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Susan DeFreitas

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Website

http://www.susandefreitas.com

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Genre

Fiction, Contemporary, Science Fiction

Influences

Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millett, Ed Abbey, Richard Powers

Member Since

November 2011

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Susan DeFreitas is the author of the novel Hot Season (Harvard Square Editions), which won the 2017 Gold IPPY Award for Best Fiction of the West-Mountain region. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and in 2014 she was a finalist for a Best of the Net award. She holds an MFA from Pacific University and currently serves as collaborative editor with Indigo Editing and a book coach with Author Accelerator.

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Average rating: 4.06 · 226 ratings · 66 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hot Season 3.95 avg rating — 118 ratings — 4 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
	Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin 3.99 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2021 — 2 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
	Milkfist #1 by Ian Kappos (Goodreads Author) (co-editor), Jonathan Anthony Nathan (design & layout), Derek Tollefson (co-editor) 4.74 avg rating — 23 ratings	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
	Pyrophitic it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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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How to Structure Your Scenes

Often writers of fiction get no instruction whatsoever on how to construct a scene. And personally, I think that’s ridiculous, because scenes are the places where we as readers most feel like we’re living the story. What would the Harry Potter books be without all that dialogue? What would The Hunger Games be like if Suzanne Collins had relied on ... Read More

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Susan DeFreitas wrote a new blog post The power of a vision Back in 2020, on a literal mountain top, a vision came to me in the form of three words: Workshops Against Empire. I was standing on a mountain top be Read more of this blog post »
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Susan’s Quotes

“Some things are like that—they strike you as repugnant for instinctive reasons, probably having to do with your culture and the way you were raised. The French word “gauche” comes to mind, but I preferred the Hebrew word “treyf.” Literally, it means not kosher, but I also use it to describe things like cars, bars, strip clubs, guns, dogs, rock-n-roll, and football games. Things that are treyf, you avoid, not because you hate them per se, but because in avoiding them you keep yourself from becoming like the people you hate.”
― Aaron Cometbus, Cometbus

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“Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.”
― Tom Robbins

tags: nakedness, sex-appeal

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“Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

tags: humor

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“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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“A fragment for my friend--
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent, my starship suspended in night”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven