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Susan McKinney, Writer
www.susanmckinney.blogspot.com
My blog is www.susanmckinney.blogspot.com. No guessing there. It´s about me, Susan McKinney, Writer.
I started it in May, when I started searching for representation for my memoir, Fast Break South. One of the questions I ask readers on my blog, is: Do you like the present title or do you think I should change it to I Married A Mexican Teenager. At first I was told the I Married…
title was irreverant and even disrespectful, but I´ve recently hit myself on the forehead and asked, “What´s wrong with irreverant?”
The great fun about having a blog is that I get actual comments from strangers who have bothered to read and offer opinions on my work!
I write about writing, and about looking for an agent. When I´m not writing, I write about what I´m doing to distract myself from the fact that I´m not writing. I write about living in Mexico. I write about buying clothes in the tianguis with my 14-year old, and about seeing my dude, Don Jesus for a cleansing when I get overloaded with heavy energy from giving people massages.
I´m a gringa married to a Mexican, and you have allowed me to sneak onto this Latina site for which I send you all many besos. I do have Mexican teenaged girls, Mexican in-laws, a Mexican business. I like tamales but not atole. Hablo español. I need the highest number sunscreen available. Whatever that makes me.
I started the blog to have a web presence as advised by all the writer gurus. But I keep it up, not as a chore or as a building block to my platform, but because I like writing about my life in a chatty, intimate way.
Once I get I Married A Mexican Teenager (trying the title out…what do we think?) published, I´ll be able to offer copies of the book as giveaways. Until then, I offer a glimpse into the writing life, and day to day of a chick con ganas in Mexico.