Hi there. I’m Sarah A. Hoyt. I am a novelist with (I think) twenty three novels out. There might be more, as I haven’t counted recently. I could tell you what genres I write in, but that is liable to change on very short notice.
So far I haven’t written pure romance, hard sci fi or man’s adventure. However my unofficial motto is “no genre is safe from me.” To find out more about what I’ve done to various innocent tropes and subgenres, look under “my books.” Unfortunately my webpage is down right now because younger son was working on it and then something happened.
For more and links to buy my books, look under the “my books” tab, next to this one. All purchases appreciated, because unfortunately writers have to eat and keep a roof over their heads while writing.
I want to request if possible that you don’t leave comments on this page or the “My books” page. To delete any comments but the ones on the main page takes me forever, and I just wasted an hour doing it. Even so, I can’t delete all of them, except one by one. I appreciate “fan letters” of course, and I do answer your requests for help, but it truly is much easier if you just comment on whatever the day’s post is!
According To Hoyt 
What novels in general, including yours, would you recommend for girls ages 10-14 to read about empowered female protagonists who also have kids and families? Asking for my daughters.
LikeLike
I don’t write that young. More 16 to 18
LikeLike
Hi Sarah,
I have read the Shifter series and the Darkship series and thoroughly enjoyed them. However, I just finished re-reading Witchfinder which is better, in my opinion. I am looking forward to the rest of Rogue Magic and The Witch’s Daughter. I think your Magical Empires series could be one of your best! I hope to see more of it soon.
Thanks
Larry
LikeLike
It will get done. Sorry. health and moving took a chunk of time. Things slowly getting in some sort of calm/schedule.
LikeLike
A few months ago, you indicated that you had updated the Kindle edition of Odd Magics. Please ask Amazon to put out notices on your Kindle audience’s personal “Manage Your Content and Devices” book lists that
this update is available. (A reader can then click on the notice to get the updated version.) This seems to be the only easy way for people with earlier Kindle versions of a book to get the current version.
LikeLike
Um…. I’m not sure how to do that!
LikeLike
How to Send Your Updated eBook to Customers or Yourself: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200966010
LikeLike
Can you send to my Hotmail? First two initials, last name thank you
LikeLike
How about selling merchandise that says REMEMBER WACO and RUBY RIDGE
LikeLike
You want to? Go for it.
LikeLike
I was just curious when you were going to start contacting donors about their bennies. I hope the email didn’t go to trash and I missed it.
I’ve been so looking forward to talking to you and have you bash the first 10 pages of “Walden Shock”.
I know I’ll learn so much.
Please tell me I didn’t miss it!
Love2Y’all
mark
LikeLike
Hi Sarah – longtime fan here.
I know you post a bit on Ace Of Spades – specifically links to your weekly book promo – but since I can’t find an email address to contact them I thought I’d mention a problem I’ve been having with access them – in the hope you’d either mention it to them or give me a clue how I can contact the website admins.
I internet using latest OS for the apple iPhone and iPad and several days a week the main page will be loading and partway thru it blanks out and I get a “problem loading page” message. This happens both in safari and chrome. Those days reading more than the first 1 or 2 posts is near impossible. I can of course goto to your according to site to get your promo info but I thought the AoS mods need to know what it’s doing since it’s been doing it for over a year. I suspect it’s some clever coding thing their website is doing thats not so universally supported – since it’s specific to their website.
Any how, if you can either pass that along to them or tell me how I can I’d appreciate. Keep up the good work and be well.
LikeLike
I just heard about you from a brief mention in a Daily Wire video on YouTube. I have been a big fan of science fiction since the 1960s. I read pretty much any variety of fantasy or SF but I especially like hard SF and grand, epic space adventures. I have been reading a lot of Catherine Asaro and Alastair Reynolds recently. Your Darkship Thieves book looks interesting; I’m thinking of picking it up on Amazon. (Note that the link above is broken, though.) I prefer real books to ebooks, though I’m running out of space to pile them up in. They need no batteries, don’t break if you accidentally drop them, and you can get them autographed at conventions. Ebooks are ok if you want to quickly grep for a passage or a name or something.
Best wishes.
— Brian
LikeLike
Sarah, among all the other requests for your help, here is one more. But not for help with writing. I am a (very) old man, and before I fly off this blue marble, hopefully you or one of you supporters can answer a question I have had for decades. Recently there was an article that stirred up memories from when I was a young man and consumed science fiction like pop-corn. Basically the article said that our latest and greatest space telescope had possibly found anomalies in the ways galaxies at the limit of our knowledge should behave if the “big bang” is a correct assumption.
