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Sara Goodman Confino is the bestselling author of five novels: Don’t Forget to Write, Behind Every Good Man, She’s Up to No Good, For the Love of Friends, and the upcoming Good Grief. After spending more years than she’s willing to publicly admit teaching high school English and journalism, she is currently writing full time and trying to make a living off of the crazy stories in her head. She lives in Montgomery County, Maryland with her husband, two sons, two miniature schnauzers, and a goldfish that seems to be vying for the world record of longest living fish. When she’s not writing or frantically parenting, she can be found on the Peloton, at the beach, or at a Bruce Springsteen concert, sometimes even dancing onstage.
Happy 75th birthday to the best dad and grandpa around, @jordangoodman341 (he’s even finally allowed to watch the kids unsupervised as long as @carole.c.goodman will be home soon).
Glad we were able to come through with a second gift today, because you’re still my favorite Bruce concert buddy.
Love you, Dad! 🩷🩷🩷🩷
#birthday #75thbirthday
I met @mgizzi randomly on threads. We agreed on literally everything and I told him he was my random internet bestie. He’s now read all of my books, and even though I failed on Chicago tickets yesterday (but I’m not done yet!), he got me and my parents in for DC when I got shut out. I cried.
So the biggest of thank yous today to my internet bestie. You’re the best thing Meta ever brought me! 🩷
Shoutout to my friend @soulflame1 for this gem…
Helping my internet bestie @mgizzi today then I’m up tomorrow. Who am I (hopefully) gonna see in DC? Or where are you trying for?
#springsteen #landofhopeanddreamstour
If you know me in real life, you know that I’m awesome at keeping OTHER people’s secrets, but terrible at keeping my own. And I’ve been sitting on this one since I got the IDEA for Off the Record almost a year and a half ago.
So today, I finally got to surprise my high school journalism teacher with an advance copy of Off the Record, my journalism book, which is dedicated to him.
This book would not exist without him in so, so many ways. He made me a better writer. A better storyteller. A better teacher. A better person. And for the last three decades, he has been a huge influence in my life.
I remember emailing him the day I decided to switch majors from journalism to English and saying I hoped he wouldn’t be disappointed in me. He replied saying on the contrary, he couldn’t be more proud of me because I was following in his footsteps. When I left teaching to write full time, he told me he had been wrong because he WAS more proud of me. And I think today he was prouder still.
For my former students and his, there are some fun Keegan-isms sprinkled throughout this one.
And Kevin Keegan, thank you. For everything. Always.
And for everyone else, you’ll get your turn to read it in just under four months 🩷
#bookstagram #offtherecord #teachers
When you really SHOULD be writing but your ARCs are just too pretty and deserve a photoshoot instead…
That’s relatable, right?
#bookstagram #offtherecord #arc
Get a first look at Off the Record ARCs with me!
And before you ask, @getredprbooks is telling me where to send them. I do nothing without Ann-Marie’s permission! (So nag her, not me! 😝)
Can’t wait to get this one into your hands and as always, preorder signed and personalized copies from @parkbooksmd (just make an account for shipping options and put whatever you’d like me to say in the comments!)
Who’s excited? 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
#bookstagram #arc #offtherecord
The kids are back at school! (After infecting me with their cold that I don’t even know how they got because we barely went anywhere for ten days…) So I’m back at work too!
I’ve had a bunch of people ask why DC area schools were out so long for this storm. The answer, if you’re not local, wasn’t the quantity of snow, it was the quality. It snowed about six inches, then sleeted for about six hours on top of that, then deep froze for a week, resulting in what local weather people called “Snow-crete.”
But I’m itching to get writing, and I’ve got an Off the Record mug to drink tea out of so let’s do this!🩷
(Also, this pic is a total lie. I write in an arm chair, with my feet up on an ottoman, with snacks and notebooks strewn everywhere like the chaos gremlin that I am 🤣)
#authorlife #momlife
In all of the insanity of gearing up for Off the Record (no, I don’t have paper ARCs yet. I know. I’m waiting too. But again, @getredprbooks handles that so nag them, not me!) and working on what comes next (more about that soon, I promise), I hadn’t checked on Good Grief in a while. So I was pleasantly surprised to see she’s still flying a bestseller flag five months after release!
Make sure you check out yesterday’s post for a chance to win a signed copy because my kids are FINALLY going back to school today after ten days off for this insane snow/ice/tundra mess!
#bookstagram #goodgrief
Sara is represented by Rachel Beck at Liza Dawson Associates. Contact Ms. Beck at RBeck@lizadawson.com.
Sara is represented by Ann-Marie Nieves of Get Red PR. Contact Ms. Nieves at am@getredpr.com.
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