Interested in Susan’s writing process and her work as an editor? Enjoy these interviews and guest blog posts!
Blog Posts
October, 2020: Westword Magazine: Susan explains her process for creating action-based book videos.
August, 2019: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Susan explains how to translate The Hero’s Journey into a linear plan.
August, 2019: Lawrence M. Schoen Susan describes a meal on a mountainside after climbing Mt. Tupper in the Rogers Pass.
August, 2019: My Favorite Bit with Mary Robinette Kowal. Susan talks about using the adventures of her life to give sensory immediacy to Bursts of Fire.
August, 2019: Whatever: The Big Idea with John Scalzi. Susan discusses why she chose to write about addictions in her Addicted to Heaven series.
August, 2019: SF Canada. Susan enjoys motorcycle riding.
October, 2018: My Favorite Bit with Mary Robinette Kowal. Susan and Lucas Law talk about Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders.
September, 2018: Whatever: The Big Idea with John Scalzi. Susan and Lucas Law discuss Shades Within Us.
April, 2018: The Story Behind the Stories with Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. Susan describes how she wrote her short story “The Fat Man.”
April, 2018: Fictorians: Organizing Critique Comments for Implementation. Susan’s techniques for working with comments from multiple different readers.
March, 2018: Unblocking Ideas (Analog Science Fiction and Fact). Different ways of writing your way out of writer’s block.
July, 2016: The Pleasures of Anthology Editing (SFWA Blog). Susan’s award-winning editorial work as an anthologist.
July, 2014: Backstory Secrets (SFWA Blog). Susan discusses tips and techniques for sprinkling backstory through a work that begins in media res.
Interviews
April, 2023: Interview with Arly Sorg at Clarkesworld. Susan Forest, Julie Nováková and Lucas K. Law talk about Life Beyond Us, working with stories about life anywhere in the universe, and the science essays that went with each.
March, 2016: Interview with Carl Slaughter at SF Signal. Susan Forest on SFWA, the SF community, editing novels, being critiqued, contracts and speculative fiction painting.