WELCOME! Welcome to my new blog and thanks for stopping in. If you landed here more or less randomly, I hope you’ll stick around for a few minutes, and consider dropping in again from time to time. I should warn you that, like a lot of other writers, my thoughts tend to map a course more like butterflies than English teachers: Oh, here’s an idea…wait, there’s another over there…oooh, I like the cool one beyond the fence…. I’ll try to settle on one at a time and hope I get better at it as I go along. Right now, I’m feeling a bit strange. I’m a fiction writer. I’ve chosen not to write about me – no memoir cries to be released from my personal history, no confessional literature threatens to leak into my protagonist’s back story. But in the blog, I will, necessarily, be speaking from my perspective about things that matter to me. It’ll be my voice, not Dani O’Rourke’s, and I think she may be a lot more interesting (and less revealing of me). So the first hurdle is to stop cringing at the “I” word, use it as little as possible, and try to bring forward ideas that have some value to blog readers. Having crossed the fence from devoted reader to published mystery writer only recently, I hope I can shine a little spotlight on each part of that community, and maybe even help a few other butterflies sail over the fence. So, if you’re inclined, please bookmark www.susancshea.com and come back for a visit soon. Thanks!