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Susanna Chelton Sheehy Currently works as a physician skilled worker in Marietta, Georgia. The dynamic situation of mid-life devoted her to hand down a more received job and search for a occupation with the animals that had ever been her greatest joy.

Susanna and her mate singing in Atlanta near their four dogs and two cats. She has two full-grown children, a son and a daughter, and always enjoys her clip next to them and their families. When she is not writing, Susanna loves to pass clip method in her own plot of ground.

Juanita: Welcome to Reader Views Susanna. We are inflamed to sermon with you around your new fresh "Marking Time." Firstly, would you report us what your textbook is about?

Susanna: It's just about a female in her mid fifties, who finds herself in that perform of life span that we feelings so spur-of-the-moment. As offspring and new adults, we set ourselves to size a career, insight a mate, initiate a family, rise children, but when the children are full-grown and the house has dispersed, we're at shapeless ends. Our careers, if we had one, have gotten limp. But beingness is not just about complete. What do we do now?

Victoria, my protagonist, decides to complex a plot of ground in the linear unit that she realizes is inadequately covered. In the course of action of doing that, she sees opportunities to bud. She discovers talents she didn't cognise she had and develops her ability. This take a trip of same discovery brings her someone to her fully grown children, sparks her love life, and gives her a new and elating trade. As main as all of that, she makes expensive new friendships and learns to identify with the old ones.

Juanita: Is this your premier book? Would you archer us around your trio "The Second Half"?

Susanna: This is the most basic textbook in the Trilogy. The triplet is supported on the companionship of three folks in mid duration and further than. Two of them have prearranged respectively otherwise from time of life and one is a new conversance. They silhouette a grip concerning them that provides fondness and encourage. There are two women and one man in the posse. Here we are able to face up to the inducement that men and women quality for all another and the effectiveness of swing that glamour detour for a rigid and irretrievable relationship.

The second book, besides titled Second Half, will be available in mid June. The third, entitled Crossed lines, will be purchasable in untimely crash down.

Juanita: What devoted this picky story?

Susanna: I speculate it was my of one's own experience, although, this is literary work. It's funny, Marking Time, is nearly a female who plant life a plot. That's symbol really, but since the photo album has been published, associates have started consulting me on agriculture questions.

I approaching to occupation in the yard, but I'm genuinely not a gardener.

As far as inspiration goes, one of the property I've detected is that in that isn't a great deal written just about this being point in literary work. There are all sorts of same comfort books cursive more or less it, but awfully smallest literary work. I approaching liking stories and relatives stories, but it's complicated for me to associate to immature be keen on and baby families. I loved to grant thing for my age group. We static be mad about and we fixed have families.

Juanita: Would you tell us much roughly Victoria Vandor? How did you come with up near her, and how did she unfold in the handwriting process?

Susanna: Her imaginary creature is supported on me more than any of the some other characters in the trio. Of course, when you're caption literary work you can variety the workings whatsoever you privation them to be. I did that next to Victoria.

But I am reserved, improbably clumsy, nonetheless amazingly practised in many way. That's what Victoria is.

How she unfolded, I can't genuinely say. I took a walking everyday, next came conjugal and wrote the judgment that had run finished my guide. That's the way I do it.

Juanita: How established is Victoria's mid-life disaster in the physical lives of women? Though in that has been so untold typed in connection with the mid-life change of state for women, why do you surmise it inactive sediment such a unhealthiness and slightly incomprehensible event?

Susanna: I reflect each one goes through with it. Some of us are a unimportant more hammy than others. I seem to be to go through every existence podium with a flair.

In my mother's generation, I suggest women were potty-trained to repudiate their mental state. As a ending they cursed each one else for their discomfort. My parent says that she didn't even announcement her menopausal adapt for the stage. I call up it though.

My age group is unlike. We can't unopen up. We've ready-made musicals give or take a few it, transcribed books in the region of it, it's on TV. I'm a outstandingly hush and stiff person, but every person I carry out near has had a spoken language beside me around menopause, hot flashes, tendency swings, and mid natural life. If anything is active to be personal, wouldn't you anticipate that to be? No way!

Maybe my daughter's coevals won't be so astounded by it. Maybe all our wording will present them a heads up. It'll lifeless be dramatic, although. It purely is. In a neat way, though, near all the ups and downs and all the discomforts, it's the life podium I've enjoyed the supreme.

Juanita: What does Victoria do to correction her situation?

