SW Hubbard’s twisty edgy domestic thrillers are favorites with readers who also enjoy her complex characters and sly humor.

Hi, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and today on the Binge Reading podcast SW - Sue – talks about what it takes to be a successful indie author with not just two but three different series to her credit.

Along with the show, we’re giving away three Ebook copies of Treasure Built On Sand, SW’s latest Estate Sale mystery and a twisty domestic thriller.

Enter the draw on the Joys of Binge Reading website or our Binge Reading Facebook Page.  Entries close March 14.

Six things you’ll learn from this Joys of Binge Reading episode:

Babies and books - Got you coveredThe vagaries of publishingLater-developing life passionsNew directions in her writingClassic Brits - The writers she admires mostWhy Sue loves 'driving her own bus'

Where to find SW Hubbard: 

Website: http://swhubbard.net/

Facebook: @swhubbardauthor

Twitter: @SWHubbardauthor

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/746045.S_W_Hubbard

What

follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for

word but pretty close to it, with links to important mentions.

Jenny Wheeler: Hello SW and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us.

SW Hubbard: Thank you for having me. I'm delighted to be here.

Jenny Wheeler: You're the author of two different mystery suspense series, which you describe as twisty and just a little bit edgy. But before we get into talking about the books, could you tell us a little bit about how you got started in writing fiction? Was there some sort of an epiphany when you thought. 'I've really got to do this' or is that something you've always had a desire to do?

SW Hubbard - twisty edgy domestic thrillers

SW Hubbard: Well, I was always a bookworm. I always was a reader from a very

young age, and I always loved mysteries. I started with the Bobbsey Twins and

quickly moved up to Agatha Christie. I was an English major in college and I

always worked as a writer, a marketing writer, a newsletter, and that sort of

thing. But after I got married, my husband and I were struggling to have a

baby, and I thought, well, if I can't make a baby, maybe I'll just make a book.

I thought it would be some therapy for me to write a mystery.

So that's when I began writing my first

mystery, Take The Bait. That project taught me to write a book. It took me 10

years to write it because I had a lot of revisions. I belonged to a lot of

different writing critique groups to teach myself along the way. But eventually

that book did get me a literary agent and did get me started on my writing

career.

Take the Bait - the first Frank Bennett mystery by SW Hubbard

Jenny Wheeler: That's fabulous. Now perhaps we'd like to just establish right at

the beginning that you write under the name of SW Hubbard. So when I call Sue, I

want listeners to fully understand that when they look for your books, you are

SW Hubbard. I think that's because there's another Sue Hubbard writing books

that aren't at all like what you write, isn't that right?

SW Hubbard: Yes. That's good.  It's SW or

Sue, either one's going to do.

Jenny Wheeler: You write the kinds of mysteries that you love to read, which are

twisty, believable, full of complex characters and highlighted with slight

humor.  You've mentioned you've been a

lifelong mystery fan. What do you think attracts you to mystery books and as a

genre?

SW Hubbard: Well, mysteries help us to explore the dark side of ourselves and

help us to deal with our fears, I think. And then in the end, usually justice

is served and so the world comes around and is restored to rightness

again.  That's what appeals to me.

I always try to take the crime in my books

very seriously. I don't think there's anything funny about murder, but I do

think that every one of us is capable possibly of committing a violent act if