![]() “Across from what was rumored to be Gwen Stefani’s house, enshrouded in barbed wire, there’s a ‘Keep Out: No Trespassing’ sign, and I always wondered who lived there. “I was walking my dog by this one house that just excited my imagination,” says Susan. “It took me nine months to write the first book, and I had to plot book two in 24 hours.” She had roughly one day to come up with the concept, plot, and characters of what would soon become Over Her Dead Body – easy, right?Īrmed with this challenge, Susan did what anyone would do: take her dog for a walk. “They said, ‘So, what’s your next book? We need a proposal by tomorrow,’” Susan recalls. However, the publishing company’s offer was contingent on also getting a second book from Susan. ” Throughout the writing process, she secured a literary agent who shopped the book around until they got an offer. ![]() I hit a brick wall and just needed a break. She tells us, “I wrote it because I was frustrated with the movie business after a good solid decade and a half of doing rewrites and selling specs that never got made. Just before the pandemic, Susan wrote a book on spec called Good as Dead. ![]() Over Her Dead Body is available for purchase as of today (!), and the story about how this book came to life is a bit… surprising. That’s how she ended up as a bestselling author with a new book just out and two more in the works to come. “You have to walk toward the industry that’s opening its arms,” author and creative Susan Walter AB ‘91 says. ![]()
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