Press KitSarah Beth Durst is the award-winning author of eighteen fantasy books for kids, teens, and adults, including The Girl Who Could Not Dream, Drink Slay Love, and The Queens of Renthia series. She won an ALA Alex Award and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for SFWA's Andre Norton Award three times. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she spent four years studying English, writing about dragons, and wondering what the campus gargoyles would say if they could talk. Sarah lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband, her children, and her ill-mannered cat. For more information, visit her at sarahbethdurst.com. Author Photo
About SPARK Title: SPARK
Description: When a shy girl and her lightning beast discover that their country's idyllic weather comes at a steep cost, they must defy authority to spread the truth. Even the quiestest voice can change the world. Reviews: click here to read reviews Awards: Booklist Starred Review, Summer 2019 Kids Indie Next List, an Amazon Best Book of May 2019
About THE DEEPEST BLUE Title: THE DEEPEST BLUE
Description: On the islands of Belene, women of power are sent to an island filled with bloodthirsty nature spirits and left with nothing but their instincts and magic. Most will die. Those who survive will become heirs to the queen. Reviews: click here to read reviews
About FIRE AND HEIST Title: FIRE AND HEIST
Description: Think Ocean's Eleven with were-dragons! Sixteen-year-old Sky Hawkins is a socialite from a family of master thieves... and a were-dragon who must lead her first heist, if she wants to be accepted by her society. But on the night of her first heist, she discovers a dark truth that could reunite her family or tear them apart forever. Reviews: click here to read reviews
About THE QUEEN OF SORROW Title: THE QUEEN OF SORROW, Book Three of The Queens of Renthia
Description: The battle between vicious spirits and strong-willed queens that started in the award-winning The Queen of Blood and continued in the powerful The Reluctant Queen comes to a stunning conclusion in The Queen of Sorrow, the final volume of Sarah Beth Durst's The Queens of Renthia trilogy. Reviews: click here to read reviews Awards: 2 starred reviews
About THE STONE GIRL'S STORY Title: THE STONE GIRL'S STORY
Description: Exploring the power of stories and storytelling, Sarah Beth Durst presents the mesmerizing adventure of a girl made of living stone who braves unforeseen dangers and magical consequences on a crucial quest to save her family. Reviews: click here to read reviews Awards: A Junior Library Guild Selection, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Finalist, Cybils Award Finalist, 2 Starred Reviews
About THE RELUCTANT QUEEN Title: THE RELUCTANT QUEEN, Book Two of The Queens of Renthia
Description: The fate of two nations depends on three women: a young queen who is dying, a powerful queen who hungers for war, and a middle-aged woman who wants nothing to do with the power she could wield. They must each do what they think is best for their kingdoms -- or die trying. Reviews: click here to read reviews
About ROAR AND SPARKLES GO TO SCHOOL Title: ROAR AND SPARKLES GO TO SCHOOL
Description: A new picture book about the first day of school... with dragons! Reviews: click here to read reviews
About JOURNEY ACROSS THE HIDDEN ISLANDS Title: JOURNEY ACROSS THE HIDDEN ISLANDS
Description: Two sisters, one winged lion, and a LOT of monsters in an action-filled, funny, and heartwarming fantasy from the author of The Girl Who Could Not Dream. Reviews: click here to read reviews Other Editions: Available in Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish through GIRL:IT (Stabenfeldt)
About THE QUEEN OF BLOOD Title: THE QUEEN OF BLOOD, Book One of The Queens of Renthia
Description: An idealistic young student and a banished warrior become allies in a battle to save their realm in this
first book of a mesmerizing epic fantasy series, filled with political intrigue, violent magic, malevolent spirits, and thrilling adventure. Reviews: click here to read reviews Awards: 3 Starred Reviews, ALA Alex Award, a Barnes & Noble Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of 2016,
a Tor.com Reviewers' Choice Best Book of 2016, a Science Fiction Book Club Selection About THE GIRL WHO COULD NOT DREAM Title: THE GIRL WHO COULD NOT DREAM
Description: THE GIRL WHO COULD NOT DREAM tells of a girl whose family owns a secret store where they buy, bottle,
