Susan L Markloff

I should preface this by saying Social Media still confuses the tar out of me. I don't even remotely understand algorithms, or what makes a good social media presence. I'm still muddling my way through it all. All of that to say, I have learned at least one thing that might be beneficial for someone else! So, fellow creators, I totally get it. We're busy like whoa. Because unlike lots of others, we have like, eight jobs. We're creating our art (whether it's illustrations or w

With five days till Rise comes out, I find myself going over and over things in my head, trying to make sure I've done everything I can to make this all come together well. I'm stupid excited one minute, and terrified the next. The excitement usually eclipses the terror (usually). Today I got a few more of my editorial reviews back, and was glad to hear their comments. It's kinda surreal reading them all, and finding they all have very nice things to say. For those that don't

How...how did we get to less than a month till book launch? It feels like just yesterday I was in Ocean City, sequestering myself to no entertainment outside of my computer and working tirelessly on the last round of major edits of The Rise of the Raidin. It doesn't feel like that long ago when I was at camp. Has it already been over a month since I was in New York, visiting friends in the Buffalo area? How is it 26 days until book 1 goes live?! How are pre-orders of the Kind

I doodled a lot in school. If there were margins on a worksheet that was handed out, I was bound to have scribbled something into that space. I was in middle school when I sketched out a werewolf-esque creature with wings and a reptilian tail, and thus Kaldok was born. Though why he was part werewolf and part dragon was beyond me and my eighth-grade brain. The bratak'ra weren't very different. I distinctly remember being in chemistry class. Why I remember this so vividly, God