Susan Beth Pfeffer's Blog, page 50

Most Likely, Alas, He Was Right

When I was a freshman in college, I decided to give writing true confessions stories a try. If memory serves me, I wrote, "My Teen Dream Turned Into A Nightmare," and (the fabulously prescient), "I Was My Mayor's Mistress."

It is possible I didn't write either of them, but just came up with the titles.

What I do remember doing is buying a whole batch of confessions magazines and reading them for research. One story stuck with me for decades. There was a girl who wanted to be a go go dancer (and wh

Yet Another B3 Ending

This is so spoilered I haven't even written it yet.

About half an hour ago (as I was moving the sheets from the washer to the drier), I got to thinking yet again about the ending to This World We Live In. You may recall I wrote an ending on Friday, then decided it wasn't strong enough and wrote another ending on Saturday.

Something about wet sheets made me think about my original plan for the ending of B3- Charlie not merely dying, but being killed by one of the other characters, and Miranda choos

It's Beautiful in Denmark!

I grant you this is about the 100th time I've posted in the past couple of days, but I found out last week that the Danish version of Life As We Knew It has been published, which I could have posted last week, I grant you again, except I was real busy writing This World We Live In and prepping for my birthday and my cousin Danny's wedding, etc.

At my request, my agent has been trying to get me at least one copy of the Danish LAWKI, but it hasn't shown up yet. Today, I noticed a Danish review of i

It's A Good Thing It's My Birthday

So I can use that as an excuse.

One thing I don't need an excuse for is to say thank you to everyone who has sent a card or a message wishing me a happy birthday. I grin at each one, and I'm very appreciative of your taking the time and energy to send me them. I can tell already, it's going to be a wonderful birthday.

A modest person would certainly need an excuse for what I'm about to post. Here's the best Google Listing I've ever seen in my entire life. I found it yesterday while doing my weekly