Susanna
After decades of technical and content writing, this old white hippie has just published Drowning in Deception, an edgy cozy mystery. Happy when I can wear shorts and a tee shirt every day. #SinC / Guppies Member. https://susannasullivan.com
- #AmReading: ELUSIVE by Sara Rosett. Zoe Hunter gets caught up in an international pursuit after her ex-husband Jack's business partner is murdered and Jack drowns in a fast-moving river - a big change from copy editing and dog walking. susannasullivanauthor.substack.com/i/186810441/... #mystery
- [1/2] If you were browsing in a bookstore, which of these would catch your eye and encourage you to look inside the book? Why? (or why not? A: Lily Gallagher can’t wait for retirement. After 40 years working twelve-hour shifts as a nurse, rest, relaxation, and . . . #AmWriting #bookblurb #mystery
- Are there a lot of network issues today, or is it my connection???
- [1/2] If you were browsing in a bookstore, which of these blurbs would encourage you to look inside? Why (or why not?) A: A dead body in the community pool. Too many secrets. Welcome to your Florida retirement. B: When Lily Gallagher finally trades . . .
- Update on DROWNING IN DECEPTION and Chords of Deception (coming soon). You can apply to be a beta reader! open.substack.com/pub/susannas...
- What a difference 2 minutes makes! #fullmoon
- This little excerpt from AN UNLIKELY STORY gives you an idea of Agatha's personality. She's smart, she's sassy, she's brave, and she only steals from (or cons) those who deserve it. buff.ly/6JOw1gE #AmReading #mystery
- #AmReading: MURDER AT THE MAYFAIR HOTEL by CJ Archer. [1/2] Cleopatra Fox is trying to adjust to a brand-new life after the death of the grandmother who raised her. She doesn't really fit in with her new family, her mother's sister, husband, and two adult children who buff.ly/MP31Xuw #mystery
- #AmReading: AN UNLIKELY STORY by Gina X Grant. Short stories fill in the gaps in the life of smart, sassy criminal Agatha Shadewell. Learn about: ➡️ Agatha's family ➡️ Agatha's betrayal ➡️ The FBI agent who chases her for decades ➡️ People she helped ➡️ And lots more buff.ly/KulX2Bu #mystery
- It was interesting -- the longer I waited, the less antsy I felt. It was a strange cultural lesson. #CulturalDifferences #Panama #WritersLife #AmWriting open.substack.com/pub/susannas...
- Just in case anyone thinks the #WritersLife is glamorous, let me tell you there's nothing glamorous about spending hours and hours trying to fix an email issue when all the tech companies involved point the finger elsewhere. The good news is, I think it's fixed. (Crossing fingers.)
- [1/2] Last week I had the pleasure of attending a concert by Panama's Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in the Iglesia (church) Santa Librada in Las Tablas, the town my husband and I lived in for several years. They opened with the 1812 Overture, and the drummer was REALLY getting into it, dancing ...
- Wise Words is back! After a hiatus, there's a new word puzzle in this week's Substack. Check it out at susannasullivanauthor.substack.com/i/185120165/... The challenge: to fill in the blank with the more appropriate word, FLAIR or FLARE. #AmReading #AmWriting #mystery #CozyMystery
- Every week on my Substack I highlight a quote I've recently come across in my reading. This week, they're all about using the sense of smell to describe abstract concepts! buff.ly/4Q2TxAF #AmReading #AmWriting
- #AmReading: THE FAMILY VAULT by Charlotte MacLeod. 1st in the series featuring Sarah Kelling. Sarah's life is complicated enough before the body of a stripper is found in the family's private vault near Boston Common, then more deaths follow. What's a young widow to do? buff.ly/MclZaHp #mystery
- #AmReading: MURDER IN CHRISTMAS RIVER by Meg Muldoon. 1st in the Christmas River series. Cinnamon Peter has a lot going on -- recovering from divorce, winning the annual gingerbread house competition. She doesn't need to find a dead body behind her shop. buff.ly/txcHzRp #AmWriting #mystery
- Oh, look -- DROWNING IN DECEPTION has an average 4.4 star rating on Goodreads. . . It's available in KU if that interests you. . . See link in bio. . . #AmWriting #DrowningInDeception #mystery
- It's been an interesting week here at my writing retreat. I've been forced to spend ridiculous amounts of time dealing with a tech issue instead of writing. Frustrated much? open.substack.com/pub/susannas...
