Susan E. Rogers

Starts and Stops On July 11, 2023, I reached a milestone, accomplishing a long-range goal, on my publishing journey … An acceptance for...

And Do Me a Favor, Please. I didn’t think I’d be asking anything like this. If you find this kind of request annoying, please, feel free...

Publishing and Re-publishing There’s nothing better for a writer than opening that email, expecting another rejection, and reading: “I...

Annual Reconciliation In January every year since I started writing professionally, I put together my productivity statistics for the...

Easy Add-Ons Made to Order It’s done! I’ve loaded up my manuscript, exactly as I want it to be presented. I’ve selected and uploaded a...

Filling in the Pretty Details Being in our own home is a relief and our house is finally getting back to normal. Our little resort town...

Easing Back into the Travel Lane Two weeks since my last post, and I apologize that I didn’t get this written sooner. Hopefully, we’ll be...

Counting Our Blessings While Helene made a mess, Milton made our house unlivable. Both hurricanes wreaked havoc on our little Gulf-side...

Temporary Detour due to Hurricane Helene Cleanup Living on a barrier island on Tampa Bay along the Gulf coast of Florida is my Paradise....

Squeeze 80k words into one line! What???   I generally find that writing my book’s tagline and blurb is far more difficult than writing...

You can tell a book by its cover! I’m back from vacation and ready to roll again, so off we go! Every book needs a cover, and in the...

Decisions, Decisions! Before you begin the process of uploading your manuscript to Draft2Digital, there are a few decisions to consider....

Identity! Everything needs a name, that word (or two or three) that claims its uniqueness.  Every place has a name. Every object has a...

Who Knew These Choices Would Be So hard? In these next few posts, I plan to describe the process I’ve followed for self-publishing my...

As my writing emerged and evolved, so did other transforming aspects of my life. Over the past few years, as I’ve developed my psychic...

Like so many others, this storytelling path of mine started when I was a child. I was read to and I read a lot so it was only a natural...

Ready Set, Go! This is where it begins - I just wrote my first Substack. I didn’t think I’d ever give in, but, well, I guess I have -...

It's official! I've signed a contract with PsychoToxin Press to publish my horror/thriller novella Death in the Cards. I am beyond...

I don't usually enter writing contests. It's not that I don't think my stories aren't good enough. They are. I always feel validated with...

A piece of flash fiction, "Dark and Stormy" was one of the first stories I had accepted for publication. It was originally published in...