It’s time to put a little Thriller into My Book Therapy. No, we’re not going to dance (yet!) but it’s time we catered to the NON-romance author/readers of this blog. Yes, we know you’re out there, and you’ve been ever so patient last year as we talked about Romance. Hopefully, however, you learned a few applicable romantic secrets anyway. This year, oh suspense writers, is for you. This year, on MBT we’re going to spend a year On the Edge, examining the craft of Suspense. As fair warning, we will veer into how to weave romance into yoru suspense for a week or two, should we have those out there who want to straddle the fence. Still, the focus this year will be on the framework, suspense […]
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About Susan May Warren
Former Russian Missionary Susan May Warren is the best-selling author of more than 40 novels and novellas with Tyndale, Barbour and Steeple Hill, and Summerside. A Christy award and RITA winner, and multiple finalist for the RITA, Christy and winner of Inspirational Readers Choice contest, Susan currently has over a million books in print. A seasoned women’s events speaker and writing teacher, she is the founder of http://www.mybooktherapy.com an online community for writers, and runs a fiction editing service teaching writers how to tell a great story. Visit her online at: http://www.susanmaywarren.com.Author Archive | Susan May Warren
How did I get started?
I`ve been thinking about becoming a writer when I finish school, and I was wondering how you got started. I think a writer has to be two things from the get-go – a lover of stories, and someone who is committed to working hard. I was the kind of girl when I was young who would pedal her bike to the library and spend the entire day reading…I loved stories and getting lost inside another world. As I turned my sights toward writing, I looked at the kind of books I read, and tried to figure out why they worked, or didn’t work, and my favorite part about them. Then, I began to write. And this is the hard work part. I wrote and wrote – for myself, for […]
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Q: What made you become a writer? A: I think a true writer can’t stop writing. They love words, and stories, and the way they sing together. I have been a story teller since my early days (just as my mother!) and have always loved a great tale. But I have also loved to read, and not just novels, but poetry. I love to weave a passage together to evoke a mood in a narrative piece, to write songs and poems, and how language can make us laugh out loud, or even cry when used correctly. I have to write stories like a singer needs to sing, and a chef needs to cook. I can’t NOT write, and even if I’m not writing…I’m writing. Or at least working […]
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Q: Was difficult to get your foot into publishing? A: The publishing world can be extremely difficult break in to – at can seem as times as if there might be an invisible wall…however, it’s not as difficult as one might think. It’s all about perspective. Early on, Dee Henderson, who is one of my favorite writers, told me that the best thing I could do to get published was to write all sorts of things, for anyone I could, for free, if I had to. So, that’s what I did – I started with my newsletter, (we were missionaries in Russia) and then I went on to a newsletter for my organization, then devotionals, then magazine articles, then novellas for contests…until finally, my writing had improved enough to catch the […]
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