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March 20, 2020
Resilience Dispatch – March 20th – Day 2
Today I’d love for you to share with us where on this beautiful planet you are located, and perhaps what your situation is, e.g. a teacher home from school, a health care or essential services provider, working from home, retired, taking care of kids or grandkids, etc.
Here’s mine: I live outside of Asheville in the Blue Ridge...
November 7, 2019
Daisy’s Fortune is here!
Did you love The Secret Sense of Wildflower and Lily’s Song? If so, the final book of the Wildflower Trilogy is here.
Daisy’s Fortune has been a joy and an honor to write. I discovered the fictional McAllister family in 2002 when I first heard Wildflower’s voice in the middle of the night and she began telling me her story. I had...
January 25, 2019
Signed autographed bookplates
Something for YOU, sweet readers, as a way to say thank you for reading my books:
If you would like to have an *autographed* copy of one of my books, but you ALREADY own the book, you’re in luck!
I now have bookplates which I can sign and dedicate any way you’d like. They have a peel and stick back so you can put them in your copy of my book....
October 19, 2018
Gullah Secrets is here!
Dear Sweet Reader,
Did you love Temple Secrets? Were you one of the many readers who asked me to please, please, please write a sequel? Well, I heard you and for 
the last two years, I’ve been bringing Old Sally, Queenie, Violet, and Rose back to life just for you. Like many of you, I love these characters, so it was a delight to...
October 28, 2017
Top 10 Persistence Quotes
Dear Ones,
The pursuit of anything meaningful in our lives requires persistence, especially our creative endeavors. I have been writing for 22 years and have published several novels, three of them bestsellers on Amazon and Nook. A large part of my success as a writer can be summed up in one word:
I’m not sure why I am able to persist when...
January 31, 2017
72 Things to Do During Anxious Times
In our modern world, it is easy to feel anxious with the constant barrage of news and information that saturates our days. Many of us are discovering the need to calm ourselves and take a break from the seemingly unending things to worry about.
With this in mind, yesterday morning I sat at my favorite local coffee shop (having a cup of tea) and...
January 7, 2017
Sneak Peek into my Life as a Writer
Happy New Year! Many of my readers have told me they’re interested in my life as a writer, so I decided to share with you some highlights of 2016.
• January 29 & 30 – Temple Secrets reached #1 bestseller on Amazon & Nook
• January – Incorporated my writing business
• January-February-March – final revisions and proofing Lily’s Song (sequel to The Secret Sense of Wildflower )
• Feb. 16 – Formed Gabriel’s Angels, my early review team. (Sending love and gratitude to all my Angels who are receiving this!)
• Feb. 18 Harper Lee died :-(
• March 22 – Lily’s Song published
• April through Sept. – Worked on final revision and proofing of Trueluck Summer
• April 24 – Met with St. Timothy’s Book Group and discussed The Secret Sense of Wildflower.
• July 6 – Featured interview in Southern Writers Magazine
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• July 9 – Lily’s Song audiobook available, professionally narrated by actor Holly Adams (my first professional audiobook)
• Aug. 9 – Met with Lake Lure book club and discussed Temple Secrets
• Oct. 18 – Trueluck Summer published
• Fall 2016 – Wrote the beginning pages of the third book in the Wildflower trilogy and the sequel to Temple Secrets
• Sept. – Hired Holly Adams to do the Temple Secrets audiobook. Available early this January!
After 22 years of writing, this is only the second year I have written full-time, without also doing freelance editing or teaching. This would not have been possible without you!
Whether you discovered my books recently, or you have been a fan for a while, I am very grateful that you are reading and enjoying my books.
I hope 2017 brings you good books, good friends and a few delightful surprises.
Warmly,
Susan
P.S. My goals for 2017 include finishing a first draft of the third and final book in the Wildflower trilogy, as well as the sequel to Temple Secrets.
Susan Gabriel, Author
to see post on my blog go to: https://www.susangabriel.com/writers-...
Sneak Peek into my Life as a Writer
Dear Reader,
Happy New Year! Many of my readers have told me they’re interested in sneak peek into my life as a writer, so I decided to share with you some highlights of 2016.
January 29 & 30 – Temple Secrets reached #1 bestseller on Amazon & Nook
January – Incorporated my writing business
...
August 3, 2016
Part 2: Interview in Southern Writers Magazine
In my last blog post I told you about my interview in Southern Writers, the July/August anniversary issue of the magazine, and shared with you the first question I was asked on the interview.
Below is the second question I was asked, followed by my answer. At this point, most of my stories take place in the southeastern United States (mountain...
July 6, 2016
My Interview in Southern Writers Magazine
Dear Ones, I was invited to do an interview in Southern Writers magazine this month. It was great fun to be interviewed about my southern roots and the southern themes in my work, as well as my writing process.
Susan Reichert (Editor-in-Chief) and Annette Coleman Mastron (Communications Director) of the magazine did a great job with the...
