Life down South just got a whole lot sweeter...
SWEET CAROLINA MORNING
Willow Hill #2
Susan Schild
Releasing Aug 2nd, 2016
Lyrical Press
Finally, just shy of forty years old, Linny Taylor is living the life of her dreams in her charming hometown of Willow Hill, North Carolina. The past few years have been anything but a fairy tale: Left broke by her con man late-husband, Linny has struggled to rebuild her life from scratch. Then she met Jack Avery, the town’s much-adored veterinarian. And she’s marrying him.
Everything should be coming up roses for Linny. So why does she have such a serious case of pre-wedding jitters? It could be because Jack’s prosperous family doesn’t approve of her rough-and-tumble background. Or that his ex-wife is suddenly back on the scene. Or that Linny has yet to win over his son’s heart. All these obstacles—not to mention what she should wear when she walks down the aisle—are taking the joy out of planning her wedding. Linny better find a way to trust love again, or she might risk losing the one man she wants to be with—forever…
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Susan Schild writes
wholesome and sunny Southern fiction. She likes stories about charming men,
missing money, adventuresome women, sweet dogs, and happily ever afters at any
age.
Susan is a wife and a stepmother. She enjoys rummaging through thrift store for treasures like four dollar cashmere sweaters and amateur watercolor paintings. She likes taking walks with her Lab mix, Tucker, and his buddies. She and her family live in North Carolina.
Susan has used her professional background as a psychotherapist and a management consultant to add authenticity to her characters.
Susan is a wife and a stepmother. She enjoys rummaging through thrift store for treasures like four dollar cashmere sweaters and amateur watercolor paintings. She likes taking walks with her Lab mix, Tucker, and his buddies. She and her family live in North Carolina.
Susan has used her professional background as a psychotherapist and a management consultant to add authenticity to her characters.
SWEET SOUTHERN HEARTS,
the final book in the Willow Hill series, will be released in January of 2017.
Readers can look forward to more adventures, new beaus, sinister ministers,
lovebirds over fifty, a road trip for Mama and her pals, and maybe even an “I
Do”...or two.
Q&A with Deal Sharing Aunt
Where are you from?
I was born near Annapolis, Maryland but have spent most of my life in North Carolina. Came to school here and decided I wanted to make North Carolina my home.
Tell us your latest news?
I’m thrilled that my newest book, Sweet Carolina Morning, is being released 8/2. The book is a sequel to Linny’s Sweet Dream List, but also a standalone. Here’s the cover blurb for Sweet Carolina Morning:
Life down South just got a whole lot sweeter in Susan Schild’s new novel about a woman whose happily-ever-after is about to begin…whether she’s ready for it or not.
Finally, just shy of forty years old, Linny Taylor is living the life of her dreams in her charming hometown of Willow Hill, North Carolina. The past few years have been anything but a fairy tale: Left broke by her con man late-husband, Linny has struggled to rebuild her life from scratch. Then she met Jack Avery, the town’s much-adored veterinarian. And she’s marrying him.
Everything should be coming up roses for Linny. So why does she have such a serious case of pre-wedding jitters? It could be because Jack’s prosperous family doesn’t approve of her rough-and-tumble background. Or that his ex-wife is suddenly back on the scene. Or that Linny has yet to win over his son’s heart. All these obstacles—not to mention what she should wear when she walks down the aisle—are taking the joy out of planning her wedding. Linny better find a way to trust love again, or she might risk losing the one man she wants to be with—forever…
Finally, just shy of forty years old, Linny Taylor is living the life of her dreams in her charming hometown of Willow Hill, North Carolina. The past few years have been anything but a fairy tale: Left broke by her con man late-husband, Linny has struggled to rebuild her life from scratch. Then she met Jack Avery, the town’s much-adored veterinarian. And she’s marrying him.
Everything should be coming up roses for Linny. So why does she have such a serious case of pre-wedding jitters? It could be because Jack’s prosperous family doesn’t approve of her rough-and-tumble background. Or that his ex-wife is suddenly back on the scene. Or that Linny has yet to win over his son’s heart. All these obstacles—not to mention what she should wear when she walks down the aisle—are taking the joy out of planning her wedding. Linny better find a way to trust love again, or she might risk losing the one man she wants to be with—forever…
When and why did you begin writing?
I have always been an avid reader. In my work life, I had worked as a psychotherapist and later as a management consultant. I was ready for a change, so I enrolled in a week long summer course in creative writing at Meredith College in Raleigh, and that's how I started as a writer.
When did you first consider yourself a writer?
I was self-conscious about calling myself a writer for almost six months after I was under contract with Kensington Publishers for the three books in the Willow Hill Series. If anyone asked what I did for a living, I’d sort of mumble, “I’m a writer.” I’ve grown into it, though.
What inspired you to write your first book?
There was a lot of scary news going on at the time I was considering writing my first book, and I knew any story I wrote had to be heartwarming, and hopeful and funny. I believed readers needed more stories of relatable, good people having their struggles but finding their happily ever afters, and that’s how I came to write the three novels in the Willow Hill series.
Do you have a specific writing style?
Ideas come to me while I’m in the car, in the grocery store, in the middle of a phone call. I write down the funny or compelling ideas on sticky notes. If I don’t write them down immediately, the good ones fly right out the window. When I begin writing a new book, I use an outline. Using an organic, by the seat of my pants style that I use to use led me down too many rabbit holes and slowed the progress of the writing.
How did you come up with the title?
I’ve lived in North Carolina for most of my life. When I was younger, I listened to James Taylor’s Sweet Baby James, Fire and Rain and Carolina in My Mind over and over again. His songs remind me of a time when I was falling in love with North Carolina and the South and they somehow percolated up through my unconscious when I was naming the three novels in the Willow Hill series.
Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
I want to remind readers that all of us go through hard times in our lives, and if we lean on our family and closest friends, have faith, try to do the right thing and press on, we’ll come out on the other side and find that we are even stronger… and happier. Another BIG message is that you’re never too old for true love, fresh starts and happily ever afters.
How much of the book is realistic?
All of it, I hope. I want all my characters to be ones readers can relate to and understand. I want the situations to be original (like how Linny meets Jack when she hits him in the head with a bourbon bottle in Linny’s Sweet Dream List) but believable.
Are experiences based on someone you know, or events in your own life?
My ideas come some from my own experiences, but mostly from books and articles I’ve read, interactions I’ve witnessed, a lifelong interest in psychology and an overactive imagination.
What books have most influenced your life most?
Books by Mary Kay Andrews Dorothea Benton Frank, Jan Karon, Elin Hilderbrand, Nancy Thayer, Jo-Ann Mapson, Pam Houston, and Barbara Kingsolver, just to name a few.
When I was growing up, The Hardy Boys, The Happy Hollisters and Nancy Drew. Re. Nancy, Bess and George - I still love adventuresome heroines and faithful gal pals.
What would you like my readers to know?
I’m so incredibly grateful for your support. I thank you for buying my books, saying such lovely things about them, and for telling your friends, your mama and your book club about me.
Please, please, please, keep reviewing my books on Amazon, Goodreads and other retail sites. That’s one of the most important things readers can do to support authors they enjoy.
So reader friends, I’ll keep cooking up the heartwarming Southern stories, and you keep spreading the word.
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