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Back of the Book Summary She vanished at six.She returned at sixteen.But she didn’t come home. Ten years ago, six-year-old Emily Harper disappeared from her backyard during a family barbecue in small-town Oregon. Despite endless searches and fading hope, her parents never stopped believing she might still be alive. Now sixteen, a girl known as Sara Jones survives a devastating car accident in Texas. A routine DNA test reveals the impossible—she is the missing child the world forgot. Pulled back into a family she doesn’t remember, Sara struggles with a life that feels чужer than the one she lost. Overwhelmed by grief, expectation, and a love she doesn’t yet understand, she runs—only to fall into something far more dangerous. As Sara searches for freedom, she must confront a painful truth: not every place that welcomes you is safe, and not every home is easy to return to. Who Is Sara Jones is a gripping emotional novel about identity, trauma, and the desperate human need to belong—an unforgettable story of loss, survival, and choosing where you finally come to rest.
Help pick a book cover
1 like • 3d
I would recommend looking up other books in your genre and checking out what the most popular books like yours currently look like! It can be helpful to ask yourself—would your book fit in on a shelf with the other books your ideal readers would be picking up? For what it's worth, using large amounts of text on a cover isn't very common in any genre, so I would keep your description to your book description. Most authors stick with just title and author, though sometimes a short tagline is used too!
Second book draft done
I’m one of those people who do well with deadlines. I finished the draft of my second book today. Wanted to have it done by the time I have to take of for Las Vegas!
1 like • 3d
Congratulations!!
Index building
I have built one index ever. I am currently building another one. I rate this experience as a 2 out of 10, do not recommend.
1 like • Jan 12
My only tip is to listen to great—but not super distracting—music while indexing! I also think it's kind of fun 😅 (But I'm also, to some degree, team "don't do it!" I very rarely see author-created indexes done correctly, and there are so many great indexing professionals out there. While I think it's a really cool process, I think a lot of authors add them when they don't need them and/or struggle when they could have just hired a pro. I'm a fan of either buckling down to learn the ins and outs, or getting someone else to do it for ya!)
The app
Just got around to checking in. What? Download the app. I need another app like a hole in the head. But, hey (they say) they don't collect any data about the user! For that alone I applaud them.
4 likes • Dec '25
If you're talking about the Skool app, it's great—but so is the desktop interface, if you really don't love apps! I access Skool exclusively from my computer (not my phone) so that I can type with a real keyboard. I'm old school like that 😂 You definitely have options! 😊
Your intellect, their property
I'm watching Day 1 of Success Summit. Julie mentions the connection between intellectual property and building one's empire. What if one has written a book, his first (and to date, only), for hire? How might one use that book? (In my case the publisher and I are on good terms.) It's almost 20 years old, still in print and #704 in Kabbalah and Mysticism on Amazon. Thank you for your comment.
2 likes • Dec '25
This is a super interesting question! Can you clarify your question a bit further? Ultimately, what you can do with a book written for hire will depend on the terms of your contract with the publisher, so sometimes you have a lot of flexibility, while sometimes, the compensation for the project is the biggest benefit you get out of the experience. Either way, though, congrats on writing a book that's still holding strong 20 years after publication!
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