If the “big bang” is right or wrong, my question has always been “where are we?”
What was holding the thing that exploded, what was surrounding it and holding it up? Something can never come from nothing, so how was there anything to go bang? There must have been something to hold or surround the kernel that exploded. Is it still there outside our universe? Is it infinite or is it nothing? If it is nothing, how can we be here? Can anyone define, in a meaningful way, what either of those concepts mean?
I know that sounds like a bunch of psychobable, but I guess it just translates as, is there something beyond our universe, or nothing? If ether one could be proven, it could have profound effects on how we perceive ourselves.
Thanks,
Tommy
LikeLike
Sarah, I read you have trouble with eczema/atopic dermatitis on Instapundit.com. There’s a new product, non-Rx you might try. Some atopics have chronic Staphylococcus aureus colonization which contributes to the severity. GladSkin.com has taken a bacteriophage (virus) directed against S. aureus, cloned off a fragment, so it doesn’t replicate on or otherwise harm humans. It is FDA approved. It also doesn’t affect the other organisms on your skin microbiome.- a major advantage. It is paired with a mild emollient.
I have no financial or scientific interest in this. I do enjoy, as you might as a science fiction writer, the use of a viral component against a common, sometimes fatal skin pathogen. Glenn Reynolds has complained about the absence of phage technology out there. but here it is.
You can contact GladSkin.com for a dermatologist near you who has signed on, or they might send you some directly.
Hope it helps
Bob
LikeLike
I probably don’t have that, because my eczema is dry, not the wet variety lots of people have.
LikeLike
Ok. Even though I don’t have any financial interest in this product, I am a retired dermatologist. If you have bad eczema, you might ask to have a skin biopsy at some time to rule out eczema lookalikes, and at a flare have your doctor do a skin and nasal passage culture for Staphylococcus aureus. Atopic dermatitis is a miserable condition to live with. I had a ten year old boy who was routinely sent home from school because his scratching and moaning distracted other students. I sent him for a research protocol for topical tacrolimus, many years ago. I didn’t recognize him when he came back, he was so much better.
Respectfully,
Bob
LikeLike
I have had it since I was weaned at one.
It seems to be fairly atypical, but I’ve done the rounds of dermatologists and it always comes down to “don’t know what to do.”
steroid cream helps, but sometimes, once every few years it goes nuts and I need pred.
Nothing unusual in skin biopsy. no Staphylococcus Aureus they could find.
It’s just…. what it is. Seems to be part of an auto-immune complex that for me includes asthma and rheumatoid arthritis though the other two are far more under control.
LikeLike
Hi Sarah,
I have a version of eczema that turned up, or became obvious, in the mid-80’s. Finally figured out what the trigger was in the early 00’s. Aspartame, a fake sugar. My basic reaction is for surface ulcers on fingers and toes, which can spread to hands and feet if I consume enough food containing it. The unknowing doctors termed it “dishydrotic eczema”. Normally the spots look like the skin has been removed by a fine sandpaper, and remain dry until it gets so thin that they start to bleed. There were days I wore work gloves all day to avoid leaving bloody fingerprints on everything, which freaks people out.
One of the frustrating facts is that it turns up in foods that don’t officially list it in the contents. My conclusion is that when they run a batch of food containing it through the manufacturing plant, any following normal batch gets contaminated with enough for my immune system to react. I’m guessing that it doesn’t take much to cause a problem, or they are not cleaning between batches, or both.
The only working response, besides the use of corticosteroids if I screw up, is to avoid buying packaged foods that have a version with aspartame, such as sodas.
LikeLike
Daughter number two sent me this with “Why fight it?”
You can actually buy it…
LikeLike
Hello Sarah,
I wanted to reach out and say “Thank you” for your blog.
I have been reading AccordingToHoyt for several years and appreciate the insights. I sent Ol’ Remus of the WoodPile Report a thank you note about the same time of his passing (I do not know if he ever saw it). Nowadays, I try to make a point to reach out to people that have made a positive impact and to let them know. Please keep up the good work, it is good to hear other voices in the wilderness.
If you are ever in Houston, I’d love to take you and the family out for some BBQ with my family. Once again, thank you for sharing your voice and humor with the world. It makes the days go better.
Regards,
– Brian
LikeLike