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Linda Suzane lives with her husband of almost 40 years, her daughter and husband, her grandson, 6 cats and one old stupid dog in a very small town in rural Oregon.

Writing has been a passion for as long as she has been married and creating worlds in her imagination even longer. Her biggest success as a writer until the advent of the Internet and eBooks was working as a ghost writer for a couple of late night real estate gurus. She always got a big kick out of seeing the guys holding up the book that she had written and saying, "When I wrote this..."

In 2000, she began exploring Internet publishing and soon had a book, THE MURDER GAME, accepted for publication. The fact that the company went out of business before the book was published didn't deter her. It was soon accepted by another publisher. In the meantime she finished two other novels, EYES OF TRUTH and CAPTIVITY: DARKHOUR VAMPIRES, both of which were accepted for publication. 

Dedicated to ePublishing, she started taking classes on web design and Internet business. She was soon creating her own websites.

Interested in eBooks and vampires, she turned that interest into a column at Suite101.com, Vampire eBook Authors. She really enjoyed getting to know many of the vampire authors and their books. She then established www.e-Vampires.net as a site to explore all the vampire fiction available on the web. 

In 2002, a slip in the bathtub brought on problems with arthritis and chronic pain, which lead to a severe depression. The pain medication and the depression made it impossible for her to continue writing. For almost two years, she struggled to regain what was lost. Slowly the depression lifted and she managed to gain some control over the physical problems and was able to cut back on the pain medications. With those changes, her ability to work and to create slowly returned.

She feels very lucky, for despite her health problems, her books were published and continue to sell. EYES OF TRUTH was even reprinted in Romanian. Because of her site, www.playmurder.com and her novel THE MURDER GAME, which is about a murder mystery game designer, she was approached by www.host-party.com to provide murder mystery games. Her mystery game Killers International has been a best seller. For the first time in many years, she will actually be reporting a profit to the IRS.

She has started  writing her column for Suite101again,. Recently she had the chance to interview Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Suzy McKee Chanas. She has also been working on updating e-Vampires.net, discovering just how many new vampire books have been published in the last two years. An avid reader of mysteries and vampire novels, she now has quite a collection of reviews at  www.MidnightBlood.com. She has finished an expanded version of Killers International and is working on several more murder mystery games. She even started work again on the second vampire novel in the Darkhour Vampire series.

"I have a ways to go yet to catch up with what two years of downtime cost me. I look at some of the writers who were just beginning to be published when I started and I am amazed at how many books and stories some of them have published now. I have seen my books published as eBooks and in print, but I haven't been able to spend any time promoting them so the sales have been very poor. There is so much to be done. So much writing to do.

But I give thanks for every day that I am able to sit down at the computer and work. Having known so many days when I despaired that I would ever be able to again pursue my one passion, I rejoice in the ability to strive once again toward my goals. To write is an ability to be treasured "

                                                                                Linda Suzane
                                                                                March 8, 2005

 

Interviews 

bulletSuite 101 - Oregon - Interview with Sue Barton, March 27, 2001
bulletTwilight Times - Interview with Lida Quillen, February 2002
bulletSuite 101 - Vampire eBook Authors - Linda Suzane, Fantasy Author, February 19, 2002
bulletTwisted Tales - Interview with Annette Gisby, February 2002
bulletSuite 101 - Mystery and Suspense Reviews - Interview with Lori Ham Part 1 April 16, 2002
bulletSuite 101 - Mystery and Suspense Reviews - Interview with Lori Ham Part 2 April 23, 2002
bulletSuite 101 - Vampire eBook Authors - Linda Suzane Vampire Author Revisited, July 12, 2002

 

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