“48 PEAKS” Launched!
The baby that took me 13 years to birth is now out in the world. Bless Porter Square Books, for all they [...]
My Interview on “It’s All Write With Suzette”
I was all dressed to go, having had my outfit approved by my good friend Meg, when I got a message from [...]
Win a FREE print copy of my book!
Goodreads is offering a giveaway of ten free print copies of my forthcoming book, 48 PEAKS, Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains [...]
First Author Interview
I was recently interviewed for cable and YouTube, my first interview as the author of 48 PEAKS, Hiking and Healing in the White [...]
Negotiating the Contract
Once you’ve found a publisher, you’ll need to negotiate your contract. The contract itself can be intimidating (trust me, I know). It [...]
Technique for Revision
As you may already know, I’m revising the first draft of a memoir. Since my return home from a three-week writer’s residency, [...]
Surprise Ending
Do you ever dream about your teeth falling out? It’s such a common dream you can look up various interpretations on the [...]
Just Past Mid-Way
I’ve chopped off the Prologue from my first draft and chucked the beginning of the book. I’ve begun the first chapter in [...]
Sculpting A Book
When last heard from, I was cross-country skiing and trying to spy within the marble of my 1100-page manuscript, a book, the [...]
Fourth Day Away
I’m at Vermont Studios Center an artists’ residence, in Johnston, VT, for the month of February. This is the first writer’s residency [...]
On My Way
Big Blue is packed, gassed up, tires pumped and ready to go. Me, too. We leave Massachusetts and head north, way north, [...]
Can’t Wait to Go
Upcoming Writer’s Retreat Last spring when Vermont Studios Center wrote to say they were awarding me a Writer's Grant to come to [...]
Take Me Away
I recently started a book—I won’t tell you yet which one—chosen by a book group. The work was non-fiction, a history/biography kind [...]