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The author Sarah Vigue came to Jesus just as she was, surrendering to Him with her very own version of the sinner’s prayer and passionate candor. The funny and awkward, born again talks fast and thinks even faster. Explore the world through her eyes at sarahvigue.com.

Additional Routes:
Go straight to her Facebook and take the detour with the funny little fork in the road. Stay left. Pop on over to Twitter for a spell and be sure not to miss LinkedIn. It makes for a good final destination. If you’re up for it, you can take a gander around Instagram – it’s no tourist spot but you might like what you see. Rest at Pinterest.

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Sarah Vigue has authored and received awards for multiple writing projects including the cover story “No Fish” in Shortcuts, the Norton Women’s Society Award for excellence in memoir Essay, and the long-form colloquium, “The Rape of Grace.” With two degrees in English and Comparative Literature, she loves examining literature, which serves her well during Bible and theological studies.

Sarah came to Jesus just as she was, surrendering to Him with her very own version of the sinner’s prayer and passionate candor. The funny and awkward, born again talks fast and thinks even faster. In 2005, Sarah started publishing short stories and grants for groups and publications she rarely names and has since ghost written and blogged for a few celebrities she’s not allowed to name. Find out more at sarahvigue.com.

Additional Routes:
Go straight to her Facebook and take the detour with the funny little fork in the road. Stay left. Pop on over to Twitter for a spell and be sure not to miss LinkedIn. It makes for a good final destination. If you’re up for it, you can take a gander around Instagram – it’s no tourist spot but you might like what you see. Rest at Pinterest.

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Award-winning author Sarah Vigue carries with her multiple writing projects including the cover story “No Fish” in Shortcuts, the Norton Women’s Society Award for excellence in memoir Essay, and the long-form colloquium, “The Rape of Grace.” With two degrees in English and Comparative Literature, she loves examining literature, which serves her well during Bible and theological studies.

After a difficult corporate layoff in 2008, Sarah embraced the world of digital marketing and took up product writing about prairie dog look-a-likes in Wonder Women bikinis (available for $8.99), bedroom furniture (including walk-in wardrobes) for small animals, and writing desks for Shih tzus.

As an in-house writer and marketing project manager, Sarah made the decision to take on writing and marketing full-length books to her portfolio. She continues to support freelance writers and first time authors new to the digital literary world.

She no longer works at monitoring web forum behavior and community engagement. It resulted in unsuccessful attempts at developing incarcerated writers into productive artists. They seldom took their work seriously and spent the majority of their time writing about how to hide cigarettes in typically hidden body parts. Additionally, learning to make alcohol in prison (from ketchup and cans of Del Monte fruit hidden in prisoners’ toilets) failed to achieve even mediocre interest with publishers and, well, most of humanity.

Sarah went on permanent sabbatical when her co-workers and friend (some of which are now former friends) expressed concerns when she brought up her new interest in smoke ring blowing and trying flavored chewing tobacco. She had heard that snuff would put hair on her chest and grew interested.

For fun, Sarah has run with the Olympic Torch (2001 Salt Lake City Olympics). She has written non-fiction such as memoir, magazine and newspaper articles, catalog copy, e-newsletters, case studies, and e-books – all published in various professional publications. Her fiction includes short form like poetry and prose. She credits her two Bachelors’ for allowing her to write with such versatility but research for giving her zany topics to explore without getting bored and to write without getting stale.

The funny yet serious author started publishing several mediums for several industries in 2005: Ghost written short stories, grant writings and online articles are all under her belt in addition to her full-time 9 to 5 jobs. Though Sarah is not permitted to name some of the groups for whom she has written, there are far fewer she allows herself to name like that pro basketball player who needed her to create his favorite childhood memory. To learn more about the author, visit sarahvigue.com.

Additional Routes:
Go straight to her Facebook and take the detour with the funny little fork in the road. Stay left . Pop on over to Twitter for a spell and be sure not to miss LinkedIn. It makes for a good final destination. If you’re up for it, you can take a gander around Instagram – it’s no tourist spot but you might like what you see. Rest at Pinterest.

LONG/EXTENDED BIO

Acclaimed writer Sarah Vigue has authored various writing campaigns, literary works, and individual assets throughout the last two decades. From being the featured short story “No Fish” in Shortcuts to several financially successful essays, she has written both long and short form, digital and print, fiction, and non-fiction. Because two B.A.s in English and Comparative Literature seldom cause the bat of an eye, Sarah scaled to the demands of rent, car, and school loans and became neither a jack-of-all-trades nor a king of none. Sarah became a queen of quite a few.

