ABOUT SARAH BULLEN
Sarah Bullen is a multi-published author, international writing coach and literary agent. Founder of The Writing Room and Kent Literary, she has had over 100 books published by writers she has mentored. As well as being a regular guest on talk shows, podcasts and writers’ circles, Sarah has been leading international writing retreats and adventures for the past decade.
Her recent books include Write your Book in 100 Days! Stop Mucking about and Just Write It and Love & Above – A Journey into Shamanism, Coma and Joy.
As an agent she represents authors of non-fiction, and celebrity or breathtaking memoirs. Sarah had a 10-year career as a hard news journalist and editor before moving into the world of books with her first title Hey Baby! (Penguin) in 2003. Since then she has mentored over 2,000 authors around the world through her masterclasses, mentorships and events. She works with both novel writers and non fiction authors and has run the How to Write a Romance (Harlequin + Avon) for 15 years.
She is also the ghostwriter behind many celebrity and thought leadership books on the shelves.
Sarah's own story is inspirational. She was just 34 with a young family when her husband discovered he had a brain tumour. As he pursued a shamanic path to fight the cancer, they were both catapulted into a strange and magical world of ritual and ceremony. Then the impossible happened. As he entered his last weeks of life - Sarah ended up fighting for her own life, in a coma on life support. She was to remain in the coma for four weeks and travelled through near-death and into other realms and worlds. This journey is the story in her latest book Love and Above: A journey through shamanism, coma and joy.
Sarah's focus then turned exclusively to book editing and coaching. After her husband died of brain cancer in 2012 she moved to a Greece island to write and run writers retreats. Four years after her husband died, and in a magical new life in Greece, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She has written extensively about her own journey with cancer, death and resilience in magazines from Marie Claire to Men’s Health and on talk shows and stages.
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She also does traditional oral storytelling in women's circles and events, bringing centuries old stories to life … around fires, in circles and to those who need an old story to show them a new way.
Sarah is a frequent keynote speaker, guest on talk shows and literary festivals and a contributor to magazines internationally.
She is an MC who hosts book launches and conferences.
She lectures in personal narrative fiction at MA level.
Publications Sarah has been featured in include:
Elle Decoration (UK, Greece, Germany, South Africa), Women’s Health, Men's Health, Marie Claire, House and Leisure
House and Garden, Business Day, Business Day Wanted lifestyle supplement, New Media Publishing (freelance lifestyle writer and reviewer for a few of their custom titles), The Guardian (UK), Mail & Guardian, The Times, The Good Weekend, Fair Lady, Femina, Your Baby, Horizons, CNBC, eNCA, Cape Talk, SABC.
She was the former personal finance editor at the Mail & Guardian, radio news editor at Business Day radio and had a 10 year career as a magazine publisher and editor.
She currently thriving and lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her two adult children, and runs writing retreats in breathtaking locations around the globe.
Her recent books include Write your Book in 100 Days! Stop Mucking about and Just Write It and Love & Above – A Journey into Shamanism, Coma and Joy.
As an agent she represents authors of non-fiction, and celebrity or breathtaking memoirs. Sarah had a 10-year career as a hard news journalist and editor before moving into the world of books with her first title Hey Baby! (Penguin) in 2003. Since then she has mentored over 2,000 authors around the world through her masterclasses, mentorships and events. She works with both novel writers and non fiction authors and has run the How to Write a Romance (Harlequin + Avon) for 15 years.
She is also the ghostwriter behind many celebrity and thought leadership books on the shelves.
Sarah's own story is inspirational. She was just 34 with a young family when her husband discovered he had a brain tumour. As he pursued a shamanic path to fight the cancer, they were both catapulted into a strange and magical world of ritual and ceremony. Then the impossible happened. As he entered his last weeks of life - Sarah ended up fighting for her own life, in a coma on life support. She was to remain in the coma for four weeks and travelled through near-death and into other realms and worlds. This journey is the story in her latest book Love and Above: A journey through shamanism, coma and joy.
