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178. Time Slippage, Reincarnation, and History: An Interview with Susanna Kearsley

Sarah chats with bestselling author Susanna Kearsley, who is working on her next book, which involves all the genres she works in, which is… well, almost all of them. Topics include genetic memory, online ghost hunting, indigenous history, research, and her new book.

Important potential trigger note: at about 24:30 in, Susanna talks about a historical court case focusing on a rape, so I want to give you a warning about that section, which is from 24:30 -26:00 in the audio. If this warning doesn’t help you or doesn’t work, and there’s a way I could do this better, please email me and let me know. I want you to feel safe.

ETA 2/18/16: A note from Susanna:

It’s just been brought to my attention that “In Another Life”, which I mentioned on the podcast but had only just started reading, is NOT a romance. There’s no HEA or HFN, it’s women’s fiction more in the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife, and I wouldn’t want someone picking it up on my recommendation expecting a happy ending and not getting one.

So be ye warned, ok? Ok!

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  1. Heather S says:

    Susanna is SO lovely. I got to meet in during her “A Desperate Fortune” book tour (okay, so I had to drive 2 hours to Anderson. In the rain, which makes driving in unfamiliar places icky. But it was SO WORTH IT.). She was so gracious and kind and chatted and took pictures with everyone, and she signed anything we brought. I can’t wait to listen to this podcast later!

  2. Karenmc says:

    Terribly interesting podcast!

    My family has SO MUCH red on its ledger. Coming across wills from the 1700s is exhilarating until you get down to the individual bequeathing of one or two human beings to another human being.

    My SIL’s family has a history of premonitions. When my nephew was an adolescent, he woke up one morning, rather anxious, and asked if his grandma was all right. He’d had a vivid dream about an older female relative wearing a house coat. It turned out to be his aunt, who was quite a bit older than his mother, who had died during the night.

    Also, I’m going to track down that online ghost-hunting course.

  3. Kathy LeGendre (Katyzulu) says:

    Susanna had me at Mariana, and Winter Sea , both are my favorites always. I share the titles and recommend often because I loved the books so well. Listening to the pod cast just gives me more insight to her as foresight on topics within her books. I am so forever her fan as an author and will look forward to Bell Weather release. I have to say my cousin and best friend are equal big fans ….we all read ebooks format and devoure each and every one.
    Great pod cast, thanks for the opportunity to better understand Susanna and her mind sets as she provides us great books!

  4. Love, love, love Susanna Kearsley. MARIANA is an annual re-read for me.

  5. Darcy G. says:

    Absolutely LOVE Susanna Kearsley! I was hooked after reading The Winter Sea. I really enjoyed your interview with her. Thanks for a great podcast!

  6. Julia (@mizzelle) says:

    Love the interview w/ Susanna Kearsley. I tend to like authors that mix genres. I have quite a few on my TBR so I need to get back to them.

    Yay Connie Willis, one of my favorite sf/fantasy writers. Her novel “Passage” deals with near death experiences and Titanic. (Ironically she *also* has a book called Bellwether — romantic comedy sf about corporate America, fads, and chaos theory.)

  7. Karen says:

    I love Susanna’s books! I’m pretty sure I found out about her from a review on this blog. This interview was great! It is so interesting to hear her talk about the research she does.

  8. Sandra Fick says:

    Great interview! I have known Susanna since we were teenagers, and have read them all! Can’t pick a favourite, they are all excellent!

  9. SB Sarah says:

    @Karenmc: I kind of want to hear all your family premonition stories now.

  10. Abby says:

    I’m so curious about the paranormal studies class now! Probably not the best time for me to look into that (I have my own thesis to write this semester…), but it might be a nice break from current life of all chemistry all the time.

  11. Kareni says:

    Thanks for yet another enjoyable interview. And thanks to Garlic Knitter for her transcription.

  12. JKW says:

    Ms. Kearsley’s Books blew me away. I’ve been reading her a couple of years. One of the books, I felt I was actually inside the story (book) even after I put it down. I’ve never felt that with another author. Amazing writer. Thank you for the great pod cast. I also found we have a lot in common. . .that was strange too. Blessings, Janet

  13. marie dry says:

    I loved this podcast. Im also a fan of Sarah Craven and have met her. She is a really interesting person.
    Susanna is a awesome intetesting speaker.

  14. Tiffany says:

    I’ve been so busy that I’ve got lots of episodes on backlog. I just finished listening to this episode and WOW Susanna sounds like an awesome lady!

    I admit when I was in uni I got illegal copies of TONS of books because I was a very broke student. But I did end up buying the books from authors that I loved reading from.

    Anyway I enjoyed this podcast and I have Susanna’s books on my amazon wishlist! I love books that have more than one element, I had read a book that mixed scifi and paranormal and it was so cool reading how aliens were dealing with earth’s not-so-ordinary people.

  15. greennily says:

    That was such an amazing interview!! Now I want to read all of Susanna’s books. She sounds wonderful. Like a person I’d want to have on my fairy god-mothers list. And I really liked her voice actually

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