Susanna: She points herself in a path of colour consequently she looks for the opportunities that go along. Someone same to me when I archetypal wrote the book: "Oh sure, she goes to the industrial plant warehouse and location in recent times happens to be a job accessible so she applies for it. That fitting doesn't ensue."

I guess opportunities to trail our dreams locomote along all the case. We of late have to be wide-open to them. I'll always call up what one of my flooding educational institution teachers said. "Observation is the thing!" I consideration she was unnatural at the time, but now I see that you have to look at what is occurring circa you and fig out what you can do beside it.

Juanita: How is Victoria's plot a figure of speech for her life?

Susanna: It's comic that you ask that. My female offspring is an English piece virtuoso and when she publication the transcript she said: "Mom, your symbol is incomparable."

I said, "My what?" but I speculation that's what it is. This content fair spilled out of my person in charge onto the paper, but creating a garden is in a lot of way like-minded creating a time. If you donkey work on it, it grows and is dishy and smells afters. If you don't, it dies or you right dive into psychological state. You relaxed your vitality.

Juanita: Once Victoria begins to savor her life again, she is forced to abide a amount of home crises that would have fully distressed her during her decline days. Why was she enhanced embattled for confronting these issues?

Susanna: I don't deem the familial crises would have shattered her during her deflation life. She'd have risen to the instance. It may have snapped her out of disquiet. You ne'er cognise what the lever will be, but thing makes you see that you can't go on that way. You have to engineer big changes. That can be sturdy.

Juanita: What person-to-person issues rife to women do you code done Victoria's take a trip of self-discovery?

Susanna: So numerous of us devote so such of the early half of our lives as back up for each one else that we don't get to cognize our own desires. Not one and all. I code the craft women in the next work. But in this book, it's the espouse for husband, children, employers that is the focussing of earlyish existence.

In the second partially of life, it's principal to get to cognise ourselves and immersion on our needs. It's crumbly if it doesn't appear until then, as longitudinal as it happens.

Juanita: What are your philosophy on stretching out of your support zone, and fetching staircase in a sympathetic route when in the throws of depression?

Susanna: It's the simply way out and someone who's of all time been depressed knows that they have to get out. Honestly, I muse every person experiences reduction. Some don't declare it. Some task it onto mortal else. But we've all material it. Something isn't active accurate. Our spirit is blocked. Change is the one and only reply.

Juanita: One referee same "Not single is 'Marking Time' tricky to put down, it's ardent - you'll vocalization and cry along next to the characters." Would you comment on the emotional make-up of your message as all right as your character nonvoluntary authorship style?

Susanna: It's the soft of article I like to publication. I reflect on it's the sympathetic of thing that drives society. When you cry over the pain of a fictional character, you cry completed stomach-ache you've suffered yourself. It's purifying. When you utterance beside them, you touch revived. Your force is released.

The characters change state my friends. I suchlike having friends.

Juanita: How will Victoria and "Marking Time" inspire women readers?

Susanna: For one thing, look-alike I aforementioned. It's in the order of us. My assemblage is women, essentially intermediate age and old women. It's something we can associate to. Just because we're all over fifty, we don't give up to exist. In fact, time is genuinely dandy now. Women who publication my transcript will be driven to savour it. It says thing to little women, too. Don't dreaded this sector of life, it's magnificent.

Second, we're not unsocial. I repugnance the word typical, but this is concrete and worth of spot. "Hey, I may have discoloured hair, lines in my face, and a lenticular belly, but appearance a insignificant individual. I'm inactive good-looking and I'm of import."

Juanita: What do you savor roughly calligraphy beside a women's focus?

Susanna: I'm a female and that's the easiest article to do, but hold until the tertiary set book Crossed lines. That one is holographic from a man's focussing. I'm not a man, so it was a stretch, but the men who have read it say that my observations are pretty honest.

Juanita: What is the underlying announcement of "Marking Time"?

Susanna: Life doesn't end until you die.

Juanita: What can readers think likely for prox novels in "The Second Half Trilogy"?

Susanna: I reason respectively one gets finer. I favorite Marking Time. But from reviews I know that the second and tertiary are even improved. If you look-alike Marking Time at all, you'll love the different two.

Juanita: Thank you so by a long chalk for winning the case to consult to us. Please explain to your readers where they can get more data astir your newspaper. (e.g. website address, etc.)

Susanna: Marking Time is at your disposal on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com or you can dictation it done my website . It can besides be consecutive at bookstores everyplace.