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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

The Index

October 24, 2017 Susan

My fourth book—Southern Writers on Writing—will be released by University Press of Mississippi next May. I’m editing this one, and…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alan Lightman, creating an index, editing, essays, index, Southern, southern authors, Southern Writeters on Writing, University Press of Mississippi

Pilgrim Interrupted

July 28, 2017 Susan 2 Comments

I’m putting together a collection of personal essays with the working title, Pilgrim Interrupted. Many of the essays have been…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: addiction, adoption, Alzheimers, anthologies, art, caregiving, editing, essays, mental health, Pilgrim Interrupted, publishing, sexual abuse, spirituality, writing

Four Book Deals in One Year: A Journey in Independent Publishing

June 28, 2017 Susan

Just a quick note to say I’m excited to have a short piece in the July/August issue of Southern Writers’s…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be, anthologies, Cherry Bomb, essays, novels, publishing, Southern Writers Magazine, Southern Writers on Writing, Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer's

So Y’all Think You Can Write

February 17, 2017 Susan 4 Comments

Four months ago today I queried University Press of Mississippi for an anthology I wanted to edit—So Y’all Think You…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: anthologies, essays, Southern writers, University Press of Mississippi

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