Featured Interview With Susie Helme
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Susie Helme is an American from Nashville, Tennessee, living in London, after sojourns in Tokyo, Paris and Geneva with a passion for ancient history, politics and magic, mythology and religion. She is a political activist and a socialist. Once editor of Mobile Communications Asia and other mobile communications magazines, she co-authored the Jan 2000 Future Mobile Handsets. She published with the Conrad Press in December 2020 her first novel, The Lost Wisdom of the Magi, which is a finalist in the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards for ‘Best Historical’. She is founder member of the Bounds Green Book Writers writers’ circle, which published in Autumn 2020 an anthology of coronavirus-inspired fiction, Lockdown Lit—Inspiration in Isolation. She now subedits Dignity magazine, writes historical novels and grows organic vegetables. She offers freelance services proofreading or developmental editing for authors needing help with their novels and is open to offers of review-swapping and mutual beta-reading.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
very very young. I used to write these little books illustrated with stick figures (I can’t draw).
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I like historical fiction, but I’ll read anything if it’s well written. Mary Renault, Flavius Josephus, Hilary Mantel
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My debut novel was published with the Conrad Press in December 2020, The Lost Wisdom of the Magi, which is a finalist in the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards for ‘Best Historical’. It’s set during the 1st century Jewish Revolt and contains a lot of fanciful stuff from Christian and Jewish lore. Not to mention real magical recipes from history (those we haven’t lost).
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