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Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008) Poems V, VI & VII

Susan Stoderl

Mar 31
2 min

Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008) Poems V, VI & VII

These poems were written for a song cycle in 2008, Prairie Girl. I wrote about my life as a child growing up in a rural county of Kansas...

Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008) Poems III & IV

Susan Stoderl

Mar 24
1 min

Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008) Poems III & IV

These poems were written for song a cycle in 2008, Prairie Girl. I wrote about my life as a child growing up in a rural county of Kansas...

From Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008)

Susan Stoderl

Mar 17
1 min

From Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008)

During my second career, after singing and running a small opera company, I began composing art songs and opera. In 2008, I wrote about...

Mission 1: All in a Day's Work | Wahoo's "Working" Relationship with Christie's Auction House

Susan Stoderl

Feb 10
2 min

Mission 1: All in a Day's Work | Wahoo's "Working" Relationship with Christie's Auction House

Wahoo is an arctic raven who is quite a dapper dude with thoughts only of others, such as helping Christie’s Auction House with their...

What I Would Do Differently | Part 3: Who is Your Audience

Susan Stoderl

Jan 24
2 min

What I Would Do Differently | Part 3: Who is Your Audience

My answer was “Uhhh…,” followed by some generalized answers based on why I wrote the story I did. It quickly turned into “I don’t know.”...

Susan Stoderl

Oct 26, 2022
1 min

Pre-Order Your eBook Today

This link will take you to my author's page at the publisher. The various stores that have it in stock can be found there to pre-order....

Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers | Book 1 Coming on or before November 10, 2023

Susan Stoderl

Oct 19, 2022
1 min

Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers | Book 1 Coming on or before November 10, 2023

Life’s full of adventure! Right? Sophia thinks so. Especially when you are telepathic and speak multiple animal languages! Being...

Susan Stoderl

Oct 7, 2022
1 min

Writer's Life Update

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Why Middle-Grade Books are Important to Adults and Kids

Susan Stoderl

Oct 5, 2022
2 min

Why Middle-Grade Books are Important to Adults and Kids

Many people find middle school difficult since it encompasses the pre-pubescent years through puberty. Most of us don’t even want to...

Susan Stoderl

Sep 30, 2022
1 min

Chapter 16 | Where is Vlad? | Excerpt

Super Sleuths Pedro and Sophia hopped off the bus at the 50th Street stop and walked back to 51st. The buildings became increasingly run...

An Excerpt from Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers | Sophia & Pedro vs. THEM

Susan Stoderl

Sep 28, 2022
1 min

An Excerpt from Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers | Sophia & Pedro vs. THEM

From Mission 1: All in a Day's Work, Chapter 1 Sophia and Pedro were outsiders at the fashionable James Samuel Calder Academy on...

Sophia Autobiographic? Nah... Well Maybe a Little

Susan Stoderl

Sep 24, 2022
2 min

Sophia Autobiographic? Nah... Well Maybe a Little

Several weeks ago, I scribbled a brief article on an interview by Writers Cooperative with the author, Amy Tan. She spoke about the...

Susan Stoderl

Sep 22, 2022
1 min

Self-Publishing = Chaos

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Susan Stoderl

Sep 14, 2022
1 min

More Work Done | More to Do

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Susan Stoderl

Sep 2, 2022
1 min

Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers | Zelda Screech Cat | Chapter 14 Excerpt

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Susan Stoderl

Aug 19, 2022
1 min

Bad Guys | Mikhail and Dimitri

Today, we're going to start meeting the Bad Guys in the first book of Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers Series | Mission 1: All in a...

Self-Publishing | A Merger of Two Biggest Publishers

Susan Stoderl

Aug 3, 2022
1 min

Self-Publishing | A Merger of Two Biggest Publishers

As many of you may know, the U.S. Department of Justice is suing to block a merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. If...

Susan Stoderl

Aug 2, 2022
1 min

Late Bloomer | Erma Bombeck

Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) knew at age twenty that she would die from the same inherited polycystic kidney disease as her father did when...

Susan Stoderl

Jul 22, 2022
1 min

Meet Zelda Screech Cat

Susan Stoderl

Jul 15, 2022
1 min

Today Meet Wahoo the Raven, a very Dapper Dude

From Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers Series | Mission 1: All in a Day's Work He looked around his home with pride. “My, my, my, I have...

Scribbles & Thoughts

For shorter entries, see
Poetry | Quote Project

© Susan Stoderl, 2022

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Scribbles & Thoughts

For shorter entries, see Poetry | Quote Project

For shorter entries, see
Poetry | Quote Project