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Sarasota Green
@sarasotagreen.bsky.social
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Writing stories about independent women who always have adventures and sometimes fall in love. Free spirit/poetry/the ocean. Author of FREE LOVE BEACH and SERENITY LAKE MARINA.

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Trying out these new graphics for the beach books…do you all use the app on your phone? Is the text here big enough to see on your screens? #booksky #womensfiction #beachreads #lovestories #romancelandia 📚💙 🖋️ mybook.to/freelovebeach
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Almost done with draft two of the WIP. I just started an instagram, because my new editor suggested it. Playing around with some graphics, and wanna see how they translate here. #booksky #womensfiction #beachreads #lovestories #romancelandia 📚💙 🖋️ mybook.to/freelovebeach
Image shows a black notebook cover with the words, “A Love Story set in 1964.” Independent WFMC, Latino Musician MMC, Sweet and Steamy. “I loved it! It was fun! This one took me out of my reading slump! Set on the gulf coast of Florida. https://mybook.to/freelovebeach. Book cover is blue and pink and reads Free Love Beach by Sarasota Green. With a guitar and flip flops in the sand.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Hey, Skyfriends. I’ve been in a writing cave. How’s everybody? I’m almost done with the WIP, and I’m at the part where I get sad and cry a little, so I think it’s almost done. I’m really excited about the cover, too. Here’s a little shot of my books hanging out on my beat up futon.
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Somehow this month, I took a weird, obsessive turn into genealogy and therefore, history. Hopefully, it will all come together and make sense. I told myself I would absolutely not write another story set in the past, but perhaps I am researching book six? #writerslife #weirdturns
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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So, this is a weird flukey thing that happened on Amazon, but THAT’S MY BOOK NEXT TO COLLEEN HOOVER’S, and I will forever look at this photo when I am discouraged. #friendstoloversromance #romancelandia

(Pretty cool, though, right?)
Image shows books listed in Friends and Lovers categories on Amazon. #41 is Serenity Lake Marina by Sarasota Green and #42 shows Losing Hope and Finding Cinderella by Colleen Hoover.
October 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Some of my random book stacks of most recent activity. I think I’ve read all of them but two…things to do!
October 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Y’all. I was not ready for this. Okay, Colleen Hoover. I salute you.
Book Cover is black with a yellow figure/netting on top and bottom. “Verity,” by Colleen Hoover.
July 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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My Carley Fortune books came! My Carley Fortune books came! She’s doing so many things so well…I was totally encapsulated by the other two books I read in May/June. I can’t wait to read them!
Image shows two books. Book on left is yellow and red, a picture of a lake with two silhouettes holding hands on a beach. “This Summer Will be Different,” by Carley Fortune. Book on right is pink and purple, two silhouettes sit at the end of a dock. “Meet Me at the Lake” by Carley Fortune.
July 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, this was exactly what I needed this week. I’m not all the way through it, but La Lengua Inside Me is gorgeous. @poetnotarockstar.bsky.social
Image shows book cover “La Lengua Inside me,” by Adrian Ernesto Cepeda. A pair of reading glasses, on top of an American flag with a yellos flad above it. Image shows blackout poem entitled “Cinema Cassian.” “I took my father/with his thick Mexican accent/ to see a hero…” Image shows a screenshot of a poem, “As If He Wanted to Wake Marquez from Beyond his Grave.”
July 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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And, while I’m at it, the debut novel got a new look. Free Love Beach is a story of a young woman who moves to the beach in the 1960’s, looking to start her own life. I’m officially working on a series. Cocktails, Sunsets, and Music. These characters are a blast to write.
Book Cover shows Free Love Beach, a novel, by Sarasota Green. Blue wooden background, sand at the bottom, a guitar with peace signs and flowers, flip flops, a starfish and a sand dollar.
July 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I’m really excited! I have a new book coming out on July 15th! Here is its gorgeous cover. Serenity Lake Marina is a love story of grief, recovery, small towns and second chances.
#CoverReveal
You can sign up on my postcard list for a chance to win a free ARC copy at sarasotagreenauthor.com.
Book cover reads Serenity Lake Marina, a novel, by Sarasota Green. Image is green water and green sky with a firework, rainbow, purple palm trees, a jet ski, a beer bottle and sunglasses on the sand.
July 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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So, Carley Fortune has ruined summer fiction reading for me in the best possible way. I will not be able to read any more fiction until I read her other two books. They are beautiful inside and out. Stories of young love and friendship.
Image shows two books by Carley Fortune: One Golden Summer, and Every Summer After, both novels. One Golden Summer has two figures watercolor in a yellow boat. Every Summer After has two young people jumping off of a dock. Lots of sky on the book covers.
July 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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So, I have a to-do list for days, but this just came in the mail. And in my humble opinion, these two artists are doing the best cover design in the business right now. So pretty.
Image shows book cover of Carley Fortune, #1 New York times Bestselling Author, “One Golden Summer, a novel.” Cover image is watercolor sunset, water, and a yellow speedboat with two characters inside. Image reads, “Cover design by Vi-An Nguyen, and Cover art by Elizabeth Lennie” against a blue watercolor background.
June 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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If anybody needs me, I #amwriting and editing stories of independent women, and teaching a class this semester. I plan on being social again (and checking out all of your new books and what you’re working on!) in the fall/winter. I’ll see you then. Oh, and maybe I’ll release a book next month!
Image shows a coffee mug with the words FREE SPIRIT carved in capital letters.
June 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Looking to escape inside of a #beachread?

