Writing, Wreading, and Wrestling with Words
Susanne DunlapThis is my chronicle of the joys and tribulations of writing fiction, reading all kinds of books and sometimes tearing them apart (in a nice way), and generally working with words. Join the fun!
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Three things I didn't know about self-publishing
I am one of the fortunate minority who has had traditional publishing contracts with Big Five publishers. That was then: between 2005 & 2012.
I was dropped by my publishers when my editors left, and because I was a midlist author with so-s...
History and politics and romance
I make no secret of the fact that I use ChatGPT as an assistant in my fiction writing. In fact, I’m teaching a workshop on how to do so responsibly and effectively on February 17, at noon EST.
This post isn’t a defense of AI, however. It’s...
No, honestly: Happy New Year
I haven’t been posting here a lot lately for a number of reasons. The biggest one is time, of course. I know, we’re all busy. But I find as I get older I have to focus my attention on things that have priority for me, or I get nothing done....
A snippet of my WIP
It's been a while since I've created anything just for my paid subscribers, so here you go!
I’ve been writing up a storm ever since I started in Regency romance. I’ve made a deep study of the genre and of the phenomenon of romance altogeth...
Audiobooks. Opinions please!
First, I love audiobooks. I listen all the time. I buy audiobooks of the physical books I own and love, and I buy e-books of the audiobooks I love. (This last behavior is largely so I can use them in teaching, but still…)
I know there’s on...
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Susanne Dunlap, PhD, is the author of more than a dozen historical novels and an Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach in fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. Today, she lives, coaches, and writes in beautiful Biddeford, Maine.
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