In this episode Mark interviews author Susie Moloney about her life writing horror, the trajectory of her career through writing novels, scripts, and screenplays, and her latest screenplay with director/collaborator Robert Cuffley, BRIGHT HILL ROAD.

Prior to the interview, Mark shares comments from recent episodes as well as a personal update. He also shares a word from this episode's sponsor.You can learn more about how you can get your work distributed to retailers and library systems around the world at starkreflections.ca/Findaway.

In their conversation, Susie and Mark talk about:

• How Susie has been a writer her entire life, had started writing short stories and then discovered that her stories were "getting longer" which eventually evolved into novels
• Susie's "practice novel" ESCAPE OF THE MINOTAUR which was an attempt to see if she could sustain an idea for a novel-length work
• How that first novel led to getting an agent
• The origin of Susie's first novel, BASTION FALLS, which was originally released in 1995 and how it was inspired by Leaf Rapids, Manitoba
• Susie's A DRY SPELL, and what inspired the novel
• The parallel lives that Susie and Stephen King have
• How a leak of the manuscript of A DRY SPELL lead to multiple book and film options
• The fact that Susie was rolling coins to pay the phone bill when her film agent called to let her know about the 7 figure offer for the film option
• How Susie say the "writing on the wall" as publishing was changing rapidly
• How the advances were going down from six figure, to five figure, then to four figure
• How Susie began to collaborate with Robert Cuffley, the director of BRIGHT HILL ROAD and the Award-Winning ROMI
• The brilliant actress Siobhan Williams who plays Marcy in BRIGHT HILL ROAD
• Being a woman who writes and embraces horror, including the thought kicked around that her first book be published under S. Moloney
• Writing a film script specifically for a small cast
• A few projects that Susie has been recently working on
• Susie's experience being writer in residence at Edmonton Public Library

After the interview Mark reflects on a few of the things Susie spoke about and says thank you to his patrons.

Links of Interest

• Susie Moloney Twitter
• Susie Moloney Instagram
• Bright Hill Road (Trailer)
• ROMI (Trailer)
• EP 173 - DF Hart on Recovering from Mistakes
• EP 74 - Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future of Publishing
• Findaway Voices
• Wide Writer Survey
• Wide for the Win Submission Form
• Patreon for Stark Reflections

The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast ("Laser Groove") was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0