I signed up for retreat with Suzanne and Dede knowing that I loved to write, but unsure of what my next steps were.  I’d just been blogging for my own entertainment for the last five years, but I didn’t have a book project or anything.  I didn’t even know what I might get out of […]

As an editor, Suzanne can arise as any force the writer requires.  I needed a grandmother, a poet, a drillmaster and, oh yes, a teacher of all the basics.  She helped me polish my work, develop a query and land an agent.  The manuscript is now sitting on the desk of New York’s top publishing […]

Suzanne has honored me by honoring my words.  It is evident that Suzanne is different from other writing teachers in that she is deeply touched by the creations of her students.  Her vast knowledge of literature is taught indirectly through her comments which address and validate each writer’s unique style of expression.

How to adequately express what makes Suzanne a superb writing coach?  She’s passionate, intelligent, skilled, insightful…clear-sighted and objective, yet keenly empathetic to what it takes to be a writer.  The sheer obstinacy, the tenacity, the emotional daring to work for an audacious dream — hell, the audacity to dream in the first place.  I am […]

Like many writers who haven’t published yet, I knew I had a book or two or more inside me.  I was caught between writing and organizing.  Working with Suzanne Kingsbury has freed me to “let the juices flow.”  She has been guide, mid-wife and cheerleader.  She has an innate sense of what a writer needs […]