Susan C. Daffron

Award-winning fiction & nonfiction author

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Creating Animal Characters

In reviews, many readers comment that the animals in my books are characters along with the human ones. Although I don’t make the animals in my books “talk” because I loathe that concept in other books, I do make the animals behave in significantly different ways. Anyone who as ever owned a dog or a […]

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How Did You Get Here?

In reviews, readers often comment about the town of Alpine Grove, which although imaginary does have some similarities to the small town where I live in northern Idaho. I even had one reader say she wants to move to Alpine Grove. There’s no doubt that many people would love to move to a small town […]

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Cover Reveal – Bark to the Future (and New Covers)

My next Alpine Grove Romantic Comedy (number 5, but who’s counting?) is with beta readers now, so I’ve been having fun working on the cover.  Here’s the latest: Observant folks may notice that it doesn’t match the earlier books. I’m redoing ALL the covers, so this is the first in a new “look” for the […]

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Creating Characters People Love

In reviews of both my first and second novels, readers often comment on how much they love the characters I create. Jan, the main character in my second book, Fuzzy Logic is not like any character I’ve read about in the past. She was a lot of fun to write because she is a librarian […]