wynter and she’ll do whatever it takes to keep it together.

But something at the very heart of this family is ripping it apart.

No secrets or lies—it’s one of Caleb’s house rules. So why does everyone keep breaking it?

Duet (#7)

Two hearts yearning…

Wynter and Jesse set out on an adventure-filled road trip to rescue Indio from drugs and despair. Back home, Caleb resolves to take control of his family as once-close relationships deteriorate.

Meanwhile in Sacramento, Xay Morant lives with his ailing mother and a whole heap of bitterness over his year spent in the Light. He’s doing okay, all things considered.

But he’s never forgotten the girl from the ashram who used to climb through a hole in the fence in the dead of night to listen to rock songs on the radio with him…

Minor Key (#8)

Three years ago, Xay left Wynter to face the nightmare alone. She’s been searching for him ever since—and now he’s found her first.

Can he pick up the pieces of a past she’s trying to forget?

As Wynter and her brothers prepare to head off on tour with their band Rule212, tragedy strikes this already wounded family.

Where will they find healing?

Distortion is out now!

What would you say if you met the mother who abandoned you as a child?

Distortion (Wynter Wild #5) has relaunched on Kindle Unlimited!

The past taints everything.
Wynter has helped to create a safe place, an eccentric home in the mountains with her older brothers. Her music career is taking off with an overseas recording opportunity and a new all-girl rock band. She has everything she needs.
Her brothers could use some help.
Indio returns from London and there’s a room waiting for him, if he’ll take it, as well as an old flame in the wings. Caleb has a new chance at love, and Jesse continues his search for the perfect girl. Through everything, Wynter maintains her dream of making a success of their band Rule212.
Out of the blue, their mother Miriam returns.
Her years of neglect have already distorted her children’s chances for love and happiness. Does she stand any chance of reconciliation? Will Wynter and her brothers seek closure on the past, or do they want revenge?
CONTENT WARNINGS: The series includes or refers to: child abuse, drug use, animal cruelty, not-very-graphic sex and violence, mental health issues, adult relationships, and messed-up feelings. Wynter does not have sexual abuse/assault in her past or her future.

The Wynter Wild series is available for purchase or free to read on Kindle Unlimited.

More Wynter Wild on Kindle Unlimited

The fourth installment of the Wynter Wild series, Lost Melodies, with its new cover, is OUT NOW on Kindle Unlimited.

For the new cover I chose the conch as a symbol of half-remembered whispers as Wynter deals with the memories of her lost sibling. And the resolution for the book takes place on a beach.

No secrets… No lies…

Wynter’s dreams are coming true: after more than a year in foster care, she finally has the home she always dreamed of when Caleb buys a ramshackle farmhouse on the mountain. Her experience of the world is growing, with Jesse to guide her at every step (even when she’d rather he didn’t). She has her first boyfriend, her first job, and a new rock band at school.

But one of her brothers is hiding a shameful secret. Just when her hopes of a united family seem possible… he’s gone. And one by one, her successes are falling apart.

Wynter feels strong enough to handle anything. So why is she retreating into fantasy?

CONTENT WARNINGS: The series includes or refers to: child abuse, drug use, animal cruelty, not-very-graphic sex and violence, mental health issues, adult relationships, and frank sexual discussion (thanks, Jesse!). Wynter does not have sexual abuse/assault in her past or her future.

Wynter Wild Relaunch Today!

Today I’ve relaunched the first three books in the Wynter Wild series with all-new covers aimed at the women’s fiction market. You can purchase the books from Amazon, or read them for free with a Kindle unlimited subscription.

Click the covers to find the books in your local Amazon marketplace:

She’s about to turn their lives upside down…

New Release: The Beat Goes On (#10)

The final installment of the Wynter Wild series is finally available on Amazon! The quotes in the main image are from a few of my amazing Wattpad readers who stuck with me to the end. The encouragement and feedback I received on Wattpad helped carry me through to the end after I started uploading chapters there in December 2018. I’m truly grateful to every one of them.

