As a singer myself, I’ve picked up all kinds of folk music, madrigals, classics, contemporary. What parts were important? I had this very clear idea of music. I had to think how the country would be broken up.

Post apocalyptic was harder because I’m not used to it.

We have to explain all those extra voices somehow.Ģ) Was it difficult writing a post-apocalyptic fantasy romance and handling the midwifery and herbal magic Morna uses in the book? It was as if Morna and Arrick existed in another realm or dimension and they were simply telling me their tale. I started with the opening scene and that was the last part of that book I wrote consciously. I was actually the biggest snob picking a model for the cover because I knew what Morna (Morning) looked like to me. With that one thought I could see her in my head so clearly. There was this idea of calling her Morning. I wanted to write a BBW heroine and started thinking about how that would work. She does a large portion of the cover art with JEA and has worked with businesses in the past for logo creation and event announcements.ġ) Morning Song is a great story about a wise woman and hedge witch facing her fears and owning her strengths to find that life has a great deal in store for her and the strange man she meets near the beginning of the book. Ellington Ashton Press as well as a graphic design student at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division. In addition she has published articles on the Yahoo! Contributor Network in a wide variety of subjects such as the validity of deity in the American government and the use of easy to find herbs. Susan also has her one and only zombie short in the JEA anthology 'All That Remains'.

Susan is the author of 'Silent Heart', 'Under A Twisted Moon', 'Morning Song', and other titles forthcoming. She lives by the motto, 'Let your freak flag fly!' A heathen by faith and major sci-fi fan she is an eclectic person and welcomes as much diversity into her life as she can to feed her fertile imagination. She's a country girl through and through with progressive and optimistic ideas of nation and society. Susan grew up in central Wisconsin, only to move to rural Ohio in adulthood. She lives in a place where new hybrid cars, beat up farm trucks, and Amish horse and buggies meet in fast food parking lots for coffee. Bio: Susan is a writer and artist by day, a child and pet wrangler by night, and occasional crazy person on the weekends.

Under a Twisted Moon by Susan Simone