by Susan Van Kirk | Jun 2, 2018 | Blog
So, what do writers do when they aren’t writing? They read. Currently, I’m working on my own new mystery and sending out the last one to publishers. However, I also must keep up with my reading, both in my genre as well as with books outside the mystery realm....
by Susan Van Kirk | Dec 15, 2017 | Blog
If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were alive today, he would be 158 years old. The fact that his creation, Sherlock Holmes, is alive in the twenty-first century in newly minted versions on the screen and in books, is a testament to the lasting power of Doyle’s amazing...
by Susan Van Kirk | Nov 5, 2017 | Blog, Susan Van Kirk
Recently, I went to a local jeweler because prongs that held the stone in a cherished ring needed tightening. I have worn this ring every day for decades, and while it isn’t valuable in the financial sense, I love it because my parents gave it to me on my sixteenth...
by Susan Van Kirk | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog
In my earlier years when I taught an occasional Shakespeare play at Monmouth High School, I used to enjoy explaining to my students the origin of the saying, “It’s raining cats and dogs.” In the era of the British thatched roof and William Shakespeare, a homeowner...
by Susan Van Kirk | Mar 1, 2017 | Blog
Recently, I recalled one of the lows of book writing in a local newspaper: the many rejections an author faces. In this column, I am balancing that up with the joys. One of the high points of writing a book with a publisher is seeing that final book delivered...