With a love of analysis, implementing and fixing things, and people with chubby cheeks, she learned to wrangle creative projects and marketing collateral and how to keep both individuals and small tribes of children from recreating “Lord of the Flies,” even during Sunday school at church. When Sarah grew tired or writing for peanuts and suffering from a dramatic corporate layoff in 2008, she focused her love of strategy a comparative thinking on the digital marketing side of the corporate world.

Luckily, this led to the unforgettable experience of writing about a myriad of pet products: Small dogs perked in an upright position, sporting their Wonder Woman bustiers and matching bottoms, a commercial grade tire inflator for horses that came with no directions forcing Sarah’s hand at inventing a highly ineffective way to clean horse hooves (but hey, she could have created far worse scenarios for that blow hose couldn’t she?), hardwood wardrobes and walk-in closets for shih tzus, princess blonde Goldilocks wigs that only came in XXL for German Shepherds, and sexy beach attire, no doubt so dogs and owners could better relate to one another. Honestly, the white lab in the string bikini looked like she was trying way too hard. It’s irrational to think that a flat, hairy chest could possibly pull off such a daring look. But it’s hard to judge a dog’s fashion faux paw when you spent an entire day wearing a duct tape tube top bra that gave you a uni-boob simply to see if the contraption would be a good undergarment.

Beyond copy writing and marketing project management, Sarah revived a long-held desire to create novels and other full-length books. Getting her feet wet in eBooks, Sarah wrote about highly technical topics like laser triangulation and its use for more precision alignment. With her love of learning and a knack for adaptability, Sarah pulled her teams into the digital world whether they wanted to learn it or not. This led to some mentorship opportunities and experiences that made Sarah even more multi-faceted, much to the shock of polite society and, well, snobs. Learning how to laser align catheters, probe bowling bowls to write case studies, and read insurance claims for fraud created a wacky mind with a wild sense of adventure.

Sarah’s A.D.D brain thrived on the stimulation that came from inmates learning how to write magazine-style articles. She grew fond of regaling people with the prisoners’ stories, though she learned that many of the stories and topics were quite limited and occasionally inappropriate. Who knew? Sarah did learn a modicum of diplomacy via explaining to writers, like one proud aunt celebrating her nephew’s ability to hide entire cartons of cigarettes within his person, that their “current content is interesting but limited and in need of further development.” To squelch her growing interest in cigars and flavored chewing tobacco, Sarah moved on to mentoring special needs writers.

Growing up in households of abuse, poverty, and mental illness undoubtedly marred Sarah. However, being sidelined from much of life via debilitating, chronic neck and back pain, Sarah desperately & unwittingly reached out to friendly and helpful New Agers. Desperate and finding some pain alleviation, Sarah became certified in reiki (much to her embarrassment now!) and slipped into a few other New Age/Occult practices that were bizarre and dangerous.

The author came to Jesus just as she was, surrendering to Him in her very own version of the sinner’s prayer and passionate candor. With the Lord’s help, Sarah pulled herself up by the bootstraps and fought against the repercussions of being in the Occult. Her success was also due in part to the Church. With the ecclesia and Bible studying, Sarah threw caution to the wind. She turned from the ways of the world and turned to the Holy Spirit, asking God to be the father she never had and to make life less of a struggle with only ephemeral rewards. The next day, Sarah had her born-again experience and started walking with the Lord like Enoch.

The evolution of literary examination in Sarah’s life changed as well and has shaped a passionate adventure where Sarah explores how one should live in light of gleaned biblical truths and ponderings. This is precisely how “Christian underwear” became a tagline for how she lives her Christian faith and a symbol for being prepared when you are in the world but not of the world.

When her body is cooperating with her, Sarah delights in group exercise classes (barre and pilates) and theology class with a bunch of guys who love Jesus the Messiah as much as she does. Running with the Olympic Torch in 2001 looks good on a resume, but learning that she, according to the Bible, is a saint and that this interactive, relationship with Jesus stuff is real is a far bigger accomplishment for Sarah. Being “biblically anchored and Spirit-led” are her daily routines along with taking multivitamins and trying to arrive somewhere on time.

This quirky lady continues to work in digital marketing and has added fundraising for non-profits charities to her repertoire. She consults with companies on their digital presence but prefers her full-time 9 to 5. Of course, spending time walking through a forest or with her people are her true passions but a girl has got to make a living doesn’t she? Visit sarahvigue.com to learn more about the author.

Additional Routes:
Go straight to her Facebook and take the detour with the funny little fork in the road. Stay left. Pop on over to Twitter for a spell and be sure not to miss LinkedIn. It makes for a good final destination. If you’re up for it, you can take a gander around Instagram – it’s no tourist spot but you might like what you see. Rest at Pinterest.

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