Overview

Susan lives an interesting life - I mean, she lives in Hollywood and knows Steven Spielberg! She has been involved and written many plays through the years and brings the lessons learned to her current writing.

She wrote a fiction book that has some elements based on her own life. The Road Not Taken is the story of a 50 year old woman and the struggles she goes through.

And she has thoughts on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Website

https://susanrubinwriter.com/

Susan Rubin Writer website

Her Book

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1941861687/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1941861687&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=31be61d1ef1b36ed0b426a0947bfab71

Favorites

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00309SD02/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00309SD02&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=ab681951d2c08a463ba11d7b67303029

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684803852/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684803852&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=38883bd1f9ccf2afbd00c81b058674b7

Local Bookstore

https://www.counterpointla.com/

https://www.skylightbooks.com/

YouTube

https://youtu.be/yROPBTnck7A

Transcript

So Susan, welcome to a discovered wordsmiths podcast. How are you doing? I'm

[00:01:15] Susan: doing great. And I really appreciate you inviting.

[00:01:19] Stephen: Yeah, I think this is great. I can't wait to find out more about you and your book. So let's start there. Tell us a little bit about you who you are, where you live, what you like to do outside of writing.

[00:01:29] Susan: I am a writer. I've been a writer a long time, but I've written many things. I've had nine plays produced in Los Angeles. I've written 25 documentaries for an organization. Those documentaries are really fun cause you're writing about the hard stuff in the world. And I've done a ton of blogging for Ms.

Magazine. And I had a bunch of stuff on funny or die. That didn't seem that funny to me, but it didn't die. So it was on funny or die for a really long time. I've done a lot of different kinds of writing, [00:02:00] decided to write a book. Cause I didn't have to work with actors. I'm sorry. I probably shouldn't say that, but that's the truth.

A book means no production. Good.

[00:02:13] Stephen: That's funny. Cause I just talked to someone else's sent the same thing about writing a book is easier than a movie because you don't have to deal with that. And you live in Hollywood, so movies are big.

[00:02:24] Susan: These are big. And what will probably happen to the book eventually is what's happening now is that there's so many different platforms for TV and film that there never used to be that a book like mine would make a perfect movie because it's about a 50 year old woman and there aren't, a lot of movies are playing.

TV shows like that.