Suki59's Fanfiction

Breathe Magazine

The latest issue of Breathe Magazine (Issue 81) is out, and there’s a very cool article in it about fanfiction! I was lucky to be interviewed by the writer, Jade Beecroft, along with other fanfiction writers about the topic. “Join the fan club” takes a look at how writing fanfiction can sharpen your writing skills, and I couldn’t agree more.

From the article:

“Susan says that writing fanfiction helped kickstart her career. ‘I was a timid new writer when I discovered fan fiction,’ she explains. ‘The anonymity appealed to me, and seeing other not-so-perfect writers sharing sharing their work gave me the confidence to go for it.'”

And here’s my last quote (and the last line from the article too):

“I wouldn’t be a published author without my fan-fiction community. I still value those friendships greatly.”

Yay for fanfiction! And thank you to Breathe Magazine and Jade Beecroft for recognizing its importance in the literary world–something all of us here already knew.

Throwback Thursday

Hi friends! It was this month in 2014 when I had my first book signing. It was such a happy event for me. My fanfiction friends had been reading my stories for years, but the big real world didn’t know I was a writer until I published Drop Dead Gorgeous. I also became Suki McMinn with the launch of that book. I chose the name Suki because my fanfiction friends knew me as Suki, and I added my husband’s last name, McMinn. (I hadn’t changed my last name when we’d married ten years earlier.)

If you were my Facebook friend or followed me on Instagram, you might have noticed that I disappeared. My account was hacked last month, and those pages have gone poof, sadly. But do not despair! I have a newly Meta Verified account, and I’m rebuilding there as Susan Carole McNabb (the name on my driver’s license). So please pop over and friend me at this link. My new page looks like this:

Vampires on sale!

To celebrate this Halloween, please enjoy my funny vampire books, The Vampire of Waller County and Christmas in Waller County for only 99 cents each on Kindle October 27-31. Enjoy!

Welcome to October!

Happy October, friends! Here I am working on “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark” as Elvira’s stand in and photo double. Some days I was lucky enough to drive the Macabre Mobile.

Little did I know, this film would be the beginning of a seventeen-year side gig working for Elvira as well as a lifelong friendship with Cassandra Peterson herself.

I write about it in my memoir The Opposite of Famous by Susan McNabb (The name I was born with before I became Suki 59).

The three chapters about my working for Elvira are “A Tale of Two Titties,” “Around the World in Thirty-one Days,” and “Knott’s Scary Animal Farm.”

Check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08T9XRQW5

Last chance for freebie!

I hope everyone who wanted their free copy of Heartfelt, my Hollywood rom-com short story, has had the chance to grab it by now. If not, it’s still available for free when you subscribe to my newsletter for the rest of March, so don’t wait!

It will still be for sale on Amazon, but I wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to get the freebie.

Click here: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/y100ibg054

New year, new promos!

I hope your January is going well. These cool Bookfunnel promos are just for you!

“New Year, True Stories” features a collection of memoirs to inspire you. You’ll find my Hollywood memoir The Opposite of Famous in this one along with other true stories. You just might find your next favorite author.

Check it out here:
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This collection of romantic comedies and contemporary romances will put a smile on your face. Welcome to “Belly Laugh Day!” My contemporary rom-com The Screenwriter Next Door is in this one and takes you back to Hollywood in the eighties when my actual next door neighbor was a screenwriter. Hey, I write what I know!

Click here: https://books.bookfunnel.com/bfhostromcomjan/aa5uf742f4

And are you ready to grab your FREE rom-coms and contemporary romances? That’s right, these are all zero pennies!

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Kindle special on rom-coms!

You can enjoy all three of my Hollywood rom-coms for under two bucks starting today! You can grab Heartfelt for free at sukimcminn.com when you subscribe to my newsletter. The Screenwriter Next Door and After the Meet Cute are both only 99 cents on Kindle Jan. 1-7.

Go back to Hollywood in the eighties with me and have a laugh or three!

Happy New Year!

And this one is called Belly Laugh Day! It’s all about romantic comedies, so you’re bound to find a favorite new funny book in here. My contemporary rom-com The Screenwriter Next Door is in this one.

Click here: https://books.bookfunnel.com/bfhostromcomjan/aa5uf742f4

I lived it!

Go back to Hollywood with me…