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STORYWORTH: A Treasured Gift

June 27, 2022 Susan

STORYWORTH I rrecently eceived an incredible Mother’s Day gift from my daughter, Beth. It was beyond creative and right down…

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Posted in: Essays, Family, Memoir, Writing Filed under: essays, family memories, memoir, Storyworth

Día de los Muertos

November 1, 2021 Susan 2 Comments

Day of the Dead Today, November 1—and evidently also tomorrow, November 2—are the days set aside by many to celebrate…

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Posted in: Holidays, Southern Writers on Writing, Spirituality Filed under: Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos, Dirt Death and the Divine, essays, Nashville Tequila Festival, River Jordan, River Jordan author, Southern Writers on Writing, University Press of Mississippi

Nonfiction

November 27, 2019 Susan

Why doesn’t it have its own name? This past Sunday, November 24, I was “in conversation with” the author Sonja…

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Posted in: Religion, Spirituality Filed under: essays, icons, literary genres, nonfiction, Sonja Llivingston, statues, The Virgin of Prince Street, Virgin Mary

The Editor

April 30, 2019 Susan

My first title for this blog post was, “A Day in the Life Of,” but at the last minute I…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: anthologies, Ashley Hasty, book reviews, editing, essays, Hasty Book List, publishing, short stories, Steven Rowley, The Editor

VOTE for a Book Cover for FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY! And . . . Herding Cats . . . again!

April 23, 2019 Susan

For those of you who know me, you know that I like to have several balls in the air at…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: anthologies, book covers, essays, Friends of the Library, herding cats, Koehler Publishing, The Pulpwood Queens, The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years!

Book Deal #5: The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years!

February 13, 2019 Susan 2 Comments

News flash for any of my readers who aren’t on Facebook or Instagram: I have a book deal for my…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: anthologies, book clubs, Brother Mockingbird Publishing, essays, Kathy L. Murphy, Pulpwood Queens, Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend

The End of the Affair (?)

November 15, 2018 Susan 4 Comments

I thought that when I quit drinking in September of 2017, that it was the hardest thing I’d ever done.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alaska, Anne Lamott, eating disorders, essays, fasting, Hershey's milk chocolate, Hersheys Kisses, Louisiana, Louisiana Book Festival, Nativity Fast, Navigating Disaster, Orthodox Church, poetry, Sheryl St. Germain, St. Nikolai Velimirovich

Peaches!

August 11, 2018 Susan

Finally! I’ve been looking for good peaches all summer, and a few days ago the produce guy at Miss Cordelia’s—the…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Eat Drink Repeat, essays, peaches, The Shoe Burnin' Anthology: Stories of Southern Soul

Southern Writers on Writing: Sneak Previews 2

February 28, 2018 Susan 2 Comments

Last week I shared some sneak previews from a new anthology I edited, SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING, coming from University…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: anthologies, Cassandra King, Corey Mesler, essays, Harrison Scott Key, Patti Callahan Henry, southern literature, Southern writers, Southern Writers on Writing, University Press of Mississippi

The Big Reveal (for 2018)

November 29, 2017 Susan 2 Comments

After such a banner year (publishing 3 books in 2017) I’m excited to say that my fourth book will be…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alan Lightman, anthologies, Ed Croom photography, editing, essays, Faulkner, Jane Friedman, Margot Kahn, Oxford Mississippi, Rowan Oak, Southern writers, Southern Writers on Writing, University Press of Mississippi

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