Suanne Schafer, born in West Texas at the height of the Cold War, finds it ironic that grade school drills for tornadoes and nuclear war were the same: hide beneath your desk and kiss your rear-end goodbye. Now a retired family-practice physician whose only child has fledged the nest, her pioneer ancestors and world travels fuel her imagination.
She originally planned to write romances, but either as a consequence of a series of failed relationships or a genetic distrust of happily-ever-after, her heroines are strong women who battle tough environments and intersect with men who might—or might not—love them.
Suanne completed the Stanford University Creative Writing Certificate program. Her short works have been featured in print and on-line magazines (Bête Noire; Brain, Child; Empty Sink Publishing; and Three Line Poetry) and anthologies: (Night Lights; Graveyard; 166 Palms; and Licked).
Her debut women’s fiction novel, A Different Kind of Fire—re-released as Passion & Paint—explores the life of Ruby Schmidt, a nineteenth century artist who escapes—and returns—to West Texas. Suanne’s second novel, Hunting the Devil, explores the heartbreak and healing of an American physician caught up in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
You can follow her here on her website, as well as her author pages on Amazon and Goodreads, and of course, out on the social internet.
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Valorie (Val) Dawes, a rookie cop, has been on duty less than two years and has already fired her weapon multiple times—with two fatalities. As a rookie, she faces the usual harassment of any younger cop by older policemen as well as the rampant sexism in her...
In The Shadowy Horses, author Kearsley weaves together past and present in a dark gothic mystery. Archaeologist Verity Grey is in Scotland for a job interview and ends up staying, though her boss—Peter Quinnell, an infamous archaeologist—is eccentric, if not crazy,...
I have to admit that I was sucked into this by the title alone: I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com. I don’t read much erotica because much of it contains what I’ve heard termed “IKEA sex” where one “inserts tab A into slot B” without much...
Helena Echlin’s Clever Little Thing is a devourable psychological thriller full of plot twist after plot twist, lie after lie. Echlin keeps the tension up through tight prose that reveal the main character, Charlotte’s, state of mind, a woman walking on the edge yet...
I recently read The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb, a nonfiction book that deals with with America’s part in the race towards atomic weaponry across the US and Europe but doesn’t handle the human...
In the Country of Others is about Mathilde, a young Catholic French woman, falls in love with Amine Belhaj, a Muslim Moroccan soldier who is fighting in France during World War II. She moves to Morocco when he is released from his military service. Briefly they live...
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