It’s been an eventful (not fun) few weeks in my non-writing life which required writing to be put on the back burner to care for myself and my family. In unrelated yet just as devastating news, I seem to have angered the gods of Amazon and all books have been purged from the behemoth. They …
Post NaNo Slump
The crash after the rush. NaNo this year was a challenge. For those who don’t know what it is, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, a self challenge to write a 50K word novel in the thirty days of November. There is a huge community surrounding this challenge and I’ve made several life long friendships …
It’s like Living In A Novel – Sadly Not A Romance
The past 20 months have felt like we are the characters in a book where the author is telling the tale of the transition from pre to post apocalyptic times, this is one of the crisis points. We’ve had fires We’ve had supercell storms We’ve had floods I think Mother Earth is trying to tell …
I Got The House!
The view is mine! More writing delays, but also a lot more motivation to get the next books online. Mama needs a new snow blower 🙂 Maybe There’s More is finished and just going through the edit process now. It will be up for sale by the end of the month. Sarah learns that the …
(Hopefully) My New View
So, it’s been a busy week. Even though I wasn’t really ready to buy a house back east, I went to the bank to see if I had any options. He basically handed me money and said go for it. (Kids, make sure you do what ever you can to maintain good credit! It may …
More Ideas Than Time
So, life is getting in the way and a move across the country is moving from maybe to definite. (Cue the panicked look around my cluttered office when I realize I’m going to have to start sorting the piles of papers) Stupid me, put the cart before the horse and I saw an amazing …
Advice For New Writers
I’ve been pretty active on Twitter (@susanlyn_author) and Instagram (@susanlynauthor), trying to engage people in my brand of crazy. I’m not wild, posh or daredevil, in fact, in real life I’m awkward AF. There seems to be a common question, especially on Twitter, “What advice would you give new writers.” 1) Writing takes practice. Which …
Doing A Dance Of Joy
It’s beginning to look like I’m an author. A legit author. Sure I haven’t made enough cash to buy a yacht yet, or even a car… or much more than a few coffees at Starbucks, but I haven’t lost hope. Every month bring more sales as I get my name out there. I know I …
Lesson Learned The Hard Way
Let me be a cautionary tale. My alter-ego, who writes YA paranormal, adventure romance, put her novel, Hiding in Plain Sight on Amazon for presale prior to its relaunch. Then she made an error when she put the wrong upload-manuscript deadline date in her calendar. Big mistake. Huge! Amazon doesn’t like author’s violating the presale …
New Glasses
All the better to see you with… Nice abs!! I was due to get new glasses last year and well, Covid. So I finally got my butt down to the optometrist to have my eyes tested. My new specs came in today and all I can say is wow. Seriously, wow. I’m not sure how …