We donated an ARC of STRANGE BEASTS to the LAOC’s Auction of change if you want to bid! Opens up June 10th! Bid here: 2024 Literary Auction for Change (givebutter.com) About LAOC: Literary Agents of Change aims to dismantle barriers to entry into a career as a literary agent for members of historically underrepresented groups, […]
I am delighted to share that the Italian rights for my debut novel STRANGE BEASTS have been sold to Fazi Editore!! Background image copyright Adobe Stock Photos/ Tryfonov.
I am THRILLED to reveal the phenomenal Emily Woo Zeller will be narrating the audiobook of STRANGE BEASTS for Podium Audio!! Emily Woo Zeller voiced Panam in Cyberpunk 2077 and is an award-winning audiobook narrator. Pre-order the audiobook here!
It’s my first Goodreads Giveaway!! Enter for a chance to win a kindle copy of Strange Beasts. STRANGE BEASTS is a queer puzzle-box mystery wrapped in gothic historical fantasy and an exploration of feminine power through the lens of Dracula and Sherlock Holmes.
I’m absolutely thrilled to reveal my new website, designed by the unmatched @gaildvillanueva! To give you some insight into the detail work she did here: the flowers by the skull are the same as the flowers in my tattoo. My tattoo is also of a bee, and you can see the glorious little bees all over […]
I can hardly believe STRANGE BEASTS debuts in 2024!!! Do you like gothic historical fantasies with puzzlebox mysteries and queer romance? Or are you just incurably nosy and want to know what I’m working on? Check out this snippet of an interview I did with my publisher, Kathryn Budig of Inky Phoenix Press: Susan J […]
I’ve been reading Publisher’s Weekly for almost 20 years. Last week, I was blown away to see my debut STRANGE BEASTS actually IN it! Article Text Reads: Susan J. Morris has sold world rights (excepting the U.K.) to her novel Strange Beasts to Kathryn Budig at Inky Phoenix Press, an imprint of upstart Bindery Books. […]
Miss my tension workshop last Spring? I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be doing another one in April! This one for MetroWest Writers’ Guild. Join us! I’d love to see you there!
(Originally written years ago for the Gen Con Writer’s Symposium) When I first started to moderate, I asked moderators, authors, and audience members for their favorite panels, and what made them great, in order to kind of create an Ideal Moderator. As you can imagine, everyone had lots to say about this. In the end, […]
C. L. Polk asked a fascinating question on Twitter: “What do you mean when you talk about the story getting moving? What’s happening when the story (finally) feels like it’s in motion?” The breadth of responses was fascinating to me. As was the fact that they all felt accurate! I gave kind of my gut […]
