Your book is out! Now\, what once was your greatest dream suddenly feels like your biggest nightmare. Join Sara Fuji mura\, 2025 STBF Illinois Author Project Contest winner\, as she walks thr ough her proven three-step interconnected marketing system that teaches de but authors&mdash\;and seasoned authors\, too&mdash\;how to grow their bus inesses exponentially with the least amount of work. Let&rsquo\;s work sma rter\, not harder\, authorpreneurs!
\nSara Fujimura (Foo-gee-moo-rah ) is the American half of her bicultural Japanese-American family and spen ds about a month each year in Japan. She started as a journalist\, so it i s no surprise that Sara&rsquo\;s young adult books contain a lot of facts to go along with the fiction. Whether you want to know about Japan (TANABA TA WISH)\, the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 (BREATHE)\, what it&rsquo\;s l ike to be an Olympic-caliber skater (EVERY REASON WE SHOULDN&rsquo\;T)\, o r how unscripted television works (FAKING REALITY)\, Sara takes readers on swoony journeys to unusual places. She is a creative writing teacher and literacy advocate who is excited to support the next generation of authors . If you go to anime cons\, you may also see Sara as her alter ego\, The O bento Lady. She is an active member of SCBWI and the Chicago-North Romance Writers.
\nEVERY REASON WE SHOULDN&rsquo\;T was named an NPR Best B ook of 2020. Her little indie\, pandemic book BREATHE\, was chosen by Illi nois librarians as the winner of the 2025 Soon-to-Be-Famous Illinois Autho r Project.
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