Susan Middleton's Blog
November 10, 2025
Under the Circumstances
Can you imagine getting inspiration from a grave in a rural church cemetery?
Well, that's what happened to me in 2022 and I have had two books published since then and a third one is now with the publisher.
All it took for me was a question posed by my cousin:
Did you know that there's a prostitute buried in our family's church cemetery?
And I became fascinated with that woman. She had been dead for almost one-hundred years and I had no way to contact her long-deceased family members who had spent their lives in another state.
So with that inspiration I wrote the story I wanted her to have or as I like to say, the story she told me.
Well, that's what happened to me in 2022 and I have had two books published since then and a third one is now with the publisher.
All it took for me was a question posed by my cousin:
Did you know that there's a prostitute buried in our family's church cemetery?
And I became fascinated with that woman. She had been dead for almost one-hundred years and I had no way to contact her long-deceased family members who had spent their lives in another state.
So with that inspiration I wrote the story I wanted her to have or as I like to say, the story she told me.
