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Sandra Schwab
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Historical romance author with a PhD, a piano, & a very large library. Expert on dragons & PUNCH. Writes stories with happy endings and loves her caravan Miss Hetty. 🌈 She / her.

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#RomancePianists - Something energetic for Wednesday: Robert Schumann, "Kleiner Morgenwanderer" from Album für die Jugend (Album for the Youth). Enjoy!

#ClassicalMusic #PianoMusic #RobertSchumann
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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My desk when I arrived at the office this morning. 😊
An office desk with a keyboard and a monitor and some office knick-knack. Keyboard and desk are covered with golden confetti and streamers, and over the desk, there's felt bunting with the words "Happy birthday". On the desk, there are also two little figurines of temple dancers, wearing red and golden clothes and each of them carrying a chocolate bar.
October 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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"Oh my gosh, she even decorated the foam kisses!!!" 😁
Picture shows a plate with small foam kisses on a kitchen counter. The foam kisses come in three colors: dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, and some of them have little sugary spiders stuck to them, and several of the white foam kisses have little black eyes and look like mini ghosts.
October 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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The little ghost who haunts the back window of the house.
A sugar figure of a ghost stuck to an orange window. You can just see half of another grinning chocolate pumpkin.
October 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Chocolate pumpkin
Zoomed- in picture with focus on part of an orange window of the cake house. Underneath the window sits a grinning pumpkin.
October 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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One of the little sugary spiders.
Zoomed-in pic with focus on the little purple spider sitting on the fir tree left of the door of the cake house. The very happy spider - it has only one eye, but a huge smile - is surrounded by purple and turquoise sugar balls.
October 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Details: kitty on the roof
Zoomed-in pic focusing on the chocolate kitty on the roof of the cake house.
October 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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The Halloweeny fairy cottage:
Cake in the form of a little house with fir trees at each corner on a cake plate on a kitchen counter. The roof of the house is covered in dark chocolate glaze and the same Halloweeny sprinkles as before. The door to the house is covered in an orange glaze with an orange chocolate ball as the door knob. The fir trees to either side of the door are covered in chocolate garlands and sugar balls in turquoise and purple, and there's a little purple spider sitting in one tree. On the roof of the house stands a black chocolate cat.
October 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I've just noticed that I haven't yet posted pics of the Halloweeny birthday cakes I took to the office today. How remiss of me!

Let's start with the loaf cake!
Loaf cake on a blue cake plate on a kitchen counter. The cake is covered in a dark chocolate glaze with Halloweeny sprinkles - think little pumpkins, bats, golden dots, and purple sugar balls - and plastered against one end of the cake is a little ghost made from sugar. Three chocolate figures on toothsticks are sticking in the cake: two orange pumpkins and a black cat.
October 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Finished decorations of the early birthday cake. Tried out some new Halloween-themed sprinkles with itty bitty pumpkins and itty bitty bats. LOVE them!
Bird's-eye view of the finished round cake glazed with dark chocolate and sprinkles in black, orange, purple, and gold around the rim. It sits on a crumpled sheet of parchment paper splashed with chocolate glaze Close-up of the edge of the cake with two pumpkin sprinkles and little golden dots, and sugary balls in light purple
October 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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#JoyScrolling An arrangement of the Chinese folk song "Running Horse Mountain" played on my Michelsonne #ToyPiano
October 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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::bats lashes::
Picture shows a dark cake in the form of a round of fir trees with a bit of powdered sugar standing on a plate with Christmasy decorations.
September 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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And thirdly, Morning Song by Huang Huwei, which I'm starting in the wrong key 🥳
August 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Mel Bonis, Gai Printemps (I'll probably play this one)
August 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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When you're trying to decide which piece to play at the weekly Zoom concert thingie, but your fingers are all over the place today... 😭

