The Tale of the Talking Animals

 Multi-published, award-winning author Susan Wittig Albert will be here on Straight From Hel tomorrow to tell how an author who never planned on having talking animals in her books ended up with quite a few of them telling their stories. You may think the process would be quite simple: just write them in. In Susan’s case it wasn’t so simple since her series is based on a real person, Beatrix Potter.

Susan Wittig Albert lives in Texas, but is read internationally. She writes the China Bayles Mysteries, the Cottage Tale Mysteries, the Darling Dahlia Mysteries and, with her husband, the Robin Paige Victorian Mysteries. She also has multiple nonfiction books. In addition to the Robin Paige series, she and her husband have written over 60 young adult novels. In her not-much-spare time, she founded Story Circle Network, a national organization of women writers, serves as editor of Story Circle Book Reviews, and, of course, travels to promote her books, including her latest fiction, The Tale of Oat Cake Crag, and her upcoming non-fiction An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days.

She is also a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

She’ll be here tomorrow to write about those talking animals in her Cottage Tale Mysteries series. She’s open to questions you may have about including talking animals in books, as well as other questions about her series or her upcoming book.