Gingerheart

Susan Anderson

Susan Anderson

Susan McFee Anderson is a Whistler-based writer. She has lived more than a few lives: as a rock and roll radio broadcaster, a television news anchor, an international award-winning corporate video producer, real estate investor, clothing shop clerk, fish gutter, weather girl, college teacher and property manager. She’s been single, married and divorced.


No surprise, then, that she writes for women who’ve checked off Partner, Kids, Home and Career on their life’s to-do list – only to find the list has a mind of its own.


Susan is passionate about her two sons, extended family and her friendships, some of which are more than forty-years strong. She loves to golf, hike and cross country ski. She swears in the mind, body and spirit-altering benefits of Pilates.


Although she recently de-cluttered her life she is pathologically addicted to bargain hunting. She can’t help it. In fact, Susan delights in paradox and that is why she chose the website name Gingerheart. Ginger is good for the heart. It calms but it also stimulates. In that contradiction – ginger as both chill pill and aphrodisiac – she sees the marrow of life.


You are invited to join Susan as she works on her current project Bounce Off the Rocks which asks the question: What do you do when your life is suddenly a blank slate? When life takes a 180-degree turn it helps to know you are not alone; in other people’s stories we can find inspiration for ourselves. Have you been through a major life crisis? Are you going through one now? Susan would like to hear from you. Check out her July 2010 blog for more details.


Gingerheart was launched in October 2008. At the beginning of every month, Susan details her torturous and exhilarating path toward publication. Each blog is intended to offer inspiration and information to those who love to read and write – and who just might share the same dream. Thank you for stopping by.


Contact: susan@gingerheart.com

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Archive for June, 2008

June 2008 Blog

This month is three parts thrilling to one part frightening, but I’ll get back to that recipe in a moment.

 

I’ve just completed my first novel 2ManyCooks.

 

It’s the story of Cindy Bowen, a lapsed chef who’s about to lose her job, her house and her kids. She’s pried from the comfort of her suburban Vancouver beachside home when she wins a trip to Maui with a planeload of metalheads. Along for the journey is her best friend of thirty years, the reluctant socialite Theresa Stilwell, who’s quietly on the verge of her third divorce. Served up on the man-menu are a charismatic billionaire, an ambitious young executive, a sexy French chef and a gorgeous young artist. On the lush beaches of Maui the solitary chef who writes about cooking parties is forced to sizzle in her own right.

 

This story is as much about the beginning of new romance as it is about the complex ways that mature women demonstrate their deep and sometimes misguided sense of friendship.

 

When I started writing this novel, back at the beginning of 2006, I didn’t know it would take two and a half years to reach completion. I’ll miss exploring the friendship between Cindy and Theresa, as surely as I would miss any of the fine women in my circle of friends. It’s satisfying to know in my gut that 2ManyCooks is ready to be submitted to publishers. Now I begin the process of learning all about publication.

 

And that brings me back to the three parts thrilling to one part frightening:

 

I am thrilled to say 2ManyCooks is complete.

 

I am thrilled to embark on the challenge of finding a publishing home for the book.

 

I am also thrilled to announce my next book, Kindergarten Mafia, is now underway. More on that book in next month’s blog.

 

And that one part frightening? My next book, Kindergarten Mafia is now underway.

 

Back to the beginning.