Suzanne James

I’ve heard authors talk about having a story spill from them as if it really happened. I’ve never had it happen that way. For me, stories are usually grow like my orchids. I carefully nurture for months, adding and carefully tending to the roots. Then one day ‘boom’ there is an amazing show of color […]

The Irish cob style horse that Calum would have given Gillian in the story would have been much smaller and stockier than his war horse, which was probably the foundation of today’s Percheron horses,  The Destrier.
 
 Whether her stocky little horse could have won a race across the Scot mountain glens is not hard to imagine. The […]

A couple months ago my computer system crashed. Because I had moved to a new town, I took my computer to a new repair technician.  An appalling $250.00 later, my computer was returned to me.  As I scanned down the list of tasks they had performed, I could not see one thing that I could […]

I support all forms of public expression. One of the most amazing, and rewarding is wikipedia. I feel that writers should be responsible for maintaining the collective intelligence. After all, isn’t that the history of the storyteller?

I think one of the hardest parts of being an author is balancing it with parenting. I have a very active teen boy and a young lady who both want my time. Sometimes it is hard to find time to write. I remember reading that Julie Garwood wrote in the morning before her children rose.
I […]