FREE LOVE BEACH is the story of Kate Wyse, who moves to the beach in the 1960s.

She doesn’t plan on meeting Marco Del Rio, or how it will feel to trust her own heart. #https://mybook.to/freelovebeach

#romancelandia #booksky 💙 📚 👀 #womensfiction
Image shows a postcard with white sand, blue water, a blue sky. “Wish You Were Here” is written in cursive in the sky. A starfish, a clam shell, a polaroid picture of a palm tree and the novel, Free Love Beach by Sarasota Green are laying in the sand. Image reads, “Summer Sale! 99 Cents” in a sunshine shape.
May 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Read this gem of a book this week. Picked it up at a used bookstore, and enjoyed it from beginning to end. “Hemingway’s Girl,” by Erika Robuck. I loved the protagonist, and wanted her to win.
Image shows book cover with the silhouette of a young woman’s back and arm standing in front of a line of one story houses on a street, and one palm tree. Image reads, “You’ll love this robust, tender story of love, grief, and survival on Key West in the 1930’s…addictive.” New York times Bestselling Author Jenna Blum. “Hemingway’s Girl” a novel.
May 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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In case I go radio silent for a few days, here’s a picture of my neighbor’s cat. #amwriting Be well, everyone.
Photo shows a tan and white cat with a black tail.
March 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Hey, thanks! My women’s fiction debut is out now, and I’m working on going wide. I’m in a round of edits for book #2 and have 50,000 words in progress for book #3. My characters are independent women, and their stories are set around the beach with a little bit of romance mybook.to/freelovebeach
Image reads, “This one took me right out of my reading slump!” “I loved it.” and “It was fun!” Image shows five stars, and a book cover titled “Free Love Beach” on top of sand with a guitar and a blue background. “Available on Kindle Unlimited…”
March 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I’m so grateful for those of you who ordered a copy of Free Love Beach and gave it a review! Reviews are trickling in and the feedback is wonderful. Thank you! If you like women’s fiction and romance, check it out here: mybook.to/freelovebeach #booksky #writersky #romancelandia
"This one took me right out of my reading slump!," “I loved it.” “It was fun.” Image shows five stars. A book cover with sand, a guitar, and shells on a blue background, titled “Free Love Beach,” a novel.
March 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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This is really fun. In my creative (productive) mess, I found a beta copy of my book hanging out next to Colleen Hoover’s. Like they’re friends. #amwritingandediting #booksky #womensfiction
Image shows two books. One, Colleen Hoover’s November 9, a blue cover with white text and a red flower and two, Sarasota Green’s Free Love Beach, a blue cover with sand, shells, and a guitar.
February 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Still at a loss for what’s happening in the world, so here’s one of my favorite photos from the Gulf of Mexico. #amwriting
February 20, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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I love this. Thanks! (I’m a little late, but)...

When an American young woman moves to the beach and meets a Mexican-American musician, she’s not looking for love and romance. She’s looking for independence.

mybook.to/freelovebeach

#booksy #womensfiction #newadultromance #readersky
Image reads, “I loved it.” “This one took me right out of my reading slump!” Book cover shows a blue background, sand, shells, and a guitar, FREE LOVE BEACH by Sarasota Green “Available on Kindle Unlimited.”
February 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Doing some research for the WIP. My characters are galavanting in Isla Mujeres. HOWEVER, I deleted the map app on the left, and loaded Mapquest instead, for correctly labelling the Gulf of Mexico. #amwriting
Image shows a map of Gulf of Mexico with the name "Gulf of America" and a pin at Isla Mujeres. Image shows map of Gulf of Mexico with the name "Gulf of Mexico."
February 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Some beach books and love stories from my collection. #booksky
February 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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This came in the mail for me today. @carolanneshawbooks.bsky.social, I can’t wait to dive into it!
Book cover reads, “Tango Fish” by Carol Anne Shaw. Image shoes two girls arm in arm wearing jean jackets and headbands with flowers, with their backs to the camera and their faces towards a forest.
February 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM