Ask the Author: Susan Speranza
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Susan Speranza
My entire life, ha
Susan Speranza
I put whatever I am working on aside and eventually when I come back to it, the "block" has usally resolved itself.
Susan Speranza
The ability to live in my head and my thoughts without feeling guilty!
Susan Speranza
Keep writing. You need a body of work to get noticed. Each thing you write should be better crafted than the one before it.
Susan Speranza
I just completed a novel titled, "Things Once Done" and am presently submitting it to agents and publishers.
This is a story about forgiveness and the necessity of letting go. Francesca Boudin has a near-perfect life as an accomplished music teacher and professional flutist living in the country with her husband, Ben and their four-year old daughter, Addie. This ends suddenly when a snowmobiling accident traps the three of them in a frozen lake. Ben gets out, leaving her and Addie to die.
Francesca believes she sees their dog pull Addie from the lake and drag her into the nearby woods. Desperate to help her daughter, she struggles to emerge from the icy waters, and follows them.
Once she enters the forest, however, she finds herself trapped in a sinister dream-like world where night never ends, where Addie’s whereabouts remain hidden from her and where she encounters the Vilas, a group of women led by the White Widow. They, like Francesca, have been left to die and now seek to unleash their revenge on those who have harmed them. When the Vilas have Ben in their sights, Francesca realizes that if she is ever to escape this nightmare and save her daughter, she must first save the husband who abandoned them. But will she?
This is a story about forgiveness and the necessity of letting go. Francesca Boudin has a near-perfect life as an accomplished music teacher and professional flutist living in the country with her husband, Ben and their four-year old daughter, Addie. This ends suddenly when a snowmobiling accident traps the three of them in a frozen lake. Ben gets out, leaving her and Addie to die.
Francesca believes she sees their dog pull Addie from the lake and drag her into the nearby woods. Desperate to help her daughter, she struggles to emerge from the icy waters, and follows them.
Once she enters the forest, however, she finds herself trapped in a sinister dream-like world where night never ends, where Addie’s whereabouts remain hidden from her and where she encounters the Vilas, a group of women led by the White Widow. They, like Francesca, have been left to die and now seek to unleash their revenge on those who have harmed them. When the Vilas have Ben in their sights, Francesca realizes that if she is ever to escape this nightmare and save her daughter, she must first save the husband who abandoned them. But will she?
Susan Speranza
I think I was born writing! I grew up in a loud, Italian family where everyone competed to get a word in. I found it easier just to write my thoughts. That was the beginning.
Susan Speranza
Much of what is in The Tale of Lucia Grandi are stories I heard from my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. Writers need to be good listeners and good observers. It's amazing what you can come up with by listening to the tales that other people tell you.
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