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Suzy Witten's career spans over twenty-five years in the entertainment industry as a filmmaker, screenwriter, story analyst, and editor for film and television. As a filmmaker, she was nominated for a Lillian Gish filmmaking award by Women In Film. She was a Walt Disney Studios Fellowship finalist for her period screenplay about the Salem Witch Hunt of 1692. Her novel based on that story, "The Afflicted Girls", won the 2010 IPPY Silver Medal for Historical Fiction (Independent Publisher Book Awards). 10/10ths is her second novel.

In addition to writing novels, she is an External Affairs Media Relations Specialist and public information spokesperson for the U. S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the aftermath of disasters. ...more

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	10/10ths: A Young Adult Novel of La Carrera Panamericana 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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THE AFFLICTED GIRLS cited in history book

THE AFFLICTED GIRLS A Novel of Salem was cited in a 2014 history book about gossip in American History: WHEN PRIVATE TALK GOES PUBLIC, Chapter Two: "Gossip and the Essex County Witchcraft Crisis" by Mary Beth Norton, the leading historian on the Salem Witch Trials & Witch Hunt of 1692!

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Published on April 27, 2015 08:23 • Tags: american-history, dystopian, gothic, historical-fiction, salem-witch-hunt

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Suzy Witten said: " THE COPPERFIELD REVIEW
A Journal of History and Fiction
Winter Issue 2011

"The Afflicted Girls"
Review by Paula Day

There is that stand by concern about how historically accurate one must be when writing historical fiction. Some will argue that writers ...more "

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