Author Archives: Susanne Matthews

Welcome to this week’s Tuesday Tales, the blog post that allows a select group of authors to share their works in progress with you. Since Saturday was Valentine’s Day, this week’s word prompt, KISS, is most appropriate. Enjoy? Two hours later, Al and I had finished the working lunch Hallie had picked up for usContinue reading “Tuesday Tales: From the Word KISS”

Welcome to this week’s Tuesday Tales, the blog that lets you look at the work in process of the authors involved in it. It is still bitterly cold where I am, -20 C, -28C with the wind or -4F and -18F for my readers in the US. This week, our word prompt is BLEAK, likeContinue reading “Tuesday Tales: From the Word BLEAK”

Here we are in February and I’m certainly seeing the effects of Climate Change in the prologued periods of cold we’ve had this winter, not to mention more snow than ever. February 4 question – Many writers have written about the experience of rereading their work years later. Have you reread any of your earlyContinue reading “IWSG Blog for February, 2026”

It’s chilly in most of the Western Northern Hemisphere, but maybe this week’s posts will warm you up! Welcome to this week’s Tuesday Tales, a blog post where you get to see what myself and my author friends are doing. Each week, we have a word prompt to incorporate into our stories. This week, thatContinue reading “Tuesday Tales: From the Word DRY”

Welcome to the last week of January, 2026, another month gone by in the blink of an eye! This week, the authors of the scenes for Tuesday Tales are working with the word prompt SUNNY. I am continuing with my cozy mystery, The Case of the Missing Prince. “I’m awaiting a kidney, Ms. Chambers, butContinue reading “Tuesday Tales: From the Word SUNNY”

Winter has this part of Canada firmly in its grasp. This week, the authors from Tuesday Tales are writing their scenes based on the word prompt COLD. I’m continuing with The Case of the Missing Prince. Minister Novak nodded. “Now, since I’m certain that you haven’t come simply to share my tea, am I toContinue reading “Tuesday Tales: From the Word COLD”

Welcome to 2026 and the IWSG monthly blog hop! I’ve started the year with a head cold–things could be far worse–but it is what it is. January 7 question – Is there anything in your writing plans for 2026 that you are going to do that you couldn’t get done in 2025? In 2026, IContinue reading “IWSG Monthly Blog January 2026”

Welcome to the first Tuesday Tales scene of 2026. Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog written by a small group of wonderful authors and I am honored and humbled to be one of them. Each week, we have a word prompt that we incorporate into the scen we present. Scenes are usually around 400 wordsContinue reading “Tuesday Tales: From the Word NEW”

For many people around the world, 2025 hasn’t been a great year. Political upheaval, sexual exploitation, financial crises, housing shortages, food insecurity, and weather and climate disasters were just a few things that peppered the news. The war continued in Ukraine and Gaza as well as in other hot spots around the world. There wereContinue reading “Looking Back at 2025”