Suzanne Strong's Blog, page 14

My book semi-finalist… Screencraft Cinematic Book Contest

Hey guys,

I just wanted to share some exciting news about my book Where the Sun Rises. I submitted it to the Screencraft Cinematic Book Contest late last year and I have made the semi-finalist list.

No. 1 in three categories…

Hi guys, I just wanted to note this, as this hasn’t happened before for Freedom Writing. But it is Number 1 in three categories on Amazon Australia. If you are interested in this book, it is about the power of writing therapy and how to free yourself from unwanted emotions and stress. Have a great day! Kind regards, Suz

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Best Seller List Amazon

Hey guys,

Just excited as Freedom Writing was number 2 on Amazon USA this morning and the other day Where the Sun Rises was number 2 on Amazon Australia.

Thanks for reading, have a fabulous day.

Map of battle in Where the Sun Rises

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This was the battle for Kobane – 2014-2015 and the grey you can see is Daesh closing in. There are many landmarks that are within my novel.

It is difficult to enlarge the image enough.

But this was the reality of what the Kurdish women and men faced when defending their city.

If you are interested in reading about the phenomenal women that fought in this battle, or about two best friends and their loyalty and devotion to each other, Where the Sun Rises will appeal.

Creative beginnings…

Hey guys, I have been recently pondering about how there are countless ways one can start a novel. At the moment I am working on my next novel and I am enjoying exploring this process of creating different beginnings for the book. I am also experimenting with first and third person.

The thing is with the beginning of writing a novel we have to experiment and start writing so that we can work out what we think will be best. We need to not get paralysed by the thought of so many options (haha). This is a hazard isn’t it? When you get frozen by choice. So, don’t do this, just start writing.

Beginnings are so important – and another good thing to do is to read other books you have enjoyed the opening of. Work out why you love these and think about whether you can incorporate this into your work.

So, enjoy the process too. I am enjoying the creative process and simply exploring options at the moment.

If you are curious about my current book it is available for sale on Amazon, and all online outlets as well such as Book Depository, Barnes and Noble and other outlets.

Where the Sun Rises special price for 3 days…

Hey guys, if you are curious about my new book which is about the special friendship and bond between two best friends who are forced to fight Daesh to defend their families and town, it is available for only $2.99.

This is for the next three days, so check out the below ebook stores, you can choose whichever suits you. Anyway, thanks for reading! I hope you’re having a beautiful day.

Kind regards, Suzanne

Apple:

https://books.apple.com/au/book/where-the-sun-rises/id1494611659?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Barnes and Noble

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/where-the-sun-rises-suzanne-strong

Kobo:

https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/where-the-sun-rises

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Jodi Picoult

“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”

Jodi Picoult

For me this is good reminder to keep going. But if you’re thinking about it, just start. You can always edit later.

Where the Sun Rises available in these outlets…

Hey guys,

I just wanted to let you know where my book is available to purchase. I have expanded the distribution.

Here is a link to Where the Sun Rises as an e-book. It is now available on Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, as well as Amazon Kindle which is has been on since October.

https://books2read.com/u/mKD0oZ

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New Reviews for Where the Sun Rises…

Hello,

Here are some new reviews for Where the Sun Rises.

New year, new adventures…

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Hi, guys. Australia is burning at the moment. I don’t know if you have seen it on the news in your country. It is like the end of the world. The sky is red and the air is suffocating. People are losing homes and some people have lost their life. I pray that this all will stop soon. Hundreds and hundreds of homes have been decimated. Towns are levelled. It is heart breaking. It is hard for us to think about anything else at the moment.

I, however wanted to say something about my next novel I am writing. I must say in some ways it seems hollow writing about this at the moment. But I wanted to say this next novel – is so different from the first. It is written differently, it is from the first person (at the moment anyway) and it is a bit more something I am writing for myself. My first novel, Where the Sun Rises sought to honour the women I was writing about but also to create a story true to life, that expresses war from the female point of view. It was third person and involved so much research it was sometimes ridiculous haha. Where the Sun Rises does not have my life in it. But this new novel is much less research-based and has some elements of my life in it. It is still a work of fiction but it has some elements of my life. I am enjoying this very different experience of writing.

This is technically my third novel I have written. I wrote one when I was 25 as well. It had two points of view, one male and one female. An interesting process.

I wish to enjoy this process and exploring where this story is going and how this character is developing. For me, writing is an adventure like when I was a kid and that is all I wanted to do, explore all of the world. I feel in writing, I am exploring the world through an interior and mysterious process. It truly makes me feel free. If I can express a story and make it come alive to a reader, I feel phenomenal. It gives me so much peace and fulfilment.

When I am creating, I feel whole and taken out of the world up into the world of the imagination. In this process, I know it was what I was born to do. You can tell this, on the inside. I hope and pray that you find that which you are born to do this year! It makes you feel trully alive! After all, that’s what we want isn’t it, to feel vigorous and vibrant and like our truest self?

For this year, I feel happy that in my life I am finally writing novels and people are reading them. It has been my ambition my whole life. I am so thankful that this has finally become reality. I don’t mind the energy or passion I had to put in (which was a lot over many years), it felt like nothing, cause I adore it.

Anyway, I hope for you this year that you find your passion, the thing that makes you want to get up and get going in the morning! Embrace it! Life is so brief and you don’t want to regret opportunities you didn’t take, or talents you didn’t pursue out of fear or apprehension.

Go well, and be brave. I know you can.