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Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?

Susan Beckham Zurenda I saw a brown car coming at me, crossing the white line edging the road. I pivoted as the car struck my left leg.

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Susan Beckham Zurenda My novel, Bells for Eli, is inspired by a real-life cousin's tragic childhood accident in the late 1950's. The story explores how one misstep changes the trajectory of a young boy's life and creates immense conflict in the lives of those around him in a time and place of supposed innocence, the small-town South of the 1960's-70's.

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How do you get inspired to write?

Susan Beckham Zurenda My parents read to me from the time I could listen. I loved telling stories as a child. I'm not sure when I determined that writing was part of my soul, but I decided to major in English after I took an elective in Southern Literature my sophomore year in college. We studied 4 incredible authors: Carson McCullers, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty.

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