- And now, would the letter E please step up . . . These are the books I read in 2025 with series names starting with E. ➡️ Emilia Walsh Cozy Mysteries by Abigail Scott ➡️ Emma Langley by Emily Organ @moronova.bsky.social You can find all 260 titles at buff.ly/M5F3mto
- Absolutely brilliant, especially this paragraph: open.substack.com/pub/lisemccl...
- [1/3] I recently published a list of all the #fiction books I read in 2025. There were 260 of them, mostly #mystery with a smattering of other types. Here's a peek -- this is just the book series I dipped into that begin with the letter D... buff.ly/ROTrU8Q #AmReading #AmWriting #cozymystery
- I really enjoy it when writers turn a trite aphorism into something interesting. Like this -- it was one of the Notable Quotes I featured in my Substack this week. You can see them all, as well as some other good stuff, at susannasullivanauthor.substack.com/i/184360696/...
- They say consistency is key to developing a loyal, engaged following on social media. The last few weeks I have been completely inconsistent. Why? ➡️ Busy ➡️ Traveling ➡️ Having some fun ➡️ Getting settled in to my winter retreat. Expect further inconsistency! TY for your attention to this matter. 🤣
- #AmReading: AN AMBUSH OF TIGERS by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, the last (so far) in the terrific Dr. Nell Ward series of mysteries. Nell and Rav finaly get married, with a multi-day celebration in India. Then it all falls apart. . . [1/2] #mystery #ecology buff.ly/HXNnFlq
- Now that I've wrapped up 2025, it's time to plan for 2026. Which one of these pictures more closely resembles your planning process?? #planning #2026 #AmWriting #mystery open.substack.com/pub/susannas...
- [1/2] Moving right along. . . Series I read in 2025 starting with C. Have you read any of these already? ➡️ Cassandra Bell by Tracy Higley ➡️ Charlie Cooper by Deany Roy ➡️ Claire Baskerville by Susan Kiernan-Lewis #AmReading #ReadingList2025 #fiction #mystery #HistoricalFiction buff.ly/QBUKD1v
- [1/2] Brought to you by the letter B. . . All the series I read in 2025 that start with B ➡️ Baker Street Mysteries by Holly Hepburn ➡️ Belchester Chronicles by Andrea Frazer ➡️ Bell & Tate by Irina Shapiro Here's the whole list. buff.ly/QBUKD1v #AmReading #BookList2025 #fiction #mystery
- Here are just the book series starting with A from my 2025 reading list. You'll find the full list at buff.ly/QBUKD1v ➡️ Amelia Peabody by Elizabeth Peters ➡️ An American in Paris by Colleen Cambridge ➡️ Aromatherapy Apothecary by Kim Davis [1/2] #AmReading #BookList2025 #mystery #fiction
- All the books. . . Here's my list of all the #fiction I read in 2025. It's mostly #mystery, of course, but there are some other genres represented as well. I hope you find something on this list that YOU would love to read! #ReadingList2025 #AmReading #AmWriting open.substack.com/pub/susannas...
- Last night's full wolf moon rising over the Pacific Ocean was absolutely gorgeous. My phone camera doesn't do it justice.
- Best wishes for a very Merry Christmas. May your day be filled with good cheer, good friends, good wishes, and good books.
- Well how's this for a lovely Christmas present? One of my websites is down. Host says it's a DNS issue with the registrar, registrar says it's a hosting issue. DNS is correctly configured at the registrar, so. . . Not what I wanted to spend my day on today, for sure, and no closer to a solution.
- My first Substack in 2025 was a listing of all the #fiction books I’d read that year. I’m putting together my list for this year. Look for it January 7. If you’re looking for (mostly) #mystery fiction, it’ll be a pretty big list! #AmWriting #AmReading buff.ly/2xhK1pA
- Here's another review for DROWNING IN DECEPTION. I really appreciate this one, because I spent a lot of time, effort, and energy creating those characters!! So it's lovely to know a reader found them believable. #AmWriting #mystery #FloridaFiction #EdgyCozyMystery
- In May of 2014, I traveled through New England and upstate New York. My youngest daughter graduated from college in Wheaton, Mass., and my youngest son graduated two days later from RIT. We flew up and rented a car, and did a LOT of driving over a two-week period. We were in [1/2] #ErieCanal