I will shortly be removing the books from Wattpad and also from Amazon before relaunching them for Kindle Unlimited with all-new covers. Sign up to my newsletter for cover reveals and more news, including the stories I’m working on next.

Click the cover below to purchase the eBook from your regional Amazon store:

When the story is just a story

Why do we write stories anyway?

To entertain… To share our imaginations for fun… To elucidate a message about the weighty issues afflicting humanity?

Writers are frequently expected to answer with that last option. Science fiction, in particular, often uses analogies to explore current and historical human issues. On the flip side, writers may get themselves into trouble when they attempt to explore these issues (through analogy or overtly) and get things wrong.

Your kink is not my kink

Writing can be a lonely endeavor, but once the results are shared the text takes on a life of its own – it is read, absorbed, analyzed, and interpreted by readers, each one filtering the story through their own experiences and interests.

So what happens when a text is misinterpreted? What happens when the misinterpretation leads to a conclusion that the writer is perpetuating harmful stereotypes?

Wynter Wild book 1 & 2 available now for review

If you haven’t yet started reading the Wynter Wild series, or you’d just like a nice ebook version to own, I’ve organized a couple of giveaways for the first two books. Please, if you do take advantage of the freebies, consider writing an honest review at Goodreads or Amazon to help others discover the series (or just drop a rating). I truly appreciate every review and rating, and this is the best way to support indie authors like me.

Click on the cover for the ebook you’d like to read (available free until 31 August 2021 ):

Wynter Wild Series: Post Script

A few days ago, after four years, I completed the ten-book Wynter Wild series, uploading the final chapter of the final book (The Beat Goes On) to Wattpad. The book will be published on Amazon in a few weeks with its current YA cover, before I relaunch the entire series with new covers.

If you’ve been following along – thank you for reading! Newsletter subscribers get access to a second epilogue to the final book. If you haven’t yet subscribed you can do so here, and I’ll send you the link to that epilogue. Subscribers will also get exclusive stories and sneak peeks of my future work, much of which is set in the same “universe” including prequels and sequels.

If you’ve read the entire series, that’s 1,288,103 words (approximately) of Wynter’s story. A staggering figure that I can hardly believe, especially considering I wrote many thousands more words that never made it into the books. So many subplots I had to cut, especially as the final book grew longer and longer. I may include some of that material in later sequels (most likely short stories).

My first priority is a set of prequel short stories or novellas about the Fairn brothers growing up with their mother, and then their father, showing how these three boys developed into the characters we first met in Little Sister Song. I (or rather, they) referred to many incidents from their childhood, so I’m looking through those now for story ideas.

Q&A

This is the non-spoilery (or only slightly spoilery) version of the Q&A from Wattpad.

First up…

If you enjoyed the series, please consider writing honest reviews, or just leave ratings, on Amazon or Goodreads. It’s the best way to support me as an indie writer. For the past four years I’ve written the words you’ve read, and now you have the power to encourage new readers to take the plunge and give the books a try!

Thank you so much to those of you who have already done this, and don’t forget the later books in the series also need some love. 🙂

To keep up with what I’m writing next, including spin-offs in this world (which I talk about below), sign up to my newsletter. Subscribers will get Epilogue #2 this month, ahead of the book’s publication. It launches the family in a new direction.

Thanks for sending questions! I had some similar questions come in via Wattpad and email, so I’ve amalgamated those to avoid repeating myself.

Lockdown Eleven

Actually it’s only our fourth lockdown. But it was my daughter’s eleventh birthday recently and the promised trip to the mall (to see if she could figure out what she wanted, since she has no ideas) never happened.

What she needs is a hoodie, and she only likes the zip-through ones. For older girls these are very hard to find! She’s outgrown cutesie stuff made for little girls and while she’s tall enough for age 14 clothes she doesn’t like the ubiquitous logo black and grey stuff made for teenagers.

What on earth are tweens supposed to wear?

And guess what her birthday present was? An executive chair for her desk. She spends a lot of time at her computer because of remote learning, and because she’s writing spreadsheets with her dad for a card game about dragons. Until now she’s been sitting crunched up on a dining room chair, often sharing with a cat.

I also gave her these…