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Author of: The Secret Hunter (Regency Romance with a touch of mystery plus a pug), Captain Devlin's Captive (pirates in 1692 Bermuda), and Vampire Close (vampires in contemporary Edinburgh).

All three stories are available as e-books. Vampire Close can be found in the paperback anthology The Crimson Fold (which is available on Amazon UK). The Secret Hunter is also available in paperback. For more information, links, etc. please visit my website.

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Susanne Saville says:

"Still working away in the writing cave." (18 weeks ago) me too!

Favorite Films

Dead Again, Equilibrium, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Maurice, The Matrix (only the first one), Persuasion, Pirates of the Caribbean (again, only the first one...well, maybe the second, too), Room with a View, Strictly Ballroom, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Casablanca, Now Voyager, Captain Blood (in fact, anything with Errol Flynn), Lady Chatterley's Lover (the one with Sean Bean)

TV Shows I'm a Total Fan-Girl For

Doctor Who, Torchwood, Most Haunted, Law & Order (all of them)

Favorite Actors

John Barrowman, Sean Bean, Jack Davenport, Robson Green, Derek Jacobi, Clive Owen, Damian Lewis

Happiest When

Watching my favorite actors, Reading just about anything, Writing, Cuddling with my cat, Consuming caffeine, Eating chocolate - especially Cadbury's or Galaxy, Drinking cocoa on a snowy winter evening

Favorite Writers

Jane Austen, John Buchan, Charlotte Bronte, Rupert Brooke, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Steven Moffat, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Stewart, Joss Whedon, Phyllis Whitney

Miscellaneous Stuff

I like pug dogs (I've been interviewed by Dog Fancy - I'm an expert on the pug's place in history), travelling, horseback riding, and cats. And wasting time on the Internet. I'm also a certified librarian and history teacher. So of course I work in fast food. Would you like some fries with that? (Just kidding)

