by Susanne | Mar 1, 2022 | Writing life
So what are you gonna do about it? First, how much do you know? What details can you tease out? Where did she live, when did she live, how old was she when all that interesting stuff was happening…. And then, if it were my great grandmother, I’d start digging into...
by Susanne | Feb 21, 2022 | Writing life
It’s taken me a lot to get to this point. I’ve been a published author for over fifteen years, and I became an Author Accelerator Certified Book coach in early 2020, just before Covid hit. At that time, when coaching was all new, I thought I should split...
by Susanne | Aug 22, 2021 | Book marketing, Publishing business, Writing life
I’ve been making some courageous decisions about my books lately. The most recent of them was deciding to get a good audiobook made of my forthcoming novel, The Portraitist: a Novel of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. She Writes Press will publish the paperback and...
by Susanne | Jul 17, 2021 | Book marketing, Research, Writing life
The first two volumes of my trilogy, The Orphans of Tolosa, came out within a year of each other in 2019. My original plan was to publish the final volume, Voices in the Mist, in 2020. That turned out to be wishful thinking. I had no idea of the long road I would have...
by Susanne | Jun 13, 2021 | Book Coaching, Reading, Writing craft, Writing life
It has been a long time since I’ve posted here. Yes, I’ve been busy. But it’s more than that. A lot going on both personally and professionally. Right now I should be rehearsing the live webinar I’m giving on Tuesday that’s related to my...
by Susanne | Feb 5, 2021 | Random thoughts, Writing life
It’s been far too long since I wrote a blog post. Every time I decided I should start one over the last few months, I found an excuse not to. I can’t really explain my recent relative silence. Yes, the flurry of promotion for The Paris Affair sapped me a...