by Susanne | Oct 6, 2017 | Editing, word use, Writing craft
I try to be tolerant and not too pedantic when it comes to the way people use the English language. Colloquialisms are totally fine, weird punctuation, etc.—especially in quickly dashed off social media posts. But when I see something repeated misused in mainstream...
by Susanne | Oct 3, 2017 | Publishing business, Writing life
I’m fortunate to live in a great community where there are many serious writers. One of them is Jane Yolen, inspiring, hard-working, award-winning author of books for children and young adults. She posted the following on Facebook this morning, and it is such a...
by Susanne | Oct 2, 2017 | Random thoughts, Soul searching, Writing life
I rarely get asked that particular question, although I’m often asked “Why did you write this book?” I think the answers to the first question partly answer the second: I write because if I didn’t I wouldn’t know what to do. I write...
by Susanne | Sep 22, 2017 | Publishing business, Writing life
It’s a question I get frequently when I bemoan the fact that I haven’t had a book published in five years, despite writing several that I (and my agent) think are good and worth publishing. [Full disclosure: I did put two e-books of unpublished manuscripts...
by Susanne | Sep 19, 2017 | Early cinema, Research
I was never a true aficionado, but I’d watched my share of silents: D.W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin etc. While doing research for my two existing (unpublished) novels that take place around 1910 in New York, I was astonished to see just how much...