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E-Books and the Fictional Future
Love them or hate them, most readers have an opinion about the E-book format. A great many of us like their convenience, but don't think they'll ever replace "real", paper books. We like the tactile presence of the pages turning in our hands. Others say that's because we grew up with paper books and future generations won't have that emotional tie. So let's take a look at two television representations of the future: *Star Trek* has always believed in E-books, right from the very beginning. There are still "antique" books around, but otherwise, everyone reads off of their hand-held devices. Consequently, it truly surprised me when the recent *Doctor Who* two-parter, *Silence in the Library* and *Forest of the Dead, had the Doctor and Donna visit a world-size library of the distant future - and it was all paper books! Did the builders realize that if they'd put all those books in e-book format, it might have taken up only a continent instead of a whole world? And then it turns out that the computer which runs the library has access to the contents of all the books. How is that possible unless the books have been scanned into the computer? In which case they ARE available in e-book format. So isn't their paper presence a duplication of labor and space? Also, I assume none of these paper books can be checked out because if they weren't returned, their knowledge would be lost...except to the computer. Another reason to have e-book copies. They would be far more portable, too. Can you imagine visiting an entire WORLD of books? I check out 60-some books from a university-size library. My space-ship would never be able to lift-off. Not to mention the un-green-ness of this situation - all the trees that died to make those books! Because it turns out they weren't collected from other libraries - oh, no, they were all printed up new using the wood-pulp from a planet of forests. Lovely. Wipe out an entire planet of forests to build a planet of books. Now, that is where the writer, Steven Moffat, got clever. Because had those forests not been consumed for paper for the books, none of the terrible things that happen next would have happened. So Silence in the Library* and *Forest of the Dead* play very well as a warning about the dire consequences of ignoring ecological conservation practices. Had the library contained E-books, the Doctor and Donna would have simply had a nice visit to a busy library and all the patrons would have lived happily ever after. So I guess you can say that *Doctor Who* believes in E-books, too. Now, I know some of you are reading this and thinking, "That's all you have to say about that two-parter? You're kidding!" Well....no. I must admit that another of my thoughts upon watching it was, "So the Doctor's taste in girlfriends gets even MORE annoying over time??!!" But I'm not a *Doctor Who* 'shipper. *X-Files? Hell, yes. Doctor Who*? Not so much. Probably because I watched Original Who, where sex was no part of the Doctor's - or anyone's - life, I just don't have a place for it in my Who-niverse. So I find 'shippiness annoying, no matter what form it takes. I can see how the episodes would depress Ten/Rose 'shippers, though, and I sympathize. Technically, if Rose is The One, then having the Doctor fall in love with every other woman he meets just makes him look like a slut. He abandons Rose on a people-eating ship for that French chick, he has a close relationship with Astrid, and he has a terribly close relationship - where he tells her his name (and he hasn't even told Rose that) - with River Song. I liked the "everybody lives" bit at the end, though. I think you have to have watched Original Who to really appreciate that. I'm guessing that Steven Moffat was, like me, scarred by the original series, in which EVERYBODY DIES. Serious
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Pugs Rule at Romantic Times
I attended the Romantic Times Expo and Book-signing on Wednesday April 16 in Pittsburgh. And I'm just now posting about it, you ask? Well, no, I did post about it elsewhere. I'm slowly but surely covering all my blogs. The Expo was really busy for the entire two hours which it lasted. I was impressed by the turnout. And I was blown away by the fact that I actually met complete strangers who knew my work! I even had a reader recount a scene I had written! Okay, here I am, sitting at my place behind the long signing table, when who should come walking along the aisle but the extremely classy and talented Mary Balogh. Can we say giddy? Can we say excitement? I have been reading her work for years! So it was a total fan-girl moment for me when she came over to my table. She remarked on how she loved the cover. (Go Pugs!!) She turned it over to read the blurb - and saw my heroine is Welsh. And then..... SHE BOUGHT THE SECRET HUNTER!!!! She has since said that she is finding it a "fun" read. Is that spectacular or what? I would have been pleased if she had said, "well, it's not entirely rubbish." All I want to be is fun. I'm ever so chuffed to have succeeded. And that is how Mary Balogh not only made the convention extra-special for me, she made my year. UPDATE: The Secret Hunter is a Finalist in the *Desert Rose RWA* 2008 Golden Quill contest in the Regency category!!
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Leslie's Truly Clever Compromise (Redux)
Note: This is my Patriots' Day annual post. After all, a good story is worth repeating. The third Monday in April is a Massachusetts and Maine state holiday known as Patriots' Day. It commemorates the battle of Lexington and Concord, which occurred on April 19, 1775. This battle is traditionally seen as the beginning of the American Revolution. But there is another event, earlier and oft-overlooked, which could be said to be the Revolution's actual start. February 26, 1775 Salem, Massachusetts The minutemen raising the draw on Salem's North Bridge were probably too excited to notice the chill in the air that Sunday morning. A quick clatter of hooves on cobbles had announced the coming of a rider bearing breathless news from Boston: General Gage had dispatched Colonel Leslie and the Sixty-Fourth Regiment of foot to confiscate the Massachusetts militia's gun and cannon hoard at Salem. With roughly 250 soldiers marching on them, in short order an equal number of minutemen had gathered on the