How to Create Genuine Emotion in Characters – With Author Susan Zurenda

In this episode, host Landis Wade has a conversation with award-winning author Susan Zurenda about how to create genuine emotion in characters. Access the episode HERE

After teaching literature, composition, and creative writing to thousands of high school and college students for 33 years, Susan Zurenda turned her attention to putting the novel of her heart on paper, the genesis of which was a short story that won the South Carolina Fiction Prize some years ago. Her debut novel, Bells for Eli (Mercer University Press, March 2020), was selected as a Winter 2020 Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for 2021. She  has won numerous regional awards such as the South Carolina Fiction Prize (twice), the Porter Fleming Competition, The Southern Writers Symposium Emerging Writers Fiction Contest, The Hub City Hardegree Contest in Fiction, Alabama Conclave First Novel Chapter Contest, and The Jubilee Writing Competition, and has been published in numerous literary journals. Susan received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and now works as a book publicist managing media relations for Magic Time Literary Publicity. She lives in South Carolina.