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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Fossil Feud is a cute romance set on a paleontological dig in Montana. Ripley Adams has become a freelance fossil hunter after being driven out of academic research after her boyfriend, Will Stone, betrays her by stealing her research and laying waste to her...
Vacancy is the second novel in Jann Alexander’s Dust series, set in the fictional small town of Hartless in the Texas Panhandle. It is told from multiple points of view: Charlene, a poverty-stricken young mother with a kindergarten daughter and another child on the...
In The Drowning Game, Nadia Brenner goes to Singapore and finds that Cass, her sister, has jumped from a fortieth-floor hotel balcony. Devastated, Nadia must arrange for the transportation of her sister’s remains back to the Pacific Northwest, regain ground that Cass...
This review includes the seven mysteries in the Thomas the Falconer series including The Ruffler’s Child, A Ruinous Wind, The Jingler's Luck, The Ramage Hawk, The Mapmaker’s Secret, the Maiden Bell, and The Muscovy Chain. The series is complete, so you don’t have to...
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow follows the lives of two families, the Webbers (Substance and Nettie Mae) and the Bemises (Ernest and Cora), who live in eastern Wyoming, within walking distance of each other but with no other humans within twenty miles. Mr....
I had so much fun doing a big, beautiful, artsy bookish giveaway haul last month, I've decided to do it again! This time, I'm upping the ante by including a $10 Amazon gift card in one of the prize combos. It's only on for eight days, so enter while you can... Good...
In The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes revisits the story of Oedipus Rex we all probably read in high school but with a twist or two or three. Jocasta is fifteen when she is married to Laius, an elderly king who prefers men to women and hunting to ruling his...
Fossil Feud is a cute romance set on a paleontological dig in Montana. Ripley Adams has become a freelance fossil hunter after being driven out of academic research after her boyfriend, Will Stone, betrays her by stealing her research and laying waste to her...
Vacancy is the second novel in Jann Alexander’s Dust series, set in the fictional small town of Hartless in the Texas Panhandle. It is told from multiple points of view: Charlene, a poverty-stricken young mother with a kindergarten daughter and another child on the...
In The Drowning Game, Nadia Brenner goes to Singapore and finds that Cass, her sister, has jumped from a fortieth-floor hotel balcony. Devastated, Nadia must arrange for the transportation of her sister’s remains back to the Pacific Northwest, regain ground that Cass...
This review includes the seven mysteries in the Thomas the Falconer series including The Ruffler’s Child, A Ruinous Wind, The Jingler's Luck, The Ramage Hawk, The Mapmaker’s Secret, the Maiden Bell, and The Muscovy Chain. The series is complete, so you don’t have to...
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow follows the lives of two families, the Webbers (Substance and Nettie Mae) and the Bemises (Ernest and Cora), who live in eastern Wyoming, within walking distance of each other but with no other humans within twenty miles. Mr....
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