Carroll Ann Susco

Publisher info

Carroll Ann Susco holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Pittsburgh and has a chapbook, Bean Spiller, on Variant Literature press and numerous publications, including in The Sun Magazine, Cutbank and Painted Bride Quarterly. Her books are available below: Love Attempts and Stigmata and Other Essays. She likes to teach and tutor, read and watch a good movie. And do stuff. Like go to a wine bar :)
Last Mountain Dancer
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 158,520. Language: English. Published: July 10, 2014 by Carroll Ann Susco. Categories: Fiction » Biographical, Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Life stages / general
From Booklist Colorful enough to inspire Michael Douglas' character, Grady Tripp, in the movie Wonder Boys, Kinder starts with the most interesting West Virginian available: himself. Suddenly, in pendulum swings between searing self-doubt and thoughtless bravado, Kinder is biting the neck of a high-school tormentor, or he is making love in a deserted chapel to a young girlfriend....
Honeymooners A Cautionary Tale
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 137,990. Language: English. Published: June 26, 2014 by Carroll Ann Susco. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Amazon.com (June 24, 2014): "Ralph Crawford may be a talented short-story writer -- one of the best in the Bay Area, in America, in the 1970s; hell, in the whole English-speaking, late-middle-twentieth century -- but off the page he's only human. ... his (similarly human) buddy, Jim Stark -- a novelist burning with ambition, promise, and humiliation.... the lives....are changed....
True Fiction: A Pseudo Autobiographical Chapbook in Three Parts
Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 11,080. Language: English. Originally Published: March 14, 2014 by Carroll Ann Susco. Categories: Fiction » Alternative history, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
Section I: Irreverent historical retellings. Section II: Relationships. Section III: Fini. True Fiction is about being a person who knows we see through lenses, historical, cultural. And yet, even in fiction, truths emerge. Truths about being human (mainly a woman) and living. I try to tell the truth, but fiction comes out. Or the truth. I don't know. Maybe you will find truths.

Books

Love Attempts
Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 22,790. Language: English. Published: October 2, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » General
Love Attempts is a book of stories that explores love from various sides, ways, backgrounds and efforts while trying to keep a sense of humor. Truth is, love is odd and much sought after, but rarely fully realized. Love attempts are usually not successful the way we are taught at a young age they will be, but as we grow we see it all around us in all shapes and sizes. Cover art by Stu Greenwell.
Stigmata and Other Essays
Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 15,100. Language: English. Published: January 2, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Mental health, Essay » Literature
Stigmata and Other Essays is about my journey through madness and an awakening spirituality. Voices, depression, confusion, hope. Anyone who has suffered from insanity or spiritual crisis, or those who know someone who has, may find comfort in my words. This is my hope. The book is ambitious. With these words I hope to change the world, or at least my corner of it. I want to spread peace.