and sell dreams, but who can't have any of her own, and the adventure that she and her pet monster go on when someone starts kidnapping dreamers. Reviews: click here to read reviews Awards: 2 Starred Reviews, Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award 3rd Place Winner, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Finalist, a Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Book of 2015, an Amazon Best Book of November 2015 About CHASING POWER Title: CHASING POWER
Description: CHASING POWER is the story of Kayla, a sixteen-year-old girl who can move things with
her mind, and Daniel, a boy who can teleport across continents and who lies as easily as he travels. Together, they embark on an Indiana-Jones-style adventure to find
and steal an ancient incantation, written on three indestructible stones and hidden millennia ago, all to rescue Daniel's kidnapped mother. But Kayla has no idea that
this rescue mission will lead back to her own family, and to betrayals that she may not be able to forgive... or survive. Reviews: click here to read reviews About THE LOST Title: THE LOST
Description: Lost your way? Your dreams? Yourself? Welcome to Lost. It was supposed to be a small escape. A few hours driving
before turning around and heading home. But once you arrive in Lost... well, it's a place you really can't leave. THE LOST is about a woman named Lauren Chase, who becomes trapped in a town full of
only lost things and lost people. About CONJURED Title: CONJURED
Description: CONJURED is about a teen in the paranormal witness protection program, who, haunted by visions of carnival tents and tarot cards, must remember her past and why she has strange abilities before a magic-wielding serial killer hunts her down. Reviews: click here to read reviews Awards: A Junior Library Guild Selection, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Finalist, Cybils F/SF YA Award Finalist Other Editions: Scholastic Book Fair
About VESSEL Title: VESSEL
Description: In a desert land where serpents made of unbreakable glass fly through the sky and wolves made of only sand hunt within storms, Liyana is destined to be a vessel, to sacrifice herself so her clan's goddess can inhabit her body... but her goddess never comes. Reviews: click here to read reviews Awards: 3 Starred Reviews, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Winner 2013, Andre Norton Award Finalist 2012, Kirkus Best Teen Books 2012, Cybils F/SF YA Award Finalist 2012, Garden State Teen Book Awards Finalist About DRINK, SLAY, LOVE Title: DRINK, SLAY, LOVE
Description: Pearl is a sixteen-year-old vampire, fond of blood, allergic to sunlight, and mostly evil... until the night she is stabbed through the heart by a were-unicorn's horn and begins to develop a conscience. Reviews: click here to read reviews About ENCHANTED IVY Title: ENCHANTED IVY
Description: A story about getting into college. You know, taking the campus tour, talking to the gargoyles, flirting with the were-tigers, riding the dragons...
While visiting the campus of Princeton University, 16-year-old Lily discovers a secret gate to a magical realm and must race against time to save herself, her world, and any hope she has of college admission. Reviews: click here to read reviews About ICE Title: ICE
Description: A polar bear, true love, and one girl's impossible quest across the frozen North. Would you risk everything for a fairy tale? Reviews: click here to read reviews Awards: 2009 Andre Norton Award Finalist, 2010 Boston Authors Club Young Readers Award Finalist About OUT OF THE WILD Title: OUT OF THE WILD
Description: Join Julie, Rapunzel's daughter, on a magical road trip across America. A flying bathmat, a very drowsy princess, a fire-breathing dragon, and several thousand magic beanstalks... Julie's world, our world, will never be the same again. A sequel to 2007 Andre Norton Award Finalist Into the Wild.
Reviews: click here to read reviews About INTO THE WILD Title: INTO THE WILD
Description: Julie is Rapunzel's daughter. Really, she is. Long ago, the fairy-tale characters escaped the fairy tale to live in secret in our world. But now the fairy tale wants its characters back, and it's up to Julie to save them. Reviews: click here to read reviews Awards: 2007 Andre Norton Award Finalist; 2007 Cybils Fantasy/SF Award Finalist; 2009-10 Missouri Truman Readers Award Nominee; 2009-10 Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award Nominee Other Information For information about Sarah's public appearances, please visit the Appearances page. For rights information, please contact Andrea Somberg at Harvey Klinger, Inc. All other questions, please contact Sarah at sarah@sarahbethdurst.com. |
