Susanna J. Sturgis: Writer • Editor • Martha's Vineyard

New Blog

I just launched a new blog: Write Through It: On Writing, Editing, and How to Keep Going. Check it out, ask questions, and share your experiences.

Go, Travvy!

In May 2012, Travvy earned his ARCHX title in APDT Rally. In November he finished his Level 3 title. In February 2013 he finished his Level IV title in Cyber Rally-O. A big deal for an Alaskan malamute with a novice handler!

"And Will Rise?"

One of my best-ever essays appears in Trivia 10.

I'm a freelance editor by trade. If you're looking for a capable editor, copyeditor, proofreader, writing coach, or all-round bully to help you start, finish, or polish your project, check out the Editing page. Use the Contact page to send me an e-mail.

I've got two blogs going. In Write Through It, I draw on what I've learned over the years about writing, editing, and how to keep going. Questions, comments, and suggestions for blog posts are more then welcome. Come on over!

Lately my blogging has been somewhat irregular becaue I'm currently working hard on novel #2, working title: Wolfie. The title character is based on my Travvy. Several characters from The Mud of the Place are involved, notably Shannon and Giles, along with an 11-year-old neighbor of Shannon's.

For lots more info about my first (and so far only) novel, The Mud of the Place, click the link on your left. You can order it from Amazon.com or from me (use the Contact form). It really is going to be available as an ebook in the not-too-distant future.

On the back burner are two projects. One is novel #3, The Squatters' Speakeasy, which concerns a disorganized gaggle of Vineyard musicians, iconoclasts, misfits, and weirdos who occupy the Tashmoo overlook in support of affordable housing. The other is a personal/political memoir, To Be Rather Than to Seem: A Writer's Education.

Rhodry Malamutt -- who inspired Pixel, the canine sidekick of one of Mud's protagonists -- died in February 2008. He taught me that life is better when you have a dog to share it with, so Fellow Traveller moved in as a small puppy. You can follow our adventures, with plenty of photos, on his page.

Now a house that is built upon sand has a view of the waters,
And a rich man sits feasting his eyes on their power and might.
But El Nino remembers the poor, and their sons and their daughters,
And the waters reclaim what is theirs in the dark of the night.

New Blog

Go, Travvy!

"And Will Rise?"

rev. 18 December 2015