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Susan Nadathur

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I was set up to become a writer. Maybe you can relate. Bookworm, glasses since the fourth grade, fashion challenged. The iconic school-yard victim and future writer.

I was born and raised in Wethersfield, Connecticut, a quiet, peaceful little town in picturesque New England. Life was fairly predictable in Wethersfield. I went to school with my four brothers and sisters, was laughed at, picked on, bullied. All the usual things that happen to kids who don't fit in. And then I went home and found solace in the pages of a book.

When I tired of reading, I grabbed my bike and took off for the village cemetery (I always was a little weird). But beside my attraction to the Gothic side of life, I was at peace among the tombstones. No one bothered me t
I was set up to become a writer. Maybe you can relate. Bookworm, glasses since the fourth grade, fashion challenged. The iconic school-yard victim and future writer.

I was born and raised in Wethersfield, Connecticut, a quiet, peaceful little town in picturesque New England. Life was fairly predictable in Wethersfield. I went to school with my four brothers and sisters, was laughed at, picked on, bullied. All the usual things that happen to kids who don't fit in. And then I went home and found solace in the pages of a book.

When I tired of reading, I grabbed my bike and took off for the village cemetery (I always was a little weird). But beside my attraction to the Gothic side of life, I was at peace among the tombstones. No one bothered me there. No one laughed at me. Away from the bullies, I read, wrote in my journal, and thought about the lives of those whose names were etched on the stone markers.

Even though I didn’t know it then, I was becoming a writer.

Some years have passed since the cemetery became my sanctuary. I've lived in New England, Spain, California, Mexico, and lots of places in between. I married a South Indian, moved with him to the Caribbean, raised a daughter in Puerto Rico, and lived among the Gypsies in southern Spain. My life has not been dull, that's for sure. But it hasn't been easy either. Each move brought with it trials, tears, challenges, and joys. I guess that's why I'm a writer. My head is full of the stories that have shaped my life.

Every new experience offered unique opportunities for inspiration and the development of creative projects. My debut novel, City of Sorrows, was inspired by my time in Spain. It was then researched and developed thanks to a now twelve-year relationship with an extended family of Gypsies in Seville. My first young adult novel, Dante’s Kiss, was created with the help of dozens of young people from Leonides Morales High School in Lajas, Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico has been my home for the past twenty-six years. On the island, I mentor the same type of young people I once was—a social misfit who made it through school by escaping into the fantastic world of books. I work with local high school students to build self-worth and cultivate healing through the creative arts. I especially enjoy applying my educational background in English and Spanish literature to enhance the literary and artistic activities I share with the students. They in turn have helped and inspired me to complete the first book (Mind Binder) of a planned fantasy trilogy called The Halls of Abaddon (publication date September 2020).

I don’t quite fit into the culture of Puerto Rico, but in not fitting in, I belong. The legacy of Wethersfield lives in me. I remain a misfit in the colorful, chaotic world that has become my home.

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Wethersfield’s Witches

The Witch Trials of Connecticut

Every child who grows up and goes to school in my home town (Wethersfield, Connecticut) reads Elizabeth George Speare’s Newbery Medal-winning book, The Witch of Blackbird Pond. This classic work of children’s literature explores the oh-so-relevant themes of ignorance, prejudice, superstition, and mass hysteria that plague us even today. As it did for me, this nov

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Susan’s Quotes

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

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“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: inspirational, soul, spiritual-growth

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“There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

tags: inspirational

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“Los libros no se han hecho para servir de adorno: sin embargo, nada hay que embellezca tanto como ellos en el interior del hogar.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

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