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 | Jul 17, 2021 | Book marketing, Research, Writing life
The first two volumes of my trilogy, The Orphans of Tolosa, came out within a year of each other in 2019. My original plan was to publish the final volume, Voices in the Mist, in 2020. That turned out to be wishful thinking. I had no idea of the long road I would have...
by Susanne Dunlap | Apr 15, 2018 | Research
It seems every day, even when I’ve thoroughly researched a subject or a person and am in the middle of writing about it or her, a simple session of Internet research turns up new sources and resources that at the very least enrich, at the most reinterpret what...
by Susanne Dunlap | Apr 1, 2018 | rewriting, Writing craft, Writing life
I wonder how many readers think that writers just sit down and pour out a story onto the page, that maybe with a few little edits and tweaks the story that first goes on the page is the one that ends up in the published book. Sometimes that’s the case....
by Susanne Dunlap | Feb 2, 2018 | Editing, Writing life
How do you know when you’re finished? How do you know when it’s time to let go of your manuscript and send it out, either to beta readers or to your agent or to querying agents? Because let’s face it: every time you look at it you will find something you want to...
