Susan Van Kirk
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What’s a Nice Author Like You Doing in a Novel Like This? by Jenny Dandy
Readers who know me—recent acquaintances, long-time friends from college—have been making comments to me that usually contain some variation of “but you seem so nice…how do you come up with these characters, these scenarios?” Where do bullies like Philippe,...
Pantsers and Protagonists by Cathi Stoler
When it comes to writing my novels, I’m a pantser—someone who doesn’t plot out the whole story but writes by ‘the seat of their pants’ as they work out how things will evolve. However, there is one thing I’ve always done first, which is find my protagonist. And, for...
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And the Publicity Begins …
Although A Death at Tippitt Pond comes out June 15, I’m already beginning to set up promotion for this mystery. Events, like book talks and signings, will be posted on the “Events” tab on the website front page. I’ll be doing either interviews or posts online at these sites:
5/27 “What’s Your Process” essay at Mystericale
June TBA a Q & A at Dru’s Musings blog
June TBA Q & A at A Blue Million Books
June TBA Q & A at Map Your Mystery
6/12 at Writers Who Kill an interview with E.B. Davis
6/14 a guest post at Mysteristas blog
6/15 Book Launch location TBA
6/24 New Release Mondays at Judy Penz Sheluk’s website
7/11 Jungle Red Writers guest post
8/13 Wicked Cozy Writers guest post
and more to come …..
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About Me
Susan Van Kirk is a writer of short stories, mysteries, and a creative, non-fiction memoir about teaching. Her first mystery, "Three May Keep a Secret," was published by Five Star/Cengage in the fall of 2014. A novella about her detective, "The Locket: From the Casebook of TJ Sweeney," released in spring, 2016, only as an ebook. Five Star published the second novel in the series, "Marry in Haste," in the fall of 2016. The last novel of the trilogy, "Death Takes No Bribes," came out the following spring. Her new mystery, "A Death at Tippitt Pond," will be released June 15, 2019 from Encircle Publications. A high school and college teacher for forty-four years, she has always been interested in mysteries since she read the entire Sherlock Holmes series at an early age. It was love at first murder, and yes, her parents were worried.Currently, she is writing a new book which should be finished in the fall of 2017, and she spends her time between the small town of Monmouth, Illinois, and the large city of Phoenix, Arizona, where her three children and nine grandchildren live.
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