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 | Jul 17, 2020 | Podcasting, Publishing business
I’ve been thinking about podcasting for many months. I haven’t done anything about it until recently because I’ve been so busy with other things, and I wasn’t up for another learning curve. That all changed when I attended Jenny Blake’s...
by Susanne | Mar 2, 2020 | Writing craft, Young Adult
I’ll be honest: my young adult historical fiction has mostly had lackluster sales. In fact, after my editor left my YA publisher, no one seemed very interested in continuing to work with me. So at that point I returned to writing adult historical fiction—which I...
by Susanne | Feb 9, 2019 | Publishing business, Writing life
Something great will happen in a couple of months. Something I honestly didn’t think I’d ever see. The first volume of my medieval trilogy will be published by Bellastoria Press! That is big news for me. This is a project I’ve worked on (with breaks)...
