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Welcome!
I am thrilled you have found my website and hope you will take the time to explore my pages. Thank you! Below are some photos from the Port Arthur Historic Site, here in Tasmania – the inspiration for my first full-length novel.
Welcome!
Christmas 2024 has been and gone and here it is mid-January 2025. I don’t have a word for this year to focus my attention and growth but I do want to focus on trying to be the person I want to be. Sounds cliche, doesn’t it, but nonetheless, something I need to focus on this year. When I am overwhelmed or starting to see more darkness than light, I tend to numb out to the world around me. I am well and truly old enough to know myself, but life events this past year have highlighted I need to know myself better and work harder to keep the light bright. You don’t need to know all the gory details, but one thing that has really helped is editing my book and then getting feedback from my editor (Go Susan Mackie of Small Town Publishing).
Here we are in mid-January. I have had my book edited and formatted, and it is currently back with my cover designer (Go Lara at Lara Wynter Designs) who is doing the print wrap. My book-baby is also with some critical friends and I wait with baited breath for their feedback. Then it will be off to the printers to get my author proof and, all going well, it will be published in late February. Not ideal timing as it has to work around our 40th Wedding Anniversary holiday up in northern Queensland for two weeks the first half of February. I know, 40 years!
I am thrilled with how Raven’s story has ended up. The story took me places I never expected and went far, far, far, from my outline. I was worried at about 40,000 words I would have another novella, but before I knew it, I was at 50, then 60, 70, 80, and finally at 93,000-odd words. The 6″x9″ inch final book is 366 pages… quite a book!
Raven and I have a busy schedule of research to do for this next one as the secondary plotline hit me hard while gazing out at our cloud covered hills. I have a lot of work to do on my social media sites pre-publication, so as they say, no time like the present. I look forward to hearing from you anytime and you can join my Newsletter list by completing the Contact From on my About page.
Cheers for now,
Susanne.xx
Although not all book sellers are linked to the code below for my novella Familiar Unspelled, please check your favourite book store to get a copy.
