Suzanne James

What does romance mean to you?  My husband and I have been together for 10 years. Tonight I went into the bedroom to get a book and ended up being tickled until I begged mercy. Earlier he brought me a coffee from my favorite coffee shop. I’ve been working hard lately and he thought I […]

Do you have a favorite book or author? I have books that I fell in love with when I was a child. I purchased a second addition of Anne of Green Gables. I also own several diaries written before 1900. I love reading these books, not to see how different life was back then, but […]

My last couple of posts explored darker topics than I normally blog about. A couple people have asked what types of things you’d use to write a dark story. Not all monsters need to come from a nightmare.
Take this story on the divorce rate in North America. It turns the fact that divorce in the […]

Have you ever realized how you evolve as you grow older. At one time I laughed at the propaganda behind the publishing industry which painted authors as eccentric people traveling through life on a different level than the rest. I looked at myself in the mirror and saw a mother, student, business owner, wife, friend, […]

I have a lot of people act shocked when they hear that I have a dark side. Others do not. They see beneath the veneer through my stories which always contain a war, abandonment, betrayal, pathogen epidemics.  As sweet as my stories are, they are not fantasy.
I write horror stories for podcasts under a pseudonym.  […]

Writers are always asked to find conflicts for their stories. Well, today I paid the month’s bills. I’ve often thought that identity theft or going to your bank account and finding that you didn’t exist would be a great conflict for a book.
 More devastating was the look on my son’s face when my drink spilled […]