north side of Salem's North River, ready to defend their stash of arms. As Colonel Leslie was approaching from the south, they raised the drawbridge and removed any nearby rowboats, effectively preventing the red-coats' ability to reach them on the opposite bank. Colonel Leslie was not amused, as you might imagine. When he arrived and saw the raised draw, he demanded the colonists lower it. They refused. He told them they had no business obstructing the King's soldiers on the King's highway. This devolved into a debate as to whether the road was in actual fact the King's, because it had been paid for by the residents of the north bank, not the city of Salem, and therefore, technically, was not a public road but a private one. Colonel Leslie was even less amused. He tried to wait them out, perhaps thinking the colonists might get bored with this game, or too frozen to carry on. But hours passed and the militia refused to give in. And then Colonel Leslie had an idea. Now, he could have opened fire on the minutemen at any time. They were obstructing his mission and in open, armed revolt against the King's authority. But he didn't. Apparently he thought no one should have to die over this, neither civilians nor his soldiers. So he offered Captain Felt, leader of the minutemen, a compromise. The orders Colonel Leslie had been given specified that he cross North Bridge, with the seizure of the colonists' guns being understood--but not explicitly stated. Consequently, if Felt would allow the Sixty-Fourth to obey their orders by marching across the bridge, Leslie would then turn them around and march them back without confiscating the weapons. Orders would be fulfilled, guns would still be in the possession of the militia, and everyone would get what they wanted out of the situation. Captain Felt agreed. The drawbridge was lowered. Colonel Leslie's troops marched across North Bridge, wheeled, and started back. Unfortunately, some of the residents of the north bank took this opportunity to hurl verbal abuse at the red-coats, but happily the soldiers ignored them and continued on their way. It was a victory for cooperation. But interestingly enough, in an example of what today we would call "spin", the colonists decided to name this incident "Leslie's Retreat." And so it is known to this day. When it really should be called "Leslie's Truly Clever Compromise." In England, the press reported this event as the beginning of the American Revolution. For example, the Gentleman's Magazine wrote, "the Americans have hoisted their standard of liberty at Salem." Lexington had yet to happen. So if the British at the time considered this the beginning, why don't we now? The incident at Salem's North Bridge has all the dramatic elements. There's a rider from Boston who warns the locals. A scramble to
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	Monty Python hey thanx for the comment. i have excess to the internet so i can still keep in touch. oh and thanx for the love too
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	Monty Python Yeah its a long time lol. Thanx for th luv and i'll speak to ya soon.x
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	Trevor C yes i did,it was a bit strange,i had lunch there on monday with the president,we chatted for a while in the oval office, he gave me the presidential seal,which was nice,i stayed in the willard inter-continental which is right next door,so it wasnt to far to travel,lol
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	Jinnie K Thanks! You too!
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	Jinnie K I so agree with you about JB. It's great living away from home lol a lot more freedom and hanging out with friends (luckily everyone on my floor gets along!) Yes, Dunedin was founded by scottish settlers nearly a 150 years ago and the town grew on goldminers and whalers. That's all I know actually lol. The university I'm going to is the oldest in NZ and it is cold and raining here, it's famous for it! There's heaps of English town names here too. Well, we have the union jack on our flag after all. Thanks for the luv! Have a great week too.
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	Jinnie K Oh wow you met JB! That is so cool, I'm glad he was really nice. My friend was in England too but she had to come back one day before his signing. You lucky thing! lol I moved to Dunedin a week ago (NZ is made up of two islands north and south and dunedin is at the bottom of the south island so pretty chilly) cause I'm studying Health Science first year at Uni and it's all pretty exciting Did you go to England for a holiday?
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	Kim Smith Your website looks grand! Hope you have much success with it! Kim
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	Anna Dynowski Happy Birthday!
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	Gerri Bowen Happy Birthday, Susanne!!!
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	Lynda S Hi Susanne, here's to a very happy birthday tomorrow! May you be surrounded by friends and family...just make sure they don't eat all the birthday cake Lynda
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	Sandie Hudson Susanne Wishing you a very Happy Birthday. Hugs Sandie
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	Kim Smith Someone's got a birthday coming I was just informed I hope you hit the doorway running and have a take the world by storm! Have a good one! kim
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	Hywela Lyn Happy Birthdayf or tomorrow - have a great day!
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	Jinnie K Hi I was looking if there was a 'fanlisting' type thing on bebo for damian lewis, he's great (unfortunately there isn't) and I came across your bebo. Don't normally comment someone I don't know BUT you listed John Barrowman as one of your fav actors! I know he's very wellknown in the UK but here in NZ (new zealand) noone knows who he is and the fantastic show Torchwood. So just wanted to say hi.
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	Trevor C yes thanx ,i had the flu,so not great, but it was with loved ones so i was happy xxx
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	Glenn Mcanulty why thank you xxx
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	Kim Smith heck no! but i am happy
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