Schumann, Kleiner Morgenwanderer
August 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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I've found three entries for your name in the name directory, but weirdly, two of them list exactly the same books. And the numbers next to the names also don't match the number of titles listed when you click open the entry.
August 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I went through the name directory. I also tried several different options (Sandy Schwab, Sandra Martina Schwab), and nothing came up. And there is the 3 next to my name in the directory, so it's very weird.
Screenshot from the Name directory of the US copyright office website. The search field for "Lookup name" has been filled with "Schwab, San" and Schwab, Sandra is the first search result, with a 3 next to her name - this makes sense because her first three novels have been trad published.
August 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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#JoyScrolling Mathilde Bilbro's "Merry-Go-Round" on the toy piano (my toy piano which arrived today, to be exact 😊)

#ToyPiano #RomancePianists
August 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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It's most obvious when you look at the spires at the very top: On the right, there are two spires, on the left three. Then there is that itty-bitty spire a bit further down that should have an equivalent on the other side, but there it is missing.
Cut-out of the cover showing just the cathedral in the background, the bottom of the title and the top of the woman's head. There are wonky red circles drawn around the top spires and around an itty bitty spire further down on the right.
August 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Back home from a short camping trip - the first one in three months! I missed my dear little caravan, and it was such a delight to reunite with her.
The photo shows a beige, older caravan surrounded by green bushes, with a tree and a wooded hill in the background. The sky is covered in grey clouds, with bits of blue peaking through.
August 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. This is the current sales rank of The Lily Brand on Amazon US. How awesome is this?!?!?!
Screenshot of the sales rank on an amazon page: Best Sellers Rank #241 Free in Kindle Store, #2 in Historical Regency Fiction, #3 in Regency Historical Romance. Customer Reviews: 4,3 based on 42 reviews.
July 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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If you enjoy grumpy-sunshine, I've got some books set in Roman antiquity for you. 😊
Covers of Sandra Schwab's historical romances The Gladiator's Passion and The Centurion's Choice.
July 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Happy weekend, #Romancelandia! In celebration of my 20th publishing anniversary, my debut novel, THE LILY BRAND, is available for free throughout the summer.

Are you in the mood for a dark historical romance set in Regency England? Then snatch up a copy!

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Promo image showing the book cover of Sandra Schwab's historical romance The Lily Brand in the middle surrounded by scribbled text. On the book cover is a half-naked, muscular man with chains around his shoulder. He is looking downward. The text above the cover says "Anniversary Sale" and on either side of the cover are scribbles with the following: 20 years, enemies to lovers, genre: historical romance, retribution and redemption, tortured hero and heroine. At the bottom is a snippet from a review by Morgan Chilson in Fresh Fiction: "This sensusal novel does a wonderful job of pushing the edge of historical romance"
July 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Tomorrow is my 20th publishing-versary. 20 years since the official release date of The Lily Brand. Wheee!!!
Seflie of Sandy in front of one of her Ikea Billy bookshelves. She is holding up a copy of the first edition of The Lily Brand with the neikkid man-chest cover. On the bookshelf behind her, you can see some of her other novels, cover out: Castle of the Wolf, Bewitched, Betrayal, The Return of the Earl. In one corner of the bookshelf sits a small vampire teddy bear, complete with fangs and a black cape, that was once a goodie given out by Rosemary Laurey at a romance conference in Wiesbaden or Berlin.
July 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Just a reminder that the ebook edition of my #HistRom Eagle's Honor: Ravished is on sale until the end of the month!

Romans! Gladiators! A forbidden love! A hero who is SO SOFT for the heroine from the get-go!

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A photo of the print edition of Eagle's Honor Ravished, lying on a big stone on a path that leads up to a reconstructed Roman auxiliary fort. The cover of the book shows a young woman in somewhat historical clothing leaning against the very broad and very neikkid chest of a blond man whose face has been cut off the upper edge of the cover, but hey, you can still admire his very broad chest and the lovely dragon tattoo on his very muscular arm.
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM