Susan Wiggs's Blog, page 58
October 6, 2010
giant ship heading my way
It's a little disconcerting….
October 3, 2010
live and in person
PLEASE say you'll join in the fun. We need you, all of you, near and far! The Novel: Live! is about to launch:
T-shirts now available! All profits benefit the good works of www.826Seattle.org
Link to buy: http://thenovellive.org/merch.php
Now taking suggestions for The Novel: Live! You are cordially invited to send in any ideas for plot, character, setting . . . anything at all! We will seriously consider each and every suggestion. Send all suggestions to: suggestions, or take in person to Queen Anne Books in Seattle.
Kick-off Party next Sunday, Oct. 10 6pm at Elliott Bay Books! All welcome! Drinks! Music! T-shirts! and Nancy Pearl auctioning off naming rights for the protagonist, love interest, murder victim, and pet! More public brainstorming! All fun and for a good cause, Writers in the Schools.
September 27, 2010
In Stores Now!
LAKESHORE CHRISTMAS has arrived. First time in paperback. Yay! I'm so excited. Thanks to Pam for the field report from Susanville CA:
September 26, 2010
September 20, 2010
we're writing a whole novel in 6 days
REALLY. Check it out: 
September 19, 2010
big-ass tomato
My heirloom tomatoes rock this year.
September 16, 2010
love the question, don't worry about the answer
From the poet Rainer Maria Rilke:
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
September 1, 2010
I (heart) bookstores
"Bookshops are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."
–Alain de Botton
is a valentine to booksellers and a testament to the power of love and the mysteries of fate and happenstance. It has a lot of ground to cover.
In the midst of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, unconventional debutante Lucy Hathaway risks her life to save a baby girl, raising the orphan as her own while running...
August 30, 2010
starting with a beginner's mind
August 27, 2010
The Novel: LIVE!
You will NOT believe what I've signed up to do. Come see us in Seattle this October:
