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Susan Stoderl

3 days ago
2 min

Writers-Life

My Writer's Life | Autobiographical Tale 4 | The House on the Corner Unveiled

A mysterious house on the corner and the return of the prodigal daughter.

My Writer's Life | Tale 3 | Forbidden Room | Part of the Beginning of my Writer's Life

Susan Stoderl

Aug 23
2 min

Writers-Life

My Writer's Life | Tale 3 | Forbidden Room | Part of the Beginning of my Writer's Life

Tale 3 from My Writer's Life--how I became a writer

My Writer's Life | Tale 2 | Playing Grownup

Susan Stoderl

Aug 16
1 min

My Writer's Life | Tale 2 | Playing Grownup

Since I was seven years old, I have been a jack of all trades out of necessity and insatiable curiosity. One of these experiences that...

My Writer's Life | Tale 1: The Forbidden House

Susan Stoderl

Aug 9
2 min

Women Writers

My Writer's Life | Tale 1: The Forbidden House

My writer’s life began the day my curiosity enticed me to try sleuthing. I had to occupy myself somehow as an only child in the middle of...

Writer's Life | Interrelated Components and Synchronicity in Writing Themes

Susan Stoderl

Mar 29
2 min

Writers-Life

Writer's Life | Interrelated Components and Synchronicity in Writing Themes

This week I saw multiple unintended synchronicities in my social media posts and creative life. That’s when I saw creation as a spiraling...

Spinning Off into Upper Middle-Grade Historical Fiction

Susan Stoderl

Jan 5
2 min

Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers

Spinning Off into Upper Middle-Grade Historical Fiction

Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors has been removed from its February 2024 release date. It will now have new chapters set in 1832, showing...

Writer’s Life | Keeping Your Creativity On Fire

Susan Stoderl

Nov 10, 2023
1 min

Writers-Life

Writer’s Life | Keeping Your Creativity On Fire

Often my writer's life gets overwhelmed trying to get by book writing done. (Hint: Most of that is not writing fiction, but marketing—my...

Announcing Upcoming Attractions | A Prequel, Audiobook, and Literacy Podcast

Susan Stoderl

May 12, 2023
1 min

Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers

Announcing Upcoming Attractions | A Prequel, Audiobook, and Literacy Podcast

#SophiaoftheBrightRedSneakersSeries, #Prequel, #Literacypodcast, #middlegradefiction, #bookcommunity #booksofinstagram #readingcorner...

A Middle-Grade Indie Author’s Life | To-Do List v. Completed List

Susan Stoderl

Apr 4, 2023
1 min

Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers

A Middle-Grade Indie Author’s Life | To-Do List v. Completed List

To-Do on the Business End of Writing Read all those emails from the writers and entrepreneurs that already know what I need to know. Make...

Writer’s Life | Self-Promotion—Only One Word For It

Susan Stoderl

Mar 10, 2023
2 min

Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers

Writer’s Life | Self-Promotion—Only One Word For It

YIKES! (That’s the nicest word I could think of.) Are you telling me I have to get out there and talk to people and collaborate with...

Susan Stoderl

Sep 14, 2022
1 min

More Work Done | More to Do

#WritersLife, #Update, #IndieAuthor, #SelfPublishing

Late Bloomer, not once, but twice | Eugenia Lovett West

Susan Stoderl

Aug 31, 2022
1 min

Late Bloomers & Sassy Seniors

Late Bloomer, not once, but twice | Eugenia Lovett West

Eugenia Lovett West was born in February 1923. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College amidst WWII and took jobs with Harper’s Bazaar...

Susan Stoderl

Jul 29, 2022
2 min

Writer's Life | The Social Media Battle

In June, I began building a new website and updating social media sites from a composer/writer frame to an indie children’s book author...

Susan Stoderl

Jun 27, 2022
1 min

Reflections

Morning Stillness

I try to begin my day in stillness each morning. I admit to a fetish for candlelight and prefer votive candles in stained glass holders...

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