About Susan
Susan J. Morris is a fantasy author and editor, best known for a writing advice column featured on Amazon’s blog (which TIME magazine online once called “clever,” and which she henceforth has never let anyone forget), and her work editing Forgotten Realms novels. She is also the author of a middle-grade series of practical guides to fantastical things, the most recent of which is A Practical Guide to Dragon Magic, and designed D&D for Kids. Whenever she is able, Susan delights in running workshops for Clarion West and in moderating panels for writing symposiums.
Her debut adult novel (a gothic historical fantasy with a puzzlebox mystery and queer romance), STRANGE BEASTS, will be published Fall 2024 by Bindery Books + Inky Phoenix with Kathryn Budig in the US, and Hodderscape/Hachette with Calah Singleton in the UK!
Follow along on my publishing journey here: The Inky Phoenix Book Club (@theinkyphoenix) | Instagram profile
Susan J. Morris is represented by Jennifer Azantian of Azantian Literary Agency.
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Looking for writing advice? Susan’s favorite books on writing are The Art of Fiction (John Gardner; good for beginning writers), and Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative Fiction (Jane Alison; good for advanced writers.)
She also highly recommends Writing Excuses podcast, for incisive 15-minute segments on a variety of topics.
Media I’m Rabid For:
Books: Circe, (Madeline Miller); The Luminous Dead (Caitlin Starling); Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)
Movies: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki); Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro)
Games: Hades, Oxenfree, Baldur’s Gate
Podcasts: The Magnus Archives; Lore; Noble Blood; Three Castles Burning
TV Shows: Arcane; The Witcher; The Mandalorian
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