This is me, Sarah Broadley. Lover of chocolate and never ending cups of milky tea. I live in Scotland with my family and two cats who bring me dead things when I write in the wee small hours. The cats that is, not my family. I write picture books and novels for 8-12 year olds.
I review children’s books for on-line reading resource My Book Corner.
I also chair local and on-line children’s book launches, and panel events at various literary festivals. I was selected to read out one of my stories at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2016 and also at The Hook, a pitching event to agents, held at the SCBWI conference in 2018.
My story for younger readers, ‘Clovus’, was long-listed for the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices 2022 Award.
I am a member of:
The Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI), co-chair of Scottish network 2015-17
The Society of Authors (SOA)
The Children’s Writers & Illustrators Group (CWIG)
The Authors Licencing & Collecting Society (ALCS)
As a previous trustee on the board of Cymera – the UK’s only Sci-fi, Horror & Fantasy Writing Festival, I continue to support their events and festivals. I am a volunteer Lead Reader at Open Book.
When I’m not writing, I co-ordinate a local monthly book group for St Columba’s Hospice Volunteers and I regulalry interview authors and illustrators for the SCBWI on-line magazine Words & Pictures quarterly Writers’ Minds feature.
After many years working in finance, I now write full-time.
Photo by Scaine.