by Susanne Dunlap | Apr 16, 2023 | Dual Timeline, rewriting, Writing life
If you’re on my email list or following me on social media, you’ve already heard me going on about dual-timeline novels, about how much I love to read them and marvel at the skill it takes to write one. Where is all this coming from? I think two places: 1....
by Susanne Dunlap | Mar 27, 2023 | Publishing business, Writing life
Yes, it’s a lot. And no, I’m not a writer who is used to creating books in that amount of time. So how am I doing it? Basically, all three of the books that have come out or will come out in the 15 months since last August have their origins much further back in my...
by Susanne Dunlap | Jan 6, 2023 | Writing life
This is, of course, the opposite advice than is often given to young writers. But it occurred to me from a chance comment by someone on my email list that this is exactly what I do—in a way. It’s not that I write from ignorance, exactly. Perhaps it would be...
by Susanne Dunlap | Dec 30, 2022 | Writing life
Cast on 28 stitches. Size 19 needles. Knit one row. I had to throw so much yarn away before I moved, thanks to the moths. Alpacas and merinos that would have felt soft and warm as they slipped through my fingers and grew row by row into something, anything. Blues and...
by Susanne Dunlap | Dec 4, 2022 | Writing life
This is a question I’m asked from time to time by inexperienced writers, who are—quite naturally—concerned that they’re not seen as copying another author or idea, or are afraid of having someone else copy theirs. I say “quite naturally,”...
by Susanne Dunlap | Nov 10, 2022 | Book Coaching, Editing, Writing life
The peculiar thing about writing a book is that sometimes you don’t know where the idea for it came from. Other times you can trace it exactly to something you saw, heard, read, researched, etc. But whatever spawned the idea, something about it made you feel as if you...
by Susanne Dunlap | Oct 31, 2022 | Book Coaching, Writing life
One of the things I do that might make people think I’m a little crazy is that I rewatch my favorite series, over and over again. It’s partly for comfort and reassurance: I know how things will turn out in the end, and during a tough year, that’s...
by Susanne Dunlap | Oct 12, 2022 | Reading, Writing life
I moved into an apartment in an old mill building in Biddeford, Maine in February of this year. Although I have a daughter, grandsons, and a brother and his family who live in Portland (twenty minutes away), I knew no one in this town. I stayed in touch, of course,...
by Susanne Dunlap | Oct 6, 2022 | Book marketing, Writing craft, Writing life
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by Susanne Dunlap | Jun 21, 2022 | Book Coaching, Writing life
My twelfth historical novel, The Portraitist, is coming out with She Writes Press on August 30 of this year. It’s a book I’ve been working on in one form or another for seven years. I’ve also written and published novels within the space of a single year, usually...
