by Susan Matley | Aug 4, 2017 | Official Blog
Writers, sometimes, get a bad rap. We’re characterized as brooding, overly sensitive, obsessed with our work. Writers with young children at home are known to say, “Don’t interrupt me when I’m writing unless there’s blood.” This week I’ve enlisted Bruce Matley, the...
by Susan Matley | Jul 28, 2017 | Official Blog
If you grew up in Washington State and were educated in the public school system (long may it reign!), you’ve probably heard about Henry Harmon Spalding via the eighth grade requirement, Washington State History. Little known fact: 155 years ago, he lived across the...
by Susan Matley | Jul 21, 2017 | Official Blog
From the post-apocalyptic wasteland of American culture rises a new hero. Wielding books as bridges between disparate segments of society, they are known as The Read Warriors. You, too, can become a legend in your own time. It’s such a simple concept you’ll wonder why...
by Susan Matley | Jul 14, 2017 | Official Blog
Back in the dark ages, shortly after the dinosaurs went extinct, I was a kid who loved to read. If someone asked me which book was my favorite I couldn’t have answered. There were so many! L. Frank Baum’s “Oz” books, The Narnia Chronicles (C. S. Lewis), “Little Women”...
by Susan Matley | Jul 7, 2017 | Official Blog
Voter fraud is again in the news. This compels me to share my own, true experience with voter fraud. I’m not interested in hype or speculation. I don’t think you would be, either, if a voter fraud campaign had touched your life. October, 2012. We’d just returned from...
by Susan Matley | Jun 30, 2017 | Official Blog
How hard is it to find a literary agent? Finding a literary agent is very hard indeed. Ask any author who’s attempted this feat. Every literary agent in this world, so I’ve heard, is swamped with hundreds if not thousands of queries each month. The query is a letter,...
