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

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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.br /

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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.br /

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

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

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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'br /

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Where to find SW Hubbard: br /

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Website: http://swhubbard.net/br /

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Facebook: @swhubbardauthorbr /

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Twitter: @SWHubbardauthorbr /

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

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follows is a near as transcript of our conversation, not word forbr /

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

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

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

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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? br /

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SW Hubbard - twisty edgy domestic thrillersbr /

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

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

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

always worked as a writer, a marketing writer, a newsletter, and that sort ofbr /

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

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

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

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So that's when I began writing my firstbr /

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

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

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

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

career.br /

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Take the Bait - the first Frank Bennett mystery by SW Hubbardbr /

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

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

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

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

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

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SW Hubbard: Yes. That's good.  It's SW orbr /

Sue, either one's going to do.br /

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

twisty, believable, full of complex characters and highlighted with slightbr /

humor.