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Pandemic Blurbs

September 25, 2020 Susan

Last August I did a post about several books I had been asked to write blurbs for. (You can read…

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Posted in: Book Blurbs, Book Reviews, Publishing Filed under: book blurbs, children's Christmas books, Conversations With Grace, inspirational, Joe Palmer, Juliane Haycox, Koehler Books, literary fiction, Rebecca Bruff, Stars of Wonder

Summer Reading Has Begun

June 16, 2019 Susan

Hello, readers! It’s halfway through the month of June and I’ve only got two “summer reading” books to report on.…

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Posted in: Book Reviews, Orthodox Christianity, Spirituality Filed under: book reviews, Casey Cep, Furious Hours, Harper Lee, Lights on the Mountain, literary fiction, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Christians

Writing on Wednesday: Change is in the Air

January 13, 2016 Susan 2 Comments

  Just over three years ago one of my many query letters for my novel, Cherry Bomb, caught the attention…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: commercial fiction, indiei presses, literary agents, literary fiction, novels, publishing, writing

Writing on Wednesday: Escaping Purple Prose: Literary Fiction Revisited

October 9, 2013 Susan 4 Comments

About a year ago, I did a post about literary and commercial fiction. I continue to think about these categories,…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: commercial fiction, Jack Smith, literary fiction, revision a novel, Write and Revise for Publication, Writers Digest

Writing on Wednesday: Holding the Chaos of Our Lives at Bay

May 29, 2013 Susan

In his wonderful blog post on Monday, my friend Lee Martin, wrote about “The Necessity of the Beautiful Sentence.” He…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: A Time to Kill, commercial fiction, Dan Brown, fiction, Inferno, Jane Friedman, John Grisham, Lee Martin, literary fiction, Porter Anderson, The Firm, Writing on the Ether

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