Linda Suzane?
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
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