Susanne Dunlap
Award-Winning Author
Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach
I work with authors one-on-one to help them write the best books they can. Whether you’re at the very beginning with an idea that won’t let you go, stuck in the middle and uncertain how to take the story forward, or starting a revise and feeling thoroughly daunted, I have tools and a process designed to help you achieve your writing goals.
From the Blog…
Audiobook Adventures
I've been making some courageous decisions about my books lately. The most recent of them was deciding to get a good audiobook made of my forthcoming novel, The Portraitist: a Novel of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. She Writes Press will publish the paperback and ebook on...
Medieval Measurement: Time
I pride myself on doing my research thoroughly and efficiently—as my course, Rein in Your Research attests. Yet the one topic I always have to investigate again and again when I write novels set before the 17th century concerns measurement. Many of the units and types...
The Long Road to VOICES IN THE MIST
The first two volumes of my trilogy, The Orphans of Tolosa, came out within a year of each other in 2019. My original plan was to publish the final volume, Voices in the Mist, in 2020. That turned out to be wishful thinking. I had no idea of the long road I would have...
Of reading, writing, and coaching
It has been a long time since I've posted here. Yes, I've been busy. But it's more than that. A lot going on both personally and professionally. Right now I should be rehearsing the live webinar I'm giving on Tuesday that's related to my coaching, but somehow I want...
Music and Wintering
It's been far too long since I wrote a blog post. Every time I decided I should start one over the last few months, I found an excuse not to. I can't really explain my recent relative silence. Yes, the flurry of promotion for The Paris Affair sapped me a bit. And with...
Publication Day for THE PARIS AFFAIR!
Yes, it's finally the day! The book is available everywhere books are sold. This is the third in my Theresa Schurman historical mystery series. That makes it an actual series (a first for me). Here's what it's about: Apparently, false rumors are all the fashion in...
On Re-Discovering A Room of One’s Own
There it was. A lovely, brand new edition, lying on the shelf of the first bookshop I’d been able to browse since the beginning of the pandemic. I’d just ambled up from an outdoor brunch, iPad in tow to do a little writing, reveling in the glorious early fall day and...
One Month to the Launch of THE PARIS AFFAIR
These days, I'm so busy it hardly seems possible that I'll be able to launch The Paris Affair on September 29th. I was thinking I would reflect today on what it means to launch a book in this strange time of COVID-19. For, even though I was already working from home,...
Podcasting is fun. Who knew?
I've been thinking about podcasting for many months. I haven't done anything about it until recently because I've been so busy with other things, and I wasn't up for another learning curve. That all changed when I attended Jenny Blake's 3-hour webinar, The (HE)art of...