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  • A Sample Story From My New Collection

    September 5, 2009

    • The Man Who Talked to the Sea              He stands by the hour on the edge of the beach, staring at the sea.            He stands near the water’s edge, in the roar of the breaking waves, his eyes scanning the horizon or focused on a single point, or gazing at a cloud.            He sometimes paces up and down the little patch of beach, his eyes still ...
  • Review Essay on "The Angel's Game" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    July 18, 2009

    • Anyone first introduced to the impassioned prose of Carlos Ruiz Zafón through his international bestseller, The Shadow of the Wind, will find it difficult to avoid comparing it to any follow-up to the novel. Where Zafón's latest release in English, The Angel's Game is concerned, that is both a good thing and a not-so-good thing. It is also inevitable because page by page and chapter by chapter, ...
  • paperback writer

    April 27, 2009

    • MAY NEWS FROM SUSAN WIGGS“…you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable / And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table / No one can find the rewind button, girl / So cradle your head in your hands / And breathe... just breathe…” – Anna Nalick, “Breathe(2am)”In this Issue... In stores now! JUST BREATHE, out for the first time in paperback!Watch the Just Breathe ...
  • Back to the library...and what reading three books at a time can do to the mind

    April 7, 2009

    • Having finished To Kill a Mockingbird, I returned to the library and picked up two new books to read.  These two will be read simultaneously with Whoever Fights Monsters (my current read).  I have never read either of the authors before, but I made a promise to myself that I would try some different authors (and get out of my comfort zone of favorites).  The first, Nuclear Winter Wonderland, ...
  • Short Fuses - Who was to blame?

    April 3, 2009

    • Dan Holloway was once, in the same year, officially the most intelligent person in the world and the fourth best discus thrower in Oxford. The quest for “a storyline that makes sense” has, sadly, taken its toll on both of these.Sean Cunningham is a criminal vandal/sheisty supervillain, currently in hiding from the governments/policemens. He does not have a pet cat, but if he did it would wear ...
  • complaint department

    February 7, 2009

    • (image from wikimedia commons)Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to post nasty reviews on Amazon. The same person used 4 (and counting) different names to give poor Fireside 4 low ratings. I’m very flattered by the attention!Three of her fake personae were invented just to trash Fireside. The other has posted nasty reviews for Madeleine Albright, Condoleeza Rice, Bill Clinton, labor ...
  • going to the ends of the earth

    September 12, 2008

  • new book on the shelves

    August 21, 2008

    • Finally, I can stop holding my breath! Just Breathe has had a long and winding road to publication, and I’m grateful to readers everywhere for their patience. Now I’m proud to say the book is finally in stores (August 26). This is a story straight from the heart about one woman’s shattered dreams and newfound hopes. Comic strip artist Sarah Moon discovers that unexpected change can be ...
  • a dream weekend...

    January 29, 2008

    • Readers often tell me they wish they could visit Willow Lake, because it's such a beautiful place in my books. Well, thanks to my publisher, here's your shot. They're giving away a 3-night vacation package at the historic Sagamore Hotel on Lake George. Please check out this press release about the contest:BESTSELLING AUTHOR SUSAN WIGGSAND MIRA BOOKS INVITE ONE LUCKY READERTO EXPERIENCE THE BEAUTY ...