From the Compost Heap header. A pencil style illustration of a compost heap with flowers and plants growing around it. A bee buzzes by and a white rabbit hops by.

Entwined & Ember Book Launch! 🌿

Entwined and Ember books on a table with a teal green typewriter and library style drawers. Entwined has a collage cover with mother and child and hand illustrated vines. Ember has a burned wood texture on the cover.

This week I’ve been soft launching two books that I’ve been working on for six years. I crowdfunded these books last spring and have been working on this project since I was postpartum… that’s been six years. It feels like I’ve finally given birth to twins.

Here’s a bit about the books.

Scroll down for more behind-the-scenes goodness. I probably have enough here for whole email campaign, but I’m sending it one email.

Entwined ebook mockup on iPad

Entwined is an anthology of creativity & motherhood weaving together stories from mothers in United States, Mexico, Canada, England, Qatar, and M’chigeeng First Nation. Every mother has their own creative ecosystem. By sharing our stories we hope to inspire you to entwine creativity and motherhood in your own way.

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Ember: an art journal for parents. The cover is a burned piece of wood layered with transparent white paint.

Ember is an art journal companion to the Entwined anthology. It presents a variety of creative prompts (writing, observation, ideating, dreaming, and making) to help parents kindle their creative sparks. There are two versions Ember for Parents & Ember for Mothers.

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It’s an art journal with no blank pages.

Here’s a peek inside.

You can now buy Entwined & Ember in hardcover or paperback.

Free PDF ebooks are available to anyone experiencing financial hardship.

And a number of paperbacks have been donated & can be claimed here.

Tiny toddler hands reaching toward keys on a vintage typewriter

Resources for Creative Parents

I spent the first two years of parenthood reading everything I could about parenthood and creativity. I still couldn’t find the book I was looking for so I wrote my own – a massive manuscript that became two books and two art journals.

Click here to browse my research rabbit holes.

The Five Six Year Origin Story

Read the five year origin story of Entwined.

Mother Maker Manifesto first draft typed document with giant bulldog clip holding pages together.

Meet the Contributors

Click here to read the book launch blog hop. Watch the crowdfunding video below for clips of some of the creative parents involved.

Ways to Support drawing of a white rabbit hopping into flowers

If you’d like to support this indie book project here are some ways to get involved.

  • Leave a review! (This is the best way to help these books reach more parents. Even if you didn’t buy on Amazon that is the best place to leave a review. If we reach 100 reviews we get an algorithmic bump!)
  • Buy or donate a copy. (If you’re not a parent you can gift a copy to a friend or donate a copy to a parent in financial hardship. If you would benefit from a free copy yourself you can claim one here.)
  • Tell a friend. (Share this post directly with a parent who would enjoy these books.)

You can also, of course, subscribe for monthly zines. This month’s zine is about neurodivergent boundaries (which you can read for free online.)

Thanks so much for your support!

Cheers,

Sarah signed with a swoopy S

P.S. For those of you who backed my picture book project – it is also nearing completion. Here’s a peek at one of the illustrations in progress by the talented illustrator Gracie Klumpp.

We are aiming to release How it Feels to Me in Spring of 2026.

Illustrated spread featuring a rainbow infinity symbol and characters who appear to be scientist, artist, astronaut and comedian.

Cross Pollinate 🐝