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Dive into My Latest Suspense Audiobooks!

Three of my suspense novels are now available as audiobooks with virtual voice narration, allowing listeners to experience the stories in an innovative and accessible format. Latest releases include "Strangers on This Road," "Unrecovered," and "Down an Unknown Road," with more titles coming soon.

Meet ‘Evelyn’: Exploring KDP’s New Virtual Voice Audiobooks

Kindle Direct Publishing recently launched virtual voice audiobooks, allowing creators to pick voices and modify settings. I spent many hours working with "Evelyn," my virtual narrator, and while it's not perfect, it could be a great solution for independent authors to publish audiobooks.

Unrecovered by Emily Senecal: Now Available in Paperback and on Kindle

Emily Senecal's new novel, "Unrecovered," kicks off a suspenseful series featuring art historian Katie Evans. After an unexpected job offer, she joins a team in Paris to recover lost art and antiquities. A suspicious burglary plunges her and her new colleagues into a tangled conspiracy of lies, secrets and betrayal.

An Author By Any Other (Pen) Name…

I didn't actually intend to publish under a pen name. But it felt right, to have my previous name become a fictional one, a pseudonym, as a new era in my life began. I didn't consider not continuing to publish under it. The pen name that I continue to use is one that I made mine.

An author by any other (pen) name…

I didn’t actually intend to publish under a pen name.

When I first self-published on Kindle Direct Publishing, I used my legal last name, the name I’d had since I was 25. It wasn’t my birth name, but one that I’d taken when I married my first husband. I began writing novels of suspense nine years later, as my marriage was falling apart. In June of 2012, when I submitted my first book for publishing on Kindle, I’d been officially divorced for five months.

I did include a name change on my divorce...

What’s in a Genre?

Some of my favorite fiction authors are unapologetically genre-defying. It isn’t necessarily why I like them, but I appreciate that they didn’t allow or aren’t allowing themselves to be confined to one category.

Georgette Heyer wrote historically accurate Regency novels before Regency novels were a thing, along with a dozen clever contemporary mysteries. Ann Bridge entertained with her Julia Probyn series of spy intrigues, but also wrote poignant novels. Robin McKinley genre-jumped to fantasy-ho...

NEW RELEASE: Down an Unknown Road

A new book by Emily Senecal is now available on Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and in paperback.

 

Down an Unknown Road

$3.99 Kindle | $11.95 Paperback | Free with Kindle Unlimited

You never know what’s going to change your life. A lucky break, a tragic hour, a chance meeting. And nothing is ever the same again.

For Samantha McLaren, a snarky comment from her older sister is the catalyst that inspires her to quit her meaningless job and jump headfirst into the unknown. Her road takes her to R...

Writing Ups, Downs and In Betweens

Last year I wrote three and a half books, boom boom boom. They just kept coming, sentences and ideas, it was one of those vibrant creative experiences that you can’t predict or precipitate, but can only ride while it happens.

I’d started on the fourth book before the down cycle began. It was partly due to a demanding month at my day job, soon followed by other distractions. I caught a bad cold, and six weeks later I caught another bad cold because I guess the first one wasn’t enough. I flew to a...

NEW RELEASE: Past Damage

Available now on Amazon!

A new book by Emily Senecal is now available on Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and in paperback.

Past Damage

$3.99 Kindle | $10.95 Paperback | Free with Kindle Unlimited

After getting out of a toxic relationship and into a successful career in web design, Julia Wray is in a great place in her life. Running into her high school friend and former crush Eddie Fung in the supermarket is just another sign that things are looking up.

Except Eddie’s involved with another wom...

What Makes a Book Good?

I’m currently reading a mystery about authors by arguably one of the most well-known novelists in the world, J.K. Rowling, writing as Robert Galbraith. I’m finding Rowling’s commentary about the publishing industry, about writers and writing, an interesting subtext to the story, given her unique perspective in that regard. One fictional author is successful and… Continue reading What Makes a Book Good?