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BOAT TROUBLE Podcast
Anxiety Pancakes: Writing a Novel is like Building a House (Or Something)
Anxiety Pancakes: The Horror of Vulnerability
Anxiety Pancakes: When Is A Novel Finished?
Riding through the Waves like Poseidon Scouting Out Film Locations
Film Deal for The Western Light with Upcoming Canadian Women Producers
As Promised, Stories about Bad Decisions You Don’t Regret
Stories about Bad Decisions You Regret and Bad Decisions You Don’t
Trampoline Hall
Good Night, Descant–a Literary Gemstone for Four Decades
Talking to Orillia Writers on February 22–Come if you’re in the hood
Join Us For Early & Traditional Christmas Dinner from my Novel, The Western Light
Swans Talks Literature and Politics at the Sino-Canada Literary Forum
Why We Should Stop Worrying about Taxes and Figure Out the Best Way to Spend Them
A Goodbye to Hotel Chelsea
Jane Urquhart hops on board the Writers’ Blog Tour
Summer is over and I’m on the Writers’ Blog Tour
The Raw Intimate Experience of Reading the New (unromantic) Romantics
Be sure to add The Western Light to your summer reading list. Coming this spring in paperback:
Book City Gets Its Dues: Why We Love Its Indie Book Stores
Help Us Make Protest Go Viral Today Vs Expanding Airport
Let’s Protect Our Children
We thought the city agreement protected us
What’s With the Sticky Black Stuff on the Window Sills?
Our Young People Are at Ground Zero in This Mess
No Brain IS an Island Airport Expansion
No Brain is an Island Airport (expansion)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (Day Fourteen)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (Day Thirteen)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (Day Twelve)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (Day Eleven)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (day ten)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (day nine)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (Day Eight)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (Day Seven)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (Day Six)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (day five)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (Day Four)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (Day three)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel (Day Two)
Anxiety Pancakes: Life in the Middle of a Novel
The Q & A of Doing It Yourself: Indie author Robert MacBain on his new novel, Two Lives Crossing
Emancipation Day–Passing as White When You’re Black
Eat, Drink and Be Literary: One of Canada’s Best Reading Series at Niagara-on-the-Lake
In conversation with Susan Swan at the Annette Library, Oct 21
Dave Bidini on his new memoir Keon and Me
Wine & Words with Susan Swan
Author Catherine Bush on the trauma of false accusation
Susan Swan: The Western Light
My Novel-Writing Secrets, and Essay Writing too
How to Stare Down the Blank Page: Dictate!
Author Unveils Roots at Chapters in Barrie
Ridgeway Reads spring Author Series with Susan Swan
The New, Expanded Heroines of the Sexual Gothic show in London, May 2, 8 p.m.
A Book Club Weekend
MOUSE BRADFORD AT HAMILTON’S BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
The Fantastic, Fearless and Furious World of Gabrielle de Montmollin
The Circle Women’s Centre presents: Heroines of the Sexual Gothic
Two book club offers you don’t want to miss this spring.
Here’s My Scoop on Literary Fathers and Daughters–For the LRC
So You Want to be a Famous Writer
A Girl Making Herself Up
Help choose the paperback cover for The Western Light
The Sunday Morning Writer’s Blog is Back
My Fun Trumps Fussy Family Christmas in Globe and Mail (plus recipes)
Star Review Compares The Western Light to Huck Finn
Some Wise Things I Forgot I Knew
Is It Wrong to Flog Books on Facebook?
The Western Light: a perfect stocking stuffer this holiday season
Reading Like a Writer: Authors and their beloved books
A Letter to my Younger Self
Rolled cigarettes, mothers in literature and a new fiction prize for women
The Rosalind Prize for Fiction is Born
More Magazine Reviews Susan Swan’s The Western Light
WordFest: How should a writer be? Tips from living writers about the writing life
The Western Light is ranked as the hottest new book release by Chatelaine
Making the Calgary Festival Scene
Vancouver Sun Praises The Western Light as a “Spellbinding Tale”
Swan’s Q and A on The Western Light
The Western Light praised as “a novel for all generations”
Projections of the Western Light
An Evening With Canadian Author Susan Swan
Susan Swan’s Fall Book Tour Schedule for The Western Light
Susan Swan and Bob Duff talk Hockey and Heroines with Marc Cote
Susan Swan Graces the Cover of The Quill & Quire
Join us as for the launch of The Western Light by Susan Swan, August 29th
Heroines of the Sexual Gothic Launches the Eden Mills Writers’ Festvial
The Wives of Bath Goes Digital
Heroines of the Sexual Gothic Celebrates the Toronto Women’s Bookstore
Three shades of sex talk: female writers on the challenges of erotic fiction
A P.S. on Agents Next Week
What You Should Know about Agents:
No Sunday Morning Writer’s Blog–Back Again Next Sunday
How to Write a Cover Letter to an Agent or a Publisher
You’re Invited:
Heroines of the Sexual Gothic and Where Do Writers Get their Ideas?
James Wood and the Breezy, Free, Indirect Style
In the Voice of the Non-Bleeders
Why I Picketed with the Library Workers
Susan Swan Pickets with the Toronto Library Workers
Getting Rid of the Fish Head
Gender Crossing and Casanova
How Present is Your Present Tense?
Travel is Like Writing
The ‘God is in the Details’ Thing
The Idea For a Novel Can Come From The Most Unlikely Places
The Globe and Mail’s Roundup of Hot and Sexy Reads
Kobo Offering an Amazing Valentine Special on E Book
Goodreads Giveaway
Truth is Not Autobiography
Swan inspired by historic hometown
The Uselessness of Drone Writing
Tune in today to listen to Susan live on Spark: CBC Radio One
Podcast day wrapped up on Friday for Book Club Valentine: What Casanova Told Me
How to Write with a Cold
Book Club Valentine
You can go home again
Are great writers egomaniacs?
Getting ready for the Giller
“An American woman novelist who wrote a book about a family would never be called ‘America’s greatest living writer'” … my recap on Saturday’s IFOA event.
More thoughts and articles on refugee journalists…
International Festival of Authors – Roundtable: The Family Dynamic
The Journalist’s Tale: Running for Your Life Across a Dessert Border
Singapore Slings with the Enemy
A Writer’s Life: the Dark Side First
Why Casanova?
The Wives of Bath’s New Prologue: About the Process of Making the Book into a Film
What Only the Peacock Knows
Mouse is back in Susan Swan’s prequel to ‘The Wives of Bath’: a Globe and Mail review
Butting Heads: Susan Swan in Conversation
Why Casanova?
