by Susan Van Kirk | Apr 3, 2016 | Blog
The whirring noise of the bricks when our car’s tires turned from Losey Street onto Kellogg Street is still in my head after all these 69 years. Those bricks are gone now, as is the home where I grew up. The hospital across the street from 692 North Kellogg bought...
by Susan Van Kirk | Mar 16, 2016 | Blog
My novella is up on Amazon.com at their Kindle store. It can be pre-ordered, and will be delivered on April 10. In the meantime, I thought you might like a preview of this story, set in 2011 Endurance, but concerning a cold case that goes back to the 1940s. Unlike the...
by Susan Van Kirk | Mar 9, 2016 | Blog
Since my novella, The Locket: From the Casebook of TJ Sweeney, comes out as an e-book, it doesn’t have a back cover for the plot description. Instead, I’ve included that description on an interior page shortly after the title page. A sneak peak, one month...
by Susan Van Kirk | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog
Do you see the mistake I made in writing this conversation? (Marjorie) “Here. I pulled a few photographs out to show you. ‘Course, they’re all black and white.” She set a small stack of photographs in front of TJ [Sweeney]. “That’s Frank.” TJ stared at a...
by Susan Van Kirk | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog
Here is a first look at the cover for my upcoming novella. The Locket: From the Casebook of TJ Sweeney will be out April 10 as a Kindle book on Amazon. It is a novella featuring the Endurance Police Department detective. ...
by Susan Van Kirk | Feb 10, 2016 | Blog
Although both my parents are gone now, I remember them talking about the nights they danced at the Roof Garden on the Weinberg Arcade. Those were magical years, dancing to the songs of the Big Band Era before my father went off to World War II. The story of how the...
by Susan Van Kirk | Feb 2, 2016 | Blog
“Back then, people were just crazy about dancing. My brother was seven years older than me, and he taught me all the dance moves—especially the jitterbug.” These are the words of 88-year-old Ruth (Kemmitt) Pecsi who was kind enough to answer her phone when a perfect...
by Susan Van Kirk | Jan 18, 2016 | Blog
Sitting at my desk in mid-January, I observe my window thermometer resting at five degrees above zero. That’s actually a little better than early morning when I took the recycling out to the end of the driveway and the mercury reported two degrees below zero. If I had...
by Susan Van Kirk | Jan 15, 2016 | Blog
The American Cancer Society predicted 49,700 colon cancer deaths in 2015. Statistically, only 40%, four out of ten people, are diagnosed early when treatment can be successful. Even so, we know that if this disease is caught early, the survival rate is 90%. Why...
by Susan Van Kirk | Jan 4, 2016 | Blog
Novellas are becoming very popular. This is particularly true since the advent of digital-age publishing. More and more e-book readers are opting for novellas that cost anywhere from 99 cents to $2.99. They can be read quickly in one or two sittings. Writing a novella...
