Happy Holidays!
Susan Breen is the award-winning author of both mysteries and “book club” fiction. Her new novel, MERRY, published by Alcove Press, was recently featured in People magazine. Her short story, “Olga Popova,” won the 2024 Margery Allingham Prize for Short Fiction.
Susan is also the author of the Maggie Dove mystery series and the novel, The Fiction Class, which won a Washington Irving Award from the Westchester Library Association.
Susan teaches novel-writing at Gotham Writers, and she’s also on the faculty of the New York Write to Pitch Conference. She lives in an apartment alongside the majestic Hudson River with her husband and two fluffy cockapoo dogs. Her three grandchildren are her treasures, along with her three children and their partners.
Susan is a busy writer, teacher, and presenter.
Stop by and say hi at one of her events!
This Month Behind the Scenes
June has been a month of plotting and thinking for me. I’m working on a new novel, which means I have to think about who the characters are and what they’re going to do. It’s a bit like working on a puzzle, except there’s no box to look at to tell you what it’s going to look like when you’re done. But this is the part of writing I love most, because anything is possible. Dream big!
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious
as laughter and good humor.”