Hello, friends. I’m Suzanne Pitner. If you haven’t guessed, I’m a teacher and I’m a writer, hence the moniker TeacherWriter. I love both careers. I get to be gregarious all day long, then I can retreat to my introspective place at the end of the day.
I did have a previous life when I wasn’t a teacher, but I’ve always been a writer.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, I’m one of the nice teachers.
At least that’s what the students tell me.
To my face.
I’m a Topic Editor at Suite 101 in the Writing Fiction section and the Curricula/Lesson Plans section. I also contribute my own articles about teaching and writing.
I write YA and MG fiction as Suzanne Lilly. Honey Creek Books is the imprint for my YA sweet romance SHADES OF THE FUTURE due to be published in July 2012 and UNTELLABLE, a YA suspenseful romance coming in early 2013.
Please follow me on Twitter as @suzannelilly. I love to have conversations on Twitter. I often use the hashtag #amwriting and #ROW80. I also tweet from the @HoneyCreekBooks account.
You may email me at lillysuzanne [at] gmail [dot] com.
Rapunzel’s Daughters is a recent anthology of redone fairy tales in which my story, East of the Sun and West of the Moon Redux, appears. It’s available through Amazon in print and ebook formats.
Image copyright Pink Narcissus Press
Nice to meet you! I am also an English teacher and I would like to invite you to join my new forum at Christian Teacher Forum here at WordPress. You seem like a person who could really give some good commentary and advice for teachers who are looking to network for lesson plan ideas, discussion topics, helpful tips, curriculum advice, etc. Thanks!
Hello! I stumbled across your blog as I was searching for an online version of a writing contest from Real Simple Magazine. What a great surprise to find your site. I am a teacher as well- of Spanish and ESL- and an aspiring novelist. My dream is to write full time- free lance, write books, magazine articles. While I love to teach, my deck and laptop are so much more soothing to me than 35 middle schoolers! It’s a stressful job! So, on this summer break, I am trying to “figure out” how I can make a go of a writing career. Any advice? I have website- imrunnerchica.com- which has many inspirational articles that I believe I could tweak for a magazine or online forum. Just not sure how to go about it! Any advice would be so appreciated! THANKS!!!
Hi Abbey,
I’m so glad you found my blog. One huge help I’ve found is WOW! Women on Writing. http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com. They have a group called Premium Green, PG for short, which is a bunch of women writers helping one another. Annette and Angela, the owners of the site, have helpful articles, interviews, and blogs. They also give very friendly advice. Check it out, and maybe I’ll see you on the PG boards!
Would you be interested in sharing your blog with our community of educators over at TheApple.com? It’s great!
Hi Suzzane,
Would you kindly list the following contest on your teacher/writer site?
Write your true story of a former sweetheart, in 700 words or less. Cash prizes No entry fee. Contest deadline August 17, 2010. Details at http://www.ourpastloves.com/contest
This is our fourth annual Past Loves Story Contest, and we are also in the process of putting together an anthology.
Many thanks,
Kate and Leon
I’m so thrilled to find your site. I’m wresting with the simple logisitics of combining a university teaching career with fiction writing. I’ll be a regular visitor here to see what nuggets of wisdom you’ve posted.
Actually, my nuggets of wisdom come from conversations with many other teacher writers. We’re all learning from each other. It seems that both careers, teaching and writing, can very quickly turn into obsessions that take all your time. The balancing trick is to find the tiny point on the apex where we can do both, and do them both well. Some days I tip to the teaching side, some days I teeter to the writing side, and some days I feel like I’m on the ground looking up. That’s when advice from other people like ourselves pulls me back up.
Hello! I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award! If you’d like to take part, please visit my recent post to read the rules: http://kenziekay.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/versatile-blogger-award/
Thank you soooo much! I’ll join in the fun and pass the award along to more bloggers.