by Susan Matley | Aug 12, 2016 | Official Blog
Have you noticed how sometimes a lot of information on a certain topic comes your way? This week, I’ve been inundated with information about climate change. Part of this is my own fault. I’m working on a new book in the Small-g City series, set in 2025. One of the...
by Susan Matley | Aug 5, 2016 | Official Blog
Are you acquainted with the term “batching it”? I associate it with the old west, where there were few single women. Lots of single men out this way (miners, cowboys and the like) had to take care of their own household affairs. In letters written in 1896, my...
by Susan Matley | Jul 30, 2016 | Official Blog
You can’t go home again. It’s more than the title of the posthumously published Thomas Wolfe novel or an episode of Battlestar Galactica; it’s a basic truth. Yesterday I returned from a one-week visit to my home town. It’s typical of any small town that was...
by Susan Matley | Jul 22, 2016 | Official Blog
One minute is a small measurement of time, but is it too small to make a difference? After the first One Minute event two days ago, I’m a believer. In what, you might ask? In the power of positive thought to change ourselves and, therefore, to change the world....
by Susan Matley | Jul 15, 2016 | Official Blog
When writing about Greek immortals, I sometimes flesh out characters with what I call Myth Taken Identity. This week I’m studying Heracles (sometimes called Hercules), a character in Beyond Big-G City who is boringly two-dimensional in the first draft. My favorite...
