Ask the Author: Susan Isaacs
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Susan Isaacs
I'm now working on the third mystery in the Corie Geller series. It started with Takes One to Know One and the sequel, Bad, Bad Seymour Brown, will be published on May 2.
Corie is a retired FBI agent � burned out in her mid-30s � who worked in New York's Joint Terrorism Task Force. She and her dad, a former NYPD homicide detective, join forces. Separately, each thought Long Island life would cure what ailed them. But the need for adventure runs strong in both of them, and it's been such fun for me creating danger for them on my home turf.
Corie is a retired FBI agent � burned out in her mid-30s � who worked in New York's Joint Terrorism Task Force. She and her dad, a former NYPD homicide detective, join forces. Separately, each thought Long Island life would cure what ailed them. But the need for adventure runs strong in both of them, and it's been such fun for me creating danger for them on my home turf.
Susan Isaacs
Being able to sit alone in a room and telling myself the story I most want to read...which (unfortunately) nobody else is willing to write.
Susan Isaacs
I talk to myself. Not the usual interior dialogue and crazy ruminations, but out loud. I speak a line of dialogue. In my strongest voice I'll say, "What does she say when Joe Shmoe walks into his own house and finds her leafing through his papers?" Then I force myself to answer � aloud.
It's pushing out what's in my head. Articulation works, as in talk therapy and the rite of Confession (though I'm not a maven on the latter).
Writing is scary. Your work is always better in your head than on the page, and you have to face your own lack of perfection. So get out there and then edit yourself to make it better, and better still. Good luck!
It's pushing out what's in my head. Articulation works, as in talk therapy and the rite of Confession (though I'm not a maven on the latter).
Writing is scary. Your work is always better in your head than on the page, and you have to face your own lack of perfection. So get out there and then edit yourself to make it better, and better still. Good luck!
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