novel - Susie Orman Schnall

My New Baby

Finishing a manuscript is a lot like having a baby. There are months when it (manuscript/baby, follow me, people) is inside you, giving you heartburn, aching to get out. Then there’s the actual labor. Sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it makes you scream at your husband (unless you’re Katie Holmes), and sometimes you need to monitor your blood pressure. But at [...]

Okay, so now I do.

I wrote my first blog post two years and 11 days ago. How’s that for staying current? Going by that schedule, I’ll average five posts a decade. Pretty pathetic. But a lot has changed. I now have a Twitter account (@susieschnall). True, I have never sent an actual tweet (and I can’t stand how they say “140 characters or less,” c’mon [...]