Sarah's focus then turned exclusively to book editing and coaching. After her husband died of brain cancer in 2012 she moved to a Greece island to write and run writers retreats. Four years after her husband died, and in a magical new life in Greece, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She has written extensively about her own journey with cancer, death and resilience in magazines from Marie Claire to Men’s Health and on talk shows and stages.
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She also does traditional oral storytelling in women's circles and events, bringing centuries old stories to life … around fires, in circles and to those who need an old story to show them a new way.
Sarah is a frequent keynote speaker, guest on talk shows and literary festivals and a contributor to magazines internationally.
She is an MC who hosts book launches and conferences.
She lectures in personal narrative fiction at MA level.
Publications Sarah has been featured in include:
Elle Decoration (UK, Greece, Germany, South Africa), Women’s Health, Men's Health, Marie Claire, House and Leisure
House and Garden, Business Day, Business Day Wanted lifestyle supplement, New Media Publishing (freelance lifestyle writer and reviewer for a few of their custom titles), The Guardian (UK), Mail & Guardian, The Times, The Good Weekend, Fair Lady, Femina, Your Baby, Horizons, CNBC, eNCA, Cape Talk, SABC.
She was the former personal finance editor at the Mail & Guardian, radio news editor at Business Day radio and had a 10 year career as a magazine publisher and editor.
She currently thriving and lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her two adult children, and runs writing retreats in breathtaking locations around the globe.
Sarah's expertise and heartfelt care are a rare find. I highly recommend her services as a writing coach and literary agent and am very grateful to have found her.
Colleen-Joy Page Author The Apple Tree and The Wisdom Well Way
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Sarah's Books
Hey Baby! The Hip New Mom's Guide That's All About You. (Penguin Random House, 2005).
Romance 101 -How Your Relationship can Survive your Children and Other Passion Killers (Penguin Random House 2007)
Write your Book in 100 Days! Stop Mucking about and Write it, with Kate Emmerson and Sarah Bullen (Quickshift Publishing 2020)
Love and Above! A Journey through Shamanism, Coma and Joy (NB Publishers Tafelberg, 2022)
Sarah Bullen started out as a financial journalist at Euroweek UK and moved up through the cadet ranks to become the personal finance editor of the Daily Mail and Guardian, launch editor of NetAsset, editor of Business Day online and news editor at Business Day Radio. She moved out of newspapers and radio, and into magazines working as an editor and features editor for a series of glossy lifestyle titles, then group editor of a larger publishing stable. She launched a publishing company Gas Publishing with co-publisher Gary Cotterell in 2003 and published a series of custom print and online titles for clients including Mini, BMW, kulula.com, The First Rand Banking Group and Standard Bank. She was a director in Traffik, a cutting-edge digital content agency and that produced television content.
She produced the investigative documentary The Baby Business in 2003 for the SABC with director Beathur Baker and the documentary is shown at antenatal classes both locally and abroad
Hey Baby! The Hip New Mom's Guide That's All About You. (Penguin Random House, 2005).
Romance 101 -How Your Relationship can Survive your Children and Other Passion Killers (Penguin Random House 2007)
Write your Book in 100 Days! Stop Mucking about and Write it, with Kate Emmerson and Sarah Bullen (Quickshift Publishing 2020)
Love and Above! A Journey through Shamanism, Coma and Joy (NB Publishers Tafelberg, 2022)
Sarah Bullen started out as a financial journalist at Euroweek UK and moved up through the cadet ranks to become the personal finance editor of the Daily Mail and Guardian, launch editor of NetAsset, editor of Business Day online and news editor at Business Day Radio. She moved out of newspapers and radio, and into magazines working as an editor and features editor for a series of glossy lifestyle titles, then group editor of a larger publishing stable. She launched a publishing company Gas Publishing with co-publisher Gary Cotterell in 2003 and published a series of custom print and online titles for clients including Mini, BMW, kulula.com, The First Rand Banking Group and Standard Bank. She was a director in Traffik, a cutting-edge digital content agency and that produced television content.
She produced the investigative documentary The Baby Business in 2003 for the SABC with director Beathur Baker and the documentary is shown at antenatal classes both locally and abroad
