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Hi, I'm Sarah Flocken

I write books with unhinged plots and real human emotion. My debut novel, BE WELL, is coming out in June 2026.

Coming June 2026

BE WELL

In recession-ravaged 2009 Los Angeles, new college graduate Ann Ward takes increasingly desperate measures to avoid moving back to her desert hometown, where her televangelist father looms large. Along the way, she is drawn into Sagebrush, a holistic wellness collective and maybe-cult. What could go wrong?

If you love stories that manage to skewer both wellness culture and megachurches while following a “disaster girl” protagonist flailing into adulthood during the weird years of the late 2000s, this one’s for you.

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Reviews of My Writing

In lieu of actual reviews, because I don’t have any of those yet, here are some thoughts about my writing from friends, fellow writers, and book people.

“A- prose, A+ human.”

Yennaedo Balloo

Author, The Spectacular Seraphim Versus the Fame Monster

“I’m going to read this novel the same way I watch Amanda Bynes strut her way through the unhinged 00’s classic She’s The Man: full of admiration and quivering with vicarious embarrassment.”

Emily Smith

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“Only one explosion? And it was metaphorical? Hard pass.”

Seth Hansen

Author, Thief in the Snow

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