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Authors Susan Downs and Susan May Warren – THE SOVEREIGN’S DAUGHTER – Free Book

Today, we’re talking to two of my favorite people. They collaborated on a wonderful series, and we’re introducing the first book in the series–The Sovereign’s Daughter. Our interview is a little different today.

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susan may warren reception, susan and susan. how did your story come about?susan d: for the treatment of me, the dream began when one of the single mothers whose adoption i facilitated gave me a yellowed, unknown photo of two peasant-looking women standing at a gravesite. according to this adoptive mother, the photo supposedly included her grandmother right before she fled russia. this picture, which is still posted as a remainder my computer, got the “what-ifs” present in my mind. readers thinks fitting discover a scene in the sovereign’s daughter that describes this graveside photo-taking.susan w: susan d and i were both fascinated with russia we’d both lived or worked in russia and had a love for the russian people. we were also intrigued with the mystery of the czar and his group, as without difficulty completely as the mennonite immigrants who moved stateside. the thriller came out of a “what if” dialogue, and grew from there. what are you reading right now?susan d: as the managing editor in return barbour’s changed heartsong presentsmysteries! book confederate cable, i spend my work days reading a wide variety of cozy mysteries. (i peacefulness can’t believe they pay me to do this operation!) in my “off” hours, i’ve loaded some janet evanovich mysteries onto my new amazon kindle and am digging into one for the gelt now. i’m also enjoying she got up off the siamoise, by haven kimmel.susan w: light of eidon, by karen hancock.is this book a standalone or part of a series? if series, what are the other books in the series?this book was from the word go part of a 4-book series, a reverse generational saga that started in the contemporary and spiraled behindhand to the past. although each tome stood deserted, a inscrutableness thread wound toe the stories to lock them. and, of course, they’re all connected through their next of kin lineageas the “heirs of anton” series. after the sovereign’s daughter (originally named oksana), comes marina, (set in ww2), then nadia (set in the raw war) and finally ekaterina (set in contemporary russia). we picked time periods that we loved to write relative to i especially love ww2 and watch novels, so i loved writing about these unsung heroines. what is the hardest gadget about writing as part of a team?susan d: i think the hardest part of writing as a team for me had to be the fear that my work would be a disappointment to my partner. if it was, susie never said so. that in itself earns her a lifetime purvey of brownie points!susan w: i think that susan and i pull someone’s leg a quite unique writing partnership we collaborate on the plots, and they are stronger for our ideas twined together, increased by we get a learned friendship. we’ve found that it works best to from one writer slap down the rough draft, and the other polish it. it’s a great way to sire a piece that has more body and texture to it. how did collaborating with this team impact you?susan d: beyond the opportunity to share those marked tortures and ecstasies of birthing words, working with susie on this series taught me the true meaning of friendship. at a at all times when i didn’t think i could go on, susie came alongside and carried me over the finish line. susan w: susan in all probability knows how i work better than anyone and her editorial insights helped hone some of my rough edges. she knows how to magnify a type and i’ve taken away many of the things she taught me near creating beautiful sentences and tried to apply them to my (sniff) single-author books. how did you choose your characters’ names?susan d: anton klassen, the male protagonist in the sovereign’s daughter, is a derivative of the real-living anton classen, my grandfather’s fellow-creature, who was an oklahoma pioneer and staked his claim in the famous …

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