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Susie Orman Schnall

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Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction, Contemporary

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I am the author of five novels about ambitious women: ANNA BRIGHT IS HIDING SOMETHING, WE CAME HERE TO SHINE, THE SUBWAY GIRLS, THE BALANCE PROJECT, and ON GRACE. My writing has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, HuffPost, PopSugar, Writer’s Digest, Harper's Bazaar, and Glamour. I'm also a screenwriter currently shopping my first pilot and feature-length screenplay. A mother of three grown sons, I was born in Philadelphia, grew up in Los Angeles, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and now live with my husband in Charlotte, NC. When I'm not reading or writing you can find me pretending to be a graphic designer on Canva, doing a cr ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 9,422 ratings · 1,822 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Subway Girls 3.81 avg rating — 4,274 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Came Here to Shine 3.71 avg rating — 2,435 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anna Bright Is Hiding Something 3.48 avg rating — 1,188 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Balance Project 3.72 avg rating — 865 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Grace 3.59 avg rating — 690 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Balance Project: A Novel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Path to Pub for We Came Here to Shine #2: Custom Map

It was very important to me that images of the fair were included at the front of the book to orient the reader and to give a sense of place, which would help facilitate the reading of the book.

A MAP
I love when books have a map at the front, and I find myself referring to them on numerous occasions to better understand the world in which the characters exist.

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Published on September 30, 2019 10:14 • Tags: book-publishing, historical-fiction, publishing, we-came-here-to-shine, world-s-fair

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“How lucky she was to have a best friend like Jojo. A girl who relied on truth as much as humor, realizing that the former was essential and the latter was what made life bearable.”
― Susie Orman Schnall, The Subway Girls

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“Very few things in life unfold the way we thought they would. In fact, you should be suspect when they do. Who cares when the best things in life happen? Don’t you see? You’re getting everything you wanted. The packaging is a little unexpected and not ideal, but the stuff inside, the stuff that really counts, is just right.”
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“Let her tell him how she felt and how she just couldn’t do it anymore. How she couldn’t enable her father, how she couldn’t rescue her mother, how she couldn’t keep putting herself last in a trio of dysfunction. How she realized that the only way to heal was to extricate herself entirely from the one relationship that was supposed to be the most pure and protective. But it wasn’t.”
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April BoTM Nominations ~ Historical Fiction ~ 1st Poll

Top 5 Books move onto Final Poll

The Summer Wives

by Beatriz Williams

9 votes, 22.0%

I Was Anastasia

by Ariel Lawhon

6 votes, 14.6%

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

by Jennifer Ryan

5 votes, 12.2%

A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts

by Therese Anne Fowler

5 votes, 12.2%

Manhattan Beach

by Jennifer Egan

4 votes, 9.8%

My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

by Stephanie Dray

4 votes, 9.8%

The Subway Girls

by Susie Orman Schnall

3 votes, 7.3%

Pope Joan

by Donna Woolfolk Cross

2 votes, 4.9%

A Place of Greater Safety

by Hilary Mantel

2 votes, 4.9%

Warlight

by Michael Ondaatje

1 vote, 2.4%

41 total votes

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