Suzanne James

My husband is handicapped. He will soon be in a wheel chair. It changes how you look at the world. We have already made plans to move our bedroom to the main floor. He loves his jeep, but we’ll soon need to get a handicap accessible van. We’ll probably go for a full sized one, […]

It is monday morning. I am one of those people who find Monday a hard day to handle. It is so quiet. The kids are at school. My husband is recouping. It is a great day to write, but I rarely feel inspired.
I find that my best writing times are Thursday and Friday. I also […]

Do you send your teens to youth retreats? You should. Mine goes on 2 a year and he is always pumped and animated when he comes back. He just returned from one at a local university - full of stories.
We were able to share two hours while he told me how the security guards made […]

I use to be caught in the DIY trap. I believed that because I was a writer, and because I was a graphic artist with experience in the magazine business that I could make my own logos, business cards, etc. Then a friend who just left New York offered to make me a logo.
Well - […]

Do you have any idea what the world’s biggest commodity is? If you are a writer and want a great topic to include in your story - you should? How can you build great novels without understanding the world you live in? There are amazing things to write about in your own home, in your […]

My friend Anne had her first public speaking engagement today. She IMed me and said that she was scared silly. It was a small gathering at a library, only 30 minutes, but she thought it was much longer. I laughed with her. I remember some of my speaking engagments.
I know that promoting books can be hard. […]