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Susan Breen

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SUSAN BREEN is the award-winning author of The Fiction Class and the Maggie Dove mystery series. She is the 2024 winner of the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition. She is especially honored to have won the Westchester Library Association's Washington Irving Award for "readability, literary quality, and wide general appeal."

Her new novel, MERRY, is about Charles Dickens, dogs, family, London, vacations gone wrong, love, guilt and books. Not in that order.

Susan teaches novel-writing at Gotham Writers in New York City. You can read more about her, and download many wonderful things, at
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Susan Breen I force myself to put something on the page. It might be awful. It probably is awful, but it's less awful than a blank page.…m´Ç°ù±ðI force myself to put something on the page. It might be awful. It probably is awful, but it's less awful than a blank page.(less)
Susan Breen Thank you for asking, Barbara! One of the things I love about mysteries is that they are usually about people trying to make sense of their lives. Wha…m´Ç°ù±ðThank you for asking, Barbara! One of the things I love about mysteries is that they are usually about people trying to make sense of their lives. What are the rules and what happens when the rules are broken? I was drawn to writing about a woman struggling to understand her own life who becomes a detective when one of her Sunday School students, now a grown man, is accused of murder. She knows he didn't do it, but in order to figure out who did it, she has to examine her little village more closely. She also has to figure out what sort of person she's become. It took me about a year to write. (less)
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June is going to be a busy month for me because Maggie Dove is released on June 14, 2016. To celebrate that, my publisher has arranged for an on-line book tour. The sites are listed below. Please check them out. They look fabulous!

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“She had been trying to be honest with him, thinking her honesty would be winsome and that he would come to rescue her family, forgetting what she later learned as a writer: that to be honest is to open yourself up to people thinking you're crazy.”
Susan Breen, The Fiction Class

“Her descriptions will be incandescent, perfect little nuggets of phraseology, and there will probably be lots of sex in her writing - the clinical type of sex with labias and clitorises and tongues going everywhere.”
Susan Breen, The Fiction Class

“It was almost 3:00. Two hours until dinner and six hours until bed. Not that she was regimented. “It’s too much, isn’t it? I knew I shouldn’t ask.â€� “Hold on,â€� Maggie said. “It’s just I was surprised.â€� “You’ll do it, then,â€� Helen Blake gushed. “Would you really? That would be such a help. I would owe you for the rest of my life.”
Susan Breen, Maggie Dove

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Jeannie Faulkner Barber Hi Susan and thanks for adding me to your Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ list. If you have time, I'd love for you to visit my web site, . I'm a novice writer so feel free to make any kind of suggestions, ideas or thoughts to correct it. I’m co-authoring a novel with Patty Wiseman, another friend on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. We’ve known each other for over 30 years. While you're there, please sign the guestbook, too! There’s also a link to our book you can click on…c[email protected]. This site is brand new and in the editing stage as is our story. Please visit it as well. We’re both very green, but we’ve met so many people on this site willing to reach out and offer advice or a guiding hand, we feel very blessed.
Thanks,
Jeannie



Daniel
Susan, I've added your book The Fiction Class to my to-read list.


Michele thanks for the ad susan Looking forward in talking with you soon. Michele Marchetti



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