Fact vs. Fiction For fiction writers who like to use experiences from our own lives or historical events in writing…
Using Your Spiritual Life to Inform Your Fiction I am honored to be asked to lead an online writing workshop…
About the Author Carol Van Den Hende is an MBA with twenty years experience in marketing, strategy, and insights. She…
Nonfiction 23: Fiction 20 This is my third year to compile an end-of-year list of the books I read during…
There’s another writer in the Cushman family. Our son Jason, has always been a writer. Check out his blog,…
It’s been a minute—five years actually—since I organized a writing workshop. Here’s my history with that: 2010 – Co-director of…
Mourning Dove by Claire Fullerton Review by Susan Cushman How fun it was for me to read Claire Fullerton’s wonderful…
This morning I finished reading my 29th book of 2017, New York Times Bestselling Author Patti Callahan Henry’s latest novel,…
I never read Elizabeth Strout’s book Olive Kitteridge. I saw the HBO series and somehow felt a heaviness about it…
A few weeks ago I started a new novel. It’s off to a slow start, for several reasons. For one…